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almogsi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Ben-Gurion University. Computional social psychologist. Studying social media, misinformation, polarization and language
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For my first BlueSky post I want to share this freshly published paper in PNAS @pnas.org! We show how belief and disbelief shape narrative processing in the brain, not just as opposites of a continuum, but as distinct effects, including a cool truth/belief bias. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

My latest column in Science went up yesterday doi.org/10.1126/scie... . I argue that “Knowledge is power”—or at least it was when Sir Francis Bacon coined this phrase in the 16th century. 1/n

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

submitted 64 days ago • 99 comments

Only @lewan.bsky.social can distill four years of research into such an insightful 🧵. Proud to have co-authored these works and especially grateful to Segun Aroyehun for leading our latest paper. Collaborated with the fantastic team: @janalasser.bsky.social @fabiocarrella.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

1/6 Hello Bluesky! 👋 Excited to join this community and share my new blog. First post: Using Bayesian hierarchical models to rescue "unreliable" cognitive tasks, with the dot-probe task as my case study. cogpsychreserve.netlify.app/posts/dotpro...

submitted 106 days ago • 7 comments

We are delighted to invite applications for an open-rank, tenure-track position at the developmental psychology track within the Department of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. For more information, follow the link: bgu-academic-recruitment.my.site.com/Recruiters/V...

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate information”. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trump’s first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/n

submitted 135 days ago • 4 comments

Grateful to be a coauthor on this paper led by @fabiocarrella.bsky.social , and part of this terrific team

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Steve has summarized more than four years of work into this thread. Interested in microtargeting? Check it out!

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Our paper is finally out!

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

🌟🧠💪📝 #BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology. PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025 For more: scienceofboosting.org @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social #policy #behavioralscience 1/ 🧵👇

submitted 149 days ago • 2 comments

✨ Excited to share our new preprint! ✨ After years of work in @nivreggev.bsky.social 's SCMB lab, we proudly present the Israeli Face Database (IFD)! Special thanks to co-leader @mayanna.bsky.social, @talmoran.bsky.social, and everyone who made this possible. 🙌 🧵 A thread:

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

In this new article in American Psychologist we respond to critics in detail and clarify two key points for the field; (1) The prevalence of misinformation in society is substantial when properly defined. (2) Misinformation causally impacts attitudes and behaviors. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

submitted 187 days ago • 44 comments

I’ve been eagerly awaiting this one for far too long. Outstanding work by @cabels18.bsky.social, @kiiahuttunen.bsky.social, @lewan.bsky.social and Ralph Hertwig. Dedicated to my fellow Israelis, with a glimmer of hope that we might still manage to dodge that bullet

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

What an amazing project. So happy to see this finally out. Kudos Inon and team!

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R ds4psych.com #css #rstats

submitted 432 days ago • 1 comment

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 Michael Gilead & I put forward three principles of a psychologically informed approach to prediction models psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

submitted 451 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to see our piece published in SciAm on GenAI and microtargeting w/ @lewan.bsky.social and Matthew Edwards www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli...

submitted 485 days ago • 1 comment

A highly scalable "manipulation machine". Personalized political ads are more persuasive & can be automated on a large scale with AI/chatGPT. Impressive new work from @almogsi.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social 👏 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...?

submitted 507 days ago • 0 comments

New paper alert! Now on PNAS Nexus: The persuasive effects of political microtargeting in the age of generative AI w/ @lewan.bsky.social and Matthew Edwards doi.org/10.1093/pnas... [1/8]

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What is honesty and truth? New work from Lasser, Aroyehun, Carrella, @almogsi.bsky.social Garcia & Lewandowsky finds that the dissemination of misinformation by US politicians (Republicans) is connected to an alternative understanding of honesty and truth nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 633 days ago • 1 comment

New Paper Alert! 2 yrs after I finished my PhD and just 2 wks before I start a new chapter as an Assistant Professor, it’s finally out! My final dissertation paper. Let's dive into the relationship between personal agency and linguistic agency www.nature.com/articles/s44... THREAD 1/7

submitted 634 days ago • 2 comments