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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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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 20 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 21 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Our paper is finally out!

submitted 32 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 35 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 57 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 73 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 79 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 80 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 318 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 337 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 370 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 393 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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submitted 504 days ago • 0 comments

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 519 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 520 days ago • 2 comments

From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by US politicians (Jana Lasser @almogsi.bsky.social, et al, Nature Human Behaviour) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 520 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a very minimal R package for BlueSky built on top of the code provided by @andrew.heiss.phd. It can only post right now but we can add functions as API develops github.com/cjbarrie/blu...

submitted 522 days ago • 2 comments

Interested in #socialpsyc #neuroskyence and looking for a post-doc? Applications for the 2024-25 Azrieli Int’l #Postdoctoral #Fellowship are OPEN! Apply by Nov 15 to be considered for a postdoc position in Israel – available to candidates worldwide. Learn more: bit.ly/3YSBmV7

submitted 540 days ago • 1 comment