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antongollwitzer.bsky.social
Psychology Professor. Studying human behavior, cognition, and political psychology, with a particular focus on disinformation, extremism, and fanaticism.
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R continues to be the most insane programming language ever. Suppose you want to exclude by Age, say 18 year olds. data = filter(data, !(Age == 18)) seems intuitive. Yet, if there are any NAs (missing data for Age) those cases are excluded too. How does that logic make any sense??? Crazy stuff...

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“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him… Don’t believe him.” —Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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🚨 Misinformation isn’t just noise—it shapes history, fuels division, and even costs lives. 🚨 How do political falsehoods spread—and what actually works to stop them? 🔎📊🧪 Read more: www.bi.edu/research/bus... #Science #Politics #Misinformation #MediaLiteracy

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Polarization has become a serious threat to shared reality, democracy, and even health "Thousands of people were dying needlessly because they didn’t trust medical advice, or their government, or mainstream media” Reducing partisan animosity is doable, but tricky: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

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My team's recent research: at work, women speak up less than men only when groups are uncivil. Maybe it's not a lack of confidence or leaning in that silences women, but actual cues in the environment. Focus on fixing the incivility, not the women! hbr.org/2025/01/rese...

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

submitted 30 days ago • 61 comments

🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to [email protected] by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!

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It’s lonely on the Right Loneliness is associated with support for the 🇳🇱 populist radical right. “Loneliness due to its physiologically dysregulating impact on the nervous system, facilitates greater susceptibility towards populist radical right parties” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Skewed polls like this artificially and harmfully increase distrust in government and public institutions by using 2 to 1 weights: "it has been broken". This type of manipulation, often done to create click-bait headlines, has become strikingly common at NYTimes #keepmoneyoutofnews #nytimes #polling

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one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

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🧪 Misinformation kills. It fuels political violence, destabilizes societies, and hides behind claims of "free speech." This talk explores: ⚠️ The real harms of falsehoods 🛡️ How we can combat their spread 📜 Why social media regulation is critical 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/sGPPFKlOIM8 #Misinformation

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Why Do We Share False News? Sharing false news isn’t just impulsive; it’s shaped by our biases and habits. Our new framework, the Dynamic Semi-Integrative Approach (DSIA), tested interventions to tackle this problem—and the results are eye-opening #AcademicSky #socialpsyc #polisky #cogsci 🧪

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This seems rather good: AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... There's a lot of crappy ideas out there about how to use AI; this seems very much to be a positive application

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Inflation is really getting out of control... www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a...

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Having left Twitter/X back when Elon took over, I'm ecstatic to again have a place to check out other researcher's amazing work and share updates from my research lab!! Thanks so much! #bluesky 🧪 #socialpsychology

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We used NLP to uncover a troubling trend: when political leaders confidently spread falsehoods, it’s not just noise—it directly predicts an uptick in political violence. Our data foreshadow Trump's second term resulting in a sharp rise in violence 🧪 #psychology #socialpsyc osf.io/preprints/ps...

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