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dyudkin.bsky.social
Director of the Beacon Project at More in Common using social psychology to build a more cohesive future; Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School
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My hottest take of 2025: the best La Croix flavor is Limoncello.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I got over 100 emails today and I am a nothing nobody with zero clout or responsibility. I can't imagine the number of emails that real people get.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I find this so refreshing…it means the battle lines we see as permanent are less than a handful of decades old

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Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

submitted 70 days ago • 160 comments

An consequence of aiming high is that no matter how well things are going, you must always confront painful nearby possible worlds where things went a little better, where you were a little smarter or were quicker on your feet. Call it the price of ambition.

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The longer people participate in collective action, the enraged they get and the more “moralized” they consider the issues they are fighting for. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Offended that someone correctly guessed my age

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks, Gordon 😅

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Feeling strangely in awe of the reviewer who wrote 13 single-spaced pages explaining why my paper is trash.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

The Perception Gap That Explains American Politics. (@stephen-hawkins.bsky.social @dyudkin.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241129-top...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely eye-popping result from a survey conducted by @dyudkin.bsky.social and @stephen-hawkins.bsky.social. Americans generally believe that Democrats are obsessed with LGBT issues—but it's not true. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

“If elections are a battle of perceptions, our data suggest this was a battle Democrats lost.” My colleague Stephen Hawkins and I have an article out today in The Atlantic showing how Americans mistakenly think Democrats prioritize Progressive causes over economic ones. t.co/1O4CmhFjy2

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Had a great time re/connecting with amazing scholars at #SJDM2024. It was my first time at the conference, but it definitely won’t be my last! 🙏 @katymilkman.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @sdpbht.bsky.social @ikesilver.bsky.social @juliaminson.bsky.social @rafmbatista.bsky.social o

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sharing talks and posters from this weekend’s @SJDM-tweets.bsky.social conference. First, a talk about the #jobMarket — by the way, I’m hiring a 3-year #postdoc researcher who does quantitative #decisionScience and can #workFromHome in the U.S.: geisinger.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/GeisingerExt... …

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

Note to anyone thinking of having kids: DO NOT DO IT. You will start to love them so much it becomes physically painful

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PSA for anyone wondering what professional life is like outside of academia: TEN OUT OF TEN Truly could not be happier, more motivated, or excited by what I'm working on right now. 🙏

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the the Beacon Project at More in Common. The Beacon Project will be using insights from social science to help build a new moral framework that can speak to modern challenges.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

In the past decade, Effective Altruism has motivated people to give hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. In this post, I argue that EA's foundational theory, utilitarianism, overlooks a core feature of morality: honoring relational obligations. www.partialspectator.com/p/effective-...

submitted 378 days ago • 0 comments

Allow me to (re)introduce myself. My name is Daniel, and I walked away from academia to live in New Orleans. I believe success takes many forms.

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I'm launching a new monthly newsletter about morality, mind, and society. It's called The Partial Spectator. My first post is about how I decided to step away from academia and move to New Orleans. www.partialspectator.com/p/lessons-in...

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