jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of Social Identity & Morality Lab | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
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Here is another funny link:
@marawilson.bsky.social starred in Matilda with my former PhD student @leorhackel.bsky.social
So she has lots of reasons to care about what happens to scientists!
I’m glad she is spreading the word.
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Yes, it’s absolutely terrible. But don’t assume it’s unconnected from those other issues. Trump maintains power and avoid accountability because of hyper polarization and Musk spreads misinformation and propaganda by controlling a massive social media company. All these things can be related.
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“‘While Musk might get away with a [Nazi-like] salute in some parts of the world, European markets reject such behavior,’ said Kraaijvanger. Tesla sales are now in free fall in Europe. Last month, Tesla sales in Norway fell 37.9%, France, 63.4%, Spain, 75.4%.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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USC, too, I believe
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I saw Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Pitt, Penn and maybe a couple of others. I’ll add them as I remember…
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I'd then want to compare it to the control condition to see if it is mediating the effects on behavior that we see as a function of the doomerism message in the original research. I think that would be a more convincing analysis in terms of the effects of doomerism and the corresponding emotions.
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Yes, I think that’s quite interesting.
I’d be curious if that pattern is elicited by the doomerism condition as well. If not, then I think you are tapping into something else.
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It’s an empirical question: you can pull the data for the doomerism condition and see how it impacts emotion and if that mediates the impact on behavior.
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So I guess our original research was only the beginning!
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Exactly.
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It's been remarkable and disheartening to see some folks in denial of this state of affairs.
If you say you stand against censorship and for academic freedom, you better stand for these values when the government is the perpetrator or you don't stand for it at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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I’d say it’s more a property of the narrative about all kinds of issues, not just climate change.
But the emotional state it elicits is an interesting an open question and you’d need to look at the reaction to that condition to see how people felt.
But the indifference effect you find is v cool.
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I think that’s where we disagree.
In our study, we had a specific condition where we had a doomer scenario and compared it to other interventions and found it decreased behavior. IMHO what you are finding is very interesting, but not quite doomerism. www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
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Very interesting. How did you manipulate emotions, like doomerism? Or do you consider that indifference?
I also couldn’t get the link so I could tell if this was from our global study or from a different study, so not clear why the results diverged. I assumed you must have different manipulations.
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I’m glad we are in the second and third wave of research on social media—with a focus on key risk factors and moderators.
This helps move past the simple debates about whether it’s good or bad, writ large, and moves into more useful theorizing.
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Congrats for fighting the good fight!!!
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Thanks!
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Vance feels like a pure fascist, in many ways more committed to the ideas than Trump.