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Thank you @lkfazio.bsky.social for covering this and a huge thanks to @shaunambowes.bsky.social for inviting me to be a part of such an amazing symposium this year! #SPSP2025

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Not only did she send the kind message but she showed up to the 8am talk y’all!!

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Not going to let Nashville snow get in the way of chairing my first SPSP symposium on conspiracy belief this Saturday! Come see our talks on conspiracy belief strength, conspiracy theorists, and more!

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JD Vance has expressed a “deep hostility to the entire academic enterprise, not just the so-called woke parts,” writes @michellegoldberg.bsky.social. "He wasn’t talking about making more room for right-wing ideas in universities or even dreaming of taking them over. He wanted to destroy it all."

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We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.

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Page One in Boston: @bostonglobe.com

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Fascinating and important work from Jonah Koetke and Karina Schumann (two of my fave collaborators!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Juste came across this interesting paper: repetition does not just cause "illusory truth" but also "illusory implications" -- people make inferences on the basis of familiar (illusory) information. @lkfazio.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @ulliecker.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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New work with Danny Osborne, Chris Sibley, and @fasbrock.bsky.social 💫 We explore how the relationship between two key constructs in intergroup relations—(anti-)egalitarianism and system justification—has changed with rising gender equality over 14 years. Now accepted at #PSPB 🎉

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A new report from the National Academies offers a thorough examination of what we know and don’t know about misinformation about science. Read more here: nap.nationalacademies.org/27894

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🚨 To all scientists and science communicators: The public trusts science more when we acknowledge the limits of our knowledge! A habit to parctice in 2025. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you @shaunambowes.bsky.social et al! #science

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It was a lot of fun editing this important special issue! I highly recommend you give it a read!

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I really love mentoring students, and when they share reflections like this it feels even more rewarding! "In research, the goal is to learn; you are not expected to or supposed to know everything."

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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

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Exposure to counter-stereotypical exemplars of the out-party can improve affect towards the out-party link.springer.com/article/10.1... #socpsych #psychscisky #polpsy

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"Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation" -- a new review paper from Bertram Gawronski et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... After the debunking, the authors offer three empirical conclusions: (1) people are quite good at discerning true from false information

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Having a blast at my first Psychonomics! Talking about conspiracy belief and conspiracy theorists. Also, I took the Long Island Railroad and hailed a cab, so I am a New Yorker now?? @lkfazio.bsky.social thanks for supporting my journey in all the ways

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How can we motivate action to address climate change? We tested 17 psych interventions at once in a tournament! @falklab.bsky.social If you’re attending #psynom24, come to my talk from 11:40-12 TOMORROW (11/22) to find out the winning strategies! Marquis B-C! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

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Finally our editorial for the "What makes a good theory?" special issue is out (co-edited with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @jcskewes.bsky.social, Sashank Varma, and Todd Wareham). It's an interdisciplinary issue and the contents are transdisciplinary. #philsci #metasci #cogsci #ai #psych 🧪

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Looking forward to my first SESP conference! Will be talking about new data on conspiracy belief and antisemitism across levels of conspiracy belief commitment in the Toward a Social-Psychological Understanding of Antisemitism in the US session. Say hi if you'll be at SESP too👋

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My lab will be there! SARMAC is always one of my favorite conferences

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Very excited to announce the launch of Cooperation Island, a new research platform for measuring social decision-making in children ages 5+. Shout out to co-pilots Julia Marshall and Shalini Gautam! Check it out at: cooperationisland.com

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We discovered the lab stuffed animals today and, yes, I took them all

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Delighted to serve on this panel for the UCO Media Ethics Conference today and that an audience member made this incredible sketch of us!

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First post here to share the first postdoc paper with @lkfazio.bsky.social in the Advances in Psychology Misinformation and Conspiracy Beliefs Special Collection! We meta-analyzed the relations between IH and misinfo beliefs, intentions, and behaviors advances.in/psychology/1...

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