🚨 Now out in PNASNews 🚨 Analyzing social media posts from news accounts and politicians (n = 2,730,215), we found that the biggest predictor of "virality" (out of all predictors we measured) was whether a social media post was about one's outgroup. pnas.org/content/118/26…

To solve problems, the 1st step is problem-identification. This applies to SoMe too. Don't rely on your intuitions. Don't even assume Facebook knows its impact. We need real research. Here is a 🧵 on that. The problem is different from what many - even FB - thinks. (1/14)

We just wrapped up the first part of the #2021WisdomSummit. Stay tuned and come back at 7:30 PM Eastern TIme to continue with panel and group discussions on #culturaldiversity, more flashtalks and the wrap up. Zoom link for later session: bit.ly/3v0oaP9

My paper w/Maryam Kouchaki, “Virtuous Victims”, is out today in Science Advances! We show that people often see victims of wrongdoing as morally virtuous—not because of anything that they have done, but simply because others have mistreated them. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧵👇

Submitted a paper back in January that is still without an initial decision. In June I was told that “a decision will be rendered shortly” Now I am being told that “the paper is with subject experts” Maybe on the one-year submission anniversary the paper will be desk rejected.

Very excited to see this paper in press at Nature Communications! Fortunate to have been able to play a small role in this ambitious project. 🧵from lead author Jay Van Bavel, PhD below

Happy to have had the opportunity to talk about this work with the great Mane Kara-Yakoubian. Check out the article below!

It's here!'Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R' is now officially published worldwide bit.ly/2ZxpxZQ 🥳To celebrate, we are giving away one copy each to two lucky winners. To enter, follow me and retweet this by Nov 8th #rstats #DataScience CRC Press Data Science, Stats, and Math Books

🚨 New Paper Alert🚨 What drives political dehumanization? Believing political opponents reject important threats. Now in press at Social Psychological and Personality Science. psyarxiv.com/ds24w/🧵 (1/9)

A thread on my favourite research conducted by Alexander C. Walker, @MartinHarry_T, Ethan Meyers & profs. weekend #scicomm on #doublespeak 1/8

Excited to see this paper out today Nature Communications! Fortunate to have had the opportunity to make a (small) contribution to a wonderful project!

Psyched to share my first, first authored paper w/ Alexander C. Walker, randy allen harris, & members/collaborators of the Reasoning & Decision Making Lab. Ft. A prettttyyy cool project we worked on during my gap year at University of Waterloo. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. doi.org/10.1037/cep000…

🚨 Our paper "National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic" is being featured in the Editors’ Highlights webpage as one of the 50 best papers recently published in Social Sciences at Nature Communications! How cool is that!💃 nature.com/collections/gh…

Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war - from Russia to the U.S. "Substituting different verbs, adding more agreeable phrases, using euphemisms and adopting the passive voice can make morally offensive behaviors more palatable to people." latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Excited to see this perspective piece on psychological selfishness w/ M.J. Crockett, Chance Adkins, & Margaret Clark finally out at PoPS! doi.org/10.1177/174569… 🧵 1/8

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 w/ William J. Brady & Manos Tsakiris: We map the moral language of 39 U.S. presidential candidates to show how they are connected / differentiated by their use of moral rhetoric. #textasdata osf.io/wn5rx A [visual] thread on findings: 1/

Now out in PNAS Nexus We used machine learning to understand which factors are associated with attitudinal and behavioural responses to the pandemic The results are quite interesting. A short thread: 1/7

Have you ever wished to study the social & moral psychology of #COVID19 with N=51,404 from 69 countries (28 nationally representative samples) from Global North/South? 🔥Now accepted at Nature Scientific Data 🎉🤗 Preprint & data: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… osf.io/tfsza/