Finally worked up the courage to tell the world I don't floss nytimes.com/2023/10/08/opi…

🎇!! NEW PAPER ALERT !!🎇 To what extent is partisan toxicity a story of PARTISANSHIP vs. a story of TOXICITY? Research with the great Michalis Mamakos suggests that it's largely a story of toxicity. People who are toxic when discussing politics are also toxic when discussing movies.

If you’re going to #SPSP2024, come check out our symposium Friday at 3:45pm to hear some great talks by Catalina Enestrom, Trevor Spelman, and Chloe Bracegirdle on how our understanding of reality is shaped through social influences! 😊

In a new Cognition paper with Alex Huynh Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social we find that inviting people to explain contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking. 🧵: 1/

🚨 Hiring a Full-Time Research Assistant! Come work with me, Heather Maiirhe Caruso & Eugene Caruso at UCLA Anderson School of Management! More info below. To apply, please see instructions at jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/2611.

Our survey of relationship researchers is closing at the end of June! Thanks to everyone who has taken it so far--and if you haven't, we would love to hear from you! To determine if you're eligible and to take the study, here is the link: tinyurl.com/relscisurvey 🩷🩷🩷

Interested in research at the intersection of politics and organizational behavior? Don’t miss our session 'Micro Meets Macro Meets Political Science' at #AOM2024! Join us on Sunday, August 11 at 5:45 PM CT to explore the latest insights with our all-star panel.

If you're attending the Academy of Management conference and are interested in the intersection of management and politics, I hope you'll join us at 5:45pm today for this session. *** Please note the revised location: SHERATON BALLROOM 1 *** See you soon. :)

Are you a bluesky user? Want to get paid $40💰 for simply using #bluesky + exploring new feeds? Join our study that starts 9/15. Sign-up here: tinyurl.com/nufeedstudy & pls share widely! More info + FAQ👇

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Now out in PNASNews: Is In-Kind Kinder than Cash? doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…. We explore how food insecure individuals feel & respond when offered money or in-kind food aid. A field study in Kenya (Busara Center) and U.S.-based lab studies reveal… (1/9)

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab at Brown! Please apply if you're interested in judgment and decision-making, social+cognitive psych, or using games/experiments/computational models to understand human behavior. Apps due Dec 1! More info: davidlevari.com

Happy to share our new paper!! Moral praise signals what is typical and expected, indicating that an action goes above the norms. Ironically, this could lead to decreases in people’s willingness to behave as prosocially in the future (1/4) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

New #SPSPblog: From Doomscrolling to Moral Panic, How Social Media Hijacks Your Social Mind by Curtis Puryear ow.ly/5BxE50U4tWP

Hi all! Maryam Kouchaki and I will be recruiting a shared lab manager through Kellogg's Behavioral Research Fellow program. Please apply and forward to interested RAs who are interested in pursuing PhDs. More info here: kellogg.northwestern.edu/academics-rese…

👋 I'm recruiting a PhD student Kellogg School Northwestern For students interested in themes of morality, AI, social learning, computational social science. Check out my lab here shorturl.at/OcVpx | apps due 12/15 (shorturl.at/028CE)

👀New preprint! In 3 prereg experiments we study how engagement-based algorithms amplify ingroup, moral and emotional (IME) content in ways that disrupt social norm learning (and test one solution!) w/ Josh Jackson and my amazing lab managers Meriel Doyle & Silvan Baier 🧵👇

Learn more about PhD study at Kellogg! Attend a PhD program info session! Our application opens, September 10, 2025, for fall 2026 entry: kellogg.northwestern.edu/admissions/phd…

Incredible new work led by the amazing Curtis Puryear !

Interested in research at the intersection of politics and organizational behavior? Check out our session at AOM! We're bringing together micro + macro experts to share the latest insights from research in this area. Open discussion to follow. Details in the flyer below 👇

Are you interested in topics related to conflict and intergroup relations *broadly construed*? Come join us as a postdoc in the Dispute Research Research Center! This position is up to 3 years, comes with your own research funding, and a phenomenal network of past DRRC postdocs.