Ever wondered how media could bridge divides? Emily Kubin & Christian von Sikorski develop the Polarizing Content Warning. Across 5 studies (N=3,414) they show that warnings reduce users’ perceptions of societal polarization, thereby reducing affective polarization doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

What’s wrong with “doing your own research”? It requires expertise in the topic and an awareness of your biases and motivations. Confirmation bias, misplaced trust, limited knowledge, & overconfidence is the perfect storm for being misled. More: thinkingispower.com/the-problem-wi…

Keeping an open mind is not about lacking moral conviction. It’s about maintaining intellectual humility. The people who leave their echo chambers are the ones who know their knowledge is incomplete. A key to lifelong learning is engaging with others who disagree with you.

Very happy to share that "Curation Bubbles" is conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review

Thank you! Honored to be a part of a fantastic team at Journal of Media Psychology! 😊

PubAlert💡 Can social media metrics (e.g., “views,” “likes,” and “shares and comments”) shape your agenda? Not sure🤔but it may influence your assumptions of others’ agendas. Check our latest article in MediaPsychMEP below: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Study on opinion leaders co-authored by one of the JMP Associate editors, Saraswathi (Saras) Bellur, PhD (UConn), will be presented at #ICA24 on June 24th. See abstract below. #JMPatICA24

Neues Interview mit Piotr Heller von der FAZ Wissen: "Generation Angst" von Jonathan Haidt: Schaden Smartphones der Psyche faz.net/aktuell/wissen…

A new meta-analysis by Prof Nehama Lewis 🇦🇺🇮🇱, Emily Andrews, Denali Keefe and Nathan Walter (Center of Media Psychology and Social Influence) describes antecedents and consequences of information seeking and scanning - Related but distinct behaviors, with different antecedents but similar effects. doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

New article from Hyun Kim on online how linguistic politeness enhances the efficacy of fact-checking news articles in correcting misinformation by reducing recipients' perceived face threat and psychological reactance. Read it today bit.ly/3xJwpoF

New article from Scott Hale on #misinfo spreads across platforms but in unique ways shaped by the audiences and affordances of each platform. Read it today bit.ly/4f3wWST

I will join Trinity College Dublin & TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath as inaugural Full Professor & Workday endowed Chair of Technology & Society starting in August! I will direct the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines. Several PhD and Postdoc positions are available. tcd.ie/news_events/to…

What are the most effective ways to promote happiness worldwide? We want to find out with a Global Happiness Megastudy! Grad students/post-docs/faculty can get involved by designing an intervention or collecting data. For more info, visit tinyurl.com/3ze2wyvf. Please RT!

Our group at MIT is hiring an assistant professor! Come join our wonderful crew Rahul Bhui Dean Eckles Drazen Prelec Catherine Tucker Dr. Renée Gosline Sinan Aral Duncan Simester, John Hauser, JuanJuan Zhang. Applications due Aug 12 - happy to answer any qs! apply.interfolio.com/149758

New research by Shannon Cruz, Brian Manata (Brian Manata), Andy High (@AndyCHigh), and Tim Worley examines whether characteristics of influential people vary across cultures. Results from seven countries reveal notable similarities. Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

Our latest JCMC paper explores the emotional implications of AI companionship by analyzing 35,000+ posts from r/replika. We uncover seven types of human-AI interactions and their links to user emotions, revealing the bittersweet "paradox of emotional connection with AI". 🤖❤️

And here is a Research Briefing summary of our work in Nature Human Behaviour from myself & David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social : rdcu.be/dT3dq