LGBTQ college students are significantly more likely than their non-LGBTQ peers to face bullying, harassment, or assault at school. bit.ly/LGBTQ4yrcollege

7/ A quote of his that encapsulated Steve: 'The purpose of policy history is not merely to trace where we have come from and why, but to show us the paths not traveled, the tools discarded and forgotten but still useful, so that we can make use of them in the here and now.'

Evidence of a too-good-to-be-true bias.

When people are 'too generous,' we come to infer that there are phantom costs. In turn, we become less likely to accept high job wages, cheap plane fares, and even free money.

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1. Two years ago, Hillary Cass met with DeSantis picks and collaborated on a trans care ban in Florida.

Now her review targets trans people in England.

It is filled with flawed claims over evidence, toys, and social transition.

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New study out Political Psychology shows that, across six countries, rightwing supporters evaluated the past as more positive compared leftwing supporters

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This paper does two cool things:

- It provides very robust evidence on little overall support for the cordon sanitaire among voters in Spain.

- It proposes a very convincing affective argument on why cordon sanitaire is so unpopular in such a two-bloc polarized context.

New paper out in Governance Journal: Katrijn Siderius & I analyze the role & distributive impact of individual ministers in policy-making. We show: Controlling for a range of alterantive explanations, which ministry drafts a bill has substantive implications (for inequality).

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I didn’t know this but the US has the oldest politicians of any OECD country and is even more of an outlier when considering the median age of the US population. Graphic taken from an interesting paper by Adam Bonica and Jake M. Grumbach dropbox.com/s/tui5dkbnnfu7…

This can easily be explained by a confounder: they’re gay

Despite people believing that political cynicism is bad, people say they are cynical about politics to hide the fact that they may not be knowledgeable about politics, finds Hillary K. Style doi.org/10.1093/poq/nf…

Cool new paper showing people find more common ground and feel more social connection than they predict when having conversations with political opponents--even on challenging topics!

By K. Wald, M. Kardas, N. Epley

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Forthcoming at APSR! We categorize the variety of values that have been of interest in polisci and psych in terms of their cooperativeness. We argue that more cooperative values tend to be more moralized in the general public. (1/2) jaeheejung.com/research/

🎉 Exciting news! My publication has just been published! It’s about political homophobia in Russia and how it’s connected to anti-Ukrainian sentiments. A huge thanks to everyone who supported this work. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/237802…

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