Kicking off the 2023 #ISPPAcademy with Nick Valentino and Johanna Dunaway's sessions on designing survey measures and media effects in the contemporary information environment. #ISPP23 ISPP

And with this group photo we conclude three days of intense but fun training at the #ISPPAcademy😊 Big thanks to our instructors and Minnie Chappell & Sev Bennett at ISPP Central Office and @MarketaOdlova for their hard work that made this a great experience! #ISPP2023

Enjoyed the mentoring session with Prof. Marilynn Brewer. Diverse discussion ranging from social cognition, identity threats, category of global citizenship and beyond. #ispp2023 Evan A. Valdes ISPP

Honored to have our paper (w/ James H. Liu & Matt Williams ) featured in Asian Social Psychology Editors Podcast!! You can access the full article at doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.1…

Barriers to Tenure and Promotion Persist for Psychology Faculty of Color A report by the American Psychological Association outlines the barriers many faculty members of color face and calls for increased transparency in the tenure & promotion process. insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

When you see a massive sudden expression of prejudice, it likely existed all along--but it is now acceptable to publicly express. Genuine prejudices are often restrained by values and norms, until the situation allows people to justify their expression. www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/Psyc…

Only some people learn from their mistakes, but they are the ones that get good. You can tell by the 2nd failure whether someone is learning how to succeed through refinement or just flailing. It is true for startups, scientists & even terrorist attacks. static1.squarespace.com/static/5877ca6…

So happy to share that our work on vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy beliefs has been accepted to both #ICP2024 and #ISPP2024. I wish I could attend both conferences! 🤓

🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work? In Current Opinion in Psychology, David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social & I show that the answer is YES: warnings can reduce belief & sharing by ~25-50%! We also review moderators (eg more visible=bigger effect) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I presented our Asian Social Psychology Summer School 2021 project at #ICP2024 in Prague, Czech Republic. 🇨🇿

#AJSP is calling for papers for a special issue on global consciousness dedicated to the memory and seminal contributions of Prof. James Liu. For more details: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/asse…

Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile! In 2 large field experiments, unfollowing a few extreme influencers: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24% -Increased satisfaction with Twitter/X -Led people to share higher-quality news Effects persisting for

Why are Latinos voting for Trump? Amanda Sahar d’Urso and I explain part of the puzzle in a new working paper. We show Latinos have backlashed against Democratic politicians due to their usage of, and association with, the gender-inclusive group label "Latinx" 1/n marcelroman.com/pdfs/wps/latin…

Why did Trump beat Harris? Anti-incumbency bias: People voted against the incumbent party in every part of American and every country in the world this year--for the first time in 70+ years! This global trend was a tsunami that swamped ideology, gender, race, age, etc.

🚨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰! Honored to share our paper (with Evan A. Valdes and the late Prof. James Liu) in Asian Social Psychology! 🌏💉 Born from AASP Summer School 2021, we explore how identity and system justification shape COVID-19 attitudes across 7 countries.

You can check out the full text here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

New on #AJSP Cross-cultural investigation of the relationship between social identity, trusting the system, COVID-19 vaccine adherence and conspiratorial beliefs Evan A. Valdes, Junix Jerald I. Delos Santos Junix Delos Santos , James H. Liu doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.7…

A new analysis of 24,009 people across 42 countries largely supported the competing claims of social dominance and social identity theories over system justification theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/po…