Do partisans engage in moral hypocrisy?

Yes.

We find that Democrats and Republicans are less forgiving of the *exact same* moral transgression when it is committed by an outgroup member than an ingroup member.

Our paper is in press at Psych Science: osf.io/preprints/psya…

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'vaccination has averted 154 million deaths'

On the 50th anniversary of WHO's Expanded Programme on Immunization, Naor Bar-Zeev & colleagues quantify the public health impact of vaccination: hubs.ly/Q02ymFn60

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Generative AI has the potential to improve social science research, online experiments, automated content analyses, agent-based models, etc

But there are many limitations, including bias in the data used to train these tools, as well as challenges related to ethics, replication,

What can institutions do to improve minority achievements in higher education? In a new paper led by the incredible Kinneret Endevelt, and co-supervised with Eran Halperin, we test a light-touch intervention to foster belonging

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Very few people finish reading most books.

Look at the percentage of people who finished a Brief History of Time (6.6%), Infinite Jest (6.4%), and Thinking Fast and Slow (6.8%).

We should write shorter books with punchier first chapters (that people will actually read):

We are living in the worst time in recent history (until a few years from now when we look back in nostalgia and realize how great things were): washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

After brief social interactions, people tend to view individuals with high Dark Tetrad scores (psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, sadism) as low status, immature, unreasonable, hypocritical, sarcastic, short-sighted, unlikeable, and unattractive: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29457846/

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The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief cell.com/trends/cogniti… via Jay Van Bavel, PhD et al

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0. The Partisan Brain by Jay Van Bavel, PhD and Pereira doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…
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Are you looking to join a new lab or organization?

My advice is to look for a track record of success a
+ a culture of constructive criticism. This means people are willing to help one another do great work.

Is this a place where people are:
-open to feedback
-non-defensive