A class action antitrust lawsuit against the big publishers of academic journals was filed this week, saying they "conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would have otherwise funded scientific research." dailynous.com/2024/09/13/jou…

"more intellectually humble people are less likely to share (and believe in) hostile political news—both true and false—attacking political opponents" - Antoine Marie ow.ly/6Jrv50Tlg37

🗣️Using a transformer model to identify moral and moral-emotional appeals, Tobias Widmann & Kristina Bakkær Simonsen show the important role of radical-right challengers in shaping public discourse in a negative moral-emotional direction cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView #OpenAccess

More evidence that #socialMedia #polarization is not reliably amplified by #algorithms? Like-minded #arguments were more polarizing than opposing arguments, but algorithmic (vs. random) curation didn't amplify that (N > 800 Germans across three waves). doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr…

"While Indigenous people with greater personal income were slightly more satisfied with life than those with less income, overall, they were much happier than their Western counterparts even at very low incomes" ow.ly/gzTH50ToCMi via Greater Good

Scientific summaries written by GPT-4 led to more positive perceptions of scientists, making them appear more credible and trustworthy, though somewhat less intelligent, compared to more complicated human-written abstracts. Moreover, participants understood scientific writing

How can speakers connect more deeply with their audience? Here are some key principles from Terry Szuplat a former speechwriter for Barack Obama, from his new book "SAY IT WELL: Advice on How to Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience" powerofusnewsletter.com/p/advice-on-ho…

There is a big gap between what goes viral on social media VS what people want to go viral In our new Association for Psychological Science paper people report that divisive content, moral outrage, negativity, and misinformation all go viral. But they want it to stop! doi.org/10.1177/174569…

This explains why so many people hate Elon Musk's version of X. He seems to be amplifying the things everyone hates about social media.

Excellent post from Stuart Ritchie on the politicisation of science: "Imagine you heard a scientist saying the following: I’m being paid massive consultation fees by a pharmaceutical company who wants the results of my research to turn out in one specific way. And that’s a good

New preprint! accepted by Communication Research! This meta-analysis (49 studies, N = 81,155) finds media literacy interventions improve resilience to misinformation (d= 0.60). stronger effect with multi sessions & in high uncertainty avoidance cultures doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

The idea that people are callous bystanders is one of the biggest myths about #psychology This myth is based on false reporting of the murder of Kitty Genovese and a misunderstanding of the bystander effect in social psychology We debunk it here: powerofusnewsletter.com/p/debunking-po…

As the election heats up, we’re reminded how US politics is growing more divisive & nationalized. Could these trends be linked? Our new PNAS Nexus paper finds national politics uses broadly relevant themes—morality & power—more than local. This engages but also divides people.

Deliberate ignorance and cognitive distortations are at the root of a LOT of problems in society. We need more research on strategies to reduce these mental gymnastics if we want a healthy society.

Debunking and confronting the zombie myths of social psychology is important 👇