"These results were surprisingly robust... rather than admiring their receptiveness, fellow members of their party seem to dislike such receptiveness" -Mohamed A. Hussein Society for Personality and Social Psychology spsp.org/news/character…

"Across seven studies with more than 5,000 respondents, we found that receptiveness to political opponents has reputational costs... Americans have become so polarized that simply listening to and engaging with the opposing party has become a socially punishable offense."

Excited to announce that Columbia's Department of Psychology is hiring a tenure-track faculty member! Emphasis on multi-method expertise and research programs that complement current strengths in the Department. Come join us! Review begins Nov. 1: apply.interfolio.com/157376

Research by Professor Mohamed Hussein uncovers the social cost of engaging with opposing political views, offering new insights into America’s growing partisan divide and what it means to foster cooperation. Learn more: business.columbia.edu/research-brief…

The Management Division at Columbia Business School is excited to announce the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow position! Please help spread the word! They will receive a research budget and collaborate with faculty. See the job ad below, and please reach out with any questions.

.amit (Co-Founder and CEO of Luma AI) is building a universal imagination engine. We talk about the path towards building a future that looks less like text-only intelligence and more like... the holodeck! This is a conversation for anyone fascinated by the next

Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to founders and practitioners from companies pushing the edge of audio AI applications: Suno, Decagon, Mercor, Regal.ai, and more. A few themes I’ve been seeing, for anyone building in audio AI:

🧵 New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour! We often assume that as kids grow up, their moral circle—who they care about—gets bigger. But sometimes, it shrinks. Here’s what we found 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41562…

What Are N.Y.C.’s Mayoral Candidates Saying in TV Ads? hubs.li/Q03qqcdZ0

Some promising trends in the psychology replication crisis since 2004: - Fewer studies publish weak p values (.01 < p < .05) - Studies with weak p values are less likely to get cited - The % of weak p values (26%) is now roughly what we would expect from studies with 80% power.

💥Some news!💥 After four years of pondering, writing, and revising, I’ve sent a complete draft of my behavioral economics textbook off to MIT Press. More info about the book, including the full table of contents, is in the link below.

“Retributive Philanthropy” is now published in the Journal of Marketing Research (AMA Journals)! (w/ Kirk Kristofferson & Miranda Goode). Some consumers use donations to *punish* others. These two actions don’t usually align. Why are consumers doing this? Thread & link below 👇

From our new issue: "Geo-Political Rivalry and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: A Conjoint Experiment in 22 Countries" by ANDREAS WIMMER, BART BONIKOWSKI, CHARLES CRABTREE, ZHENG FU, MATT GOLDER, and KIYOTERU TSUTSUI #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Excited to share a new working paper with @SemraSevi and Don Green. We built a chatbot-based Voting Aid Application (VAA) using generative AI to help young voters in the US learn where parties stand on the issues they care most about. Does it work? Yes and no... Let’s dive in.

From our new issue: "Confronting Core Issues: A Critical Assessment of Attitude Polarization Using Tailored Experiments " by YAMIL RICARDO VELEZ (Yamil Ricardo Velez) and PATRICK LIU (Patrick Liu) #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…