Do Democrats' perceptions of prejudice affect which candidates they think are electable or who they support in the Democratic primary? Azim Shariff, Jared Celniker, and I conducted several studies to find out psyarxiv.com/s52qz

Have you been thinking about inequality in the age of #COVID19? Our new work on why are the poor poor and why it matters, with Dylan Wiwad, Lara Aknin, Brett Mercier, Azim Shariff nature.com/articles/s4156… Shifting beliefs about poverty increases egalitarianism up to 5 mos. later

New paper out today in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology with my co-authors Brett Mercier, Paul Piff, Azim Shariff, & Lara Aknin! [1/9] sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Huge congrats to Brett Mercier for successfully defending his dissertation "Media Coverage of Mass shootings and Attitudes Towards Muslims" today (with no revisions!)! Brett will be starting a SSHRC postdoc with Yoel Inbar at UToronto this fall. Proud and sad to see you go! 🤘

🚨 A forthcoming essay about why persuasive communication can be so terribly hard. The Fog of Debate! I explore a somewhat neglected but all-too-common problem arising in discourse, and offer a model to help us do better. A short thread… philpapers.org/rec/BALFOD 1/11

I got 26th out of 258! I’m excited to see the final results of this project once they are published, it will be interesting to see how accurately this prediction market could predict whether a study would replicate.

Canadian friends: you might be tempted to try @FlairAirlines because they can be much cheaper than Air Canada or Westjet. My advice for you: if you would like to get where you're going, do not do this.

1. Science journals have begun adding moral criteria to their pub guidelines, stating they might reject or retract potentially harmful papers. In 2 studies, Maja Graso Ilana Redstone Philip E. Tetlock & I found that people systematically overestimate scientific harms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

I just donated to support this, and I would encourage anyone else who wants to support scientific integrity to do so as well.

As academic hiring season begins, search committees will again wrestle with the topic of faculty diversity. After years of these discussions, I’ve found they often skip the most fundamental question: Why does it matter? Diversity for what? New piece in Nature Reviews Psych 🧵w/🔗