The only source of comfort in these days are joint Jewish Palestinian efforts to fight darkness. That's our only hope, and the only long-term solution to striving together.
latimes.com/world-nation/s…

I told a grad-student co-author 'try to imagine me as the guy from 'Memento' who can't remember anything & needs clues to pick-up the thread on projects' and they said 'I believe you, because you already used that memento analogy'

🌐 Excited for our Interdisciplinary Workshop on Identity & Politics! Explore how political processes shape group identities and their impact on political dynamics and results. Join us on May 15-16 in Toulouse 🇫🇷! 🔗 iast.fr/interdisciplin… #IASTevents #IdentityPolitics 📚

#TelAviv right now: Thousands of anti-govt protesters are once again on the streets calling for the immediate ousting of @Netanyahu and his inept, corrupt, and messianic clan. #GazaWar

This is it right here. And this piece from back in October by Melani Cammett Ryan Enos and Steven Levitsky reminds us that we continue to protect them and their rights ESP if we disagree with them so get on board everyone
thecrimson.com/article/2023/1…

Anyone tempted to think AI Surrogates can replace human participants in experiments needs to read this devastating empirical critique by Angelina Wang & colleagues arxiv.org/abs/2402.01908

New paper out in JEP:GEN American Psychological Association

How do we react to people who are receptive to opposing political views?

Drought free California from space.

What a sight.

A beautiful review of a spectacularly successful body of work by the amazing Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 and her wonderful team Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev

🚨 New in PNASNews 🚨

We find that people see more of their #biases in #algorithms ' decisions than in their own #decisions , even when algorithms are trained on their decisions and when those decisions are the same. 1/n

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Regardless of how you feel about the Israel/Palestine issue or the atrocities of 10/7, the way Israel is fighting this war and the situation they have created in Gaza are horrific and indefensible.
huffpost.com/entry/gaza-col… 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

Our new preprint explains why social media creates a funhouse mirror--a distorted perception of social norms.

Because extreme voices dominate discourse on most topics, users develop a false sense of shared norms
osf.io/preprints/psya…

Led by Claire Robertson Kareena del Rosario

🚨awesome new norm distribution elicitation method just dropped!!!!🚨

Jay Van Bavel, PhD Claire Robertson Kareena del Rosario This is a really great, clear finding. And I’ll add that we show analogous results, in a different way, among US politicians: politicians who share more ideologically extreme content are those who—by far—share the most information on social media (note the log scale).

WATCH: PBS PBS NewsHour dives into how the #ChildTaxCredit lifted 2M children out of poverty by giving parents the ability to buy essentials for their kids like groceries and school supplies. The #CTC invests in families and supports working parents. pbs.org/newshour/show/…

Seems like increases in schizophrenia might provide some decent negative control for the effect of smartphones on mental health outcomes. That is, I doubt phones cause schizophrenia, so maybe there are other (time-varying) confounders for all the mental health outcomes.

Real world debates are not about 'foundations' of liberty or fairness.

They are about *victims*--who is most vulnerable to mistreatment. Cops? Black people? Fetuses?

8 studies show moral debates are explained by diff 'assumptions of vulnerability' (AoVs) btw libs and cons.