Check out this interview on UCI Podcast with Dr. Ditto as he shares his insights on extreme political partisanship and tips on how to remain level headed even during tense times: soundcloud.com/theucipodcast/…

Please check out this podcast interview with Dr. Ditto this Thanksgiving weekend (if you haven't had a chance already) on the changed nature of political partisanship in the US and how to remain level-headed even during tense times

Excited to share our Scientific American piece about why attempts to scare people straight about COVID probably won’t work. We (Nathan Ballantyne Hot Cognition Lab) focus on the implications of “shock persuasion” for health messaging, but these ideas are also applicable to other recent events... 1/n

Read this article, written by Nathan Ballantyne (author of "Knowing our Limits"), Jared Celniker, and Hot Cognition Lab, about how using shocking images might encourage people to acknowledge the threat of COVID-19. But does "shock persuasion" work?

Please check this awesome article in Scientific American by Nathan Ballantyne Jared Celniker and Dr. Ditto on how to better convince others to take COVID-19 more seriously scientificamerican.com/article/can-sh…

A report on persuasion during the pandemic by @MikeLeePearl, featuring some discussion of my work on “shock persuasion” with Hot Cognition Lab and Jared Celniker. One possibility is that these efforts to change minds backfire. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…

New article alert! Dr. Ditto and Dr. Ballantyne provide insight on how shock persuasion may not be the best strategy to encourage vaccination thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…

Happy Friday, check out our HCL work mentioned in the New York Times! :) nytimes.com/2021/10/20/opi…