Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The adults have left the building and the outcome is chaos and pain.... 000
Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025R continues to be the most insane programming language ever. Suppose you want to exclude by Age, say 18 year olds. data = filter(data, !(Age == 18)) seems intuitive. Yet, if there are any NAs (missing data for Age) those cases are excluded too. How does that logic make any sense??? Crazy stuff... 120
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerJoe Pierre, MD @psychunseen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him… Don’t believe him.” —Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Don’t Believe HimLook closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see. 24817
Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025🚨 Misinformation isn’t just noise—it shapes history, fuels division, and even costs lives. 🚨 How do political falsehoods spread—and what actually works to stop them? 🔎📊🧪 Read more: www.bi.edu/research/bus... #Science #Politics #Misinformation #MediaLiteracybi.eduWhat can we do about misinformation?Misinformation is here to stay (for now). That does not mean there is nothing to do about it. 021
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Polarization has become a serious threat to shared reality, democracy, and even health "Thousands of people were dying needlessly because they didn’t trust medical advice, or their government, or mainstream media” Reducing partisan animosity is doable, but tricky: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... 35314
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerTamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 25/01/2025My team's recent research: at work, women speak up less than men only when groups are uncivil. Maybe it's not a lack of confidence or leaning in that silences women, but actual cues in the environment. Focus on fixing the incivility, not the women! hbr.org/2025/01/rese...hbr.orgResearch: Incivility at Work Silences Everyone, But Especially WomenIncivility at work isn’t good for anyone. But while both men and women are less likely to speak up in uncivil environments, women are more likely to withhold their ideas due to concerns about gender b... 07128
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943 13066021524111
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/01/2025Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org open.substack.com/pub/protectd...open.substack.comHow *you* can protect democracy29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect our system of government 612022822
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerJulia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · 24/01/2025🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to julia_marshall1@brown.edu by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out! 12121
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerClaes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 24/01/2025It’s lonely on the Right Loneliness is associated with support for the 🇳🇱 populist radical right. “Loneliness due to its physiologically dysregulating impact on the nervous system, facilitates greater susceptibility towards populist radical right parties” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comLoneliness is positively associated with populist radical right supportThe mental and physical health consequences of loneliness are well documented. However, loneliness's socio-political ramifications have been largely u… 47122
Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Skewed polls like this artificially and harmfully increase distrust in government and public institutions by using 2 to 1 weights: "it has been broken". This type of manipulation, often done to create click-bait headlines, has become strikingly common at NYTimes #keepmoneyoutofnews #nytimes #polling 110
Reposted by Anton Gollwitzerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity. 1591533298581
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerJPMcJefferson @jpmcjefferson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025THE AGE OF LIES: Social media (Meta, X, IG, et.) has ended all pretense of relaying facts to the public, the public news media (print, PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc) must call out "Leadership Lies" every day on their reports. Trump's "news conference" yesterday was laced with lies. tinyurl.com/bdh5uvevtinyurl.comMark Zuckerberg and Meta say good riddance to fact-checkingSocial media firms never wanted to be in the content moderation business — now they're starting to leave it behind. 021
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerAlan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025One authoritarian scholar notes that there is a difference between a traditional liar and an autocratic liar. The traditional liar lies to conceal, and therefore implicitly respects the power of the listener. The autocrat lies for dominance. The lies are outrageous, but does one dare challenge them? 3247
Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025🧪 Misinformation kills. It fuels political violence, destabilizes societies, and hides behind claims of "free speech." This talk explores: ⚠️ The real harms of falsehoods 🛡️ How we can combat their spread 📜 Why social media regulation is critical 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/sGPPFKlOIM8 #Misinformationyoutu.bePartisanship, Misinformation, and the Future of DemocracyYouTube video by Anton Gollwitzer 010
Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Why Do We Share False News? Sharing false news isn’t just impulsive; it’s shaped by our biases and habits. Our new framework, the Dynamic Semi-Integrative Approach (DSIA), tested interventions to tackle this problem—and the results are eye-opening #AcademicSky #socialpsyc #polisky #cogsci 🧪 282
Reposted by Anton GollwitzerThom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 25/11/2024This seems rather good: AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... There's a lot of crappy ideas out there about how to use AI; this seems very much to be a positive applicationscience.orgAI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberationFinding agreement through a free exchange of views is often difficult. Collective deliberation can be slow, difficult to scale, and unequally attentive to different voices. In this study, we trained a... 161
Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Inflation is really getting out of control... www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a...nytimes.comWho’s Laughing Now? Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’sA conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur. 010
Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Having left Twitter/X back when Elon took over, I'm ecstatic to again have a place to check out other researcher's amazing work and share updates from my research lab!! Thanks so much! #bluesky 🧪 #socialpsychology 170
Anton Gollwitzer @antongollwitzer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024We used NLP to uncover a troubling trend: when political leaders confidently spread falsehoods, it’s not just noise—it directly predicts an uptick in political violence. Our data foreshadow Trump's second term resulting in a sharp rise in violence 🧪 #psychology #socialpsyc osf.io/preprints/ps... 040