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Cindy Harmon-Jones

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Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Western Sydney University.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
FRUM: “They were best friends. The only photos you ever see of Trump where he’s authentically smiling in the presence of another human being is with Jeffrey Epstein.” (H/T @thebulwark.com )
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
So, Congress passes a law requiring the release of ALL the Trumpstein files. Any redactions to protect ONLY the victims Trump DOJ releases a highly redacted and incomplete batch after working on them for months, citing various lame excuses for their non-compliance This is what a coverup looks like
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Kelly: I wish someone would tell him how math works. You know, that the prices are going to go down 500 or 600%. Anyone who's been through like the sixth grade by then knows that that is not a thing.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/12/2025
I've been saying for a long, long time that Trump holdovers at the FBI WFO hamstrung the DOJ's investigations into Donald Trump. These new Grassley emails prove it. Example: Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago over multiple attempts to stonewall, and found evidence of multiple crimes.
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bluepapaca.bsky.social @bluepapaca.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The time to act is now! What do you say Congress! What!!!
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NPR @npr.org · 18/12/2025
The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, a move that is sure to infuriate China. n.pr/48Tyoqd
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US announces massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion
The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, a move that is sure to infuriate China.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/12/2025
Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. n.pr/491ANhm
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Mourners grieve 10-year-old slain in Bondi mass shooting as Australia's leader pledges new hate laws
Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.
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Dave Dellecese @davedellecese.com · 15/12/2025
The fact that not a single reporter tells Mike Johnson “let me read it for you” or “here it is” when he claims he hasn’t seen or doesn’t know a thing about the psychotic ramblings of the head of state is not only a dereliction of journalistic duty, but a display of pure cowardice.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Does anyone know where Kash Patel is? Are they trying to find a jacket for him again?
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Kenneth Russell @kenrussell92.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The shooting at Bondi Beach is the first mass shooting in Australia in almost thirty years. I am horrified and sickened by these events, which I am only just learning of now. We don’t know enough about the motive yet, though it appears the target was Jews celebrating Hanukkah (cont…)
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Marie Goldman MP @mariecgoldman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Shocking scenes coming out of Australia of a shooting at Bondi Beach. While we wait for answers, my thoughts go out to all those affected, especially the Jewish community who were celebrating the start of Hanukkah on the beach at the time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
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Bondi Beach: Multiple deaths after shooting, police say, as two detained
Residents are being advised to avoid the area while police attend to the scene.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Australia: Multiple people have been killed and at least two police officers have been injured in a shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach, New South Wales (NSW) Police sources have told the ABC. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Breaking: 'Multiple' people killed, police officers injured in Bondi Beach shooting
Multiple people have been killed and at least two police officers have been injured in a shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach, NSW Police sources have told the ABC.
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
1st paper in thread. The 2nd & my last submitted paper of 2025 is my big theory paper that took over a year to write. Some of you have generously invited me to speak about it but very few have seen the paper. I propose what I call Racial Contrast Theory, to examine Black-Asian relations osf.io/easwg
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
it *replicated the counterattitudinal effect!*. It just didn't replicate the forced/free choice moderator. That is interesting! Why and when feeling free affects choice matters but nonetheless the central posit--inconsistency driving attitude change (Festinger's not Cooper's) was replicated. And..
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is all p misleading IMO. I just saw this link so haven't read it yet (but will, though I also think lots of the retweets of this haven't read it as well, given its provenance). I don't see how this counters (eg) Dawson 1999 which goes through 13 millennial cults and finds 12 show the effect 1/n
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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
so doubts about the scientific standards of "When Prophecy Fails" are not new, or especially relevant to dissonance theory. it's not very different from concerns re: the story about ben franklin flying a kite in a lightning storm; relevant for history, not so much for the study of electromagnetism
19th century painting of ben franklin discovering electricity
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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
there now exist decades of research on how members of new religious movements react to false predictions which broadly supports the basic idea, namely, that people rationalize in order to preserve beliefs they've invested a lot into in the face of strong counterevidence bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
there are three important issues that have come up: 1) problems with the scientific standards of the narrative nonfiction book, "When Prophecy Fails" 2) a successful but partial replication of one dissonance effect 3) general skepticism about 20th century psychology
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The moral of this story (yet again): read the fine print. n/n
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Btw, for those interested in the recent replication attempts of dissonance research, see this excellent thread (6/n): bsky.app/profile/quil...
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
In any case, "When Prophesy Fails" was never considered an actual empirical study, but an intriguing anecdote and theoretical analysis. So if the book is now relegated to the fiction aisle, I think we're with fine that 😁 It's the idea that mattered and all the empirical work it inspired 5/n
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Not sure what to make of the rest of the paper—i.e., the detailed examples of specific events and whether they matched Festinger et al.'s account. The differences often seem small, nuanced, or irrelevant to the theory. But the conclusion—my goodness!—it's a bit much (4/n):
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I wondered about the author's background/angle: his affiliation is listed as "Independent Scholar, Washington DC" And in an earlier paper, a letter to the editor in JAMA, as a "Self-employed political consultant, Columbus, Ohio" So, perhaps not a psychologist. A political consultant? Unclear. 3/n
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The paper incorrectly describes the 'New Look' as a leftwing movement that inspired social psychology—New Look actually refers to Bruner's take on motivated perception, or within dissonance, to Cooper's revision of the theory. It reads like a low-key rightwing takedown of social psychology... 2/n
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
So, is "When Prophesy Fails"—the foundation of cognitive dissonance theory—debunked? Unclear. The article making this claim is... odd. It describes Festinger and Schachter as leftwing radicals, critiques the political slant of their funding, generally refers to their work as failed... 1/n
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