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assistant prof @ York University studying misinfo and polarization

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Cameron S. Kay @cskay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We’re excited to announce that the 2027 edition of the SPSP Misinformation & Belief Science Preconference will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 9th! 🧵 1/3
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🔺 Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Prof in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches (e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence) Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇
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Assistant Professor (Research %26 Education)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There has been a LOT of research on misinformation over the last decade. In a new paper (for Annual Review of Psychology), @dgrand.bsky.social and I attempt to distill the key points of consensus, highlight major disagreements, and point to future directions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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<p>Consensus, Disagreements, and Open Questions in the Psychology of Misinformation</p>
Research on misinformation has expanded rapidly over the past decade. This review examines areas of consensus and contention within the literature on misinforma
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output. nature.com/articles/s41...
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State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried&nbsp;in&nbsp;the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
People often speculate about what *they* would have done to oppose Nazi Germany. The US killed a school of children. Hegseth is saying "no quarter" will be given (a war crime). Trump is threatening to destroy an entire country (93 million people live in Iran). Speculation is no longer necessary.
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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc at @cmu.edu (w/ far.ai & @dgrand.bsky.social + @gordpennycook.bsky.social)! How do LLMs shape human beliefs — and what do we do about it? AI safety meets behavioral science. Open to technical and social science backgrounds.
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Nina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Interested in doing a postdoc on misinfo/belief change with me and @gordpennycook.bsky.social? We are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at York University. Contact me for more details! #PsychJobs
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Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowships - Connected Minds
INTRODUCTION: New technologies are revolutionizing society, creating a 'techno-social collective' where humans and intelligent technologies are deeply interconnected. While such advances present excit...
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for
Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments
Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath
January 27, 2026
We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se-
lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of
American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality
and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com).
Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously
published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’
choosing.
The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a
meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi-
pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit
to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for
submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
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Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture A01 - Introduction to Bayesian Workflow
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
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Elena Brandt @elena-brandt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🚀 Announcing the Besample Dissertation Grant (N=3,000) If you’re a Ph.D. student in psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, or any related field, this is your chance to get full funding for testing your theory across cultures. Apply: study.besample.app/jfe/form/SV_...
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Jenny Allen @jennyallen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Now in PNAS! With @mmosleh.bsky.social and @dgrand.bsky.social Examining news engagement across 7 platforms, we find: - differences WRT political lean ("echo platforms") - similarities WRT news quality (posting low qual news => more engagement) Read paper and thread for more!
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Eli Finkel @elijfinkel.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
📢POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT📢 @nourkteily.bsky.social & I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict. Application deadline: Nov. 17. Salary: ~$80k. facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==
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Northwestern Faculty Search -
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Tess Forest @tessforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The Budding Minds Lab at the University of Toronto is hiring a Postdoc in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of memory 🧠 🫧 This is (one of) my graduate labs and I can't recommend the department's people, resources, location, or culture strongly enough! see buddingmindslab.utoronto.ca for more
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Budding Minds
We are a developmental cognitive neuroscience lab located on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. Our research aims to understand how we form and recall memories, and how we can use...
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 07/10/2025
People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise. @wimdeneys.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Humans and LLMs rate deliberation as superior to intuition on complex reasoning tasks - Communications Psychology
People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise.
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Javier Granados Samayoa @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
📢The 2026 edition of the SPSP Misinformation & Belief Science preconference will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 24.🎉 Submit an abstract for either a single presenter or data blitz presentation by October 23 (link below) and don’t forget to register to attend by February 13!
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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life 🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs
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Nina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
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Javier Granados Samayoa @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’m recruiting a PhD student in Social Psychology @ TCU for this application cycle! My lab examines how beliefs and attitudes form, generalize, & shape behavior. We apply this general interest to the study of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and health behavior.
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Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our new study: a large-scale RCT showing that standard pedagogical techniques, but also a chatbot (an old school, LLM-less, scripted one!) can help high school students better understand vaccination and develop more positive attitudes.
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Tobia Spampatti, PhD @tspampatti.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In this new Commentary in @natclimate.nature.com, I reflect on the recent focus on truth discernment in #misinfo research and argue that this outcome alone may not be beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes because... 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Truth discernment may not help to overcome misinformation
Nature Climate Change - Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. However, pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to...
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Raunak Pillai @rmpillai.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
New preprint: From vaccinations to masking, politics predicts health behaviors. In this review we discuss these differences in light of classic psychological theories of group identity and behavioral decision-making. We welcome any feedback on this working paper! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Are you interested in topics related to conflict and intergroup relations *broadly construed*? Come join us as a postdoc in the Dispute Research Research Center! This position is up to 3 years, comes with your own research funding, and a phenomenal network of past DRRC postdocs.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Seeing the same fake news headlines multiple times makes people view sharing them as more acceptable, suggesting that repeated exposure can weaken social norms against spreading misinformation on social media. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MisinfoResearch
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Replicability and generalizability of the repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news - Nature Communications
Repeated exposure to misinformation reduces moral condemnation of sharing those falsehoods online. Here, the authors show that this finding replicates and generalizes to new settings and headlines.
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Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Curious about the mechanisms behind biased reasoning and metacognition? 🤔 📍 Come see our poster at #CCN2025, Aug 12, 1:30–4:30pm We show how a biased drift-diffusion model can explain choice, RT and confidence in a base-rate neglect task, revealing why more deliberation doesn’t always fix bias.
poster about why we don't stop and think, showing the main results of the study
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Jenny Allen @jennyallen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New in TiCS w @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model Time for new approaches: o True/False → Content that misleads o Belief → Behavior o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings
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Tobia Spampatti, PhD @tspampatti.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🚨Paper alert Are you interested in interventions against climate disinformation? In this new paper, we introduce the Climate Disinformation Corpus N = 78 real, validated climate disinformation statements that can be use as exprimental stimuli bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/n
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<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Behavioural science research has the potential to develop evidence-based strategies to fight disinformation about climate science and climate mitigation action; however, this research has yet to be c...
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities. Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!
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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award! Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.
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Elizabeth Page-Gould recognized with Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology
The Society for Experimental Social Psychology has recognized Elizabeth Page-Gould with a Career Trajectory Award in recognition of uniquely creative and influential scholarly productivity.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Just published: "Unraveling the Big Lie: Participatory Disinformation and the 2020 Election." Thrilled to see this work out in the world and part of such an amazing compilation. My chapter features my initial research and model on "participatory disinformation": academic.oup.com/book/60493?l...
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Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy
Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar
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Wim De Neys @wimdeneys.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Defining deliberation for dual-process models of reasoning" is now published. Free online access to the published Nat Rev Psy version: rdcu.be/erM5T
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Defining deliberation for dual-process models of reasoning
Nature Reviews Psychology - Dual-process models propose that reasoning involves intuition and deliberation, but the conceptualization of deliberation remains unclear. In this Perspective, De Neys...
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Improving curation is tough: "Overall, we present evidence that inoculation does not reduce engagement with emotional content and that the benefits of inoculation found in controlled experiments do not transfer to more realistic contexts." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Screenshot of title page of article published in PNAS Nexus titled "Limited effectiveness of psychological inoculation against  misinformation in a social media feed."
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨In PNAS🚨 The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New paper in PSPB! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Well, actually, not "new". We first put this paper online way back Dec 2022... in any case, we think it's really cool! We find that conspiracy believers tend to be overconfident & really don't seem to realize that most disagree with them
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨New WP🚨 Can AI do "deep canvassing"—the time-intensive, empathic persuasive dialogues that durably reduce prejudice when done by humans? Spoiler: Yes! We find durable reduction in prejudice toward undocumented immigrants LLMs make deep canvassing possible at massive scale osf.io/preprints/os...
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Recent research shows that AI can durably reduce belief in conspiracies. But does this work b/c the AI is good at producing evidence, or b/c ppl really trust AI? In a new working paper, we show that the effect persists even if the person thinks they're talking to a human: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!
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NextGen Psych Scholars Program @nextgenpsych.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26
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NextGen Psych Scholars Program (2025-2026 mentor/mentee sign up) Year 6
The goal of NPSP is to cultivate long-term support structures between current underrepresented (e.g., BIPOC, first-gen, low-income, LGBTQIA+) graduate students and diverse undergrad or post-baccalaure...
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Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall.com · 09/05/2025
A new study finds that expressions of moral outrage increase the virality of online petitions but not signatures. Statements about helping others, on the other hand, do predict a greater number of signatures but aren’t linked to virality. @spspnews.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Moral Outrage Predicts the Virality of Petitions for Change on Social Media, But Not the Number of Signatures They Receive - Stefan Leach, Magdalena Formanowicz, Jan Nikadon, Aleksandra Cichocka, 2025
Social media is a powerful tool for activists to share their perspectives, but concerns persist that the viral spread of online moral outrage may undermine coll...
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 29/04/2025
I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated. Please read and share! pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?
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Anti-trans attitudes have existed for years, but organised disinformation campaigns are increasingly driving them
Disinformation exists across all parts of the political spectrum, but it goes far beyond simple lying when it comes to the campaign against the transgender community, says a University of Melbourne ex...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
NYU is hiring a Visiting Lecturer in Social Psychology The position is ideal for someone who is applying for academic positions and looking to gain additional research and teaching experience. The salary is $70,000 Applicant review begins MAY 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166631
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In 5 experiments (N=2,498), the use of moral–emotional expressions in messages increases intentions to share on social media When people share messages with moral–emotional language, others see them as more partisan + less open-minded Via @williambrady.bsky.social : psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 21/04/2025
Update: I have been able to confirm grants worth ~$6M were terminated but think the total may be as high as $94M. If you or your colleagues got a termination letter, considering responding to the form. You can do so anonymously.
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