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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The classic Racial Dot Map inspired me and a whole generation of mapmakers. Today, I'm publishing a modern take on this map, built with the geospatial tools I've been developing over the past decade. Interact with the map here: walker-data.com/maps/census-...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Claire E. Robertson, PhD @crobertson500.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is social media truly making us more politically polarized, or does it simply over-represent our most extreme opinions? In our new preprint, @small-schulz.bsky.social and I present *punishing evidence* that social media systematically overrepresents users’ most extreme political opinions. 1/n

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Heading to Chicago for #SPSP2026? Come check out work from our lab! 🙂 We’re presenting 2 talks & 2 posters on interventions to promote confrontations of sexism, identity safety cues, multiracial identity, and stereotyping about nationality.

Izilda Pereira-Jorge, Sandra Manfreda, Brianna Lopez, Selin Toprakkiran

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Project Implicit is facing an existential threat. After almost 30 years, 60 million visitors, and hundreds of published papers, funding for our work has disappeared. We’ve never held a fundraising drive before, but we need your support to keep our site running. Please consider donating! 🙏

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life. apply.interfolio.com/178796

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New write-up of our political scandal experiments for SPSP's (@spspnews.bsky.social) blog. We find that partisan voters allow politicians to get away with hostile, defensive "explanations" for scandal, esp when the politician is high-status and when party goals are at stake spsp.org/news/charact...

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Do Voters Punish Politicians Who Apologize? | SPSP

Politicians may deny scandals not just for themselves but because voters let them.

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I was trained in Social Psych and now I'm very happy here. If you (as a student or mentor) have questions about life across disciplines, feel free to reach out. 3/3

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

And it's not just me and Ingrid. As I say every year, we have 6 faculty with explicit interest in political psych and an unknown number of faculty with secret interest in it. So when I say "political psych" I mean that very broadly. 2/3

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We're recruiting PhD students to join us at Nebraska! Spreading word: Whether you (or your student's) current home is in Psych or PoliSci, if you're interested in political psych, you could be a great fit. I run a joint lab (www.pierceekstrom.com/ekstromlab) with Ingrid Haas (paclab.unl.edu). 1/3

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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We argue that moral expressions—that signal one’s sense of right and wrong—are highly sensitive to social norms. These norms can amplify moral expressions (eg social media) or restrain them (eg work settings) See our new paper on How Social Influence Shapes Moral Expression: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We thought partisans would *punish* in-party apologies. Instead we found that apologies & denials of wrongdoing worked equally w/ in-partisans. So we think partisans "enable" rather than "incentivize" denials of wrongdoing. (Posted this when it first came out online but re-upping)

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Our paper on partisan reactions to political scandal is officially published in PSPB: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Partisans were more receptive to defensive, hostile "explanations" for misconduct from in-(vs out-)party politicians. Seems driven by desire to win > identity-protective motive

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

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The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

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Nebraska CYFS @unlcyfs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

CYFS research affiliate Jenna Finch, asst professor of psychology, is exploring the factors that shape students’ transitions from second to third grade. ▶️ Watch news story via KMTV 3 News Now: www.3newsnow.com/lincoln/unl-... #EdResearch #STEM #EarlyMath #NUforNE #GoBigResearch #NSFfunded

Screen shot of Jenna Finch being interviewed by Omaha's 3 News Now.

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Alex Garlick @garlicksauce.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Here's a treat for state politics and policy researchers: Ethan Dee and I published a dataset in Nature: Scientific Data with the universe of state legislative bills since ~2009 coded by 28 policy areas. We used a machine learning model built off open source components.

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Scientific Data - Policy agendas of the American state legislatures

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Replacing "Best wishes [etc]," with "Tomorrow comes,"

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The political slant of psych research (e.g., left vs. right) is not related to replicability, although more slant (in any direction) may be associated with less replicability journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’ve been hesitant to promote some “regular” work lately bc I do a lot of “polarization” research - I don’t think that’s the biggest problem in politics right now. But I think Zeenat’s project gets at *the* problem of democratic erosion, and I’m very grateful and proud to be a part of this work.

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

So pointing out when politicians violate democratic norms might reduce support for them – a little bit. But changing vote intentions (even in our hypothetical scenarios) was hard, and in the real world – where these “call-outs” will be contested – it’ll be much harder.

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Here’s the figure from the more representative study. Interaction wasn’t significant, but you can see each treatment made some difference on its own, but they didn’t add together nicely. We think both made violations more salient.

A bar graph showing approval and willingness to vote for senators engaged in undemocratic behavior. Bars vary across four combinations of two manipulations: 1) democratic principles reported before vs. after judgments of the politician and 2) Low-Salience vs. High-Salience undemocratic behavior. Approval for senators engaged in undemocratic behavior was consistently low (at or below 2.5 on a 5-point scale) across conditions (but was highest in the condition where violations were not made salient and judged before participants reported their democratic principles). Willingness to vote for the undemocratic senator was consistently at or above 4 on a 7-point scale, but again, was highest in the condition where violations were not made salient and judged before participants reported their democratic principles

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If Ps just don’t notice democratic violations, maybe pointing them out when Ps read about them will make them salient and reduce support for those politicians (“This policy is inconsistent with the principle that people should be allowed to protest in groups!”). This worked - small effect.

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Our students were unwilling to vote for those politicians too (phew). Ps in our nat’l sample, though, were at best “not sure” how they’d vote, and unwilling to vote against the in-party. So we did see some willingness to choose party over democracy. Could we reduce that?

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Plus, we find strong beliefs that things like civil liberties and rule of law are important to a democracy and that the U.S. should be a democracy. Among both Dem and Rep participants, in both samples. Also, Ps consistently disapproved of undemocratic policies/behavior.

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If Ps don’t know what “counts” as democratic, having Ps articulate their principles pre-judgment should give them clearer evaluative standards and reduce support. Principles reported post-judgment should be weaker, to rationalize their support for in-party violators. Neither happened (consistently).

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Participants (Ps) read about hypothetical in-party senators who each violated some fundamental democratic principle (e.g., free assembly, free press, rule of law). We recruited two samples (one student, one demographically representative of American partisans by age/race/gender).

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

New preprint with my grad advisee, Zeenat Ahmed. When and why do Americans prioritize party wins over democracy? Not because they don’t know what democracy is. Maybe, sometimes bc they don’t notice that in-partisans are violating democratic principles. There are some caveats. osf.io/preprints/os....

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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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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

*If your paper was a poster OR paper at ISPP in Santiago, that paper can be nominated.

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Last call for ISPP 2025 Awards Nominations! (@polpsyispp.bsky.social) I'm helping review for two early-career paper awards. -"Early career"=within 8 yrs of PhD. -Awards are for papers presented this past year at ISPP (in Santiago). -Nominees must be current ISPP members. ispp.org/awards/sigel/

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The one of the side, though it is fun to me how desolate the breezeway looks in B&W.

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I've really enjoyed all these photos, but I really really like that shot of Elliott Hall.

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Eliane Roy @elianeroy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New JPSP article is out, with @jordanaxt.bsky.social, @calvinklai.bsky.social, and many collaborators! We organised a contest study with an open call for interested researchers to submit their discrimination-reduction intervention ideas. doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

You could always put them in competition or make some minimal groups. Or (obviously top-of-mind for me) tell them about a moral disagreement they have. ...how much do you want them to dislike each other?

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Tierney Lorenz @tierneylorenz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Want to learn more about machine learning with a healthy dose of memes and jokes? Check out this new beginners guide, written by our very own, very talented London Wolff: londonwolff.github.io/machine_lear... No background in ML needed (although some familiarity with R is helpful).

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Beginners Guide to Machine Learning Binary Classification Problems in R

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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Curtis Phills and I are hiring a full-time lab manager here at the University of Oregon, where we are co-leading the C-squared Lab. If you are interested in stereotypes, prejudice, diversity, and social cognition, please apply! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/c2labmanager

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Lab Manager Position at University of Oregon

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

UNL Poli Sci is hiring an assistant prof in Race & Ethnic Politics! employment.unl.edu/postings/92973 "The position is open with respect to particular subfields, though candidates with an interest in or research focus in public policy are especially encouraged to apply."

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Assistant Professor

The Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of Race and Ethnic Politics. The position is open with respect to particu...

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Geoff Lorenz @geofflorenz.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Come join us at Nebraska! My department is searching in REP with a policy emphasis. Not on committee but happy to answer questions. Job ad here: employment.unl.edu/postings/92973

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Assistant Professor

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

🌟New paper! Grace Drake, Jenn Beatty, & I argue that diversity training (DT) is best understood as teaching. Seeing DT as just teaching illuminates many ways we could make trainings so much more effective than they are currently! Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/6

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Looks like the book I read was Kline's Principles & Practice of SEM, which does have some stuff on multi-level

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

For my dissertation, at least, I used the standard fit indices in the standard way, even for the multilevel models. I hope that was right? I did read up at the time and saw nothing suggesting it was wrong.

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

We thought partisans would actively *punish* in-party apologies, but they did not. Instead we found that apologies & denials of wrongdoing worked equally w/ in-partisans. So we think partisans "enable" rather than "incentivize" denials of wrongdoing. Free version: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

New paper in PSPB on partisan reactions to political scandal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Partisans were more receptive to defensive, hostile "explanations" for misbehavior from in-(vs out-)party politicians. Seems to be driven by desire to win > identity-protective motives but both matter

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Hi political science/ psych friends, what are some good and crucial research that I should know about the influence of local vs federal governments on influencing/ predicting/ shaping people's beliefs and attitudes (broadly defined)??

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

My colleagues are hiring an RA! Looking for recent college grads: employment.unl.edu/postings/90660 Job is to support a grant-funded project on foreign-policy decision-making in Congress, including some neuro stuff. 30 hrs with benefits, about $17/hr, in-person Please share w/ anyone interested

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Pierce Ekstrom @pierceekstrom.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

It's my 1st grad student's 1st SPSP! Come see Zeenat Ahmed present her poster: Party over democracy: When do Americans stand by democratic principles? For once, the news is not all bad. Friday morning session, 8 AM. @spspnews.bsky.social

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