Sign in

Roseanna Sommers

@rosesomm.bsky.social
2.8K followers 521 following 28 posts

Social psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. I research consent and other topics at the intersection of psychology & law. Views my own. www.roseannasommers.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Chris Walker @chrisjwalker.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It's my fourth year teaching here at Michigan Law, and my fourth big game since moving to The School Up North. We love it here in Michigan, but our football loyalties remain unchanged. 🤓 Time to re-up my favorite welcome video: youtu.be/jWCFaJ0tMfE?...
youtu.be
The Game at Michigan Law
YouTube video by Michigan Law
2143
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🚨 Medicaid contributes as much to metro Detroit's economy as THE AUTO INDUSTRY 🚨
142
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Hey that's @robertmanduca.bsky.social's research!
0134
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/w...
michiganadvance.com
Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP • Michigan Advance
Updated 2:01 p.m. As the U.S. House of Representatives debates whether to give final passage to Congressional Republicans’ signature tax break and spending cuts package, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer...
0165
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is SO important and I wonder why more people aren't talking about it! Thankfully, @robertmanduca.bsky.social has made us a bunch of maps.
052
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Robert Manduca @robertmanduca.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In Kentucky's 5th congressional district, recently profiled by Arlie Hochschild for @nytimes.com, Medicaid makes up a quarter of the entire economic base. The SNAP and Medicaid cuts would be like losing one-third of all traded private sector industries www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country
1199
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It is *extremely important* to understand the consequences of the "Big Beautiful Bill" for local economies. @robertmanduca.bsky.social breaks it down in this thread
031
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Robert Manduca @robertmanduca.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New working paper alert! Posted at @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, it investigates the economic geography of social transfer programs and financial income--with implications for the Medicaid and SNAP cuts proposed in the reconciliation bill 👀 equitablegrowth.org/working-pape...
equitablegrowth.org
Financial and Transfer Income as Components of the Regional Economic Base
Government transfers and financial income form a major component of the basic sector in the United States.
25025
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Get yourself a copy of @leahlitman.bsky.social's smart and funny new book LAWLESS. Actually, maybe get 2 so you don't have to share... bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...
3485
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Robert Manduca @robertmanduca.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thinking hard about augmented wealth also illuminates a major puzzle in wealth inequality research. As @mjantti.bsky.social @esiermin.bsky.social @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social @norawaitkus.bsky.social (+ more) have shown, there's minimal correlation across countries between wealth and income inequality
152
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Robert Manduca @robertmanduca.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
813346
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thrilled my article with Kate Weisburd on "Legally Magic Words" led to this Data For Defenders motion, which shows public defenders how they can use social science research to help their clients
0113
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Happy belated pub day to my @umichlaw.bsky.social colleague Nico Cornell, whose book "Wrongs and Rights Come Apart" is now out!
262
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New study with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and Josh Knobe!
052
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Our incredibly short (5 page) paper on intuitions about consent — with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and @rosesomm.bsky.social We find cases where people agree that both: (a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented (b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all osf.io/63d8s
01710
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Congratulations and happy pub day to Michelle Adams, my amazing colleague @umichlaw.bsky.social whose new book The Containment is out today! us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
0104
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A while back my spouse and I each independently set up monthly donations to Bolts and when we realized our mistake we decided to just leave it bc Bolts is great and deserves double support. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and check them out if you haven't yet! boltsmag.org/donate-page/...
boltsmag.org
Support Bolts
We are a nonprofit publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change, from the local up, and we need reader support to build our journalism.
3616
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Dave Hoffman @hoffprof.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It's our view that the field of contracts has been captured by an ironic revanchism -- looking toward an imagined past where consent was real and people read. Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
121
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Dave Hoffman @hoffprof.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Following lots of recent research, we show that generally, being in lots of formal contracts online has made younger people more formal about contracting -- more up for thin notions of assent, and gamified understandings of obligation.
166
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Beyond "local" vs "traded" industries: new research by @robertmanduca.bsky.social identifies a third category of "regional' industries" -- think wholesalers and business services -- that employ 36M Americans, pay well, and could be key to economic development! Here's how they work 🧵
051
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Sara Emily Burke @saraburke.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Do laws give people hints about which social groups they should like or dislike? @rosesomm.bsky.social and I tackled this question in a 2022 paper: lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/...
lawreview.uchicago.edu
Reducing Prejudice Through Law: Evidence from Experimental Psychology | The University of Chicago Law Review
Can antidiscrimination law effect changes in public attitudes toward minority groups? Could learning, for instance, that employment discrimination against people with clinical depression is legally pr...
1134
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/
1232645982
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This looks like an incredibly important paper for anyone in the Criminal Procedure realm🔽
192
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New and wonderful from one of my all time favorite go to law profs on consent.
073
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
uh no, I did not know that! Thank you, Prof. Corcos, editor of "Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays" (2010), for this fun fact!
230
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Kate Weisburd and I have a new empirical paper out in the Northwestern University Law Review! We ask: what do ordinary Americans believe about how Miranda rights are invoked? t.co/fjpjlJ4vUY 1/4
78335
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2024
Hurricane Helene was the latest in a generation of storms that are intensifying faster & dumping more rain as the climate warms. It's precisely the kind of event expected to drive more Americans to relocate as climate change gets worse—leaving behind those who are older, poorer and more vulnerable.
propub.li
Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration?
As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable.
311748
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Jillian Jordan and I wrote an op-ed for the NYT! We share our new research on the psychology of victim-blaming and the role "adjacent consent" plays in undercutting support for survivors of sexual assault. cw: sexual violence Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/o...
t.co
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/opinion/slut-shaming-rape.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE4.NyaJ.Bw_IKvqqWs1R&smid=em-share
121
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
17956
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
I answered 5 Qs about the @spspnews.bsky.social SAGE Early-Career Trajectory Award and my research on consent: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/sage-aw...
michigan.law.umich.edu
SAGE Award Recognizes Sommers’ Work at Intersection of Law and Psychology
The Society of Personality and Social Psychology has recognized Professor Roseanna Sommers for her interdisciplinary work examining legal concepts such as consent, autonomy, and moral responsibility.
092
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Benjamin Douglas @bendouglas.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
I'll be posting throughout the day covering SPSP's Sustainability Preconference #SP3 Thanks to the organizing committee (names and photos attached)!
Poster with photos and names of 2024 Preconference Organizing Committee:

Stylianos Syropoulos
Danielle Goldwert
Rainer Romero-Canyas
Kristin Hurst
Sara Constantino
Atar Herzinger
Benjamin Douglas
Sarah Gonzales Coffin
Cari Pick
732
Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
I know which posters I'll be checking out at SPSP! Every lab should do this, btw. Tell me what you're presenting and I'll try to come visit your posters too.
020
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Many lab members are going to SPSP, including @dymoral.bsky.social & @cjmott.bsky.social (and lab manager Aaron Cohen, who isn't on here as far as I know). See the fabulous image below that Aaron made for more on where to find us. #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
SPSP presentations: (1) Larisa Solomon, "Children & Adults Show Positive Moral Evaluations of Curiosity about Religion & Science" 2/8 @ 11:20 (pre-conference); (2) Daniel Yonas, "Prioritizing Intent in Judgments of Racial & Non-Racial Harms" 2/9 @ 12:30 (poster); (3) Aaron Cohen, "Children's & Adults' Expectations Regarding Incarcerated Individuals' Moral Improvement" 2/10 @ 4:45 (poster); (4) Christian Mott, "Undoing Harm: The Communicative Content of Punishment" 2/10 @ 4:45 (poster)
011
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
G Scott Morgan @gscottmorgan.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Teaching a social psyc course for the 1st time in awhile. With all of the tumult in our field, I think it’s easy to lose track of this: social psyc offers an incredibly powerful lens to understand our world. 1/x #socialpsyc
2214
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Chris Walker @chrisjwalker.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
It's the week of the Big Game again (tOSU v. umich), so it's time to re-up the fun video University of Michigan Law School did last year on my path to The School Up North from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. 🤓 youtu.be/jWCFaJ0tMfE?...
youtu.be
The Game at Michigan Law
Originally posted on Michigan Law's social media, this video was published on the Friday before the Michigan vs. Ohio State football game in 2022. Professor ...
021
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Michigan is poised to become the first state with a law requiring automatic voter registration of people exiting prison. New story for @bolts.bsky.social on this historic step: boltsmag.org/michigan-aut...
boltsmag.org
Michigan Law Would Be First to Automatically Register People to Vote As They Leave Prison
The legislature passed a bill last week that would expand automatic voter registration in a number of other ways, and likely add many new Michiganders to voter rolls.
011229