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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m excited to announce that our proposal (with @williambrady.bsky.social and @douglasguilbeault.bsky.social ) “Fostering Innovation Through Humility in the Online Marketplace of Ideas” was funded by the John Templeton Foundation We'll be hiring for this grant soon. Details about the project below!

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Yuanze Liu @yuanzeliu.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Today at SPSP was busy in the best way — a full, energizing day packed with fascinating talks and posters. I came away with lots of new ideas (and an even longer reading list).

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

For folks interested in learning about our lab's research, check out this flier with all our presentations at this coming #SPSP2026 conference @spspnews.bsky.social. With research by several rising stars covering tech, culture, politics and more Credit to our talented lab manager Hanying Yao!

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Yuanze Liu @yuanzeliu.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Before the end of this year, I’m glad to share a short perspective/policy piece, recently out with @joshcjackson.bsky.social , Zhao Wang, and @williambrady.bsky.social: “Large AI Models Have a Prioritization Problem: Policy Implications and Solutions.”

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-*  > These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees  > They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

In a new paper, we find that sycophantic #AI chatbots make people more extreme--operating like an echo chamber Yet, people prefer sycophantic chatbots and see them as less biased Only open-minded people prefer disagreeable chatbots: osf.io/preprints/ps... Led by @steverathje.bsky.social

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

English language is filled with trait words like “caring” and “smart” These words are the currency of personality/social psych, yet key questions remain about their evolution, function, and structure We take on these questions in a preprint led by @yuanzeliu.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 🧵:

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

On the Malleability of Democratic Attitudes: Do Citizens' Views of Democracy Vary With How They Feel?: osf.io/hz2mt

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Max Posch @maxposch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍 ✅YES‼️ Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎 We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior 🧵 👇 1/17

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great new paper by Stagnaro & Amsalem in NatComm: Detailed fact-based informational module about gun control leads to persistent reductions in polarization (attitudes move towards midpoint). Seeing the evidence cited by other side makes opinions more moderate www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/03/2025

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Treemap chart showing the fragmented landscape of psychological measures.

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

New preprint on prejudice and state centralization: osf.io/preprints/ps... Our team of historians, psychologists, and anthropologists analyzed 90 historical societies and Chinese records from 206 BCE - 1911 CE In both studies, we find a link btw group prejudice and historical state centralization

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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

We are deeply saddened to share the passing of James Liu, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Political Psychology and long-time ISPP member. We are forever grateful for his contributions to our field. Our thoughts are with his loved ones. He will be greatly missed. ispp.org/news/in-memo...

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

It has been a challenge to identify predictors of moralization. This new study finds that perceived polarization prospectively predicts attitude moralization during the 2020 US Presidential election psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... #psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci Polisky

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