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mark brandt
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Social/Personality Psychology, Michigan State University | ♥ Burritos+Vinyl+ | if there aren’t typos, I didn’t write it

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Two political psych starter packs!

Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added.

Check them out if you haven’t already

1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx
2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj

Go Abby! 🎉
Congrats to MSU graduate student @abbycassario.bsky.social on being awarded a 2025 Student Publication Prize from @spspnews.bsky.social!

Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

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Congrats to MSU graduate student @abbycassario.bsky.social on being awarded a 2025 Student Publication Prize from @spspnews.bsky.social!

Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

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This is a half-baked thought spurred by @tompepinsky.com arguing against PR + Presidentialism -- I assume because of Indonesia as a reference point where the legislature is incredibly weak.

But in most of South America we've seen fairly stable democratic development for close to 40 years

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When does "they" go from pronoun to Pronoun? In our October issue, Renström & Klysing study ideological ties to use/views of gender-inclusive language. Read their findings on how Social Dominance Orientation & Right Wing Authoritarianism relate to de-gendered & multi-gendered "they." buff.ly/durLXMS
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.

Caveats:
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> 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
We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
-- Call for Papers --

Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

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What do our leaders say after tragedy? Layous et al. study Congressmembers' official statements after George Floyd's death. They find sorrow shared equally by Republicans & Democrats, but trends of system "defending" & system "mending" statements from each, respectively. Read more: buff.ly/J0MVJBD
Congress used to pass bipartisan immigration laws. What the heck happened? The end of the Cold War created cracks in the parties, and 9/11 amplified them, laying the foundation for our current immigration predicament. My new piece at Good Authority. goodauthority.org/news/congres...
Congress used to pass bipartisan immigration laws
The end of the Cold War laid the foundation for our polarized immigration era.
goodauthority.org
Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social!

Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!*

*not necessarily a selling point, just a fact
Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social!

I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social

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Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social!

I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social

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PRL welcomes postdoc applications at Dartmouth for 2026-2027. Work with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social & @ylelkes.bsky.social on projects like www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and elite rhetoric analysis using americaspoliticalpulse.com/elites/
Pls apply by Jan 5 on Interfolio 🙏 apply.interfolio.com/175722
Elected Officials
americaspoliticalpulse.com

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Does the carceral state discourage or mobilize voters? Krishnamurthy's piece in our October issue on California's Proposition 47 finds that high incarceration rate communities were associated w/ increased voter turnout & higher support for the criminal justice reform measure. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

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🐶New preprint! 🐶 co-led by Ayça Akkuş
w/ @drcharlie.bsky.social & Brock Bastian

We explore cultural and individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern in a sample of >6500 participants from 41 cultural groups.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
📢 ECPS Interview

🗳️ 🇳🇱 Professor Sarah de Lange: D66’s Victory in Dutch Elections Cannot Be Presented as a Victory over Populism

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🔗 Read the interview: www.populismstudies.org/professor-de...
And here's the paper, led by the incredible Silvia Mari, in which we find that stronger beliefs in traditional gender roles is associated with less voting intention across 18 countries.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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What's the take home message?

If you're submitting AI slop you're a loser. You're just making these great free services harder to run, and making it more difficult to separate signal (science) from noise (your crappy AI shit.)
We are hiring an Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science. The post will be part of our new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM) and is a joint hire with the Oxford Internet Institute. All details in the job ad below.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨

The Hannah-Arendt Institute in Dresden is looking for an Assistant Director. (In German)
Appreciated the chance to share @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social and I's work on Streetview Sampling on 🎃! The 📸🚘 costume is only for today, but the methods paper and tools are open access: guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Really excited to share my first solo-authored article, out now in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin!

I test when and why Democrats and Republicans differ in their tolerance for undemocratic actions.

🧵

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Who motivates future political engagement? Wegemer & Levy's panel study of high school students finds that political interest is mostly self-driven. For most students, motivation largely predicted more political discussions, rather than the other way around. Read online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

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Great to see our content analysis of 27 Chinese youth depression scales finally out!

Following @eikofried.bsky.social excellent work on depression scales, we included 27 scales and quantified the heterogeneity by analyzing data from 12,000 youth who completed 4 of them.

Comments are welcome!

A reviewer made the same point in a manuscript I recently edited. So you have at least one anonymous person out there who agrees
Currently in FirstView: In “An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology,” @kevinlcope.bsky.social develops a method for estimating the ideology of federal judges. He introduces the Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Score (JuDJIS) which is based on over 20,000 evaluations by a sample of jurists.
New review from me on whether there are ideological differences in science denial. Although Dems/libs are much more likely to report they trust science than Reps/cons in the U.S., similar diffs do not emerge in most countries, and in some, it's the reverse. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Are there ideological differences in science denial?
Debates about issues such anthropomorphic climate change have raised alarm that there may be systematic differences in liberals' and conservatives' tr…
www.sciencedirect.com

I'm far from an expert on Dutch politics, but the positive framing of the results seems off. E.g.,

-The largest party (D66, liberal-centrist) is the smallest a largest party has been (ever, I think).
-The number of seats going to far-right populist parties is the ~same or higher than it was before.

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Review of applications begins November 10 - please apply! apply.interfolio.com/172357
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!