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Michael W. Kraus
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Not the German handball player or the historian. The other one. Berkeley Psych alum and social psychologist. | he/him

www.csinequality.org

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Aug 21
It's publication day for our first paper out of the www.csinequality.org lab completed entirely at NU. To write it, we asked: what research in the social psychology of inequality do we like and why do we like it? The answer is this paper:
natrevpsychol.nature.com Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Aug 21
A functional approach to the psychology of inequality

Perspective by Michael W. Kraus (@mwkraus.bsky.social‬), Daniel J. Sanji, Megan E. Burns, Aline da Silva Frost, Iseul Cha-Ju, A. Chyei Vinluan, LaStarr Hollie & Cydney H. Dupree (‪@cydneydupree.bsky.social‬)

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a, An example of the deficit-based model of the psychology of inequality, in which psychological processes related to cognition, emotion and motivation influence desirable behavioural patterns that sort people and groups into different levels of resources and opportunities in society. b, An example of a functional model of inequality as domination and resistance. Psychological processes that arise from the structural context promote actions that either support and reproduce structures of inequality or dismantle those structures.

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 3h
Dead link now as survey is closed, thank u we will analyze, report back, and use the data to inform next steps
mwkraus.bsky.social Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 15h
We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 8h
All done, thanks so much!

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 15h
Options at the end to get feedback on what the pilot uncovers and to give us feedback about study design. These data will help us develop the formal project!

Reposted by Gordon Hodson

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 15h
We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶

northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Reposted by Richard F. Catalano, Cathy N. Davidson, Michael W. Kraus

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h
dsausa.org/join

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, Michael W. Kraus , and 3 more

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 19h
New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, Prakash Kashwan, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d
Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.

Reposted by Diane Ravitch, Cathy N. Davidson, Melanie C. Green , and 10 more

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, Gerald Friedman, Stacy D. VanDeveer , and 1 more

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 1d
No health care, no deal.

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus

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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · 1d
Sign up for our final winter session of Scan Camp!!

Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area!

8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus.

Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys.

Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain!

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Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 1d
Telling states NOT TO feed people is vile.

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, Magda Teter

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 1d
Call them:

Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542

Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224

King (ME)
202 224-5344

Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324

Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451

Masto (NV)
202 224-3542

Warner (VA)
202 224-2023

Fetterman (PA)
No Point

Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Michael W. Kraus

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.

Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Cathy N. Davidson , and 9 more

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Reposted by John Mullahy, Alan Richardson, Michael W. Kraus , and 3 more

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 1d
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️
No.

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 1d
They don't seem like they are leaving... 🤷‍♂️ defector.com/lets-check-i... 🎁
Let's Check In With People Who Threatened To Leave Zohran Mamdani's NYC | Defector
When Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo to win the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June, it led to a lot of histrionics. The usual fear tactics against a young Muslim democratic socialist h...
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 2d
Earlier this year, we showed Trump built a remarkable “plutopopulist” coalition in his campaigns, drawing money from both wealthy elites and an unprecedented surge of small, first-time donors. With Tuesday’s elections, though, that coalition seems to be fraying. What happened? 1/ cup.org/4cfm0Az
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base SEAN KATES, ERIC MANNING, TALI MENDELBERG and OMAR WASOW Comparative scholarship suggests authoritarian candidates often rely on backing from the wealthy. The wealthy are also said to play an important role in American campaign finance. Studies of Donald Trump, however, found that he drew significant support from white Americans with less education and privilege. We evaluate wealthy and non-wealthy Americans’ financial support for Trump, compared to other candidates, by constructing a comprehensive dataset of property values matched to contributions and voter files. We find Trump underperformed among wealthy Republican donors while mobilizing new non-wealthy donors. Trump also diversified the donorate, especially by education. That is, Trump built an unusual coalition of wealthy and non-wealthy donors. Our results support an alternative, “plutopopulist” model of Trump’s financial base.

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Michael Barnett, Michael S. Rosenberg , and 30 more

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Reposted by Michael W. Kraus

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d
outcome: Judge Ellis orders agents to only use force when it is "objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person", requires them to wear "conspicuous identification" in two separate places, and to activate bodycams.

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Ellis: "those are the factual findings that I'm making to support this preliminary injunction."

"This conduct shows no sign of stopping," Ellis says.

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
No evidence that a man thrown to the ground in Evanston on Oct. 31 by agents who had his head "bashed into the ground" and was punched at least twice in the head "grabbed the genitals" of a federal agent, Ellis says.

"Nor would such force have been appropriate even had that been true," Ellis says

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, Dunlap

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Ellis is now moves to Oct . 24 in Lakeview:

No evidence that anyone tried to deflate the tires of a vehicle carrying federal agents.

Video captured by body-worn cameras recorded one agent mocking the crowd as tear gas was deployed, saying twice, “have fun!” and laughing as they fled, Ellis says
Federal Agents Fired Tear Gas at Lakeview Crowd Protesting Immigration Raids, Videos Show
The incident, which took place in the heart of one of Chicago’s wealthiest and most tourist-friendly neighborhoods, marks the second straight day that federal agents have deployed tear gas against Chi...
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Reposted by Michael W. Kraus

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Ellis: Federal agents described a number of protestors as "professional agitators" based on their use of whistles, in part.

"Describing neighborhood moms and rapid response groups as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are and how incredible their statements are."

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Ellis is painstakingly details what happened to Juan Munoz, a trustee on the Oak Park Village Board, who was arrested during a protest at the Broadview immigration processing facility in early October.

Munoz was "used as a prop for Department of Homeland Security videos," Ellis says.

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Federal agents tried to claim a flash-bang grenade they fired in Little Village was fireworks thrown by protestors, Ellis says.

Agents also lied about what happened in Albany Park on Oct. 12, Ellis says.

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, David R. Miller, Dunlap

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
"I find the defendants' (the DOJ) evidence simply not credible."

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Michael W. Kraus, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò , and 1 more

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
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Reposted by Michael W. Kraus

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Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social · 5d
Working paper alert 📢
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Race, Violence, and the Effectiveness of Protest
<p><span>Protests constitute a primary way that members of the public express their preferences and seek to change public policy. Focusing on policy protests in
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