Andero Uusberg
@andero.bsky.social
Occasionally effective researcher of all things affective, and the other way around
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Arousal does not enhance the dominant spatial scope of attention: https://osf.io/3xeyb
August 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Arousal does not enhance the dominant spatial scope of attention: https://osf.io/3xeyb
It's not just the rabid ones any more.
Very reasonable people at very solid institutions are starting to make very bad decisions.
Very reasonable people at very solid institutions are starting to make very bad decisions.
When an institution tasked with preserving a nation's history begins erasing major events like presidential impeachments, it is not protecting the past; it is rewriting it.
"Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum" www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
"Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum" www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It's not just the rabid ones any more.
Very reasonable people at very solid institutions are starting to make very bad decisions.
Very reasonable people at very solid institutions are starting to make very bad decisions.
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Congratulations to Agnieszka Adamczyk and her team for running the international organization of psychophysiology conference with sharp contents and smooth logistics!
July 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Congratulations to Agnieszka Adamczyk and her team for running the international organization of psychophysiology conference with sharp contents and smooth logistics!
The polling database that underlied 538 is made freely available now that the site has been closed
x.com/marywitha4/s...
x.com/marywitha4/s...
Mary Radcliffe on X: "Well, now there's nobody to use that data, which is really sad. So I gift it unto you all, for your future reporting needs. https://t.co/7Kk9DgOmfF" / X
Well, now there's nobody to use that data, which is really sad. So I gift it unto you all, for your future reporting needs. https://t.co/7Kk9DgOmfF
x.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The polling database that underlied 538 is made freely available now that the site has been closed
x.com/marywitha4/s...
x.com/marywitha4/s...
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March 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Reminder that Europepmc.org exists. In case anyone should need it for any reason.
Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
Europepmc.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Reminder that Europepmc.org exists. In case anyone should need it for any reason.
Switching sides in Ukraine and gutting USAID are foreign policy versions of shooting someone in the middle of 5th Avenue.
Except there are thousands of someones.
Yet, the not losing support part seems to hold firm.
Except there are thousands of someones.
Yet, the not losing support part seems to hold firm.
March 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Switching sides in Ukraine and gutting USAID are foreign policy versions of shooting someone in the middle of 5th Avenue.
Except there are thousands of someones.
Yet, the not losing support part seems to hold firm.
Except there are thousands of someones.
Yet, the not losing support part seems to hold firm.
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Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share.
urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
Political science statement.pdf
urldefense.proofpoint.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share.
urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
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To me, this is the crux of what's going on down south right now. If the executive branch give an order that is clearly illegal, why would anyone follow it? Don't wait for a court order if it's clearly not legal... Just say "no", eh?
Why would the NSF comply with this nonsense? Even if it were legal and the White House actually had these powers, they should still refuse.
- 10,000 research grants flagged for review by NSF Program Directors
- Reviews due by 5 p.m. today
- They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"
- Reviews due by 5 p.m. today
- They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"
February 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
To me, this is the crux of what's going on down south right now. If the executive branch give an order that is clearly illegal, why would anyone follow it? Don't wait for a court order if it's clearly not legal... Just say "no", eh?
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The political scientists feel the same way: so much of this is also unconstitutional. It's a crisis. Right now.
There has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.
February 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The political scientists feel the same way: so much of this is also unconstitutional. It's a crisis. Right now.
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Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
January 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
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We keep hearing about masculinity from the Zuckerbergs of the world-- this woman has shown more courage in this 60-second clip than any of the tech billionaires have shown in recent memory as they grovel at Trump's feet.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We keep hearing about masculinity from the Zuckerbergs of the world-- this woman has shown more courage in this 60-second clip than any of the tech billionaires have shown in recent memory as they grovel at Trump's feet.
Even if you can't fix it, knowing how it broke can help a little
This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
January 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Even if you can't fix it, knowing how it broke can help a little
In an industry-standard perceptual decision task, affect ratings behave a lot like confidence ratings.
Could be because confidence is a kind of goal-congruence, but we can't be sure.
Thank you, Alan and Kobe!
Could be because confidence is a kind of goal-congruence, but we can't be sure.
Thank you, Alan and Kobe!
Why does it feel good to be sure? In new work @voalan.bsky.social @andero.bsky.social and I bridge confidence and affect. In perceptual DM, we found a remarkably consistent association between both measures! ↓↓↓
link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
Metacognitive confidence and affect – two sides of the same coin?
Decision confidence is a prototypical metacognitive representation that is thought to approximate the probability that a decision is correct. The perception of being correct has also been associate...
www.tandfonline.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In an industry-standard perceptual decision task, affect ratings behave a lot like confidence ratings.
Could be because confidence is a kind of goal-congruence, but we can't be sure.
Thank you, Alan and Kobe!
Could be because confidence is a kind of goal-congruence, but we can't be sure.
Thank you, Alan and Kobe!
Elegant evidence for cultural shaping of concepts: monkeys can perceive colors in categories, but lacking language, these won't overlap between individuals or with humans
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Elegant evidence for cultural shaping of concepts: monkeys can perceive colors in categories, but lacking language, these won't overlap between individuals or with humans
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A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.
www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
November 24, 2024 at 11:12 PM
A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.
www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
Nice job capturing the effects of propaganda
"Fox News has substantial effects up and down the ballot. It boosts Republican candidates in House, Senate, gubernatorial, and presidential elections. We show that the mechanism for these electoral effects is that FNC has shifted Americans’ partisanship and ideological preferences to the right."
From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Nice job capturing the effects of propaganda