Chris Carpenter
@chriscarpenter.bsky.social
Communication Professor studying opinion leaders, motivated reasoning, watching others online, meta-analysis, etc.
Co-author of “Critical Questions in Persuasion Research” as well as “The Science of Gaining Compliance” both from Cognella
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Co-author of “Critical Questions in Persuasion Research” as well as “The Science of Gaining Compliance” both from Cognella
he/him
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Do I add this to my CV as an invited lecture? 🤔
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Do I add this to my CV as an invited lecture? 🤔
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In Grok we don’t trust
In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia
In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia
From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In Grok we don’t trust
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Super interesting test of single blind vs double blind review.
@angiefagerlin.bsky.social
@angiefagerlin.bsky.social
Today's HotFresh recommended paper is:
Pleskac, T. J., Kyung, E. J., Chapman, G. B., & Urminsky, O. (2025). Blinded versus Unblinded Review: A Field Study on the Equity of Peer-Review Processes. Management Science. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...
Pleskac, T. J., Kyung, E. J., Chapman, G. B., & Urminsky, O. (2025). Blinded versus Unblinded Review: A Field Study on the Equity of Peer-Review Processes. Management Science. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...
Blinded versus Unblinded Review: A Field Study on the Equity of Peer-Review Processes | Management Science
doi.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Super interesting test of single blind vs double blind review.
@angiefagerlin.bsky.social
@angiefagerlin.bsky.social
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Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...
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🚨 Only 24 hours remain to vote in the 2025 ICA Election! Members can vote online; polls close on 21 October. Make your voice count! 🌍 🔗 buff.ly/v5Zde4w
October 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🚨 Only 24 hours remain to vote in the 2025 ICA Election! Members can vote online; polls close on 21 October. Make your voice count! 🌍 🔗 buff.ly/v5Zde4w
Our article titled, "Validation of an efficacy of lying scale" is now in an issue. If you want a self-report scale that measures people's belief that lying is effective, we've got you. There's a bonus finding about superdiffusers.
Click here for a free copy:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGJWP...
Click here for a free copy:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGJWP...
Validation of an efficacy of lying scale
Efficacy of lying is the belief that lying is an effective and efficient communication strategy. A new measure of efficacy of lying is presented to assess the belief that lying is an effective way ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Our article titled, "Validation of an efficacy of lying scale" is now in an issue. If you want a self-report scale that measures people's belief that lying is effective, we've got you. There's a bonus finding about superdiffusers.
Click here for a free copy:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGJWP...
Click here for a free copy:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGJWP...
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Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"
Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)
Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)
September 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"
Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)
Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)
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I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover
A Second Sight
Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation t...
www.harpercollins.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover
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In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“The right boundary for thinking about a problem rarely coincides with the boundary of an academic discipline, or with a political boundary.”
-Donella H. Meadows, “Thinking in Systems”
-Donella H. Meadows, “Thinking in Systems”
September 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“The right boundary for thinking about a problem rarely coincides with the boundary of an academic discipline, or with a political boundary.”
-Donella H. Meadows, “Thinking in Systems”
-Donella H. Meadows, “Thinking in Systems”
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#OhioState is hiring -- can you help us find an established journalism scholar? Deadline is 10/1 osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j... #commjobs #ICA26
Associate Professor or Professor in Journalism - School of Communication
Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...
osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#OhioState is hiring -- can you help us find an established journalism scholar? Deadline is 10/1 osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j... #commjobs #ICA26
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Guys today is a red-letter day for bad survey questions. Look at this lovely double negative that just rolled in!
August 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Guys today is a red-letter day for bad survey questions. Look at this lovely double negative that just rolled in!
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"No president has the legitimate authority to impose such a review. Established by Congress in 1846 as a unique and independent agency, the Smithsonian Institution is not, and has never been, under the authority of the Executive Branch."
📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ
August 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"No president has the legitimate authority to impose such a review. Established by Congress in 1846 as a unique and independent agency, the Smithsonian Institution is not, and has never been, under the authority of the Executive Branch."
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My brain when abbreviations overload:
August 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My brain when abbreviations overload:
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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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I hate that BlueSky is following the Twitter model and labeling harmful content.
Posts that violate the community standards need to be removed. Users who violate them repeatedly need to be deplatformed.
A label does absolutely nothing except inform everyone that BlueSky will do absolutely nothing.
Posts that violate the community standards need to be removed. Users who violate them repeatedly need to be deplatformed.
A label does absolutely nothing except inform everyone that BlueSky will do absolutely nothing.
August 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I hate that BlueSky is following the Twitter model and labeling harmful content.
Posts that violate the community standards need to be removed. Users who violate them repeatedly need to be deplatformed.
A label does absolutely nothing except inform everyone that BlueSky will do absolutely nothing.
Posts that violate the community standards need to be removed. Users who violate them repeatedly need to be deplatformed.
A label does absolutely nothing except inform everyone that BlueSky will do absolutely nothing.
Academic whiplash:
I received an email with a desk reject from one journal and an email with an R&R from another journal. The emails arrived one minute apart.
I received an email with a desk reject from one journal and an email with an R&R from another journal. The emails arrived one minute apart.
August 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Academic whiplash:
I received an email with a desk reject from one journal and an email with an R&R from another journal. The emails arrived one minute apart.
I received an email with a desk reject from one journal and an email with an R&R from another journal. The emails arrived one minute apart.
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Pretty grim kicker on an overall bleak outlook on the future of UNC
www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...
www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...
August 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pretty grim kicker on an overall bleak outlook on the future of UNC
www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...
www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...
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What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
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They've already told us everything we need to know...
www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...
www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...
Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors
They've already told us everything we need to know...
www.jezebel.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
They've already told us everything we need to know...
www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...
www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...
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Of course they are.
Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.
July 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Of course they are.
New Pub:
"Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model" in Comm Quarterly
We used our hyperperception model to predict what kind of social media experiences are associated with loneliness. We found that when 1/
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PGVPM...
"Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model" in Comm Quarterly
We used our hyperperception model to predict what kind of social media experiences are associated with loneliness. We found that when 1/
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PGVPM...
Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model
The hyperperception model (Carpenter & Spottswood, 2021a) makes predictions about when an observer of others’ social media interactions may be misperceived. We used this model to make predictions a...
www.tandfonline.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New Pub:
"Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model" in Comm Quarterly
We used our hyperperception model to predict what kind of social media experiences are associated with loneliness. We found that when 1/
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PGVPM...
"Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model" in Comm Quarterly
We used our hyperperception model to predict what kind of social media experiences are associated with loneliness. We found that when 1/
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PGVPM...
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Coding for a systematic review: 5% of the studies included suck up about 75% of the time it takes to finish, and most of that time could be saved if people reported results in a way that was straightforward.
July 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Coding for a systematic review: 5% of the studies included suck up about 75% of the time it takes to finish, and most of that time could be saved if people reported results in a way that was straightforward.
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Is research into ego depletion and terror management progressing or degenerating? Smart people will disagree because:
“The smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.”
#MetaSci
“The smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.”
#MetaSci
Psychologists Have Been Wrong About Death For 40 Years
Smart people are sometimes the last to realize that the cognitive ship they are captaining is about to sink.
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Is research into ego depletion and terror management progressing or degenerating? Smart people will disagree because:
“The smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.”
#MetaSci
“The smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.”
#MetaSci
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In light of the Epstein discourse, I want to remind everyone that the person most likely to sexually abuse a child is a man in that child’s family.
July 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In light of the Epstein discourse, I want to remind everyone that the person most likely to sexually abuse a child is a man in that child’s family.