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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
Kent Psychology is hiring 🎓We have two posts: 1) open area and 2) cog neuro. More details can be found here: jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Feel free to reach out with questions!
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Psychology
The School of Psychology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Psychology and a Lecturer in Psychology focusing on Cognition and Neuroscience  to join a collegial, supportive, and intellectually vibrant...
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Loyalty to favoured groups trumps the effects of causal structure in making causal judgments on issues of politics.
When identities are not provided, causal structure matters; when they are known, they are almost all that matters.
Here is the link to our study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts
Causal judgments are ubiquitous in politics and crucial for assigning responsibility and blame. Cognitive science has demonstrated that people are more likely to pick factors as “causal” when they ma...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Our article with @honoratam.bsky.social on ✨motivated causal judgements✨ is out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social!

When something bad happens, whose actions produced the outcome and who bears responsibility? It depends much more on the identity of the actors than on the details of the situation.

Ambivalence is good actually

The ego depletion research program is one example. Some argued there were 100’s of replications across many labs and so should be trusted. But high powered, preregd studies found estimates essentially at 0.

I might be missing something in your argument; if so, apologies!

The issue is that selection on results, especially when distributed across many researchers (as can be the case with programs) can lead to spurious at both the paper and research program level

I’m not certain that building in even lower powered rep would necessarily mean we should trust in broader research programs. This is what (some in) social psych thought protected their findings. I don’t think that it did.

Maybe! But that wasn’t my point

Someone should simulate this to test, but until then it’s maybe useful to know ( if you didn’t already) that this the argument for why pre-2012 social psych could be trusted. I think the evidence speaks against the argument.
Asian Americans have long histories of violence, discrimination, & exclusion.

Much of this behavior is poorly understood. The literature on discrimination against other racial groups is much larger than the literature on anti-Asian animus.

A group of my coauthors and I are trying to fill that gap.
📣 @ecpr-ead.bsky.social invites applications for it's Summer School on Extremism and Democracy!

🗓️ 6 – 10 July, University of Bologna
🎓️ Present your research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the field
✅️ Open to all students enrolled in a PhD programme
⌛ Deadline: 25 February
Find out more and apply
Summer School of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, University of Bologna, 6 – 10 July 2026
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ISCON and PMIG call for nominations for the Ostrom Award for Career Contribution to Social Cognition.

Eligibility: 25 years post PhD (awards are not given posthumously).

More detail here:
www.socialcognition.net/ostrom-award

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Postdoc position!

Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.

Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination

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Welp. Never hearing Yodas voice the same again

Jenny?

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February is here, and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! We'll be highlighting all 12 special issue articles and 14 original articles throughout the month, but if you can't wait to see what's in store, check out the full issue now! buff.ly/l4gb7cg
Political Psychology: Volume 47, Issue 1
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And it may be the latter disconfirms the former. In which case, cool! Good to know

I am both sold on the idea that (for some of psych) there is a fair amount of unexplained heterogeneity worth explaining AND the type of study necessary to test this properly is nowhere near the modal (nor even the "best of the best") study in psych
📣 Applications Now Open: ISPP 2026 Early Career Scholar Travel Awards

ISPP is pleased to announce the 2026 Early Career Scholar Travel Awards, supporting early career researchers to attend ISPP's Annual Meeting in Newcastle.

For more information and to apply, visit docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
New paper on planned missingness. Recently been liking the approach of planned missingness in a survey -> FIML to estimate constructs.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
psycnet.apa.org

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Are you open science-minded, technically savvy, and interested in mixed methods? Come build the future of mixed methods with Tamarinde Haven and @mariestadel.bsky.social. Our campus is green, our colleagues supportive, and our research excellent!
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3583...
PhD Candidate on The Future of Mixed Methods Research /Junior Lecturer in Methodology and Statistics
Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is looking for a PhD Candidate on The Future of Mixed Methods Research /Junior Lecturer in Methodology and Statistics, for the Dep...
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🚨New paper in Popular Communication! 🚨 "Inoculation theory as a design approach to game-based misinformation interventions: a review". (1/9)🧵🔽
dx.doi.org/10.1080/1540....
#InoculationTheory #misinformation #socpsyc #design #seriousgames #learning
Inoculation theory as a design approach to game-based misinformation interventions: a review
Misinformation has been demonstrated to pose a great risk to society, demanding action from policymakers and educators. Inoculation theory is a theory of resistance to influence, which in recent ye...
dx.doi.org
🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior
Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...
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3*7 was my favorite times in the times table
What should my students read about OPEN SCIENCE?

I'm teaching the second methods class in our MA sequence, and I want them to understand current best practices in open science and why they matter.

What readings would you assign?

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Just to be clear: best article in the *FIELD* of political communication, not the journal
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(SELF)NOMINATIONS OPEN

@apsa.bsky.social Walter Lippmann Award for Best Published Article in the field of political communication in ‘25

Low threshold, email to me by 1 March with link to article

The same article cannot be nominated in successive years

Self-nominate, really!

Plz RT

Info 👇
Section23 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Political Communication (Section 23) The purpose of this section is to foster the study of political communications within the discipline of political
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a new working paper: osf.io/3dq2x_v1!

we administered an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year olds, their parents, and a national sample to assess the extent to which values can provide a foundation for political ideology.

we find that values structure political preferences among children.

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📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games

We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis!

Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients.

All tips and data very welcome!

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Social Status in SPQ

Manuscripts should be submitted at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spq by December 15, 2026. See ‘‘Submission Guidelines’’ for the submission requirements for articles and research notes.
Advances in Statistical Analysis has a call for papers on the role of multiverse analysis in statistical modelling and applications: link.springer.com/journal/1018...

Deadline is May 1st, so still plenty of time to put something together!>
AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis
AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis is a quarterly journal that publishes original contributions on statistical methodology, applications, and review ...
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