Roseanna Sommers
@rosesomm.bsky.social
Social psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. I research consent and other topics at the intersection of psychology & law. Views my own.
www.roseannasommers.com
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🚨 Medicaid contributes as much to metro Detroit's economy as THE AUTO INDUSTRY 🚨
July 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🚨 Medicaid contributes as much to metro Detroit's economy as THE AUTO INDUSTRY 🚨
Hey that's @robertmanduca.bsky.social's research!
Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/w...
Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP • Michigan Advance
Updated 2:01 p.m. As the U.S. House of Representatives debates whether to give final passage to Congressional Republicans’ signature tax break and spending cuts package, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hey that's @robertmanduca.bsky.social's research!
Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/w...
Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP • Michigan Advance
Updated 2:01 p.m. As the U.S. House of Representatives debates whether to give final passage to Congressional Republicans’ signature tax break and spending cuts package, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/w...
This is SO important and I wonder why more people aren't talking about it! Thankfully, @robertmanduca.bsky.social has made us a bunch of maps.
Put another way, Medicaid contributes roughly as much to Detroit's economy than car manufacturing, more to Houston than the chemical industry, almost twice as much to Los Angeles as motion picture production--these are big numbers!
June 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This is SO important and I wonder why more people aren't talking about it! Thankfully, @robertmanduca.bsky.social has made us a bunch of maps.
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In Kentucky's 5th congressional district, recently profiled by Arlie Hochschild for @nytimes.com, Medicaid makes up a quarter of the entire economic base. The SNAP and Medicaid cuts would be like losing one-third of all traded private sector industries
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Opinion | My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country
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June 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In Kentucky's 5th congressional district, recently profiled by Arlie Hochschild for @nytimes.com, Medicaid makes up a quarter of the entire economic base. The SNAP and Medicaid cuts would be like losing one-third of all traded private sector industries
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
It is *extremely important* to understand the consequences of the "Big Beautiful Bill" for local economies. @robertmanduca.bsky.social breaks it down in this thread
If we look just at the proposed *cuts* to Medicaid and SNAP, it's the economic equivalent of Maine losing its entire forestry and paper manufacturing industries, all at once--or Alaska losing 60% of its oil and gas industry.
June 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It is *extremely important* to understand the consequences of the "Big Beautiful Bill" for local economies. @robertmanduca.bsky.social breaks it down in this thread
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New working paper alert! Posted at @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, it investigates the economic geography of social transfer programs and financial income--with implications for the Medicaid and SNAP cuts proposed in the reconciliation bill 👀
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Financial and Transfer Income as Components of the Regional Economic Base
Government transfers and financial income form a major component of the basic sector in the United States.
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June 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New working paper alert! Posted at @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, it investigates the economic geography of social transfer programs and financial income--with implications for the Medicaid and SNAP cuts proposed in the reconciliation bill 👀
equitablegrowth.org/working-pape...
equitablegrowth.org/working-pape...
Get yourself a copy of @leahlitman.bsky.social's smart and funny new book LAWLESS. Actually, maybe get 2 so you don't have to share... bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...
May 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Get yourself a copy of @leahlitman.bsky.social's smart and funny new book LAWLESS. Actually, maybe get 2 so you don't have to share... bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...
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Thinking hard about augmented wealth also illuminates a major puzzle in wealth inequality research. As @mjantti.bsky.social @esiermin.bsky.social @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social @norawaitkus.bsky.social (+ more) have shown, there's minimal correlation across countries between wealth and income inequality
April 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Thinking hard about augmented wealth also illuminates a major puzzle in wealth inequality research. As @mjantti.bsky.social @esiermin.bsky.social @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social @norawaitkus.bsky.social (+ more) have shown, there's minimal correlation across countries between wealth and income inequality
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I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
April 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
Thrilled my article with Kate Weisburd on "Legally Magic Words" led to this Data For Defenders motion, which shows public defenders how they can use social science research to help their clients
New #DataforDefenders motion argues statements like "I think I want a lawyer" should be understood as clear invocations of Miranda right to counsel based on empirical research about what reasonable people understand. Also argues that officers should have a duty to clarify. www.datafordefenders.org
Data for Defenders
Bringing Social Science into the Courtroom
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March 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Thrilled my article with Kate Weisburd on "Legally Magic Words" led to this Data For Defenders motion, which shows public defenders how they can use social science research to help their clients
Happy belated pub day to my @umichlaw.bsky.social colleague Nico Cornell, whose book "Wrongs and Rights Come Apart" is now out!
March 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Happy belated pub day to my @umichlaw.bsky.social colleague Nico Cornell, whose book "Wrongs and Rights Come Apart" is now out!
New study with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and Josh Knobe!
Our incredibly short (5 page) paper on intuitions about consent — with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and @rosesomm.bsky.social
We find cases where people agree that both:
(a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented
(b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all
osf.io/63d8s
We find cases where people agree that both:
(a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented
(b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all
osf.io/63d8s
February 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New study with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and Josh Knobe!
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Our incredibly short (5 page) paper on intuitions about consent — with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and @rosesomm.bsky.social
We find cases where people agree that both:
(a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented
(b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all
osf.io/63d8s
We find cases where people agree that both:
(a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented
(b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all
osf.io/63d8s
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Our incredibly short (5 page) paper on intuitions about consent — with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and @rosesomm.bsky.social
We find cases where people agree that both:
(a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented
(b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all
osf.io/63d8s
We find cases where people agree that both:
(a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented
(b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all
osf.io/63d8s
Congratulations and happy pub day to Michelle Adams, my amazing colleague @umichlaw.bsky.social whose new book The Containment is out today! us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
January 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Congratulations and happy pub day to Michelle Adams, my amazing colleague @umichlaw.bsky.social whose new book The Containment is out today! us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
A while back my spouse and I each independently set up monthly donations to Bolts and when we realized our mistake we decided to just leave it bc Bolts is great and deserves double support. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and check them out if you haven't yet! boltsmag.org/donate-page/...
December 15, 2024 at 3:55 AM
A while back my spouse and I each independently set up monthly donations to Bolts and when we realized our mistake we decided to just leave it bc Bolts is great and deserves double support. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and check them out if you haven't yet! boltsmag.org/donate-page/...
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It's our view that the field of contracts has been captured by an ironic revanchism -- looking toward an imagined past where consent was real and people read.
Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
December 12, 2024 at 1:35 AM
It's our view that the field of contracts has been captured by an ironic revanchism -- looking toward an imagined past where consent was real and people read.
Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
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Following lots of recent research, we show that generally, being in lots of formal contracts online has made younger people more formal about contracting -- more up for thin notions of assent, and gamified understandings of obligation.
December 12, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Following lots of recent research, we show that generally, being in lots of formal contracts online has made younger people more formal about contracting -- more up for thin notions of assent, and gamified understandings of obligation.
Beyond "local" vs "traded" industries: new research by @robertmanduca.bsky.social identifies a third category of
"regional' industries" -- think wholesalers and business services -- that employ 36M Americans, pay well, and could be key to economic development! Here's how they work 🧵
"regional' industries" -- think wholesalers and business services -- that employ 36M Americans, pay well, and could be key to economic development! Here's how they work 🧵
A thread on my paper with @masseconomics.bsky.social published earlier this year in @edqjournal.bsky.social: "Beyond Local and Traded: Evidence for a Third Industry Market Area Type and Implications for Regional Economic Development" #urbanism #sociology #geog
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December 10, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Beyond "local" vs "traded" industries: new research by @robertmanduca.bsky.social identifies a third category of
"regional' industries" -- think wholesalers and business services -- that employ 36M Americans, pay well, and could be key to economic development! Here's how they work 🧵
"regional' industries" -- think wholesalers and business services -- that employ 36M Americans, pay well, and could be key to economic development! Here's how they work 🧵
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Do laws give people hints about which social groups they should like or dislike? @rosesomm.bsky.social and I tackled this question in a 2022 paper:
lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/...
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Reducing Prejudice Through Law: Evidence from Experimental Psychology | The University of Chicago Law Review
Can antidiscrimination law effect changes in public attitudes toward minority groups? Could learning, for instance, that employment discrimination against people with clinical depression is legally pr...
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December 4, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Do laws give people hints about which social groups they should like or dislike? @rosesomm.bsky.social and I tackled this question in a 2022 paper:
lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/...
lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/...
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I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation
Link here:
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November 29, 2024 at 10:06 AM
I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation
Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This looks like an incredibly important paper for anyone in the Criminal Procedure realm🔽
Kate Weisburd and I have a new empirical paper out in the Northwestern University Law Review! We ask: what do ordinary Americans believe about how Miranda rights are invoked? t.co/fjpjlJ4vUY 1/4
November 15, 2024 at 12:58 PM
This looks like an incredibly important paper for anyone in the Criminal Procedure realm🔽
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New and wonderful from one of my all time favorite go to law profs on consent.
Kate Weisburd and I have a new empirical paper out in the Northwestern University Law Review! We ask: what do ordinary Americans believe about how Miranda rights are invoked? t.co/fjpjlJ4vUY 1/4
November 15, 2024 at 10:25 PM
New and wonderful from one of my all time favorite go to law profs on consent.
uh no, I did not know that! Thank you, Prof. Corcos, editor of "Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays" (2010), for this fun fact!
I've just started reading your piece but it's extremely interesting. As I'm sure you know, Peter Baird, who worked on the Miranda case as a young lawyer, was also a magician. I'm sure he would have appreciated the discussion of "legally magic" words.
November 14, 2024 at 4:51 PM
uh no, I did not know that! Thank you, Prof. Corcos, editor of "Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays" (2010), for this fun fact!