Georgy Tarasenko
@tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social
PhD Student in Government at Cornell University
Fellow at the Center on Global Democracy
Behavioral Political Economy | Political Psychology | Authoritarian Politics
HSE University & Leiden University alum 🏳️🌈
#ArmUkraineNow
georgytarasenko.com
Fellow at the Center on Global Democracy
Behavioral Political Economy | Political Psychology | Authoritarian Politics
HSE University & Leiden University alum 🏳️🌈
#ArmUkraineNow
georgytarasenko.com
As a TA in the US, I recognize this so much.
Students often feel “effort = A,” but grades are supposed to reflect expertise and outcomes.
I keep wondering: what would it take to make academic work the primary signal of achievement again—above extracurriculars, sports, and everything else?
Students often feel “effort = A,” but grades are supposed to reflect expertise and outcomes.
I keep wondering: what would it take to make academic work the primary signal of achievement again—above extracurriculars, sports, and everything else?
One of the Harvard report’s most compelling findings is that students almost universally speak about grades in terms of how much effort they put in. If they spend a lot of time studying and do all of the work asked of them, they believe, they should get an A. https://chroni.cl/4iiaoA3
Grading Is Broken
A growing number of professors say A’s have lost their meaning. They’re divided on the right solution.
chroni.cl
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
As a TA in the US, I recognize this so much.
Students often feel “effort = A,” but grades are supposed to reflect expertise and outcomes.
I keep wondering: what would it take to make academic work the primary signal of achievement again—above extracurriculars, sports, and everything else?
Students often feel “effort = A,” but grades are supposed to reflect expertise and outcomes.
I keep wondering: what would it take to make academic work the primary signal of achievement again—above extracurriculars, sports, and everything else?
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
First instalment of my substack primer on right-wing populism in Europe is out.
jacobedenhofer.substack.com/p/explaining...
jacobedenhofer.substack.com/p/explaining...
Explaining the emergence and consolidation of right-wing populism: Part I
Stylised facts, or what has actually happened?
jacobedenhofer.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
First instalment of my substack primer on right-wing populism in Europe is out.
jacobedenhofer.substack.com/p/explaining...
jacobedenhofer.substack.com/p/explaining...
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
Niedenthal and Wohltjen review the varied emotional and personality adaptations to historical heterogeneity, synthesizing evidence from multiple fields
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Historical migration patterns and the evolution of culture
Cultures change, but new cultural systems and practices also emerge over history. The socio-ecological factors that exert pressure on human values and…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Niedenthal and Wohltjen review the varied emotional and personality adaptations to historical heterogeneity, synthesizing evidence from multiple fields
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨
In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels.
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels.
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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September 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨
In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels.
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
1/🧵
In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels.
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
1/🧵
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Is unconscious bias real? @davidamodio.bsky.social points out critiques (people are aware of “implicit bias”) rely on semantics. In experiments, people have biased priors, which leads to biased “learning” (noticing stereotype-consistent info)…and. They aren’t aware and can’t suppress it. #PMIG2025
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Is unconscious bias real? @davidamodio.bsky.social points out critiques (people are aware of “implicit bias”) rely on semantics. In experiments, people have biased priors, which leads to biased “learning” (noticing stereotype-consistent info)…and. They aren’t aware and can’t suppress it. #PMIG2025
Joel Mokyr just won the Nobel — what full-circle moment for me! Back in 2018–19, my sophomore thesis on the political economy of innovation (published in 2020) cited him twice. I may study other things now, but I’m still a Mokyr reader at heart.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Joel Mokyr just won the Nobel — what full-circle moment for me! Back in 2018–19, my sophomore thesis on the political economy of innovation (published in 2020) cited him twice. I may study other things now, but I’m still a Mokyr reader at heart.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📊Working Paper No. 7: “What Drives Refugees’ Return After Conflict?”
Survey of 2,500+ Ukrainian refugees across 30 European countries: territorial integrity and security guarantees are key to return.
Read: econ4ua.org/wp-content/u...
Submit research: lnkd.in/gf2nQ5WC
Survey of 2,500+ Ukrainian refugees across 30 European countries: territorial integrity and security guarantees are key to return.
Read: econ4ua.org/wp-content/u...
Submit research: lnkd.in/gf2nQ5WC
econ4ua.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📊Working Paper No. 7: “What Drives Refugees’ Return After Conflict?”
Survey of 2,500+ Ukrainian refugees across 30 European countries: territorial integrity and security guarantees are key to return.
Read: econ4ua.org/wp-content/u...
Submit research: lnkd.in/gf2nQ5WC
Survey of 2,500+ Ukrainian refugees across 30 European countries: territorial integrity and security guarantees are key to return.
Read: econ4ua.org/wp-content/u...
Submit research: lnkd.in/gf2nQ5WC
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
Call for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu
Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered.
Please apply!
Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.
Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered.
Please apply!
Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.
September 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Call for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu
Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered.
Please apply!
Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.
Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered.
Please apply!
Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.
Tonight I had my very first lecture by a Nobel laureate — Claudia Goldin (‘67) at Cornell.
Back when I thought of becoming an economic historian, her work was among the most important I read. And her famous blind auditions experimental study inspired my own interest in experiments.
Back when I thought of becoming an economic historian, her work was among the most important I read. And her famous blind auditions experimental study inspired my own interest in experiments.
September 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Tonight I had my very first lecture by a Nobel laureate — Claudia Goldin (‘67) at Cornell.
Back when I thought of becoming an economic historian, her work was among the most important I read. And her famous blind auditions experimental study inspired my own interest in experiments.
Back when I thought of becoming an economic historian, her work was among the most important I read. And her famous blind auditions experimental study inspired my own interest in experiments.
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To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
![Running dbreg::dbreg() on a full year of NYC taxi data... and it takes less than 2 seconds.
dbreg(
tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name,
path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", ## path to hive-partitioned dataset
vcov = "hc1"
)
#> [dbreg] Estimating compression ratio...
#> [dbreg] Data has 178,544,324 rows and 24 unique FE groups.
#> [dbreg] Using strategy: compress
#> [dbreg] Executing compress strategy SQL
#>
#> Compressed OLS estimation, Dep. Var.: tip_amount
#> Observations.: 178,544,324 (original) | 70,782 (compressed)
#> Standard Errors: Heteroskedasticity-robust
#> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
#> fare_amount 0.106744 0.000068 1564.742 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> passenger_count -0.029086 0.000106 -273.866 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qww63z2t5rrhniusz5x7gk23/bafkreiajmnp6jiaycebutwid2lxx57hrz3zc3qp2p5ijnoqiyqag34xpe4@jpeg)
August 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
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Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
June 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
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James Tilley & Sara Hobolt's newest publication finds that narcissistic personalities fuel affective polarization in the UK. Narcissism predicts both loyalty to in-groups and hostility to out-groups, deepening political divides.
#AffectivePolarization
Read more:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#AffectivePolarization
Read more:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Narcissism and Affective Polarization - Political Behavior
There are increasing concerns about affective polarization between political groups in the US and elsewhere. While most work explaining affective polarization focuses on a combination of social and id...
link.springer.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
James Tilley & Sara Hobolt's newest publication finds that narcissistic personalities fuel affective polarization in the UK. Narcissism predicts both loyalty to in-groups and hostility to out-groups, deepening political divides.
#AffectivePolarization
Read more:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#AffectivePolarization
Read more:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Had a great time at my first #PolMeth conference!
Grateful for the chance to visit Emory and Atlanta, meet brilliant folks, and share some work-in-progress
“Using AI to Explain Classifiers: A Framework and Application to Text-Based Experimental Outcomes.”
Grateful for the chance to visit Emory and Atlanta, meet brilliant folks, and share some work-in-progress
“Using AI to Explain Classifiers: A Framework and Application to Text-Based Experimental Outcomes.”
July 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Had a great time at my first #PolMeth conference!
Grateful for the chance to visit Emory and Atlanta, meet brilliant folks, and share some work-in-progress
“Using AI to Explain Classifiers: A Framework and Application to Text-Based Experimental Outcomes.”
Grateful for the chance to visit Emory and Atlanta, meet brilliant folks, and share some work-in-progress
“Using AI to Explain Classifiers: A Framework and Application to Text-Based Experimental Outcomes.”
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Bsky has a thread composer now. To celebrate, here is a thread about our recent paper on antiwar attitudes and actions in Russia. In August 2022, we asked ~1000 Russians about their feelings regarding the war in Ukraine and whether they did or planned to do anything to oppose it.
#polpsy #socialpsyc
#polpsy #socialpsyc
November 10, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Bsky has a thread composer now. To celebrate, here is a thread about our recent paper on antiwar attitudes and actions in Russia. In August 2022, we asked ~1000 Russians about their feelings regarding the war in Ukraine and whether they did or planned to do anything to oppose it.
#polpsy #socialpsyc
#polpsy #socialpsyc
July 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
www.cambridge.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
Vincent Ostrom argued that both the Soviet Union & the American state masked imperialist dynamics with rhetoric of freedom.
Moreover, he argued against relying on notions of state sovereignty, arguing that instead we should build relations of self-governance.
Moreover, he argued against relying on notions of state sovereignty, arguing that instead we should build relations of self-governance.
March 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Vincent Ostrom argued that both the Soviet Union & the American state masked imperialist dynamics with rhetoric of freedom.
Moreover, he argued against relying on notions of state sovereignty, arguing that instead we should build relations of self-governance.
Moreover, he argued against relying on notions of state sovereignty, arguing that instead we should build relations of self-governance.
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
I'm revising my undergraduate module on 'Psychology of Crowd Behaviour', including a new topic on 'Crowds & Leadership'. The new reading list includes the following.
Essential reading:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Essential reading:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership
This article develops a dual-agency model of leadership which treats collective phenomena as a co-production involving both leaders and followers who …
www.sciencedirect.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I'm revising my undergraduate module on 'Psychology of Crowd Behaviour', including a new topic on 'Crowds & Leadership'. The new reading list includes the following.
Essential reading:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Essential reading:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Georgy Tarasenko
New study by @matthewcebul.bsky.social & J. Pinckney asks “How do nonviolent alternatives affect international support for violent rebel groups?”
Surveys across 30+ countries find “alternative resistance options consistently reduce support for armed rebellion…” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Surveys across 30+ countries find “alternative resistance options consistently reduce support for armed rebellion…” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Nonviolent alternatives reduce external support for rebel groups: Evidence from two cross-national survey experiments - Matthew Cebul, Jonathan Pinckney, 2025
How do nonviolent alternatives affect international support for violent rebel groups? Armed rebellions are often sustained by outside sympathy and support, whic...
journals.sagepub.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New study by @matthewcebul.bsky.social & J. Pinckney asks “How do nonviolent alternatives affect international support for violent rebel groups?”
Surveys across 30+ countries find “alternative resistance options consistently reduce support for armed rebellion…” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Surveys across 30+ countries find “alternative resistance options consistently reduce support for armed rebellion…” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🎉 Thrilled to be at my first EPSA in beautiful Madrid —and to be busy in the best way! I’ll be:
🔹 Chairing and presenting at the panel "PUBOPI – Personality and Emotions"
🗓️ Sat, 28 June | ⏰ 09:30–11:10 | 📍 Room 1A.13
🔹 Chairing and presenting at the panel "PUBOPI – Personality and Emotions"
🗓️ Sat, 28 June | ⏰ 09:30–11:10 | 📍 Room 1A.13
June 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🎉 Thrilled to be at my first EPSA in beautiful Madrid —and to be busy in the best way! I’ll be:
🔹 Chairing and presenting at the panel "PUBOPI – Personality and Emotions"
🗓️ Sat, 28 June | ⏰ 09:30–11:10 | 📍 Room 1A.13
🔹 Chairing and presenting at the panel "PUBOPI – Personality and Emotions"
🗓️ Sat, 28 June | ⏰ 09:30–11:10 | 📍 Room 1A.13
100% yes, at least as long as Europe will not normalize having ACs
Alright, the most important (non-research-based) question of the year: Are shorts acceptable during presentations?
Checked Madrid’s temperature during #EPSA.
i) Skipped ECPR because August in Thessaloniki = death.
ii) Thought Madrid in June would be “pleasant.”
iii) It’s 39°C and I’m German—I was genetically engineered for 18°C and light drizzle. My wardrobe has no idea what to do. I might have to wear linen.
i) Skipped ECPR because August in Thessaloniki = death.
ii) Thought Madrid in June would be “pleasant.”
iii) It’s 39°C and I’m German—I was genetically engineered for 18°C and light drizzle. My wardrobe has no idea what to do. I might have to wear linen.
June 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
100% yes, at least as long as Europe will not normalize having ACs
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Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasi...
June 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasi...