Proud to celebrate with @chiarazazzarino.bsky.social her fantastic PhD defense yesterday 🥂Chiara’s research funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk examined how leaders use national identity rhetoric to gain political support. Congratulations Dr Zazzarino 🎓

In contrast, expressions of agency, group identity, and prosociality were associated with more signatures but no more virality.

We found that expressions of outrage were uniquely associated with the number of times posts were liked and reposted (virality). Outrage was indirectly related to the number of signatures petitions received (via virality) but it was associated with fewer signatures when controlling for virality.

A few years ago, Douglas, Sutton and I suggested that conspiracy beliefs might be linked to epistemic needs (to feel informed), existential needs (to feel secure), and social needs (to feel valued). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Two new papers with our collaborators examine this claim 1/8

Consistently with past work manipulating personal control, unemployment was accompanied by a decrease in national identification but an increase in collective narcissism, as well as prejudice and anti-democratic sentiments (less evidence for effects on conspiracy beliefs or system justification).

Our new paper in Communications Psychology with Aife Hopkins-Doyle, Jocely Chalmers and Daniel Toribio-Florez examines #gender disparities in social and personality psychology awards from 1968 to 2021. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Always amazing to visit Stanford 🎓Thanks @robbwiller.bsky.social and @pascl-stanford.bsky.social, Michał Kosinski and Hakeem Jefferson
for super inspiring discussions and feedback on our Leverhulme Trust project. Can’t wait to test all the new ideas ✨

Participants high in collective narcissism were less likely to expect these undesirable outcomes, revealing a blindspot in evaluating similar others. Findings help understand support for leaders that mobilize narcissistic identity, which can ultimately harm social cohesion.

A beautiful day to vote in Polish parliamentary elections ☀️I’m not a patient person but nothing makes me happier than seeking long queues to the voting booths 🗳️