Anna Ropp
@annaropp.bsky.social
Social psychologist. Professor. In Denver, Colorado. First gen, 🏳️🌈, she/they
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According to psychology research, people can abruptly shift left when there is a "threat event" to health care access or threats from pollution and disaster, in a similar manner that the majority went hawkish after 9/11. Anger drives it. This is a rare event that upends the game board of politics.
The new NBC national survey shows the Democratic advantage in the generic congressional trial heat growing since March from +1 to +8. The Republican advantage on the economy has essentially disappeared - dropping from 21 points in September 2023 to just 1 point now.
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
According to psychology research, people can abruptly shift left when there is a "threat event" to health care access or threats from pollution and disaster, in a similar manner that the majority went hawkish after 9/11. Anger drives it. This is a rare event that upends the game board of politics.
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“Universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“Universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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This whole thread.
“Oh no, someone might eat food!”
Good. That’s good.
“They might buy something they like.”
Cool.
“They might get a treat!”
Also cool.
“Oh no, someone might eat food!”
Good. That’s good.
“They might buy something they like.”
Cool.
“They might get a treat!”
Also cool.
There's something deeply disturbing about EBT/SNAP hate to me. Like just truly bone blanching shit.
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This whole thread.
“Oh no, someone might eat food!”
Good. That’s good.
“They might buy something they like.”
Cool.
“They might get a treat!”
Also cool.
“Oh no, someone might eat food!”
Good. That’s good.
“They might buy something they like.”
Cool.
“They might get a treat!”
Also cool.
Turns out I could start a food pantry for students in our department by just asking if we could start a food pantry for students in our department 🤷🏻♀️💕
Talked with 3 students this week who are losing SNAP benefits. I’m sure there are many more 😢
Talked with 3 students this week who are losing SNAP benefits. I’m sure there are many more 😢
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Turns out I could start a food pantry for students in our department by just asking if we could start a food pantry for students in our department 🤷🏻♀️💕
Talked with 3 students this week who are losing SNAP benefits. I’m sure there are many more 😢
Talked with 3 students this week who are losing SNAP benefits. I’m sure there are many more 😢
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It is great that small businesses and local organizations are stepping up to fill gaps in food access while SNAP is frozen, but every story masks a systemic and humiliating failure of the US Government to support its most vulnerable citizens. The GoFundMe-ification of social services makes me sick.
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
It is great that small businesses and local organizations are stepping up to fill gaps in food access while SNAP is frozen, but every story masks a systemic and humiliating failure of the US Government to support its most vulnerable citizens. The GoFundMe-ification of social services makes me sick.
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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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One of my favorite studies to teach about: Dr. Anne Becker’s work in Fiji, exploring the introduction of Western television for young girls’ body image and eating behaviors (it’s bad) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12042229/
October 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
One of my favorite studies to teach about: Dr. Anne Becker’s work in Fiji, exploring the introduction of Western television for young girls’ body image and eating behaviors (it’s bad) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12042229/
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More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak.
From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.
buff.ly/Ls2m7mv
From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.
buff.ly/Ls2m7mv
Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues
Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.
buff.ly
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak.
From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.
buff.ly/Ls2m7mv
From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.
buff.ly/Ls2m7mv
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"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.
🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.
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Is Belief in Conspiracies Theories More Prevalent Among Republicans and Conservatives? A recent article in @polbehavior.bsky.social by Enders, Farhart, Miller, Uscinski, Saunders, and Drochon finds the answer is no: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#polisky 🧵(1/7)
#polisky 🧵(1/7)
Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories? - Political Behavior
A sizable literature tracing back to Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style (1964) argues that Republicans and conservatives are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than Democrats and liberals...
link.springer.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Is Belief in Conspiracies Theories More Prevalent Among Republicans and Conservatives? A recent article in @polbehavior.bsky.social by Enders, Farhart, Miller, Uscinski, Saunders, and Drochon finds the answer is no: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#polisky 🧵(1/7)
#polisky 🧵(1/7)
From the abstract:
“When seeing classrooms with stereotypically masculine (vs. neutral) objects, women perceived less safety, which predicted less engagement, interest, and intentions to recruit others.“
“When seeing classrooms with stereotypically masculine (vs. neutral) objects, women perceived less safety, which predicted less engagement, interest, and intentions to recruit others.“
New paper out from the Self & Motivation Lab on Safety and Threat in the Environment Perceptions (STEP). The STEP scale assesses people's overall, gut-level impressions of any given space and uniquely predicts engagement, interest, & desire to recruit others
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Perceptions of Safety and Threat in the Environment: The STEP Scale - Lora E. Park, Deborah E. Ward, Kristin Naragon-Gainey, Elizabeth A. Canning, Nicole Koefler, Zaviera A. Panlilio, Valerie Vessels,...
The Safety and Threat in Environment Perceptions (STEP) scale assesses perceptions of environments as safe (welcoming, inclusive) or threatening (critical, inti...
journals.sagepub.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
From the abstract:
“When seeing classrooms with stereotypically masculine (vs. neutral) objects, women perceived less safety, which predicted less engagement, interest, and intentions to recruit others.“
“When seeing classrooms with stereotypically masculine (vs. neutral) objects, women perceived less safety, which predicted less engagement, interest, and intentions to recruit others.“
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Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”
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Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
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Incredible:
0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health.
73% of studies *not* funded by the meat industry have found a link.
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health.
73% of studies *not* funded by the meat industry have found a link.
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Is red meat bad for your heart? Studies leave plenty to chew over
Scientists analyse industry-sponsored research on red meat and heart health
www.thetimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Incredible:
0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health.
73% of studies *not* funded by the meat industry have found a link.
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health.
73% of studies *not* funded by the meat industry have found a link.
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
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A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them.
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direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training
Abstract. Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes—like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.—w...
direct.mit.edu
May 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them.
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direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.
May 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.
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people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
May 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
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The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.
May 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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This gender split is troubling but not surprising. As girls have started out-achieving boys academically, school and related things like reading have come to be seen as "feminine." Which becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, leading some people to view school--and thus reading--as too "girly" for boys.
Hmmm...
Disparity: 0-2yr olds being read to every day/nearly every day: 29% of boys; 44% of girls
"HarperCollins said that many parents focus on the literacy element of reading, seeing it as a skill, rather than encouraging a love for reading in their children."
Concerted cultivation side effect?
Disparity: 0-2yr olds being read to every day/nearly every day: 29% of boys; 44% of girls
"HarperCollins said that many parents focus on the literacy element of reading, seeing it as a skill, rather than encouraging a love for reading in their children."
Concerted cultivation side effect?
Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests
Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This gender split is troubling but not surprising. As girls have started out-achieving boys academically, school and related things like reading have come to be seen as "feminine." Which becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, leading some people to view school--and thus reading--as too "girly" for boys.