Excited to share a new paper I co-authored with Sarah Y. Choi, Robert Zhang et al for a special issue on global consciousness (GC) in memory of James H. Liu.

We examined predictors of GC across the US, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media

Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Intersting study wirth 24 000 participants in 42 (!) countries that confirms one's intuitions: People are more likely to think the system they live in is fair if

they have a higher status and depending satisfaction in life (lower satisfaction--> system = bad)

and

if "their" party is in charge

(1) Identifying with a global identity was associated with greater vaccine adherence

(2) Having a stronger national identity was associated with greater vaccine hesitancy

Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky🧪

Comprehensive research (N=24k, 42 nations) by @evanavaldes.bsky.social et al suggests we’re not so much inclined to support (and justify) the social systems to which we belong, as to support those systems that serve our individual or group interests:
buff.ly/R1IHhQs
HT @jayvanbavel.bsky.social

“We used data comprised of 24,009 participants nested within 42 countries. Multilevel models largely supported the competing claims of social dominance and social identity theories over SJT.”

When & why do individuals defend the political systems they live in? Valdes et al. study the tenets of System Justification Theory in a paper from our August issue. Read open-access for their findings on what motivates people to see their system as just, fair, & legitimate. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

📢New Publication Alert!
Thrilled to share that a paper I co-authored with Junix Jerald Delos Santos and the late Prof. James H. Liu has just been published in the Asian Journal of Social Psychology!

You can check out the full text here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“Promoting a sense of global community could be a powerful strategy in public health communication.”

New work by @evanavaldes.bsky.social investigates how social identity, system justification, and conspiracy beliefs influence COVID-19 vaccine adherence.

ICE agents rounded up around 40 people today across Martha’s Vineyard—grabbing some out of their cars. The sweeps were carried out as part of a series of traffic stops with the help of FBI and DEA agents. “You should be ashamed of yourselves,” one person shouted at several agents gathered outside.

“In this paper, we argue that status threat arises because white Americans tend to perceive racial minorities as competing outgroups, not as fellow Americans… We find little indication that a shared American identity could reduce racial (and, in exploratory analyses, partisan) conflict in America.”

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

A new study tested five interventions—including value-based messaging and showcasing conservative scientists—but none increased conservatives’ trust in science, suggesting these attitudes are stable and resistant to brief messaging.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ScienceSky #SciComm

If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate information”. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trump’s first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/n

Today is the first day @lizsuhay.bsky.social & @mjbsp.bsky.social are co-EiC 🥳

Read the vision statement!
💲 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🆓 osf.io/nybxm

Submit your papers! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct.

As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

And here's the first starter pack with 150 social psychologists included.

go.bsky.app/J4gmGmV

#SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪

Here's a political psychology starter pack. For scholars of public opinion and persuasion in the realm of politics. bsky.app/starter-pack...