Jordan LaBouff
@jlabouff.bsky.social
I'm a social psychologist who studies religion and tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons. I'm a professor at the University of Maine in the Honors College and Psychology Department.
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🚨New Paper Klaxon 🚨
Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief.
Now out at PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Here's a quick 🧵 on what we did and found!👇
1/ 11
🧪
#atheism
#religion
#culture
#evolution
Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief.
Now out at PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Here's a quick 🧵 on what we did and found!👇
1/ 11
🧪
#atheism
#religion
#culture
#evolution
Belief in belief: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences favoring religious belief | PNAS
We find evidence of belief in belief—intuitive preferences for religious belief over
atheism, even among atheist participants—across eight comparat...
www.pnas.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🚨New Paper Klaxon 🚨
Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief.
Now out at PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Here's a quick 🧵 on what we did and found!👇
1/ 11
🧪
#atheism
#religion
#culture
#evolution
Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief.
Now out at PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Here's a quick 🧵 on what we did and found!👇
1/ 11
🧪
#atheism
#religion
#culture
#evolution
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Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...
www.aaup.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
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Maine said it wouldn't break state law to follow President Donald Trump's order barring transgender girls from playing girls' sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats.
Two transgender girls, six federal agencies. How Trump is trying to pressure Maine into obedience.
Maine said it wouldn't break state law to follow President Donald Trump's order barring transgender girls from playing girls' sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats targeting the…
www.bangordailynews.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Maine said it wouldn't break state law to follow President Donald Trump's order barring transgender girls from playing girls' sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats.
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Researchers who study religion: which specialty journals do you publish in or cite? Here's a publicly editable/shareable list of (so far) 32 journals covering the disciplinary water front: what's missing? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Speciality journals for scientific study of religion, spirituality, or non-religion
docs.google.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Researchers who study religion: which specialty journals do you publish in or cite? Here's a publicly editable/shareable list of (so far) 32 journals covering the disciplinary water front: what's missing? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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February 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The ARDA is the world's largest online religion data archive, with a lot of really great resources that bring that data to life for those who are interested in their communities, states, our nation, and the world.
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Gorgeous day in Rocky Mountain National Park!
February 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Gorgeous day in Rocky Mountain National Park!
Meow Wolf Denver was pretty great
February 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Meow Wolf Denver was pretty great
What a horrible idea. I really hope this doesn't pass.
Supporters submitted at least 86,904 valid signatures, more than the approximately 67,000 needed to get on the ballot.
Voter ID referendum qualifies for Maine ballot
Supporters submitted at least 86,904 valid signatures, more than the approximately 67,000 needed to get on the ballot.
buff.ly
February 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
What a horrible idea. I really hope this doesn't pass.
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This is a long but clarifying read by political scientists who have studied the rise and fall of democracies around the world:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is a long but clarifying read by political scientists who have studied the rise and fall of democracies around the world:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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as a medievalist, as a church historian, let me say that within the long history of Christianity, I cannot emphasize enough how actually normal this is.
this is Constantine, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Louis IX, even Henry VIII!
this is still Christianity, as empire-hungry as it is.
this is Constantine, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Louis IX, even Henry VIII!
this is still Christianity, as empire-hungry as it is.
“To say no to President Trump would be to say no to God.”
Meet televangelist Paula White, who Donald Trump just appointed to lead the White House ‘Faith Office.’
This is not normal.
Meet televangelist Paula White, who Donald Trump just appointed to lead the White House ‘Faith Office.’
This is not normal.
February 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
as a medievalist, as a church historian, let me say that within the long history of Christianity, I cannot emphasize enough how actually normal this is.
this is Constantine, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Louis IX, even Henry VIII!
this is still Christianity, as empire-hungry as it is.
this is Constantine, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Louis IX, even Henry VIII!
this is still Christianity, as empire-hungry as it is.
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Trump's planning to sign an executive order to combat anti-Christian bias. In a recent article in @psychscience.bsky.social, my colleagues (led by @marahalkire.bsky.social) & I show that such political appeals can serve as potent racial dog whistles.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
February 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Trump's planning to sign an executive order to combat anti-Christian bias. In a recent article in @psychscience.bsky.social, my colleagues (led by @marahalkire.bsky.social) & I show that such political appeals can serve as potent racial dog whistles.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We've been redesigning our Honors curriculum at UMaine. Next Fall I get to teach my new Honors 101 - Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Culture, and Identity. Check out the course trailer -
youtu.be/jWw-D04AADw
youtu.be/jWw-D04AADw
Honors 101 - Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Culture, and Identity - Course Trailer
YouTube video by Jordan LaBouff
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January 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We've been redesigning our Honors curriculum at UMaine. Next Fall I get to teach my new Honors 101 - Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Culture, and Identity. Check out the course trailer -
youtu.be/jWw-D04AADw
youtu.be/jWw-D04AADw