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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · Dec 14

Two political psych starter packs!

Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added.

Check them out if you haven’t already

1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx
2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Mark J. Brandt, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 6h

Today is a good day to remind you that none of the classic vote studies thought very highly of women's political competence.

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Alexander Wuttke, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

James Dennison @jamesrdennison.bsky.social · 7h

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social

mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 8h

When we lived in NL, we'd cook goose. Also superior to turkey.

Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville, Jochen Müller, Mark J. Brandt , and 6 more Ruth Dassonneville, Jochen Müller, Mark J. Brandt, Jason Reifler, Jane Green, Christian Breunig, Alessandro Nai, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Roman Senninger

Florence So @floriso.bsky.social · 15h

🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟

I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science PAR 2025/838

The Department of Political Science is an international academic environment that welcomes students, researchers and

web103.reachmee.com

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt

Lorne Campbell @lornejcampbell.bsky.social · 23h

In 2014 I introduced a replication project in my grad research methods class. I taught this version of the class 4 times (no longer teach it). Some tallies: 9 published replication papers; 30 grad student authors; 19 *open* data sets; materials, syntax, etc also open (all on OSF). Check them out 👇

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, David Darmofal

Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 1d

Does feeling blue make you feel less Blue? Using surveys across three countries, Bernardi et al.'s article from our October issue finds that depressed mood weakens voters' partisanship and party loyalty. Read the full piece open-access for more doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Willem de Koster

Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · 1d

#Vacancy for an Assistant Professor position at the #Sociology department of @tilburg-university.bsky.social:

tiu.nu/23054
(Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid)

Deadline: 14 December
Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens

(and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid (23054)

tiu.nu

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Caroline Krafft

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.

Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Mark J. Brandt, Mark Rubin , and 1 more Gordon Hodson, Mark J. Brandt, Mark Rubin, Melanie C. Green

Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · 2d

Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing):

What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt

paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone have an example of examining contrasts using emmeans for multinomial regressions with an interaction term?

#psych #stats

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Mark J. Brandt, Justin H. Kirkland

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 4d

A student recently asked me for academic job market advice and I pulled up a slideshow from a few years ago. I don't think I've shared it, but it might be broadly useful. I think the advice almost entirely holds up.

First part is about my time on the job market
1/3

brief description of my experience and a joke xkcd about selection bias

my hit rate on the job market in 2012 (low)

my hit rate on the job market in 2013 (low, but got a TT job)

my hit rate on the job market as an AP (3/7 offers)

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Flávio Azevedo

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 4d

it is very difficult to convey to fledgling researchers that writing academic research involves a *recipe* not a *formula*

formulas imply formal demands and requirements, but recipes are made to be broken, for ingredients to be swapped

Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt

Laura Wallace @lauraewallace.bsky.social · 5d

I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026.

I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Brian A. Nosek, Gordon Hodson , and 11 more Dorothy Bishop, Brian A. Nosek, Gordon Hodson, Mark J. Brandt, Mark Rubin, Elizabeth Stokoe, Calvin K. Lai, Michael W. Kraus, Andrew Livingstone, Amy Orben, Frank Asbrock, Mohammad Atari, Toon Kuppens, Kristof Dhont

Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social · 6d

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say

The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.

www.bloomberg.com

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Scott Clifford

Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 6d

Do any meta-analyses or other reflection pieces exist that catalog the sorts of mechanisms specifically, and outcomes generally, studied as consequences of providing white Americans information on their declining population share?

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt

Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 7d

Where do attitudes towards women's rights come from? Morell et al. find varying influences between young men's & women's attitude formation, with men shaped more by family cues. Read the full piece for more findings & what they mean for the growing gender divide in politics: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Reposted by Nancy Kanwisher, Mark J. Brandt, Markus Bräuer

Vivian Paulun @vivianpaulun.bsky.social · 8d

🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, William J. Brady, Sylvia Perry

Jonathan Doriscar @jonds7.bsky.social · 8d

New preprint out 📄
“Why Reform Stalls: Justifications of Force Are Linked to Lower Outrage and Reform Support.”

Why do some cases of police violence spark reform while others fade? We look at how people explain them—through justification or outrage.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt , and 6 more Gordon Hodson, Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt, Efrén O. Pérez, Calvin K. Lai, Michael W. Kraus, Andrew Livingstone, Nazita Lajevardi, Colin Tucker Smith

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 8d

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 8d

Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt

Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 8d

What drives the desire to involve the government in healthcare? In our October issue, Alva et al. explore motivations of vulnerability & find the primary source of support for government in healthcare is not self-interest but concern for vulnerable others. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt

Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 8d

"Much work remains to be done identifying the contours of what constitutes 'the system' and thus what constitutes system justification, as well as when and among who we should expect system justification to occur most."

By @rongbojin.bsky.social & @frankjgonzo.bsky.social

#SocialPsyc #PolPsych

Complexities of the Status‐Legitimacy Hypothesis: Authoritarian Personality and System Justification Across Class

Introduction The status-legitimacy hypothesis (SLH) posits that low-status individuals are more motivated to justify oppressive social systems than high-status beneficiaries. However, recent researc...

doi.org

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt

Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 11d

I’ll do a thread on it later, but I want to share my new article in Politics & Gender, which looks at the long-term stability of masculinity and femininity self-placement measures, and how Trump support impacts them.
Oh, it’s also open access, so that link works for anyone.

Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity: Stability, Change, and Trump | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity: Stability, Change, and Trump

www.cambridge.org

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt, Eric Hehman , and 2 more Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt, Eric Hehman, Allison Eden, Jill A. Jacobson

Jess Salerno @jesssalerno.bsky.social · 12d

POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

Cornell University, Psychology

Job #AJO31185, WDR-00055818(EVG) Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology, Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 12d

I like these ideas, but I not sold on the strength of the evidence (based on article, I haven’t read the book)

mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 12d

I’d guess that this is mostly due to older, religious folks dropping out of the sample as younger, less religious folks join

However, I can also see some room for personal attitude change as religion has become so tightly integrated into 1 political POV

Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 12d

The percentage of Americans who say religion is an important part of their lives declined from 66% in 2015 to 49% in 2025. Among the fastest declines in the world.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Nazita Lajevardi

Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 12d

The percentage of Americans who say religion is an important part of their lives declined from 66% in 2015 to 49% in 2025. Among the fastest declines in the world.
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt

Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 13d

Is fact-checking harmful or helpful to political candidates? Prike et al. in our October issue study the effects of fact-checking misleading statements & find that correcting false claims does hamper support for candidates who are not well known. Read their full piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Mark J. Brandt, Markus Bräuer

Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · 13d

Hi folks! If you are a US-based PhD student interested in the development of gender stereotypes in childhood and do not have summer funding, consider applying for VIPS. Reach out to me by email. This is separate from my previous message about adol/lgbtq projects.

psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program

The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...

psych.princeton.edu