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Antoine Marie PhD
@a-marie-sci.bsky.social
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🇫🇷 political psychologist @SciencesPo Paris. I study how people reason and communicate about divisive political topics 🔥 https://www.antoinemariesci.com ANR Access ERC Nominee @InstitutNicod @AarhusUni_int @ENS_Ulm Don’t hate what you don’t understand.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 15d
Article open access sur la moralisation de la rationalité et l'humilité: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Moralization of Rationality Can Stimulate Sharing of Hostile and False News on Social Media, but Intellectual Humility Inhibits it
www.tandfonline.com
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AFR-PsyPol @afr-psypol.bsky.social · 15d
✨ Voici les points clés des présentations :

💡 @a-marie-sci.bsky.social montre que dire “moraliser la rationalité” est associé au partage de fake news hostiles. À l’inverse, l’humilité intellectuelle protège contre ce phénomène.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 23d
Only by engaging with people directly and showing them respect can you hope to make them shift ideologically. No other alternative seems as powerful as this one, unfortunately.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 23d
With the same unbelievable courage, Daryl Davis has approached, befriended, and caused tens of KKK members to leave the klan. Here's an awesome interview in which he details his approach with Yascha Mounk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvt5...
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 23d
With breath-taking courage, Deeyah approached the racists in their homes to film them. By showing them respect and empathy, and asking the right questions, she gets them to feel dissonance, to realise their hateful generalisations make no sense. To watch urgently if you haven't.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 23d
Deeyah Khan just released on YouTube her magnificent documentary on the US "neonazis" (Meeting the enemy, 2017). It is one of the most moving and important documents there is out there about political hatred and how to reduce it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvt5...
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 27d
They also show that commitments to free speech are almost always hypocritical in politics. Everyone’s happy to censor speech when it favours their interests and worldviews: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 27d
People on the left who celebrate the “death of a fascist” committed to open discussion are complicit in fueling the mutual hatred cycle.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 27d
The key moral goal in polarised politics should be *exemplarity*: to make sure one behaves and speaks in morally impeccable ways, to give your opponents reasons to respect you, not hate you.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 27d
But political assassinations are antithetical to any form of democracy.
Kirk embodied the values of open discussion with those he disagreed with, a courage that is amazingly rare today and which should be morally rewarded (above and beyond personal failings I may not know of).
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 27d
The shooting of Charlie Kirk is a tragic and appalling event.

To be clear: I emphatically do *not* support the socially conservative and MAGA-enthusiastic version of America he advocated for.
apnews.com/live/utah-va...
Charlie Kirk assassinated at university event in Utah
Authorities say conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed by a single shot in a targeted attack during an outdoor event Wednesday at Utah Valley University.
apnews.com
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 8
antoinemariesci.substack.com/p/the-notion...
The Notion of "Post-Truth" Poorly Captures the Cognitive and Social Threats on Democracy
[This paper was originally published in Analyse Opinion Critique in French.]
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 8
English translation of my essay expressing skepticism of the notion of a "post truth" era--from a cognitive perspective. Critical comments welcome.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 7
J'avoue, j'avais que pensé à la métaphore avec le vent, mais il y a aussi la métaphore avec les balles qui fusent
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 6
I liked that book a lot
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
Why is it taboo to publicly express discriminatory or "dangerous" statements? A "common knowledge" approach.

New post on substack, open access: antoinemariesci.substack.com/p/why-is-it-...
Why is it taboo to publicly express discriminatory or "dangerous" statements?
A "common knowledge" approach.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
#racism #sexism #ethnicity #socialmedia
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
All these social fears, some rational, others preposterous, are rooted in our intuitive ability to anticipate the potentially harmful effects of information dissemination on others' behaviors in society.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
Homophobia and the fear of so-called "gay propaganda" in conservative circles and countries like Russia or Uganda.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statist...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian...
www.humensciences.com/livre/Pas-ne...
People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible - Sacha Altay, Alberto Acerbi, 2024
Alarmist narratives about the flow of misinformation and its negative consequences have gained traction in recent years. If these fears are to some extent warra...
journals.sagepub.com
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
The prohibition of collecting ethnic statistics in France, and the desire to prevent the publication of certain scientific results---and sometimes even to study certain subjects---for fear that "pessimistic" empirical results might become known and encourage discrimination.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
The fear of Western elites regarding the effects of foreign disinformation and political "fake news" spreading on social media.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
**Common knowledge, rational fears, and "moral panics"**

The fear of changes in common knowledge and the negative effects it might generate is at the core of many legitimate fears and "moral panics" in today's world. Here are other examples.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
Human beings are influenced by the effects of their actions on their reputation, and take cues from others to calibrate their behavior.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Not Born Yesterday
Why people are not as gullible as we think
press.princeton.edu
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
They know that other people are also heavily influenced by what they *think* others consider acceptable---the words and actions that others will endorse, or not.
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Antoine Marie PhD @a-marie-sci.bsky.social · Sep 5
The notion of common knowledge illustrates the fact that in the social world, people know that others don't act solely based on the information they personally possess.
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