🚨New Paper🚨

Elected officials are increasingly extreme.

E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years.

Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣

I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab!

Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com
Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Congratulations Emma!!! 🥳🥳🥳

If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

Read our @nytimes.com op-ed to see some of the history and research behind this strategy →

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci

in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed**

beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study!

The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...

Best,

The ANES Team

Congratulations to psychologists Rich Petty, Phoebe Ellsworth, BJ Casey, Jamie Pennebaker, & Alison Gopnik on their election to the National Academy of Sciences today!!

yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

Thanks so much Claire 🙏

My lab conducts research on questions at the intersection of identity, politics, language, and group dynamics.

Lab website: www.ashwinia.com

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🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣

Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵

🗓 Application review begins April 30

Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)

Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel!

How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵

Link to shiny app where you can explore all the LIWC Dimensions around this time period: smesquiti.shinyapps.io/blm-shiny-ap...

🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age.

Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...

Please share!

📢 The Historical Psychology Pre-conference at
@spspnews.bsky.social is accepting submissions. 📢

Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers ⬇️

Please submit posters/talks, and please share widely!

🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨

Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments?

Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇

We are a new lab motivated to do work that matters! Our group is diverse, welcoming, curious & fun.

And NYU Psychology is an incredible community of faculty, postdocs, & students with a supportive program!

Come join us! Apply by Dec 1 2023. For more info: rb.gy/ilh226

📣 Come work with us!! Excited to announce that I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle at NYU.

Interested in the psychology of identity, group dynamics, politics, and language...? in exploring new methods? Check out our website: ashwinia.com & please share widely & with interested students

The University of Toronto Department of Psychology (downtown campus) is searching for an Assistant Professor in Personality or Social Psychology. The position is a Tier II Canada Research Chair. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...