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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 30

Now, I am off on a little pilgrimage - comments are appreciated and will be answered in two weeks ✌️
📄 Full preprint here:
👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

#OnlineHate #MoralJudgment #PoliticalPsychology #Ideology #Preprint

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 30

Efforts to reduce online hate may need to go beyond content moderation.
They could benefit from drawing from interventions against :
▶️ Polarization
▶️ Norm misperceptions
▶️ Intergroup threat & conflict
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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 30

Why?
Differences in perceived dyadic harm.
Liberals and conservatives saw different groups as more vulnerable—or more responsible for the hate.
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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧠 Key finding: Contextual symmetry
Both liberals & conservatives condemned online hate more when their ideologically favored groups were targeted 📊
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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 30

We tested two competing hypotheses in two preregistered experiments:
🇩🇪 N = 903 Germans
🇺🇸 N = 490 Americans
We varied the targets of hate and measured moral condemnation.
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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 30

Online hate—directed at politicians, minorities, etc.—is all too common.
But do people judge it differently depending on who is targeted?
Are conservatives uniquely tolerant of online hate—or are both sides ideologically biased?
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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 30

💥 New preprint out:
"Ideological (A-)Symmetries in Moral Judgments of Online Hate"
with Meltem Yucel, Lindsay Hahn, Tobias Rothmund & myself.

How do liberals & conservatives morally evaluate online hate?

👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 25

📄 Preprint (open access + data):
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

#Ukraine #PoliticalPsychology #PAC @apajournals.bsky.social

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 25

We argue:
🇷🇺 Russian disinfo campaigns likely provide narrative ground for the fear path (e.g., energy insecurity, war escalation).
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Moral-based solidarity may stem from a consensus-driven, rally-'round-the-flag narrative in 🇩🇪 & other supporting countries.

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 25

Predictors of each path:
➡️ Fear-based: Higher conspiracy mentality, East Germany residence
➡️ Moral-based: Higher national ID, left-leaning ideology, low populist party support

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 25

Structural equation modeling (SEM) reveals:
Moral conviction ↑ solidarity
Existential fears ↓ solidarity

Different motivational pathways linked w/ different individual differences & psych. factors.

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 25

What predicts solidarity with Ukraine?
We examined, among others:

Moral conviction-based motivation

Existential fears-based motivation

Conspiracy mentality

Relative deprivation

🧠 + key individual differences

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 25

🇩🇪 In Sep 2022—amid strong support for Ukraine and record-high energy prices—we surveyed a nationally representative German sample (N = 1,210).
How do people navigate political solidarity under pressure?

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jul 25

📢 New publication in Peace and Conflict:
"Solidarity with Ukraine 🇺🇦? How fear- and moral-based motivations explain the psychological tug-of-war in the German public."
By @carlagrosche.bsky.social, Carolin Ziemer, myself (👈co-1st authors) & @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1037/pac0...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · May 19

We have created a free syllabus + teaching materials on the psychology of shared identities

It includes links to papers, lecture slides, chapter summaries, exams, interactive activities, educational videos & podcasts.

Please share with educators:
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-power-...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · May 14

Our new paper analyzes 19 predictors of climate change beliefs & action across 55 countries (N=4635)

4 predictors had consistent effects across all outcomes:
1) environmentalist identity,
2) trust in climate science,
3) internal environmental motivation,
4) the Human Development Index

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · May 8

1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟

Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist??

➡️ Many failed replications. Why?
➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test

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Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

#SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory

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Roderik Rekker @roderikrekker.bsky.social · Apr 30

Job alert! We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers at the intersection of political psychology, science communication, and survey methodology:
-One for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization.
-One for my starting grant on the politicization of science.

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Postdoc Position in Political Psychology: Polarisation, Misperceptions, and the Politicisation of Science (two) | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position in Political Psychology: Polarisation, Misperceptions, and the Politicisation of Science (two) at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · Mar 27

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New book out this July with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social

We present a novel approach to study #NegativeCampaigning & #Incivility 🥊 ⚔️ - focusing on public perceptions and evaluations 😱😆🤢😡

Bonus: low price (~£35) & the cover is 🤘

Pre-orders from July 5: tinyurl.com/7raa9fpf

Cover of the book “The Psychology of Attack Politics
Perceptions, Evaluations and Effects” by Alessandro Nai, Lukas P. Otto, Chiara Vargiu, out in July 2025 (Routledge). The cover features a detail from a medieval painting showing people happily stabbing at each other (from the Codex Manesse, 1304-1340)

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · Mar 8

I wanted to highlight key findings from our study and the replication, and how they extend to 2024.

Now it provides a systematic review of more than 600 scientific studies on the relationship between digitalization and democracy.

So what does science have to say? We actually know quite a bit: 1/5

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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · Feb 18

Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers.

TLDR: facts

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · Feb 18

How do attitudes become moralized? We find that moral conviction spreads between connected attitudes over time. + Those with highly connected belief systems (ideologues) have highly moralized belief systems!

Come see us at the moral psych pre-con poster session @spspnews.bsky.social to learn more😃

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · Feb 6

Congratulations to @drmorganalw.bsky.social who made this project a reality (some real heavy lifting!), and thanks to @markrubin.bsky.social for a terrific summary overview!

Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Feb 6

"I have a dream..."

New work by @drmorganalw.bsky.social, @lindaskitka.bsky.social and colleagues considers how people's imagined utopias and dystopias affect their willingness to engage in social change.

Open access: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

Few quotes...

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Nour Kteily @nourkteily.bsky.social · Jan 26

New open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined”

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined | Annual Reviews

A key debate in the psychology of ideology is whether leftists and rightists are psychologically similar or different. A long-standing view holds that left-wing and right-wing people are meaningfully ...

www.annualreviews.org

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · Jan 13

Still a space left? :)

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