G Elliott Morris: "The takeaway from these numbers is that the new war in Iran is very unpopular...Worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014."
Last few weeks teaching has had me thinking a fair bit about age, period, and cohort effects on attitudes so cooked up these two figures out of interest. Sharing if interesting to folks.
😮 this isn't what we meant when us millennials said we were nostalgic for the 2000s
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
New from Chyei Vinluan finds that Asian Am workers (1) exp more discrimination working & (2) felt less in control/able to manage conflict in-person v. remotely; and (3) were more inclusive/equitable in policy support after learning about (1) & (2) 🔓🧵 online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Basically ZERO awards in NSF SBES 🤯
Consistent with what I’ve heard from friends, who say last summer’s submissions haven’t even been reviewed yet…
Two people shake hands in front of a boardroom meeting with a city landscape in the background.
How Joint Review Can Boost Faculty Diversity
A new study finds that Black and Hispanic faculty have much higher chances of promotion or tenure when they are evaluated alongside other candidates. https://bit.ly/4aTV7lq
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
New paper out in Science Advances! I'm really (really) proud of this one. Let's get into it. doi.org/10.1126/scia...
This is what state censorship looks like:
Is SPSP a Healthy Organization?
Yes
Trump has offered effectively zero rationale to the public and the result is confusion and diffidence - 68% say not justified or not sure; only 62% of Rs say justified
Nice!! I had my hand raised too but didn't get called on. Alas.
Let's say I'm a researcher in a politically controversial topic: flu and hepatitis vaccines for children. I study interventions to increase vaccine uptake.
Would I be doing "activist science" given the anti-vaxx political movement & anti-vaxx govt actions here in the US?
(Inspired by #SPSP2026)
I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
Proud to be member of an exclusive club 😎 🌊 #SPSP2026
A graphic showing four speakers and their talk titles: Katie Kroeper presenting "Who Gets to Belong? Belonging Opportunities in College Vary by Race and First-Gen Status," Carlton Fong presenting "Exploring College Students' Costs to Belong," Joel Le Forestier presenting "Belonging According to Whom? The Effects of Distancing from a Stigmatized Identity on Felt and Perceived Belonging," and Kevin Binning presenting "Transforming Social Contexts with Ecological Belonging Interventions."
Going to #spsp2026? Interested in belonging, diversity, or stigma? Come to our symposium, "The Journey to Belonging: Challenges, Costs, and Ways Forward" on Friday at 9:30AM CST. Featuring @katiekroe.bsky.social, @carltonfong.bsky.social, Kevin Binning, and myself.
and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university
New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7)
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Izilda Pereira-Jorge, Sandra Manfreda, Brianna Lopez, Selin Toprakkiran
Heading to Chicago for #SPSP2026? Come check out work from our lab! 🙂
We’re presenting 2 talks & 2 posters on interventions to promote confrontations of sexism, identity safety cues, multiracial identity, and stereotyping about nationality.
I listened to a panel of election officials last week talk about what they are doing to try to restore trust in elections; but it is hard to reverse a dynamic where Trump is calling you crooked. As a result, more are simply leaving the profession. About 40% of 2020 officials were gone by 2024.
🚨 New paper! Think of a place you feel deeply attached to. When you're in that place, do you feel like your life is more meaningful? New work from @ashleykrause.bsky.social suggests you probably do!
Just accepted at Journal of Environmental Psychology, we find places can give our life meaning 🧵
People form beliefs not only as individual agents, but as members of social groups.
Children (4-6 years old) who belonged to a group were more convinced by evidence that supported their ingroup’s belief (and were less convinced by evidence that opposed their ingroup): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
There's a @adambonica.bsky.social blog post for everything
data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-regula...
If you're attending #SPSP, come check out the museum our department started! You can play around with behavioral science demos; eat free food; and maybe leave with some free swag. Register here: forms.gle/pTqBu5Pvaayn... @spspnews.bsky.social
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