Professor of psychology and education, Stanford University; author, BELONGING: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
Stanford, CA
Joined December 2020
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It was a delight to present on Belonging to Soetie Generale, a European leader in financial services for over 150 year
We're hiring a research associate for a project on the psychology & neuroscience of open-mindedness in politics. Ideal for someone research-oriented with skills in Python/MATLAB. Motivated, curious minds encouraged to apply!
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The partisan brain effect is extremely robust!
The “concordance-over-truth” bias persisted across education levels, analytic reasoning ability, and partisan groups, with a stronger effect among Trump supporters.
Extreme Trump attitudes are the strongest predictor:
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NEW EPISODE OUT!
@anjie_cao chats with @michaelschwalbe and @GeoffCohen on their most recent work on our biases in consuming political news!
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@michaelschwalbe and I wrote a timely op-ed about our appetite for politically convenient lies and our aversion to inconvenient truths. The issue isn’t just the lies; it’s our willingness to believe them.
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In research led by @michaelschwalbe of our lab, partisan bias trumped truth in people’s belief and sharing of real + fake news— an effect that held across ideology, education level, and cognitive ability. Critical thinking begins with being critical of our own minds.
Fascinating (and frightening) work by @michaelschwalbe et al: Resistance to true news that didn’t align w political beliefs was greater than susceptibility to fake news that did. This means it may be harder to spread truth in today’s media climate than we thought..
I’m learning a lot from Dr. Bettina Love’s book, Punished for Dreaming. Love’s book shows how many school reforms have undermined the opportunity, potential, and belonging of millions of Black children. bettinalove.com/books/
A new meta-analysis led by Xingyu Li finds that effect size, not sample size (N), predicts the replicability in psychological science.
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The N-heuristic may incentivize large, fast, non-behavioral online studies, and deter research on underrepresented
populations, immersive in-person studies, group dynamics, and long-term change.
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For many this election season is already filled with a combination of dread and dismay, but the second season of Breaking Bread may calm some nerves in an anxiety ridden environment by mixing food and politics
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Grateful to Greater Good Science Center for their good work and this interview about the science of belonging. greatergood.berkeley.edu/art…
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Using Twitter may satisfy the need to belong as junk food satisfies hunger, leaving you feeling worse and disgusted.
Twitter use is related to decreases in well-being + increases in sense of belonging, polarization, outrage, and boredom.
Doomscrolling was related to the drop in well-being, using it for entertainment was linked to the increase in polarization: nature.com/articles/s44271-0…
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#NewVoices23 Spotlight ⭐️ Meet Rainier Harris, a writer & audio-maker from NYC! He has work published in The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Business Insider, and more. He has reported for NPR's WNYC and their national afternoon show, Here & Now.
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Group learning got you puzzled? Try jigsaw! 🧩
Social psychologist @GeoffCohen explains the benefits:
a refreshing and inspirational approach to campus disagreement. “Disagreement does not mean erasure of the other side.” youtu.be/QcBCmpqn708?feature…
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The trouble with inaptly named "inclusionary" zoning is that it assumes a permanent housing crisis. The effective tax means that rents can never fall below a certain threshold—once market rates aren't high enough to cross-subsidize, all production stops.
This is a potentially disturbing result about the possible effects of upzoning with additional requirements in Seattle papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
delighted and excited to be a part of this!
Looking forward to the upcoming Positive Links Speaker Series on Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides with Geoffrey Cohen on October 30th. Registration is free; link here:
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