RIP_Communication
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@RIP_Comm
The greatest trick Communication ever pulled was convincing the world it doesn't exist.
C) OK, so social media may be damaging Gen Z, but what is the evidence that it is damaging democratic institutions and norms? This is a new doc, just launched. Preponderance of evidence points to harm. With @chris_bail: tinyurl.com/PoliticalDysfu…
Massive review of interventions designed to increase donations w/ somber conclusions: - most effect sizes are small (mean r = .08) - some evidence for publication bias - there are "compelling reasons to doubt generalisability" beyond the lab psyarxiv.com/yxmva/
Its like a Buzzfeed quiz, but with real science: two papers show the movies and books you like can be used to accurately predict Big 5 personality traits. Take a look at the lists! (& some examples in the thread) Movie paper: psyarxiv.com/wsdu8/download… Books: arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape…
On @NPRNewsNow this morning, the NIH is surprised how their public messaging around the vaccines may contribute to vaccine hesitancy, and believes they should NOW invest in communication/behavioral research to understand why as a special initiative …two years into the pandemic.
Thrilled to share our paper, out today in @nature, which proposes a new paradigm for the analysis of online platforms and applies it to study political polarization over the complete history of Reddit w/ @isaacwaller Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵1/n
Thing you probably knew about Zoom being hard gets empirical support! Cool new paper in JEP:G zeroes in on how Zoom disrupts the turn-taking fundamental to conversation... (likely via transmission delays➡️neural oscillators helping us time turn-taking) psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-02…
Yesterday I was on @CNN @ReliableSources discussing how a person's identity and information universe both shape beliefs with @brianstelter We discussed shared reality, conspiracy theories, & cult psychology. You can watch the full video clip here: cnn.com/videos/busines…
