Amanda Austin

The #1 factor in dating is political alignment. It’s more important than any personality factor, height, weight, mental health, etc

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New pub in @cps_journal, with @PepperCulpepper, Ryan Shandler, @Taeku_Lee! We find that media narratives about systemic unfairness in the economy increase attitudes in favor of redistribution. This holds in AU, FR, DE, CH, and the UK. (1/5) doi.org/10.1177/001041…

Teaching or taking stats? Here's a new paper & app for you: "Statistical Intuition Without Coding (or Teachers)" with @NatLou21, @ZagrebMukerjee, & Dominic Skinnion. See gking.harvard.edu/2k1

Jeronimo Cortina and Samantha Chapa (@SamanthaChapa7) have published an opinion article in the @HoustonChron on Greg Abbott's latest border policies. houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outloo…

Today's the day! The culmination of a 14-year odyssey: Political Rumors is out and available. a.co/d/djUlyno

Political values are often considered stable, and thus stabilizing, features of deliberative democracy. But in a new @PSRMJournal note, I show affective polarization is associated with changes in Americans' political values (2016-2020). Open-access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Over 100 governments in low- and middle-income countries have introduced anti-poverty cash transfer programs over the last 3 decades In new research, we examined the effects of these initiatives on the ultimate health outcome — mortality Published today in @Nature /1

10 Excellent Empirical Papers on Economic Inequality 1) Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998 - @PikettyLeMonde + Saez This terrific paper details income inequality over the 20th century, positioning WW2 as a key shock in reducing inequality academic.oup.com/qje/article-ab…

"Individual levels of egalitarianism…reflect ongoing interactions between evolved psychological architecture, systematic individual differences & the affordances and constraints of one’s immediate & macro-structural environment" 👏👏👏 @jsskeffington doi.org/10.1016/j.cops…

Corruption causes people to trust others less - our evidence from a lab experiment is finally published in AJPS! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

!NEW REPORT!: Russia has held more than 6,000 children from Ukraine in 43+ camps and other facilities for systematic re-education, and in some cases foster/adoption from Black Sea to Russia’s Far East finds @HRL_YaleSPH in @ObserveConflict @StateCSO childrencamps.conflictobservatory.org

A deep dive on @UHouston's "Deliberation Testbed" + #KetteringFoundation's/@NIForums' "Common Ground for Action" platform. Cc: @RyanKennedy7; @MichaelNeblo; @MyriamShiran; @karadillard. bit.ly/3Ic8UHb

How democratic are ordinary citizens in Western democracies? Academic research has extensively studied this question recently. This 🧵summarizes some of the most important findings from the past 10 years in 22 short tweets 👇🏾

Best books on Economic Inequality. 1) Inequality - Tony Atkinson. Absolutely THE book on inequality and what can be done about it. Atkinson was a giant in the profession and this book reflects this, the length-insights ratio of this book is amazing.

"Purity is the worst concept in moral psychology" -A famous moral psychologist. We did a (now published) open-access review to test whether this is true. Turns out it is. Purity a *very* messy concept. This really matters for modern moral psychology. 🧵

How has global profit shifting to tax havens evolved from 1975-2019?💸 Me & @gabriel_zucman investigate this in a new WP. go.unu.edu/W1Zcf Key finding: profit shifting has increased relentlessly. In 2019, nearly $1Tn. was shifted to havens. (1/9)👇

"Societies change their minds faster than people do: Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion" economist.com/graphic-detail…

Meet @bjrottinghaus and @jcortina IN PERSON at a special LIVE broadcast of #PartyPoliticsPod this Friday, Nov. 4, 7:30pm at @posthtx! Go vote! houstonpublicmedia.org/shows/party-po…

🚨New working paper 🚨 We found that people (N = 511) across the political spectrum think that divisive content, misinformation, and moral outrage all go “viral” on social media – but do not think that this type of content *should* go viral. psyarxiv.com/gmun4/