Will Blakey

New in Nature Human Behaviour🚨🚨🚨 Partisan animosity gets in the way of friendships, family life, and healthy democratic functioning. The big question now is "how do we fix this problem?" We reviewed the literature of remedies to this problem, /1 nature.com/articles/s4156…

@CurtisPuryear this is sick - answering big questions

New preprint! We developed new measurement tools to study moralization in ~2B X & Reddit posts and ~5M traditional media texts. Key finding: moralization increased markedly on social media from 2013-2021; more than traditional media; associated with multiple user dynamics 🧵👇

🚨Book!🚨 "Outraged: Why We Fight about Morality and Politics" has an Amazon listing: "A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us"

How many people go to church weekly? Surveys say it's about 1 in 5 Americans. Cell phone tracker data say it's actually closer to 1 in 20 Americans. Fascinating new working paper! nber.org/papers/w32334

🚨Job🚨 Come join the Deepest Beliefs Lab! We're hiring a full-time RA/outreach person. Perfect for a media-savvy graduating senior thinking about grad school. We have a great record of placing folks! bit.ly/3TU7ky2

@danwilliamsphil Very pessimistic view of reason, no? re: your last substack

Good conversation. I think this 👇is right. Things happen, there are trends - not just in mood - and they're often simply mysterious, occurring within unimaginably complex societies driven by countless factors, forces, and interactions, which we do not and cannot understand.

In a new @CognitionJourn paper with @AlexHwin @psywisdom we find that inviting people to explain contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking. 🧵: 1/

The Myopia of Heroism - new substack article on superheroes, the compulsion to save victims, and the moral psychology of collateral damage. With @kurtjgray and @blakey_will moralunderstanding.substack.com/p/the-myopia-o…

We (@kurtjgray and @sampratt99) discuss how our moral minds fixate on certain victims, blinding us to the suffering of others, and how understanding this fact can help us reach a more informed perspective on the evolving situation in Israel and Gaza.

How genuine compassion for some may be driving conflict and suffering in the Middle East open.substack.com/pub/moralunder…

@kurtjgray why do you do this

This is exactly me.

🚨 New study in Journal of Personality 🚨 We found that lonely people experience solitude more positively when they reframe it as a beneficial experience. A thread 🧵 1/8 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Featuring a lot of research from @RachelXHartman's illustrious psychology career!

Why the phrase "never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity" is actually bad for our politics - with @kurtjgray & @sampratt99 moralunderstanding.substack.com/p/charitable-c…

Thanks to @kurtjgray and @NichDiMaggio for letting me chime in with them on their research!

Liberals have "purity culture" too. We talk about a better way for liberals and conservatives to talk about their moral disgust in @aeonmag. Harm-based moral reframing! psyche.co/ideas/its-not-…

@emily_kubin @CvSikorski @kurtjgray @SimonWoelfel Dr Emily!!! 🎉

Doctorate complete!✅ Today was a whirlwind filled with reminders of how many people support me. Thankful for amazing mentorship over the last few years @CvSikorski. Also shout out to @kurtjgray for helping me become the researcher I am today and @SimonWoelfel for being my rock

@kait1016 @espn @BrienRea @Razor5Hole ruthless

@d_f_stone Very excited for this!! Will there be a kindle version?

@michelleshipkov @NSF @ka_lindquist go michelle!!!!

I could not be more amazed, thrilled, and proud to be awarded the @NSF GRFP!!!🥹❤️🎉 Extremely grateful for my advisor, Dr. Kristen Lindquist @ka_lindquist, to my phenomenal community in CASL, and everybody else who kindly read my materials and helped me through the process

@SelterMosby my alma mater :(

CANCEL CULTURE chronicle.com/article/a-flor…