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Will Blakey

@blakey_will

stanford psyc PhD // former post-bacc at UNC // interested in morality & political polarization // Big fan of reading books & the outdoors

Bay Area, CA Katılım Şubat 2013
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Will Blakey
Will Blakey@blakey_will·
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…
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Curtis Puryear
Curtis Puryear@CurtisPuryear·
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 🧵👇
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Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray@kurtjgray·
🚨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"
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John B. Holbein
John B. Holbein@JohnHolbein1·
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
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Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray@kurtjgray·
🚨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
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Abdo Elnakouri
Abdo Elnakouri@AbdoElnakouri·
In a new @CognitionJourn paper with @AlexHwin @psywisdom we find that inviting people to explain contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking. 🧵: 1/
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Will Blakey@blakey_will·
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.
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Sam Pratt
Sam Pratt@sampratt99·
🚨 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…
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Will Blakey@blakey_will·
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-…
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Emily Kubin
Emily Kubin@emily_kubin·
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
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Will Blakey@blakey_will·
@d_f_stone Very excited for this!! Will there be a kindle version?
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Michelle Shipkova (she/her)
Michelle Shipkova (she/her)@michelleshipkov·
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
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