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🚨New article🚨 out in @AJPS_Editor w @Carsten80554073. We analyze downstream consequences of rising incivility between politicians and find adverse effects on citizens' political trust, satisfaction w democracy, and intentions to comply w policies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

We're hiring four three-year postdocs with backgrounds in political science, psychology, economics, law, or related at @AarhusUni: international.au.dk/about/profile/… Please help us spread the word!

New research that considered interviewer effects in our survey has been published by Sociological Methods & Research (@SageJournals). Researchers from @css_budapest and @Szazadveg 🇭🇺 assessed which #survey questions are more prone to interviewer effects. buff.ly/0KKTxza

Can embarrassment of one's party dampen partisanship and polarization? One would think. In a forthcoming paper at @poqjournal, Taylor Carlson, Steven Webster, and I examine what we call "partisan embarrassment," including looking at the ramifications of these feelings...

Very cool - my argument that citizens rely on evolved cheater detection abilities when evaluating political leaders replicates in China!

🚨 If you didn’t know what party a candidate stands for, could you infer it? New WP with @StavrosPoupakis on voting behaviour and statistical discrimination in low-information settings. A Thread. #polisciresearch

📝New publication 📝 Our academic, @ralucapahontu, and Stavros Poupakis used facial recognition software for a study which examined whether voters associate parliamentarians with a political party based solely on how they look 🤖🖥️ More 👇 kcl.ac.uk/news/do-first-…

Delighted to share that my work is now out @The_JOP journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

politicians tend to think that voters are identity rather than policy oriented, retrospective, egocentric, single-issue-focused, & leader over idea oriented (with comparisons to public theories): cambridge.org/core/journals/…

There is now more and better social science content on BlueSky compared to X. Please join us on a non-political, more civil platform!

The Twitter exodus has started, but maybe it should have started long ago? Our new study in @NatureComms shows that political abuse on X is a global, widespread, and cross-partisan phenomenon nature.com/articles/s4146…

A 5- to 9-seat majority will be very hard for Mike Johnson to control. And it makes Dems the favorites to flip the House in 2026. The average midterm since WWII has resulted in the president's party losing 25 seats:

When politicians' motivation is framed in line with feminine traits—as a public service rather than a struggle for power—women consider themselves just as capable as men of participating in politics link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Don't miss out on this guide on how to run surveys: on creating your own identifying variation: more than 80 pages and an Appendix with examples including social desirability, vignettes, information treatments and more.

Is 😍LOVE😍 blind? No--but❤️can blind us! Being in love messes with automatic, early-stage attentional processes When we're in love---and reminded of it---we simply DON'T EVEN NOTICE 🌶️attractive🌶️ opposite-sex targets (Single people do notice them!) doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp…

Our politics is closely divided & thermostatic. Expect more turns ahead: governing.com/politics/why-p…

Will the US negativity to immigration reverse now? Quite likely! Folks forget immigration backlash works both ways. Pro-immigration politics may be unpopular, but so is unnecessarily cruel anti-immigration politics. "Reverse Backlash" is open-access now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/nf…

Our paper on "Electoral Turnovers" with @benjaminmarx and @vincent_rollet is now forthcoming at @RevEconStudies ! Full thread on what we do and find here: x.com/VinPons/status…

IN NEW ISSUE: A Theory and Test of Pledge-Based Voting: @tboeggild & @Carsten80554073 examine the effects of election pledges on citizens’ vote choice in @PolStudies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @PolStudiesAssoc @SAGECQPolitics #elections #democracy #polsci @uniyorkpolitics