Excited to share that my dissertation will soon be published in JPSP! . We show politically motivated reasoning driven by partisans' preferences & priors, and we try to offer some clear thinking about Bayes and biases in political cognition. Prepint:

Also, consider the demographics of suicide - LGBTQ+ youth, older rural white men, and veterans have higher suicide rates. While LGBTQ+ youth obviously tend to be liberal, the latter groups are generally conservative. Self-report data are probably not telling the whole story.

Psychologists (including my former advisor Pete Ditto) have long been interested in this question. Conservatives’ great self- reported happiness may be reducible to their greater tendency to self-enhance in self-report data. See the Science paper linked in the next post.

RT @waitbutwhy: One of the most egregious examples of paid-for politicians forcibly holding back a wildly beneficial technology to protect….

RT @danwilliamsphil: A recent article in Time Magazine cites me as an example of someone “cultivated” by authoritarian leaders like Trump t….

I share a link to @jessesingal piece on the failures of the anti-Trump movement, which has been one of the better pieces I've read in the aftermath of the election.

I'm dipping my toes into Substack with a short piece on what I see as an underexamined aspect of Trump support: the cohesion between Trump's rhetoric and the Gen X antiestablishment ethos. Special thanks to ChatGPT for helping with Gen X stereotyping.

RT @daviddunning6: Political bias: .Is it due to motivated distortions in how partisans see the world or just honest differences in expecta….

RT @nathanballan: Researchers often complain about peer review. I stopped complaining and wrote a paper w/ @JaredCelniker. More blinded rev….

and I should have drank a "prepint" before trying to tweet 🍻🍻.

May try to pull together a longer thread down to road, but in the meantime please let me know what you think!. Not sure who is active on this site anymore, but may be of interest to @ImHardcory @d_f_stone @Ben_Tappin @DG_Rand @GordPennycook @jayvanbavel @robsica.

For anyone interested in studying intellectual humility in action, please check out and share this opportunity!.

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RT @emmybarr: Very proud of this work with @JaredCelniker and @nathanballan with @AnacJournalof read here about the importance of intellect….

Please check out and share these pieces if you find them useful. And for my fellow Arizonans - you can find and contact your local representatives to let them know what you think about this bill (SB 1477) via the link below:.

And last week in the Arizona Mirror, we (along with fellow Sunnyslope HS alum Matthew Altman-Suchocki) offered ways to prevent grading biases that don't require government intervention into college classrooms.

In an op-ed out today in the Arizona Republic, we discuss why talk of political bias is a distraction if what we care about is grading students fairly.

AZ lawmakers are considering a bill to combat political biases in grading at ASU, UofA, and NAU. As people who've thought a lot about political biases, @nathanballan and I recently wrote about why we think this idea deserves a failing grade.

RT @nathanballan: Arizona’s lawmakers are considering a bill to address “political bias” in grading at state universities. @JaredCelniker a….