Jan Voelkel
@jgvoelkel
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Morality. Leadership. Behavior Change. What is behind the Doors of Stone? 🚪🪨🚪
Philadelphia
Joined May 2019
🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP @ScienceMagazine (🆕 https://t.co/F9yarhq7nx🆕),
@PNASNews (2x), @NatureHumBehav (2x).
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In our new @PNASNews paper, across 21 experiments with 23,000+ participants, we identify a critical distortion that shapes decisions involving tradeoffs: we find that people systematically overweight quantified information in such decisions. Paper: https://t.co/q6bgaJpEPq 🧵
pnas.org
People often rely on numeric metrics to make decisions and form judgments. Numbers can be difficult to process, leading to their underutilization, ...
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🚨New WP!🚨 "Antiracism and its Discontents: The Prevalence and Political Influence of Opposition to Antiracism among White Americans" w/ @RobbWiller We find opposition to antiracism is a widespread ideology profoundly shaping US racial politics 🧵 https://t.co/Q0FNcejZnU
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More than 1 million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016. How did this affect Germans’ exclusionary beliefs & behaviors? New at American Journal of Sociology w/Giesselmann & @tabeanaujoks
https://t.co/xclfHOgQAY
journals.uchicago.edu
In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractional...
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🎉 My dissertation research on who feels they contribute to society is out in JPSP! 🎉 - 📄 paper @APA_Journals ➡️ https://t.co/vDDeLXU0JM - 🚨 @APA press release ➡️ https://t.co/qePptONfIW 🧵👇(1/12)
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What are the keys to fostering collective action for lasting change? Join us on November 13 for a conversation with Marshall Ganz, one of the world's leading authorities on democratic organizing, and @RobbWiller of our @pascl_stanford. Learn more & RSVP: https://t.co/DNVFaCxRKY
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Thrilled my paper with @namalhotra is out at @apsrjournal! Have you always been captivated by the impacts of trade policy on political behavior, applications of causal machine learning, and shocks to soybean prices? Ok well regardless this is still the paper for you! A thread 🧵
Just published on APSR First View: “Policy Impact and Voter Mobilization: Evidence from Farmers’ Trade War Experiences”, by Jake Alton Jares and Neil Malhotra. https://t.co/IpIqXFAvvt
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Credit: Advisory board (2) @LeslieMcCallgc, @profmichelson, @JenanMohajir, Mohammed Naeem, @Mara_PhD, @Zeenat, Jaime Settle, Jesse Shapiro, @BetsySinclair1, @michtorresp, @julie_wronski.
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Credit: Advisory board (1) Mannie Ajayi, @chris_bail, @lcbe, @AdamBerinsky, @BizzaroPolitix, @LongDoan, @CoreyDFields, @EliDFinkel, Matt Gentzkow, @CherylGraeve, @KristinJHansen, @Eszter, Vincent Hutchings, @LucasLJohnson, Cindy Kam, @AdamSethLevine, @namalhotra, @LilyMasonPhD.
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Credit: Developers of treatments (6) @chrisjb1, Cameron Hecht, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, David Yeager, Mac Clapper.
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Credit: Developers of treatments (5) @brandynkeating, Aaron Lyles, Jay Rosato; @emily_kubin, @CurtisPuryear, @kurtjgray; @CharlieDorison, @NourKteily; @smooreberg, @MikeyPasek, @reblitt, @RomanGallardo_, @NourKteily.
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Credit: Developers of treatments (4) Caroline Mehl, Mylien Duong, @mac_cw, @laurenralpert; @katie_clayton14, Michael Tomz; @ProfMattHall, @wzcmarsh, Levi Allen, @jameskirk_14; @Grienstien23, @nick_r_kay, @azimshariff; @DeFilippisEvan, Joshua Greene, @MoralityLab.
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Credit: Developers of treatments (3) @alijaveed_, @kim_doell, @steverathje2, @jayvanbavel; @JamesMartherus; Otto Simonsson; Peter Felsman, Colleen Seifert; @ba_lyons; @d_f_stone, @introvertdev, @mmfranz, @JuliaMinson; @Leesplez, @profcikara.
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Credit: Developers of treatments (2) @JuliaMinson, Hanne Collins, @CharlieDorison, Molly Moore; @HHBlunden, Kara Luo; @luiza_a_santos, @zakijam; @m_levendusky; @nathanballan, @JaredCelniker, @MertcanGungor_, @jmkelly91, @shiri_spitz.
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Credit: Developers of treatments (1) @AliaBraley, @GabeLenz, @_dval_, @hosinux, @alex_pentland; @ActiVoteUS, Victor Allis, @erezyoeli, Sara Gifford; @malkako, Palma Strand, Gina Baleria, Maya Fiorella; Aaron Kay @JohnJost1, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto.
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Credit: Core team Many, many thanks to my amazing collaborators on this project: co-leaders Nick Stagnaro, and @jchu1225; Sophia Pink, @jsmernyk, Chrystal Redekopp, @ghezae_isaias; PIs: Jamie Druckman, @DG_Rand, and especially @RobbWiller.
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How can you run your own megastudy? Feel free to build on: (i) Our paper: “How to Design and Conduct a Megastudy” ( https://t.co/0weiYWHhgn ). (ii) Our website ( https://t.co/UWf4DW3bxO). (iii) Our handbook ( https://t.co/RIAc5zR1wa ).
strengtheningdemocracychallenge.org
Strengthening American democracy through collaboration, cooperation, and crowdsourcing.
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Could these insights be used to treat politicians, too? Yes. We find that correcting exaggerated stereotypes about how undemocratic outpartisans are moderates state legislators' support for undemocratic practices 👉 https://t.co/7bRjIW1nii , led by Jamie Druckman & @suji.
pnas.org
There is substantial concern about democratic backsliding in the United States. Evidence includes notably high levels of animosity toward out-parti...
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Are there promising examples of applications of these findings? Yes! (i) The Disagree Better Campaign ( https://t.co/Ek2cW5IxIZ). (ii) The Prosocial Ranking Challenge ( https://t.co/6iIP7pOIEV). (iii) The recipients of our field test grant program ( https://t.co/G4jbpBujg1).
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