Just accepted in @apsrjournal with @ylelkes & Malka "Rethinking the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences" ( psyarxiv.com/a3jf5/). We show in panel studies and experiments that political preferences also affect personality. Thread 👇(1/15) Research on personality and political preferences -including our own work - generally implicitly or explicitly assumes unidirectional causal influence of the former on the latter. Yet, there is also recent work has questioned this assumption

Finally out in the latest @The_JOP issue our paper (with @GijsSchumacher and @mrooduijn) where show that low agreeable people are suceptible to the anti-establishment message of populists. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71… (preprint: osf.io/uncfk/) The anti-establishment message of populists accuses the political elite of incompetence, insubordination& profiteering at expense of the common people. We argue that this message is effective for low agreeable people -- who are egoistic, distrusting towards others & uncooperative

We (@gijschumacher, @claire_gothreau & @VinArceneaux) conducted a direct replication of a paper published in Science. This week the paper got desk-rejected by @sciencemagazine. To us this illustrates the need for Open Science reforms. A thread (1/11): In 2008 Oxley et al. published a paper in @sciencemagazine (here: tinyurl.com/y94b6f3b) showing that conservatives have stronger physiological responses to threat than liberals (N=46 in Nebraska).

Today @VinArceneaux & I posted our new pre-analysis plan @OSFramework that introduces our take on how & when physiological threat sensitivity is associated with social conservatism. Here some thoughts on what we do & what we learned from writing the pre-analysis plan (1/8) In our recent working paper (N=635 in US and NL) we failed to find evidence for the positive association between threat sensitivity (physiological measures) and social conservatism documented in Science science.sciencemag.org/content/321/58… and provided in path b below