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Social/Personality Psychology, Michigan State University | ♥ Burritos+Vinyl+ | if there aren’t typos, I didn’t write it | also at @mjb@sciences.social
Jul 6, 2023 14 tweets 5 min read
New accepted paper with Shree Vallabha and @FelicityMTurner!

We find that the onset of COVID-19 made people feel stressed and threatened, but did not cause much attitude change

Full text: https://t.co/T1ihCgXVTFosf.io/ahtk6
We used a panel study and repeated cross-sectional study to see how attitudes changed at COVID-19 swept over the USA in March 2020
Oct 22, 2022 24 tweets 9 min read
How should we study belief systems?

This is a question I've been working on the last few years. The last of a trilogy of papers is now officially published.

1: osf.io/q5y9c
2: osf.io/4yg7t
3: osf.io/bxd7m So what is a belief system? We suggest that its the relationships between a variety of political attitudes and identities. Those relationships can be large, small, or non-existent, or positive or negative.

You can think about belief systems as a network with attitudes as nodes Image
Apr 20, 2022 13 tweets 4 min read
As with Jeff, not trying to start a fight, but here is a thread of some critiques of MFT

Including them does not imply my endorsement/vetting, just putting things in one place. Nor is this a complete list (feel free to add or rebut if you want!) Perhaps there are more moral foundations?

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Jan 5, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Interesting idea. I'm not sure it's robust. Here is data from many non-Western countries, including China. The same result does not consistently emerge (see p 21 at the link) Here is a subset. For China, slope for income is positve, as is social class. Vietnam is the reverse of the PSPB paper. Ghana is consistent with the PSPB paper.
Dec 16, 2019 16 tweets 7 min read
.@jarretcrawford & I wrote 3 reviews describing our joint research on ideology & prejudice. Summary follows!

Long (overview): osf.io/t7vpw/
Short (methods ): osf.io/2kcdf/
Short (disagreement?): osf.io/bnga2/

#SocSciResearch We are interested in when and why people with different belief systems express prejudice and intolerance towards other groups.
Jun 4, 2019 9 tweets 3 min read
New Review-ish Paper w/ @jarretcrawford

Basic idea: If we study prejudice against just a few target groups we will miss out on interesting patterns

osf.io/2kcdf/ For example, some things might predict greater prejudice towards a lot of groups, whereas other things might predict prejudice towards just some groups
Mar 21, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
[Thread] New paper by & with @jarretcrawford finds that the personality correlates of generalized prejudice different depending on the operationalization.

Paper: osf.io/zce8v/

#SocSciResearch The traditional, and narrower operationalization, consistently finds (in our work and previously) that low Agreeableness and low Openness is associated with generalized prejudice.