Benjamin Ruisch

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periodically bearded Ass’t Prof of Psychology, University of Kent | political psychology, polarization, ideology, boot fairs, birds, open science, folk art | now leading next-gen-ideas.com

Our new paper!

Scholars & pundits on both the right and left have long debated whether Trump reshaped Americans’ prejudices. Finally, there’s a clear answer: We assess the evidence & find that Trump’s presidency inflamed prejudice among his supporters. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661322003308

Check it out! We created a mock-up of the interactive dashboard we’ll send to EVERY research group that submits a proposal to our upcoming special issue. Here you can explore your results, read the reviews, & even see AI artwork based on your ideas: https://www.psychvault.org/next-gen-ideas/dashboard/

P.S. There's still time to submit!

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Still ~3 days left to contribute to this groundbreaking special issue of Political Psychology! It only takes 150 words to join in the fun.

All ideas, all methods, all researchers welcome!

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A new meta-analysis provides more decisive evidence that terrorism makes citizens more politically conservative. Effects are small—but then again, so are the margins of victory in many elections

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12692?campaign=woletoc

Impulsivity—acting without regard for consequences—is often maligned. But new work, bridging disciplines from biology to management, shows being impulsive is actually adaptive in certain environments

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-35777-003

Quirky new finding: Belief in the paranormal is associated with worse sleep quality. Perhaps paranormal beliefs stem from chronic sleep deprivation? Or ghosts simply keep us awake at night? Evidence is tentative, but an interesting association nonetheless https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32749/
The association between paranormal beliefs and sleep variables - Goldsmiths Research Online

New research shows that giving better healthcare to low-income mothers has cascading effects across generations—improving health outcomes not only for them and their children, but for their grandchildren too!

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20210937

Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health - American Economic Association

Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health by Chloe N. East, Sarah Miller, Marianne Page and Laura R. Wherry. Published in volume 113, issue 1, pages 98-135 of American Economic Review, January 2023, Abstract: We...

Cool new paper on moral reframing from Luttrell & Trentadue. Among the findings: Conservatives are NOT more susceptible to loyalty-purity framed messages.

More evidence that ideological differences in moral foundations may not be as robust or as general as we thought

http://lab.andyluttrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/In-Press-Luttrell-Trentadue-COVID-Moral-Reframing.pdf

Only 9 days left to prep your mini-proposals for our upcoming special issue of Political Psychology. BUT since it only takes 150 words to contribute, that’s a mere 16.67 words per day—plenty of time!

All researchers, all ideas, all methods welcome — if in doubt, just submit! https://www.next-gen-ideas.com

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Our new paper in PSPB! Whether a person is (im)moral is among the most consequential judgments we make. But when someone misbehaves, what do we expect next? Here, we find that a person who commits even a single bad act is expected to follow a slippery slope of ever-worse behavior https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672221143022