Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social
Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality
Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social
http://www.alessandro-nai.com
Alessandro Nai
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Taking a stand ✋️🧍
These authors 🧵 use survey data across 9 countries to assess the downstreams consequences of #AffectivePolarization & intervene to successfully reduce participants #AffectivePolarization in 6 of the 9, improving interpersonal relations and social norms
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screams in GAL-TAN
gonna post 100 likely permutations of the World Cup knockout bracket on bsky and then delete all the ones that were wrong after the final and then claim I predicted everything before the tournament to demonstrate p-hacking for my classes next semester
📝Why do Americans avoid cross-partisan dating?
New paper w/ Shannon Taflinger in ESR
We test 3 mechanisms:
•perceived similarity in values & lifestyle
•character judgments
•fear of social disapproval
➡️All matter, similarity leads
And: Dem women penalize out-partisans most
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Had a very similar experience a few years ago with Frontiers in Pol Sci:
- reviewers automatically invited, incl over Xmas, in mass
- very aggressive policy of fast turnaround - unrealistic & damaging quality
- absurd amount of reminders
- quantity over quality mindset
I now refuse to review for F
Federer and Nadal being emotional at Federer’s farewell event, 2022
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Cool new research using in-depth focus groups to investigate perceived consequences, origins, and signals of #misinformation #threats
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The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies
Hi #ica26. We have an open 4.5 yr Postdoc position @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Berlin in PolComm/Comp Social Scienes on opinion dynamics in climate topics.
Hit me up if you want a to talk about it in CT or send to colleagues who might be interested.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
New article in @pnas.org:
We all know ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022. 🧵⬇️
European Journal of Political Research
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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
