Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised.
No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.
Adding pointless administrative burdens to deter legal immigration
I’d like to add something else to this convo: many of people who qualify for permanent residency in the United States would no longer qualify if they went home — because their existing visa is on the basis of refugee status (fear of home) or a job they’d lose.
Like it’s absurd at every level.
Human cooperation is strong among individuals but fragile between groups
Perspective by Paul A. M. Van Lange & Paul K. Bergmann
bit.ly/4eFHMjK
#psychscisky #socialpsych
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
Out in PNAS
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Inequality is not only hard to solve.
Sometimes, it is hard to *see*.
We ask a simple question: Do people notice when members of minority groups are absent?
Across field studies and experiments, the answer was often no.
Rather than submitting papers to (or reviewing for) Frontiers journals, consider these alternatives:
-PLOS
-Collabra
-eLife
-OpenMind
🎉New paper🎉
Led by Sue Cha, we used data from the UK HLS to identify how energy costs disproportionately affect the physical health of those with lower income and lower educational attainment
Important work as we consider energy hardships worldwide
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
I'll be recruiting PhD students (2027 entry) and a postdoc to join the lab at Berkeley.
Interests:
• continuous person perception in interactive contexts
• impression management and its biases
• social perception in digital spaces
Get in touch if there's overlap.
Very excited for this next chapter!