A Bit More Complicated

• Dylan’s Psychology Today piece about the study.

• Link to the study in Archives of Sexual Behavior.

• More of Dylan’s research on infidelity here and here.

• Self-compassion at work: A self-regulation perspective on its beneficial effects for work performance and wellbeing
• Reflecting on one's best possible self as a leader: Implications for professional employees at work
• When leader self-care begets other care: Leader role self-compassion and helping at work.
• Leadership Styles

Remy on Twitter
Janine’s webpage and LinkedIn

Dylan and Manny chat with Dr. Chris Ferguson about the “social media hypothesis” of mental health. Dr. Ferguson is a clinical psychologist and professor at Stetson University. His research speciality is in media technology, and has co-written Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong. We talk about social comparison, suicide, moral panics, the “nocebo effect,” and more. The three of us push back against the popular view that social media use is causing poor mental health, but we remain very open to other viewpoints so feel free to disagree with us!

Dr. Ferguson’s column for Psychology Today, and his piece on the social media hypothesis.

Dylan’s articles on this topic:

• Why I'm Skeptical About the Link Between Social Media and Mental Health

• Facebook Deactivation and the Nocebo Effect 

• Social Media and the Magical Mirror

• Social Media and the Black Cat Fallacy 

Academic Papers & Summaries:

• ⁠Social media use, economic recession and income inequality in relation to trends in youth suicide in high-income countries: a time trends analysis⁠
• ⁠The Welfare Effects of Social Media⁠ 
• ⁠How Adolescents Use Social Media to Cope with Feelings of Loneliness and Anxiety During COVID-19 Lockdown⁠ 
• ⁠Teenagers aren’t as lonely in lockdown if interacting positively online⁠ 

Image by ⁠Pixelkult⁠ from ⁠Pixabay⁠ 

• 2023 anti-trans bills tracker: https://translegislation.com/

• Dr. McLamore’s google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-K4hkmsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

• Disarming transphobia: ‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a popular weapon in the anti-trans arsenal. It is nothing but unscientific bunk’: https://aeon.co/essays/the-real-reason-why-theres-a-global-rise-in-trans-youth

• Two-Spirit Community: https://lgbtqhealth.ca/community/two-spirit.php#:~:text=The%20creation%20of%20the%20term,term%20niizh%20manidoowag%2C%20two%20spirits.

• Caster Semenya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya

• What is Gender Dysphoria in the DSM-5-TR?: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria/what-is-gender-dysphoria

• Bostock vs clayton county: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County#:~:text=Clayton%20County%2C%20590%20U.S.%20___,they%20are%20gay%20or%20transgender.

• Most states allow a “LGBT panic defense”: https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/panic_defense_bans

• Michael Knowles tweeting about overturning Bostock vs clayton county: https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1634987094698520576?lang=en

• Michael Knowles speaking at CPAC about trans people: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pU9y9dcM5NQ

• Trans people are marginalized: https://www.hrc.org/resources/understanding-the-transgender-community

• Gender affirming care reduces mental health issues: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/suicidality-transgender-adults/

• APA supports gender affirmation: https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/division-54-statement-gender-affirmative-care.pdf

• Many organizations support gender affirming care: https://transhealthproject.org/resources/medical-organization-statements/

• Case Report: Induced Lactation in a Transgender Woman: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/trgh.2017.0044 & https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/106/5/e2047/6123860

• Puberty blockers have been used since the 80s for precocious puberty: https://www.ohsu.edu/sites/default/files/2020-12/Gender-Clinic-Puberty-Blockers-Handout.pdf

• Possible outcomes associated with puberty blocker use: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33320999/

• Rate of trans health care usage among kids: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/

• WPath guidelines for trans healthcare: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644

• Doctor training on trans issues are inadequate: 

• doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.09.042

• doi:10.1186/1472-6963-12-110

• doi:10.36834/cmej.36785

• doi:10.1111/medu.13796

• doi:10.1071/PY19102

• doi:10.2147/AMEP.S147183

1. Suicidal ideation in non-depressed individuals: The effects of a chronic, misunderstood illness: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105318785450?journalCode=hpqa

2. Stigmatizing Our Own: Self-Relevant Research (Me-Search) Is Common but Frowned Upon in Clinical Psychological Science: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/21677026221141655

3. Depression presentations, stigma, and mental health literacy: A critical review and YouTube content analysis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735820300313

4. Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17456916211071079?journalCode=ppsa

Additional articles: 

1. Physician burnout: contributors, consequences and solutions: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12752
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/
3. Trump has narcissistic personality disorder, says leading psychoanalyst: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-narcissistic-personality-disorder-mary-trump-john-zinner-bandy-x-lee-a9665856.html

Waldman & Sparr - Rethinking Diversity Strategies: An Application of Paradox and Positive Organization Behavior Theories

Thomason, Opie, Livingston & Sitzmann: “Woke” Diversity Strategies: Science or Sensationalism?

Woke (Dictionary.com)

Stop WOKE act was deemed unconstitutional

Amy Wax says white culture is superior

Chris Rufo's work is misleading and dishonest

Manhattan institute

Discovery institute

Some substantive critiques of diversity trainings: 

‘Diversity Training’ Doesn’t Work. This Might. 

Rethinking Diversity Training 

African American Museum site removes ‘whiteness’ chart after criticism from Trump Jr. and conservative media 

Randomized placebo-controlled RCT on outcomes for diversity training

Adam's Blog: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/

Adam's article on misperceptions about society: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/youre-probably-wrong-about-how-things

Adamn's article on political hatred: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-great-myths-of-political-hatred

Adam's article on peer review: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
People are not as divided as we think: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/27/no-america-is-not-on-the-cusp-of-a-civil-war

Adam's peer reviewed work on misperceptions: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2107260119

Nosek peer review paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1047840X.2012.692215?casa_token=VW9tufGR3c4AAAAA%3AYNjm4dcV7FB1Xe8jyz_IFo9AttZeLTjdqpD-kygJCqPDMSFrG7H-pxdMSlmeFBBxwdJJmWa3jqGT

“Elsevier makes 40% profit”: https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2020/08/kronikk/money-behind-academic-publishing

1. Steven Roberts 2020 paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620927709
2. Steven Roberts pre-print commentary outlining his experience at PoPS: https://psyarxiv.com/xk4yu
3. Hommels critique: https://psyarxiv.com/hvgrm/
4. Stanovich’s commentary: http://keithstanovich.com/Site/Essays_files/Stanovich_Commentary_on_Hommel.pdf
5. Stroebe’s commentary: https://psyarxiv.com/prj36/
6. Jussim’s commentary: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lee-jussim/wp-content/uploads/sites/135/2022/12/Diversity-of-Diversity-Jussim-accepted-revised-double-spaced-2.0.pdf
7. Jussim’s blog: https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/notes-from-a-witch-hunt
8. One of the field experiments showing discrimination in academia: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-15680-001
9. Meta-analysis of hiring discrimination studies: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1706255114
10. Meta-analysis of housing discrimination studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1489223
11. Study showing that URM scholars often have prosocial goals in their research:
12. Manny’s article about the psychological roots of racism: https://www.thepipettepen.com/rejecting-the-roots-of-racist-research/
13. Letter in support of Steven Roberts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O212esQJDYVuiuvN3OQLg7YOD58PbhlmFjfYV3nREU4/mobilebasic
14. Counter-letter: https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/invitation-to-sign-letter-protesting

• https://theconversation.com/parental-alienation-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters-60763
• Parents behaving badly: Gender biases in the perception of parental alienating behaviors:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27504753/
• Gender Differences in the Use of Parental Alienating Behaviors: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10896-019-00097-5
• Parental alienating behaviors: An unacknowledged form of family violence: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30475019/
• Parental alienation: The blossoming of a field of study: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-19773-016
• The relative extent of physical punishment and abuse by mothers and fathers: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-14077-003
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• Dr. Smith’s faculty webpage
• Dr. Smith’s article on Scienceofsocialproblems
• Facts on obesity
• CDC page on obesity

• Erec Smith @ York College
• A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwzpHTdUVuM
• https://www.uraction.org/
• https://twitter.com/Rhetors_of_York
• Works that Dr. Smith mentioned (with push back): Violence in the Work of Composition
• Self-presentation in interracial settings: The competence downshift by White liberals.
• Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

1. Social Psychological Research on Racism and the Importance of Historical Context: Implications for Policy: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09637214221114092
2. When an irresistible prejudice meets immovable politics: Black legal gun ownership undermines racially resentful White Americans’ gun rights advocacy: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-88684-001?doi=1
3. Dr. Trawalter’s article on “psychologizing racism”: https://virginiaequitycenter.org/sites/virginiaequitycenter.org/files/Trawalter%2C%20Bart-Plange%2C%20%26%20Hoffman.pdf
4. Twitter people being stupid about the NFL: https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1593422136101814272
5. Interest in purchasing firearms in the United States at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-22091-001
6. From Backlash to Inclusion for All: Instituting Diversity Efforts to Maximize Benefits Across Group Lines: https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sipr.12040
7. Dr. Higginbotham’s paper on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/xavkog/new_research_shows_racially_resentful_white/

Choose Growth: A Workbook for Transcending Trauma, Fear, and Self-Doubt

Center for the Science of Human Potential

Scott's webpage

@sbkaufman on Twitter and scottbarrykaufman on Instagram

1. In the beginning of the episode we discuss the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policy from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP): https://spsp.org/events/demonstrating-our-commitment-anti-racism-through-programming-and-events
2. We reference a statement written by Jonathan Haidt and Lee Jussim complaining about this policy: https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/mandatory-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
3. Finally, we quickly discuss a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2210412119
4. Dr. Muscatell's TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCvLXtMqiw&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
5. Social status and stress: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57d17e77b8a79bfa4e31641d/t/5e8e35ba40223918dabc35e5/1586378180841/Cundiff%2C+Boylan%2C+Muscatell_2020_Current+Directions.pdf
6. Social status and inflammation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6814496/

• Dr. Enders’s paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35909894/
• The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103121001487
• How many republicans believe that Covid is overblown? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/08/sobering-poll-gops-embrace-coronavirus-misinformation/
• How many liberals think Trump faked his instance of covid? https://assets.ctfassets.net/ms6ec8hcu35u/33moZ9yGGfgeS05fashev5/06a6a735a43fe54dcd606e17c42fcdaf/Equis_Misinformation_Poll_June_2022.pdf
• Misinfo belief about covid predicts health outcomes: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.670485/full
• Anti-democratic behaviors of republicans: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22274429/republicans-anti-democracy-13-charts
• More on Adam Enders: https://www.adamenders.com/

• Episode 2 featuring Dr. Kraus's research
• Manny’s blog article outlining the many forms of racial inequality in the US
• People misperceive racial inequality
• Black-White wealth inequality
• Misperception of the Black-White income gap
• Neighborhoods and perception of inequality
• Perceptions of economic equality
• Interventions to reduce misperceptions
• Misperception of racial progress
• Narratives and DEI
• Teammate touching in the NBA
• Image by Michael Reichelt from Pixabay

1. Pipette Pen statement: http://www.thepipettepen.com/swac-board-statement-on-abortion-and-the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade/
2. Dr. Coleman’s critique of the turnaway study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.905221/full
3. Meta-analysis critique: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3646711/
4. Fergusson’s study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0004867413484597
5. Steinberg’s study that includes Fergusson’s work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3929105/
6. Abortion, regret and decision-rightness: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31941577/
7. Dr. Chelsea Polis tweet: https://twitter.com/cbpolis/status/1539299448064450560

Image by Chen from Pixabay

In this episode, Manny and Dylan speak with Dr. Haider Warraich about one of his recent publications on voting behavior and mortality rates in counties across the USA. His research found that overall, American mortality rate is going down (which is a good thing–we’re living longer!) but that the rate of mortality rate decline is higher in Democratic counties than in Republican counties. Manny suggests that there are policy implications from this research. Dr. Warraich suggests that at least part of this can be explained by norms for health and medicine diverging in different parts of the country. We can clearly see this happening now in terms of the Democratic and Republican voters’ response to COVID-19.

• Manny's article on this topic: https://scienceofsocialproblems.com/2022/06/19/who-should-we-vote-for-to-promote-health-and-well-being/
• Dr. Warraich’s webpage
• Dr. Warraich’s paper in BMJ about politics and death
• The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain
• Leading causes of death in the USA
• IPCC report on climate emissions

Image by Milos Duskic from Pixabay

• The majority of the research about abortion in this episode has been taken from this review of the Turnaway study published by the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. 
• Aidaccess.org helps women get abortion medication.

Dylan's article about Sex Education. 

1. False polarization happens when we exaggerate or overestimate the differences between political groups. This can lead to further polarization and animosity. We don’t want this!
2. Dems vs Republicans, libs vs cons, voters vs party, party vs politicians
3. There is bipartisan support for not just sex education, but across the board, there is bipartisan support for a wide variety of policies and political beliefs. As one article from the American Prospect puts it, “Most Americans are Liberal, even if they don’t know it”

• PBS article: Majority of Americans don’t want Roe overturned
• 538 article using polling: Where Americans Stand On Abortion, In 5 Charts
• Dr. Jozkowski article: Abortion Complexity Scores from 1972 to 2018: A Cross-Sectional Time-Series Analysis Using Data from the General Social Survey
• Dr. Jozkowski research: “Roe v. Wade” versus “Legalized Abortion”: Wording effect influences on survey responses
• 92% of abortions occur in the first trimester
• Information deficit model of science communication review
• Dr. Jozkowski research: Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
• Out-of-Pocket Costs and Insurance Coverage for Abortion in the United States
• Dr .Jozkowski research: If it’s legal, it’s easy: (Mis)perceptions of abortion access across the US
• Dr. Jozkowski research: DO RACE AND PREGNANCY SITUATION AFFECT EMPATHY FOR WOMEN WHO SEEK ABORTIONS IN ARKANSAS? A RANDOMIZED- CONTROLLED VIDEO INTERVENTION
• Benevolent sexism predicts attitudes towards abortion

Find out more about Dr. Jozkowski’s research at @IU_DAMSS_team & @KMJozkowski

In light of some recent political controversies involving how we teach about sex and gender in K-12 schools, Kristen schools us about what sex education actually is, who supports it and why, other ways to teach kids and teenagers about sex outside of the classroom, and cultural differences in attitudes toward sex.

Kristen Mark’s webpage & publications

Sex Education in Amsterdam

Sex Science Happy Hour

SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States)

Guttmacher Institute

Manny and Jake's article on this topic.

Evidence that conservatives think differently than liberals:

• Reducing uncertainty & ambiguity
• Wanting order/closure. 
• Emphasizing purity, sanctity & loyalty 
• Rigid thinking
• Viewing threat & danger
• Upholding status quo

Evidence that extremists on both sides:

• See their beliefs as superior
• Avoid exposure to counter-beliefs
• Have motivated disbelief
• Struggle to find flaws in their sides’ arguments
• View information more favorably when it supports their preferences
• Hate each other
• Align with their tribes more than their own beliefs

Other mentions:

• Feldman, 2013
  • Malka, 2017
  • Norris, 2020
  • Pan & Xu, 2018
  • Saucier, 2000
• Conservatives in the US compared to other countries.
• GOP voters change in the Trump era
• Pew data on Black democrats

1. Dream polling data
2. Dylan’s 2014 paper
3. Dylan’s 2012 paper
4. Social simulation theory paper
5. Dylan’s 2016 paper
6. Demographics of sleep paper
7. Broaden-and-build paper
8. Cartwright, R. D. (2010). The twenty-four hour mind: The role of sleep and dreaming in our emotional lives. Oxford University Press.
9. Hajek, P., & Belcher, M. (1991). Dream of absent-minded transgression: an empirical study of a cognitive withdrawal symptom. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100(4), 487.
10. Iceland's Huge Four-Day Working Week Trial An "Overwhelming Success" (full report here).

Image by Biljana Jovanovic from Pixabay

Dr. Nicolè Ford’s webpage& Twitter

Dr. Ford’s recent article

Dr. Sam Greene’s twitter thread on EU & article

Peer reviewed pub by Kari Roberts on NATO & Crimea invasion

Interview w John Mearsheimer about Putin’s aggression

Article by Stephen Walt for the role of NATO

Article by Seva Gunitsky against the focus on NATO

Peer reviewed pub by Kimberly Marten: NATO’s role is overblown

Reporting on Zelensky forgoing NATO membership to avoid war

Reporting about Azov battalion

Twitter thread: racist language from reporters on Ukrainian war

Article describing why sanctions fail.

Article arguing sanctions may push Russian elites closer to Putin.

Photo of Zelensky and Trump

Dr. Ford’s partially annotated bibliography/reading listfor Russia’s War on Ukraine

Peer reviewed pub by Keating et al. (2019) that Russia wield “Conservative soft power”

News coverage of the Christian Right’s support for Russia here and here

Cover art image by ChiaJo from Pixabay

Dr. Nicolè Ford’s webpage & Twitter

Dr. Ford’s recent article

Dr. Sam Greene’s twitter thread on EU & article

Peer reviewed pub by Kari Roberts on NATO & Crimea invasion

Interview w John Mearsheimer about Putin’s aggression

Article by Stephen Walt for the role of NATO

Article by Seva Gunitsky against the focus on NATO

Peer reviewed pub by Kimberly Marten: NATO’s role is overblown

Reporting on Zelensky forgoing NATO membership to avoid war

Reporting about Azov battalion

Twitter thread: racist language from reporters on Ukrainian war

Article describing why sanctions fail.

Article arguing sanctions may push Russian elites closer to Putin.

Photo of Zelensky and Trump

Dr. Ford’s partially annotated bibliography/reading list for Russia’s War on Ukraine

Peer reviewed pub by Keating et al. (2019) that Russia wield “Conservative soft power”

News coverage of the Christian Right’s support for Russia here and here

Cover art image by ChiaJo from Pixabay

In this episode, Manny and Dylan talk about a recent high-profile tenure decision involving Michael Kraus, a psychologist and Associate Professor at the Yale School of Management. Do Ivy League schools promote from within? Are tenure decisions based on merit, or based on ideological preferences of senior faculty? Then, we highlight some of Kraus’s influential research, and specifically do a deep dive into some papers he’s published on the psychology of inequality.

Also mentioned in the episode: Dylan’s NPR interview about the science of dreams, Dylan’s Heterodox Academy interview about education and learning, and Manny’s Master’s Thesis.

• http://www.michaelwkraus.com/
• Michal Kraus’s publication record
• 2016 review of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tenure Appointment Policy
• 25 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College - Center for College Affordability and Productivity
• Norton, M. I., & Ariely, D. (2011). Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(1), 9–12. 
• Kraus, M. W., & Tan, J. J. (2015). Americans overestimate social class mobility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58, 101-111. 
• Kraus, M. W., Rucker, J. M., & Richeson, J. A. (2017). Americans misperceive racial economic equality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(39), 10324-10331. 
• Tan, J. J., Kraus, M. W., Carpenter, N. C., & Adler, N. E. (2020). The association between objective and subjective socioeconomic status and subjective well-being: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 146(11), 970. 
• Recent op-ed by Kraus in LA Times about perceptions of inequality
• Photo by DS stories from Pexels

[UPDATED AUDIO] In this episode, Manny and Dylan chat with Will Blakey, a post-bac researcher at UNC. Will, along with social psychologist Kurt Gray, recently published a Substack article about our changing perceptions of evil in the world, and a psychological phenomenon known as “concept creep.” Why do we see more villains in the world now compared to 30 years ago?

Notes:

• Will and Kurt’s Substack article.
• Haslam (2016) Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology, Psychological Inquiry, 27:1, 1-17
• Haslam et al. (2021) Concept Creep and Psychiatrization. Frontiers in Sociology.
• Concept Creep example #1 and example #2.
• Gray & Wegner (2012). Morality takes two: Dyadic morality and mind perception.
• Pinker (2011): The Better Angels of Our Nature.
• Ferguson (2009): Pinker's List: Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mortality
• The Progress Paradox