I study the way inequality changes people. Author of Good Reasonable People and The Broken Ladder
Kentuckian in Carolina
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Exciting news: My new book Good Reasonable People will be released Oct 1! A look at why we are divided, why it's not the reasons we see in news discourse, and how we can stay connected with loved ones even as we fight for what we believe in. Pre-order here
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🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨
Reasoning about people reduces class differences in tests of cognitive aptitude (with @NFendinger and @andreagdittmann)
osf.io/preprints/osf/q97e6_v…
We've leveled-up this project with two new experiments and an analysis of testing data from 46 countries.
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In Good Reasonable People, published before the election, I argued that in a country diversifying this fast, Republicans will have to choose between maintaining power or maintaining democracy. This is what their choice looks like.
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Excited to see Good Reasonable People on the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024!
Source: The New Yorker search.app/Wg9QqcVPrPvaS8v68
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Only about 15% of Ameicans have a coherent political ideology. Most of us are just winging it, says @bkeithpayne. #politics #psychology #Election2024 bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub…
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If you are struggling to understand how people could have possibly voted how they voted, here is my take in the Next Big Idea Club.
I Vote, Therefore I Am: The Surprising Psychology of Political Division bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub…
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"I wrote this book, in part, because I couldn't stop getting into fights with family members over politics."
@bkeithpayne explains the maddening experience of knowing that people you love are decent people yet support politics you abhor in his new book:
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Essential reading for anyone who wants to reach across the political divide in America or anywhere else.
Exciting news: My new book Good Reasonable People will be released Oct 1! A look at why we are divided, why it's not the reasons we see in news discourse, and how we can stay connected with loved ones even as we fight for what we believe in. Pre-order here
penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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@nytimesbooks puts TRIBAL by @michaelmorris and GOOD REASONABLE PEOPLE by @bkeithpayne in conversation in this amazing piece:
nytimes.com/2024/10/16/books…
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Great dive into Good Reasonable People in the New Yorker today!
There’s no avoiding the fact that many ordinary people hold political opinions that you find not just disagreeable but disturbing. Where do those opinions come from? According to a new book, America’s political derangement has psychological roots. nyer.cm/rlOKG5q
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This just seems silly. I imagine people who ice skate more are more likely to die from ice skating injuries but that doesn’t mean ice skating is dangerous. (From NY Times)
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🏯🕌🏦 New paper in @PNASNews: Historical Large Language Models (HLLMs) can be a tool in behavioral science for collecting data from *past societies* by simulating responses from “participants”—namely, the dead—through history.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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I'm in the middle of this audiobook, and loving it. Highly recommended!
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An important episode of @APA's Speaking of Psychology podcast with @bkeithpayne, demystifying the mentality of political divisions. Is it normal that as citizens of the 21st century, we fight each other and lose friends over the differences of opinion?
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It’s book release day!
GOOD REASONABLE PEOPLE is on sale today! 🇺🇸 An "eye-opening" (@AdamMGrant) examination of how ordinary people think about politics and our current social divide by leading social scientist @bkeithpayne, start reading GOOD REASONABLE PEOPLE now 👉 bit.ly/3B9Qgi7
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In a time of division and polarization, @bkeithpayne's GOOD REASONABLE PEOPLE offers "a framework for understanding—and for being understood by—people who see the world differently from us." (@margotshetterly) 🇺🇸✨
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3B9Qgi7
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HENRY V by @dgjones and GOOD REASONABLE PEOPLE by @bkeithpayne are included in @NextBigIdeaClub's list of the "most promising, must-read nonfiction titles" to read this October! 💡🍁 nextbigideaclub.com/magazine…
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Actionable advice for managers, parents, and educators based on science by David Yeager!
Order here: amzn.to/4d8VHLD
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🚨 Goodreads Giveaway Alert 🚨 Enter to win GOOD REASONABLE PEOPLE by @bkeithpayne 👉 bit.ly/4e6gfGf
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