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Isaias Ghezae

@isaiasghezae.bsky.social

PhD student at Harvard interested in intergroup conflict and political psychology https://isaiasghezae.com

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

National identity reconfigures brain responses from “them” to “us” Briefly priming national versus ethnic identity increases ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation for ethnic out-group faces, a pattern typically reserved for self and in-group processing. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

National identity reconfigures brain responses from “them” to “us” | PNAS

How the human brain flexibly adapts social perception by recategorizing out-group (them) to in-group (us) remains unclear. Using functional MRI in ...

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Isaias Ghezae@isaiasghezae.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨New Working Paper!🚨 How do Americans mentally map political coalitions? We often talk as if U.S. politics is just two sorted camps. But when people think about which groups go with which, the picture is more complicated. 🧵👇

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G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 4mo ago

New deep dive piece on 2 new big studies on ideology and moderation, including a data exclusive from Blue Rose Research. Short version: Only 8% of "moderates" say they want a moderate party. And when candidates do move to the middle, fx are often negative www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-07...

Strength In Numbers

Independent, data-driven analysis of politics, public opinion polls, and elections. From author, journalist, and pollster G. Elliott Morris. Click to read Strength In Numbers, by G. Elliott Morris, a…

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Ashwini Ashokkumar@ashwinia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨 Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). Review begins April 10 Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive... Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Research Assistant II

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Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From me and @adambonica.bsky.social: the fact that so many voters trusted Trump over the Democratic Party on prices really shows the limits of swing voters’ understanding of public policy www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Or take the case of economic policy. The modern Republican Party's economic agenda ranks among the least popular in the history of polling. By contrast, the Biden administration and Democratic Congress of 2021-2023 was more economically populist, expansionary, and focused on manufacturing jobs than any U.S. regime in half a century. That is, of course, a low bar: the economy certainly wasn't transformed. But it should give us pause that the relationship between the economy and public sentiment fundamentally changed in the 2020s, with wages becong less important and price levels much more central. It should also give us pause that many voters trusted Trump on inflation in 2024 despite a policy agenda that would very clearly raise prices. We see the labor movement and economic populism as necessary but far from sufficient in this new environment.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I joked this week that Trump’s presidency has proceeded as if he hired a crack team of consultants to come up with ways to make prices go up. Increasingly feels like the Israeli government is trying its hardest to drive its approval ratings in the US as low as possible.

David Broockman@dbroockman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New short paper w @jkalla.bsky.social ! Candidates gain from moderation, but less than many theories expect. Many conclude voters must not care about issues. This is wrong. Small *average* effects mask large effects on specific issues & are consistent with widespread issue-based voting 🧵

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