Thanks to @AamirNSohail for his presentation on how social influence shapes learning in groups, and how it relates to social anxiety and psychopathic traits!

Thanks to @herbschang for sharing his insightful work on how AI can influence politics under geopolitical threat in the lab last week!

🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoctoral fellow for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @StanfordHAI Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, and related fields. Please share widely! Position + how to apply: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospe…

It was a pleasure having Sophia Pink back at PASCL. Her field experiment on the benefits of starting multiple goals at once vs. one at a time was ambitious, informative, and widely applicable. Thank you, Sophia!!!

Americans favor predistributive policies over redistributive policies. Our new paper is now out in PNAS 🚨 Paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26… We have also written a summary of the article for Kudos, a brief report on our brief report: link.growkudos.com/1eb04zt75…

🚨Published in @Nature: We show how AI can simulate human behavior to predict experimental results as accurately as experts Our work has many implications for AI safety. For example, simulators can be used to aid harmful manipulation, and current safeguards do not prevent this🧵

🚨🚨New paper in @Nature with @AshuAshok, @lukebeehewitt & @ghezae_isaias 🚨🚨 Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 preregistered studies, we find strong correspondence (r=.85) between LLM-predicted and observed effects. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-1… 🧵

Thanks to @JonasP_Schoene for sharing his work on how people judge the immorality of organizations!

Americans say they want less inequality. Why don’t they support policies to reduce it? The answer depends on which policies you ask about. New paper: across 31 nationally representative survey waves (N=384,248) and a preregistered experiment (N=1,009), Americans favor PREdistributive over REdistributive policies🧵 osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/gk…

Thanks to @david_broska for sharing his new methods for simulating social science experiments! Stay tuned for more in the coming months👀

New preprint! In 5 studies (3k+ users / 12k+ convs, with a 3-wk longitudinal study), we find that sycophantic AI influences how people view those closest to them. It affects how effortful human interaction seems, how satisfying it is, & who people want to turn to for advice 🧵

Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

Can AI voter guides help voters decide while remaining accurate, nonpartisan, and trustworthy? Grateful to @stanfordimpact for their grant supporting our next work on this, building on work led by @jsmernyk & @JonneKamphorst:

Congrats to our own @RobbWiller on being awarded the 2026 #GuggenheimFellowship for his outstanding and innovative work in #Sociology! Read more about the @GuggFellows: gf.org/stories/announcing-th…

Very grateful to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. I’ve been so lucky to have such incredible students, collaborators, and mentors whose coattails I’ve hitched myself to for many years. Above all, I feel very lucky that I get to work on topics I care deeply about with collaborators who are also my friends.✊❤️#guggfellows2026

Thanks @AustinVanLoon for sharing your creative work on how Americans' perceptions of the US influence their immigration policy attitudes!

@Nature has published three groundbreaking papers on reproducibility, analytical robustness, and replicability across the social sciences. Sincere thanks are due to the many folks who contributed to these projects. It’s painstaking work, and a great service to social science.

Thanks @ryancbriggs for sharing his research on the striking underrepresentation of null results in the political science literature!

Thank you to @Victor_Y_Wu for sharing his work on how psychological biases can be harnessed to bolster support for climate policy!

Chicago-bound for #SPSP2026? Quick plug to the Politics & Social Change Lab affiliates presenting talks & posters on perceived coalitions, issue advocacy, media framing, inequality, social media & well-being, and other topics. Very proud of them and their work! 😀 Details below 👇