Associate prof @NorthwesternU @KelloggSchool studying emotion, morality, social networks, AI, psych of tech. #firstgen college graduate
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✨New paper out @SpringerNature✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we custom-built. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional content + does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵
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✨New paper out @SpringerNature✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we custom-built. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional content + does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵
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Link to paper:
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Shoot me an email if you need help accessing
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William J. Brady retweeted
Most participants who had a 20-minute discussion with AI chatbots about health, careers or relationships followed its advice.
However, 2-3 weeks later, participants receiving advice from AI showed no sustained well-being.
These findings reveal that LLMs exert substantial influence over real-world personal decisions without delivering measurable psychological benefits.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15352
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William J. Brady retweeted
We’re so excited that you’ll be joining us this fall! 🔥🎉
I am happy to share two pieces of news:
For the 2026-2027 academic year. I will join the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement @KelloggSchool as a postdoc working with @EliJFinkel and Nour Kteily.
Then, in Fall 2027, I will join @LSEGovernment as an Assistant Professor.
I am incredibly excited about both positions and grateful to friends, family, mentors and co-authors who have helped me along the way.
I am excited to be doing more work on strategic voting, democratic norms, field experiments and many other topics. So please reach out if you are Evanston or London (or anywhere else I suppose).
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