Assistant professor at @bengurionu psych. Interested in language, political psych, misinfo and social media. @almogsi.bsky.social
Joined August 2012
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Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by the twitterless(?) Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R ds4psych.com
Can't believe it's finally out! Kudos Inon and team!
๐จThrilled to share our new study in Cerebral Cortex๐จ: "The Future, Before, and After" The ability to imagine things we havenโt done before is one of the hallmarks of human cognition. How do we do it?
academic.oup.com/cercor/artiโฆ
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๐ท New paper on GROUP BEHAVIOR! ๐ท
Unraveling Polarization: Insights into Individual and Collective Dynamics w/ @eugen_dimant @ylelkes & @DG_Rand out now @PNAS_nexus!
doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgโฆ
This paper emerged from a workshop we held at @MIT_SHASS last year โ at Brookline, MA
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In 2 digital field experiments, we found that unfollowing hyperpartisan influencers on Twitter:
-Reduced partisan animosity by 24%โwith effects persisting for 6 months!
-Increased satisfaction with Twitter
-Led people to share higher-quality news
doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/acbwโฆ (thread)
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๐ขI am thrilled to announce our new publication in Emotion: "Is it better to be happy or right? Examining the relative role of the pragmatic and epistemic imperatives in momentary affective evaluations" by @InonRaz, @NivReggev & @MichaelGilead.
doi.org/10.1037/emo0001349 [1/12]
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Happy to announce our new paper, just out this minute in @sciencemagazine, which examined Supersharers of Fake News on Twitter during the 2020 election w/ Sahar Baribi and @Briony_Swire
science.org/doi/10.1126/scieโฆ
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ืืชืจืืืื ืชื ื-@globesnews ืขื ืืืืงืจ ืฉืื ืืขืืจ ืืืืืืื ืื ืืืืฉื. ืชืืื ื-@galiw2 ืขื ืืฉืืื ืืืจืืื ืืืืื ื!
globes.co.il/news/article.asโฆ
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@almogsi and Louis wrote textbook that is super user friendly for psychologists interested in working with predictive models, language analysis, etc. Itโs awesome.
Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by the twitterless(?) Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R ds4psych.com
He has an account!
@pomegranitestew Louis Teitelbaum, ladies and gentlemen!
Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by the twitterless(?) Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R ds4psych.com
tagging potentially interested people:
@Michael_Gilead @STWorg @fabiocarrella @janalasser @steverathje2 @jayvanbavel @william__brady @AshuAshok @britt_hadar @Amit_Goldenb
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When liars are considered honest
Science & Society by Stephan Lewandowsky (@STWorg), David Garcia, Almog Simchon (@almogsi), Fabio Carrella (@fabiocarrella)
OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.โฆ
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Hi all, I'm hiring a new research assistant, please share with anyone who might be interested - thanks!
brionyswire.com/wp-content/uโฆ
๐จ New paper alert! ๐จ@Michael_Gilead & I put forward three principles of a psychologically informed approach to prediction models psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/โฆ
In the paper, we provide evidence and examples of each element and how it is implemented in psychological research (Non-paywalled version here almogsi.com/my_files/Simchonโฆ)