Olaf Borghi
Researching the political mind and how political beliefs develop 🧠 Doctoral candidate in the MSCA Network ippad.eu & Centre for the Politics of Feelings - @rhulpsychology.bsky.social 👥 Previously research assistant @univie.ac.at 🐕
- What a week at the IP-PAD meeting in Amsterdam, where our doctoral network met for training and a conference on youth politics!! I also presented a poster on my recent work on young people's future anxiety and political views (read more here: shorturl.at/Rpc0y)! Super grateful for the fun time! :)
- 🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes? Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
- 😨 In times of multiple crises, converging reports show many young people are anxious about the future. Yet how this relates to their political attitudes remains unclear. We here provide insights from survey data from close to 2,000 adolescents in the UK and Greece. Key findings:
- marginaleffects is one of my favourite R packages and this is such a great paper!! extremely recommended, alongside all other papers from the two authors and also the amazing and free Model to Meaning book marginaleffects.com
- Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
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- This is incredible work, such an insanely cool paper and findings! Quite alarming that "[post-training and prompting methods that] increased AI persuasiveness [...] also systematically decreased factual accuracy"
- Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 🧵:
- Reposted by Olaf BorghiIn previous work with Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social , we showed that interoception can act as a buffer against political stress. We now extend this research to the 2024 U.S. Presidential elections, capturing data before and after Check out our preprint 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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- This book is highly recommended! Bonus is that I genuinely enjoyed working through it when it first came out
- Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
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- Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline 11th July. Please share!
- (1/6) #ISPP2025 is just one day away and I can't wait to be in Prague! It will be the first conference I attend during my PhD - looking forward to all the interesting sessions, catching up with friends, and meeting new people! 🤩 #PsychSciSky #polisky #CogSci #polpsy
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- Reposted by Olaf BorghiI’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
- Reposted by Olaf BorghiThis is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
- Reposted by Olaf Borghi🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁
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New visualization tool alert! The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower(). - install.packages("vayr") - alexandercoppock.com/vayr #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz - Reposted by Olaf BorghiProudly presenting the (for now) final version of "Why experiments work." To share the materials in a slightly more professional manner, I added a "Resources" page to my website: juliarohrer.com/resources/. That was long overdue anyway; now there's also a curated list of my papers and blog posts.
- Reposted by Olaf Borghi🧠🌍 Thrilled to share our latest paper, just out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences: "Neuroscience and climate action: intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health" Read here (OA!): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
- Reposted by Olaf Borghi🔎 We are looking for collaborators for our new manylabs looking at the effects of extreme heat on human cognition and well-being across the globe 🌍 See below for more information and sign up if you’re interested 👇🏼
- 🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology
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- Reposted by Olaf BorghiNew blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
- In politics, people are not always truth seekers. Often, we reach conclusions because they fit with preferred political narratives: we are biased by ideological motivations. But are some people better equipped to overcome such bias than others? 🚨 Find out in the first pre-print from my PhD 🚨
- Together with an amazing team of colleagues and supervisors @benmtappin.bsky.social, Kaat Smets, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we take an interdisciplinary look on how cognitive control is associated with politically motivated reasoning ⚖️ 🧠
- Reposted by Olaf Borghi1st post here! Excited to share this work with Marelli & @kathyrastle.bsky.social. We've found readers "routinely" combine constituent meanings for Chinese compound meaning, despite variability in constituent meaning and word structure, even when they're not asked to. See threads👇 for more details:
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- Reposted by Olaf BorghiThe Left (Die Linke) receives a spectacular result among the very young German voters:
- Reposted by Olaf BorghiHere are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!
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- Reposted by Olaf BorghiAre you interested in age or cohort or period effects? I have just updated my primer on the topic! Now with a new framing, a handy flow chart to determine which approach may be suitable, and a new empirical example. What do people in Germany think about mothers who work? osf.io/preprints/ps...
- New preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps... The age-period-cohort problem is something that many researchers are vaguely aware of. There have been very cool advances in how to reason about it which don't seem to be well-known in psych. So, I've written a primer!
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- Reposted by Olaf BorghiDoes the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
- Reposted by Olaf BorghiHow do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
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- Reposted by Olaf BorghiOn emotions and politics, I often think that the core emotion that democracies should aim to protect us from is fear. Democracies should primarily enable us to live free from fear. More on Friday 31/01 👇| philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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- Reposted by Olaf BorghiWelcome @nilearn.bsky.social to Bluesky! Nilearn is an amazing package for neuroimaging analysis in Python - certainly one of the most heavily used packages in our lab.
- Reposted by Olaf BorghiHello, Bluesky community! We're thrilled to make our first post and what better way to debut than by announcing exciting news? We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (full-time, research & teaching), starting 12 August 2025! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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