Many congratulations to Brenda Major, who was just elected to the National Academy of Sciences! National Academy of Sciences Association for Psychological Science Society for Personality and Social Psychology

For those of you interested in refining your teaching skills, especially for negotiations courses, I hope you'll join us for DRRC - Kellogg's *Teach the Teacher* event on August 14th -- immediately following the Academy of Management (@AOMConnect) conference in Chicago.

Huge kudos Faith Hill (Faith Hill) for this glorious article in The Atlantic. It's among the most insightful people I've read on dating in the modern West.

Young people are tired of swiping. Now they want serendipity. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

I wish our theories in relationship science offered more insight into these foundational dynamics.

The 16 Messages That Led to Love nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Can a Sexless Marriage Be a Happy One? nytimes.com/2024/04/17/mag…

#Mood

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Anybody else watching the #SolarEclipse today in Lebanon, Indiana?

Ooh, @MichaelINorton's new book just arrived in the mail!

#TheRitualEffect drops on Tuesday, and, based on my first pass through it today, it looks like an absolutely essential read!

My favorite part is Chapter 8: 'How to Stay in Sync: Why Rituals Help Relationships Flourish'!

📢New Preprint!📢
@JayVanBavel, Kareena del Rosario and I go inside the 'Funhouse Mirror Factory' of Social Media to explain how SM is distorting our perception of social norms-- by making moderate opinions practically invisible and over-representing the most extreme voices.

I'm elated to announce that my new book, HOPE FOR CYNICS, will be published on September 3rd!

It explains why people have lost faith in one another, and how we can build a sturdier, data-driven hope.

You can find more information and pre-order here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jamil-z…

Breakdown of the multiple power failures on the container ship 'Dali' that likely caused the impact with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore today.

[🎞️ Moshe Schwartz]

I returned to the country to a blissful surprise: Mary Murphy's (Mary C. Murphy (marycmurphy.bsky.social)) landmark new book, #CulturesOfGrowth !!

So far, I'm loving the book! It's a wise, captivating tour through the science & practice of promoting growth cultures. It's a guide for maximizing human potential.

'How Trolls Poison Political Discussions for Everyone Else'

Online political debate isn’t inherently toxic, a new study of Reddit commenters finds. Instead, it becomes toxic because of the kind of commenters who opt in.'

insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/trolls…

The Duke Polarization Lab is searching for a Postdoc! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27242 Help us continue developing the Social Media Accelerator described in this new working paper: osf.io/preprints/soca…

What a time to be alive!

OpenAI Unveils A.I. That Instantly Generates Eye-Popping Videos nytimes.com/2024/02/15/tec…

This is what we found on pretty much every measure of the pandemic response: from social distancing to vaccination Republicans took the pandemic less seriously than Democrats (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…)

NEW: in American Political Science Review we report a treasure trove of data from inside dozens of campaigns’ own experiments on persuasion

The data reveal experimentation at a vast scale that is revolutionizing campaigning

challenges academic theories

& could have implications for democracy

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🎇BIG ANNOUNCEMENT🎇

Yesterday, Nour Kteily and I launched the #CenterForEnlightenedDisagreement , a major new Northwestern initiative, housed in Kellogg School.

The Center helps organizations and societies harness the power of difference.

dailynorthwestern.com/?p=284585

I have extensively revised my mediation webpage: davidakenny.net/cm/mediate.htm. The focus is on linear models and the causal assumptions necessary to draw causal conclusions from the analysis. The history of mediation analysis is presented at davidakenny.net/cm/MediationHi….

As concern grows over Americans' declining support for democracy, Eli Finkel and his colleagues show that partisan antipathy, when properly defined and measured, predicts antidemocratic tendencies. #WorkingPaperWednesday spr.ly/6018peEPg