Professor of psychology and education, Stanford University; author, BELONGING: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
Joined December 2020
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10 Oct 2025
It was a delight to present on Belonging to Soetie Generale, a European leader in financial services for over 150 year
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10 Apr 2025
We're hiring a research associate for a project on the psychology & neuroscience of open-mindedness in politics. Ideal for someone research-oriented with skills in Python/MATLAB. Motivated, curious minds encouraged to apply!
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Geoff Cohen retweeted
9 Mar 2025
The partisan brain effect is extremely robust!
The “concordance-over-truth” bias persisted across education levels, analytic reasoning ability, and partisan groups, with a stronger effect among Trump supporters.
Extreme Trump attitudes are the strongest predictor:
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Geoff Cohen retweeted
7 Nov 2024
NEW EPISODE OUT!
@anjie_cao chats with @michaelschwalbe and @GeoffCohen on their most recent work on our biases in consuming political news!
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31 Oct 2024
@michaelschwalbe and I wrote a timely op-ed about our appetite for politically convenient lies and our aversion to inconvenient truths. The issue isn’t just the lies; it’s our willingness to believe them.
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31 Oct 2024
The real divide may be “between those who believe they know the truth and those who remain open to the possibility that th ey might be mistaken.”
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17 Oct 2024
In research led by @michaelschwalbe of our lab, partisan bias trumped truth in people’s belief and sharing of real fake news— an effect that held across ideology, education level, and cognitive ability. Critical thinking begins with being critical of our own minds.
15 Oct 2024
Fascinating (and frightening) work by @michaelschwalbe et al: Resistance to true news that didn’t align w political beliefs was greater than susceptibility to fake news that did. This means it may be harder to spread truth in today’s media climate than we thought..
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31 Aug 2024
I’m learning a lot from Dr. Bettina Love’s book, Punished for Dreaming. Love’s book shows how many school reforms have undermined the opportunity, potential, and belonging of millions of Black children. bettinalove.com/books/
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28 Aug 2024
A new meta-analysis led by Xingyu Li finds that effect size, not sample size (N), predicts the replicability in psychological science.
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#Psychology #Research
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28 Aug 2024
The N-heuristic may incentivize large, fast, non-behavioral online studies, and deter research on underrepresented
populations, immersive in-person studies, group dynamics, and long-term change.
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28 Aug 2024
Focusing on effect size may offer a way to pursue this important research while maintaining rigor.
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For many this election season is already filled with a combination of dread and dismay, but the second season of Breaking Bread may calm some nerves in an anxiety ridden environment by mixing food and politics
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18 Jun 2024
Grateful to Greater Good Science Center for their good work and this interview about the science of belonging. greatergood.berkeley.edu/art…
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28 Feb 2024
Using Twitter may satisfy the need to belong as junk food satisfies hunger, leaving you feeling worse and disgusted.
27 Feb 2024
Twitter use is related to decreases in well-being increases in sense of belonging, polarization, outrage, and boredom.
Doomscrolling was related to the drop in well-being, using it for entertainment was linked to the increase in polarization: nature.com/articles/s44271-0…
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#NewVoices23 Spotlight ⭐️ Meet Rainier Harris, a writer & audio-maker from NYC! He has work published in The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Business Insider, and more. He has reported for NPR's WNYC and their national afternoon show, Here & Now.
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Group learning got you puzzled? Try jigsaw! 🧩
Social psychologist @GeoffCohen explains the benefits:
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7 Nov 2023
a refreshing and inspirational approach to campus disagreement. “Disagreement does not mean erasure of the other side.” youtu.be/QcBCmpqn708?feature…
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Geoff Cohen retweeted
16 Oct 2023
The trouble with inaptly named "inclusionary" zoning is that it assumes a permanent housing crisis. The effective tax means that rents can never fall below a certain threshold—once market rates aren't high enough to cross-subsidize, all production stops.
15 Oct 2023
This is a potentially disturbing result about the possible effects of upzoning with additional requirements in Seattle papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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25 Sep 2023
delighted and excited to be a part of this!
Looking forward to the upcoming Positive Links Speaker Series on Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides with Geoffrey Cohen on October 30th. Registration is free; link here:
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