Associate Prof in Political Psychology, Deputy Head of Dept @CambPsych. Fellow @TrinityHallCamb.
Joined November 2011
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Why do 9 in 10 Trump supporters think American values and prosperity are “under threat”?
Polling from @leedewit at Cambridge’s Political Psychology Lab and @Yougov reveals strong link between the US election result and concerns over economic and cultural instability.
Learn why this data is crucial for politicians: cam.ac.uk/stories/trump-vote…
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RT @YaraKyrychenko: 🚨 New in @NatureComms! While many studies show that negativity drives online virality, we find that predictors of what…
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
7 Sep 2024
The times (in behavioural sciences) they are a-changin'.
Recent contributions in cognitive science and economics show a renewed interest in going beyond 'biases' and viewing the sometimes puzzling features of human cognition as solutions to the complex problems we face.
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
30 Aug 2024
"[Labour’s pro-Corbyn and pro-Starmer factions] now show levels of mutual enmity that are slightly worse than between Leavers and Remainers"
🚨📊 NEW: @David_JYoung on the findings of his recent research on polarisation between factions within parties.
ukandeu.ac.uk/labours-factio…
ALT Chart showing that polarisation between 'Starmerites' and 'Corbynistas' has increased and is now worse than between Leavers and Remainers
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
7 Aug 2024
🚨 As trust in science faces new challenges, our new study with @walraslaw @Prashant_Garg_ explores the impact of scientists' political expression on SM. Looking at 98K US scientists on Twitter, we observe their ideological polarization and test impact on public
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
20 Jul 2024
Six months after passing my viva, I graduated from my PhD today! Thanks to my brilliant supervisor @leedewit, my fantastic examiners @Sander_vdLinden and @mjbsp, and the many many more from @CambPsych and beyond who helped me along the way!
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
19 Jul 2024
Recently published by the British Journal of Social Psychology, @leedewit and I ask "Can the manner in which we visualize data impact perceptions of political polarization?"
doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12787
Thanks to @Colinstrong and @Ipsos
@Cambridge_Uni @BPSOfficial @socialpsychUK
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
11 Jul 2024
🚨New article drop in @PNASNexus, exploring the link between economic inequality and moralization – on Twitter (X) and around the globe!
doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pg…
Thanks to @drbrockbastian, @PaulvanLange, @DrewGorenz, @KhandisBlake and my excellent co-authors around the world!
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
16 Jul 2024
Now out in PNAS Nexus 🚨
People in the U.S. believe that political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, like fraud, animal abuse, and homicide. This fuels dehumanization across party lines.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
2 Jul 2024
Great read on how we also can dislike factions WITHIN our own political party quite a lot too! By @David_JYoung and @leedewit
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
21 May 2024
"Behavioral science should start by assuming people are reasonable"
Nice piece in TCS. Couldn't agree more sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Thx for linking to my work w/ Jan Koenderink & Joachim Krueger @jenskoedmadsen @leedewit @Thruthal @CameronBrick @laurademoliere @carla_groom
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
21 May 2024
New paper 😃
With @CameronBrick, @leedewit and others, we argue behavioural sciences too frequently jump to conclusions of irrationality and bias - instead, we argue we should initially assume people are reasonable as a point of departure. @LSE_PBS
shorturl.at/Z93O2
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
25 Mar 2024
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Never mind moral universals in 60 cultures, how about moral universals in 256 cultures?! 🧵 #moralityascooperation @HRAF755 doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.20…
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15 Mar 2024
Curious how much Starmer and Corbyn supporters dislike each other? Do anti-Trump republicans sometimes dislike pro-Trump republicans more than bi-partisan Democrats? Read our new paper on Within Party Affective Polarization to find out!
14 Mar 2024
Delighted my **first paper**, with @leedewit, has now been published in Political Psychology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… We explore the scale of affective polarization between *factions within parties* - which turns out to be pretty big! For a no-paywall version head to... (1/2)
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
25 Jan 2024
What can Facebook friendships tell us about geographies of social and political (dis)trust? New research with @drjennings @ProfStoker – ‘Social ties, trust and the geography of discontent’ out in @camjres (1/8)
academic.oup.com/cjres/advan…
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
24 Nov 2023
Job alert!
Professor of Integrative and Systems Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43391/
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
🎉Congratulations to @jenskoedmadsen & @leedewit who have been awarded a significant grant from the prestigious @TempletonWorld to study perceptions of source independence & polarisation.
#research #grant #polarisation #psychology
ALT Jens Madsen in focus with Brighton pier in the background
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
3 Nov 2023
**POSTDOC KLAXON**
We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @DanAkarca, @petra_vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development.
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/
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Lee de-Wit retweeted
26 Oct 2023
New paper! I tested how #populist attitudes to #science compare between #Austria, #Germany, #Switzerland, and #Taiwan 🌏
Based on surveys, I find three population segments, with non- and anti-populists being a big majority – but segment sizes and predictors differ across 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭🇹🇼
ALT Screenshot of title and abstract of my new paper entitled “Variations of science-related populism in comparative perspective: A multilevel segmentation analysis of supporters and opponents of populist demands toward science”, published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
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