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Episode 106: Moral Outrage with Kurt Gray

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Kurt Gray studies our moral minds and how we grapple with everyday ethics. In his new book, Outraged, he explores the deep psychology of human nature and what it means for how we navigate politically divisive times. In our conversation, we do a deep dive into his perspective that morality is fundamentally about our ideas of harm, which conflicts with how other theories talk about morality. We...

Episode 105: Targeted Messaging Online with Sandra Matz

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Sandra Matz is a computational social scientist at Columbia Business School. She uses big data to understand people and what motivates them to act. And she has a new book out! It’s Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior, and it’s an enjoyable, easy-to-read introduction to what your online data say about who you are and how...

Episode 104: Posters as Persuasion with Angelina Lippert (ft. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.)

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Angelina Lippert is the Executive Director and Curator at Poster House in New York City. She is an expert when it comes to the use of posters as a tool for mass communication and persuasion. We talk about what a poster is, the history of posters as a medium, the social effects they have, and why we should still care about posters in the digital age. At the top of the show, we hear...

Episode 103: Taking Extreme Acion with Joe Siev

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Joe Siev studies extreme political behavior and its appeal. He’s a postdoctoral fellow at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. In our conversation, we talk about his research linking people’s sense of ambivalence with their willingness to take extreme action. Things that come up in this episode: Ambivalence and support for extreme political action (Siev &...

Episode 102: Protest with Colin Wayne Leach

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Colin Wayne Leach is a social psychologist who also wears a bunch of other social science hats. He approaches the social world by appreciating its nature as a system of interconnected parts. He’s made strides in a lot of research areas, including emotion, prejudice, and morality. In our conversation, we focus on his work on protest as a vehicle for social change. He shares how he...

Episode 101: Studying Persuasion with Rich Petty

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Dr. Richard Petty is a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. He’s probably best known for co-developing the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) of persuasion (but he’s done a lot of other stuff, too). He was also my advisor in grad school. In the last episode of Opinion Science, Rich lent his voice to telling the story of the ELM. Go check that out...

Episode 100: A Unified Model of Persuasion

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In the 1980s, two social psychologists–Rich Petty and John Cacioppo–devised a new way to make sense of persuasion: the Elaboration Likelihood Model. Their work came on the heels of an era in psychology when people were fed up with persuasion research. The old studies were a mess, and it wasn’t clear if it was even possible to understand how persuasion works. In the course of...

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