Josh Thorp

Sydney native 🇦🇺. Assistant Professor of Political Science at @UArkansas. @UMich PhD. Political psych, disability, experiments.

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

Absolutely delighted to announce that I will be joining @UArkansas as Assistant Professor of Public Opinion in Fall 2025.

Feeling very grateful for this opportunity and excited to begin work with colleagues at @UARKplsc in beautiful Fayetteville!

[Marco M. Aviña @marcomavina]

NEW in @ScienceAdvances, after 3 years of work with a great team:

We review and meta-analyze 100 immigrant conjoint experiments in 36 countries.

Immigration preferences are surprisingly similar across people and countries, but changing over time and structured by politics.

🧵

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

There's a big difference between identifying as disabled - i.e., embrace of disability as pary of my self-concept - and accessing disability accomms. The latter does not require the former. The definition of disability hasn't changed - most don't socially identify as disabled.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

@slooterman Some of them are obviously gaming the system. But there's also diagnostic creep; we've reframed "disability" to mean mild weaknesses. I'm sure I'd have an IEP if I were in school now for ADHD/executive function problems. But was I too disabled to succeed w/o accomodations? No.

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@JohnHolbein1 @apsrjournal Seems like an obvious robustness check would be to show that erecting monuments had no impact on lynching of whites (of which there are many hundreds of cases during similar period). I might need to read the appendices but he doesn't appear to do this.

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up https://t.co/D7wE9sJTJL

We need to make the same thing happen this time.

[Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood]

The narrative that political violence has broad support from either party is factually wrong and dangerous. It risks giving isolated actors the false mandate they crave.
The American public overwhelmingly rejects violence. We must not amplify the fringe by misrepresenting them as a movement.

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@BrantleyVosler @BrandonLukeMc 🤣

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@BrandonLukeMc @BrantleyVosler Yeah man definitely enjoy your writing and hope you keep at it. The academy could do with more guys who like deer hunting in their spare time 😂 I’m an Aussie (I live in the US) so if I find myself in NZ in the near future I’ll be sure to reach out.

[Jac Larner @Jaclarner]

Over last year I've been building a Senedd Election Simulator tool. It gives a useful (I hope!) visual explainer of how the new election system turns votes into seats.

🧵 on some of what it can do below:

https://t.co/pPE1ReHLIt

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@adamrpanish @AndyDelton Bit late to the party here but just read the paper and it is fantastic. Congrats, both.

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

I find claims like this bizarre. You may not like evolutionary psychology, but if you accept that human organisms are subject to evolutionary pressures, the onus is on you to explain why the forces that made human brains have no impact on human psychology.

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@WoeToChorazin @darkwater4213 I like a lot of your recs, but two Qs. Is human psychology at least partly a function of biology? Is biology subject to evolutionary forces? If so, in what sense is evolutionary psychology illegitimate and fake?

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@RaqCenteno @CaltechLCSSP Congrats Raquel!!

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

Interesting challenge to the Brewer model of intergroup attitudes.

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

Important new study: Posts about political opponents that involve "dunking" on them, mocking them, and denigrating them are much more likely to be shared than posts about in-group positivity, pride, and love. @steverathje2 @jayvanbavel https://t.co/rN2HEA9awL

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@BrantleyVosler So silly. There is so much straw-man stuff going on here it’s hard to know where to start.

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@DorfmanDoron @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks so much, Doron!

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

Absolutely delighted to announce that I will be joining @UArkansas as Assistant Professor of Public Opinion in Fall 2025.

Feeling very grateful for this opportunity and excited to begin work with colleagues at @UARKplsc in beautiful Fayetteville!

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@PolisciMonica @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks, Monica!!

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@hakeemjefferson @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks, Hakeem!!

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@wzcmarsh @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks, Wayde!!

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@SlaterPolitics @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks, Dan!!

[Josh Thorp @JoshuaThorp]

@gbsong @UArkansas @UARKplsc Thanks so much, Geoboo! Looking forward to seeing you all soon.