Almog Simchon

Assistant professor at @bengurionu psych. Interested in language, political psych, misinfo and social media. @almogsi.bsky.social

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by the twitterless(?) Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R https://t.co/MVlRqGy0pK

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

Can't believe it's finally out! Kudos Inon and team!

[Inon Raz @inon_raz]

🚨Thrilled to share our new study in Cerebral Cortex🚨: "The Future, Before, and After" The ability to imagine things we haven’t done before is one of the hallmarks of human cognition. How do we do it?

https://t.co/eNdwSjWV9I

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@kati_kish @eugen_dimant @ylelkes @DG_Rand @MIT_SHASS Kudos Kati! Happy to see this out!

[Kati Kish Bar-On @kati_kish]

📷 New paper on GROUP BEHAVIOR! 📷

Unraveling Polarization: Insights into Individual and Collective Dynamics w/ @eugen_dimant @ylelkes & @DG_Rand out now @PNAS_nexus!

https://t.co/DFQKXUYZDS

This paper emerged from a workshop we held at @MIT_SHASS last year

[Steve Rathje @steverathje2]

In 2 digital field experiments, we found that unfollowing hyperpartisan influencers on Twitter:

-Reduced partisan animosity by 24%—with effects persisting for 6 months!
-Increased satisfaction with Twitter
-Led people to share higher-quality news

https://t.co/OqdS56xHg3 (thread)

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@ReemSherman @Azi__ כי התנהגות לא מוסרית של פרטים בקבוצת הפנים נתפסת כ-"תפוחים רקובים" שיש להרחיק כדי שלא יעידו עלינו. התנהגות לא מוסרית של פרטים בקבוצת החוץ נתפסת כמאפיין בלתי ניתן לשינוי של הקבוצה

[Inon Raz @inon_raz]

📢I am thrilled to announce our new publication in Emotion: "Is it better to be happy or right? Examining the relative role of the pragmatic and epistemic imperatives in momentary affective evaluations" by @InonRaz, @NivReggev & @MichaelGilead.
https://t.co/MVK3MUX5Jk [1/12]

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@janalasser @ERC_Research @UniGraz Amazing news! Congrats Jana, so well deserved! 👏👏👏

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@NoamGidron @Eitan10 יפה! במחקר שלנו אנחנו רואים דברים מאוד דומים גם אצל אמריקאים:
https://t.co/eTe3JI4Sye

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@Michael_Gilead מה הסופרפורקאסטרים שלך אומרים? הילדה רוצה טרמפולינות ואני צריך תירוץ מבוסס מדע

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@AviGamoran @ZavHashaa @idofrizler אצלנו במחלקה נהוג להריץ מידע רגיש על שרתים לוקאלים ולא עם openAI

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@Naamapsy מכירה lavaan?
https://t.co/pcZEeolaJF

[Nir Grinberg @grinbergnir]

Happy to announce our new paper, just out this minute in @sciencemagazine, which examined Supersharers of Fake News on Twitter during the 2020 election w/ Sahar Baribi and @Briony_Swire

https://t.co/4mdhFJFIuw
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[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@AviGamoran @PNASNews Congrats Avi!

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@Ben_Tappin @LSE_PBS @LSEnews congrats!

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

התראיינתי ל-@globesnews על המחקר שלי בעבר והכיוונים להמשך. תודה ל-@galiw2 על השיחה הארוכה והמהנה!
https://t.co/MjMW2chCYj

[Michael Gilead @Michael_Gilead]

@almogsi and Louis wrote textbook that is super user friendly for psychologists interested in working with predictive models, language analysis, etc. It’s awesome.

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@LisaFOswaldo Thanks Lisa!

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by the twitterless(?) Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R https://t.co/MVlRqGy0pK

[Almog Simchon @almogsi]

@fintan_smith Thanks Fin!