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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5h

It was such a delight to get to know @raziasahi.bsky.social & her research at Princeton! I can’t wait to follow along with her lab’s impactful work at Rutgers focused on interpersonal/social emotional regulation.

👀Best part? She’s accepting applications for PhD students for Fall 2026! Share widely!

Razia presenting in front of a captivated crowd on “Social reappraisal: Finding new perspectives with other people can boost emotion regulation”

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 4d

In a new podcast, I discuss the dangers of rising political polarization, how social media incentives contribute to polarization, and why we should consider polarization a social determinant of health with @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social

You can listen here: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/political-...

Political Polarization and Health: Navigating the social media divide

Issue 182: Why political polarization affects both individual and societal health

www.powerofusnewsletter.com

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 4d

"Out-group language consistently emerged as the strongest predictor of shares and retweets." Interested in learning more? Here's the specific paper and there are more resources linked in our show notes!

"Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media": www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media | PNAS

There has been growing concern about the role social media plays in political polarization. We investigated whether out-group animosity was particu...

www.pnas.org

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 4d

How can social media algorithms contribute to partisan animosity?

@jayvanbavel.bsky.social highlights that at least some of these algorithms reward outrage and hostility directed at political out-groups (quantified by 67% more shares!).

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Interested in what goes viral online and how social media intersects with rising political polarization?

Check out the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle where @jayvanbavel.bsky.social walks us through the implications of this research: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast/epis...

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 5d

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)

Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 6d

Our recent review article "The Psychology of Virality" with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social
is on the front cover of this month's issue of
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 7d

We're very proud of his ongoing commitment to supporting SBM and advancing public scholarship through his work as a Student/Trainee Liaison in both the Health Equity and the Student/Trainee Special Interest Groups!

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 7d

Shout-out to @carlosasilvera.bsky.social for his efforts to coordinate career advice from SBM students and trainees for the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Fall 2025 newsletter! 👏🏼

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 10d

Political polarization is a global concern!

Polarization was identified as one of the top three major problems facing humanity by experts and leaders globally. Learn more from @jayvanbavel.bsky.social in the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 10d

Political polarization is a global concern!

Polarization was identified as one of the top three major problems facing humanity by experts and leaders globally. Learn more from @jayvanbavel.bsky.social in the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth

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Nanci @nanciweinberger.bsky.social · 12d

Who couldn’t use a listen? I know I could.

Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 13d

🧩 New episode of the Stress Puzzle with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social & host @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social on the impact of partisan animosity, risks of rising political polarization, and how social media incentives can contribute to polarization.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth #psychscisky

Political Polarization and Health: Navigating the social media divide with Dr. Jay Van Bavel

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 13d

3. Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity

Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments designed by academics and p...

www.science.org

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 13d

2. The Psychology of Virality: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

S/O to first-author, @steverathje.bsky.social, for this important work.

The psychology of virality

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on? Here, we review the psychology of information spread, or the psychology of ‘virality’.…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 13d

1. Political Polarization and Health: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Political polarization and health - Nature Medicine

Political polarization is an understudied determinant of health. This Review describes the types of political polarization and how they impact the health of populations and individuals, including potential mitigation strategies and research priorities.

www.nature.com

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 13d

Through this episode, listeners will learn more about the psychological mechanisms behind polarization, potential interventions to reduce social and political tensions, and how social media can amplify polarization.

🧵 thread below highlighting selected papers (with many more in the show notes!):

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 13d

🧩 New episode of the Stress Puzzle with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social & host @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social on the impact of partisan animosity, risks of rising political polarization, and how social media incentives can contribute to polarization.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth #psychscisky

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 20d

Welcome @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social!! Very excited to have you with us for a few weeks!!

Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 20d

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social

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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 20d

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 22d

Listen to the full episode here: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast/epis...

Listen Now! | UCSF SMN

University of California, San Francisco

www.stressmeasurement.org

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 22d

As researchers or clinicians, how do we navigate conversations about the demands of caring (i.e., "cost of caring") without minimizing the importance of care work?

Dr. Giscombé shared her thoughts on navigating difficult conversations around coping based on her research into Superwoman Schema.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 23d

This talk kicks off Dr. Brown’s 3-week microsabbatical in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University working with @eriknook.bsky.social to better characterize how grief, stress, and emotion processes may interact to shape widow(er)s’ daily experiences and future biopsychosocial health.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 23d

📚 Dr. Brown (@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social) will be speaking at Princeton in the Department of Psychology’s Social Talk Series next week! If you’re on campus, be sure to check it out this Monday (9.22) at 12pm.

Talk details: psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/...

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · Sep 12

We wanted to emphasize how normal it is to make mistakes or have regrets in the research process, and learn from the ways that highly-respected researchers have approached their own mistakes. Listen now: tinyurl.com/bonusstresspuzzle

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University of California, San Francisco

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · Sep 12

Dr. Almeida has since updated this project to capture the positive events and experiences that also shape our day-to-day lives and experiences of stress.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · Sep 12

Dr. Almeida runs the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE), an in-depth study that is part of the MacAuthur Foundation National Survey of Midlife in the United States. The purpose of the NSDE is to examine the day-to-day lives, particularly the daily stressful experiences, of midlife adults.

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