Adam H. Smiley
@asmiley.bsky.social
Social psychologist and assistant professor at Belmont University.
affective polarization, religion, judgment & decision making, metascience.
Washington PhD 🟣🟡
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https://adamhsmiley.owlstown.net/
affective polarization, religion, judgment & decision making, metascience.
Washington PhD 🟣🟡
✞
https://adamhsmiley.owlstown.net/
There a quote from (my favorite movie) “Vengeance” about the downside of playlist algorithms that hits pretty hard for me:
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There a quote from (my favorite movie) “Vengeance” about the downside of playlist algorithms that hits pretty hard for me:
A family member just posted this on Facebook… even as a social psychologist who studies these things and intellectually understands understands these concepts, seeing this level of motivated reasoning and confirmation bias in the wild still baffles me
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A family member just posted this on Facebook… even as a social psychologist who studies these things and intellectually understands understands these concepts, seeing this level of motivated reasoning and confirmation bias in the wild still baffles me
Beautiful ride this weekend on the Natchez Trace Parkway SW of Nashville 🚴♂️ made it 50 miles, my longest ride yet!
(Not pictured, me dying the last 10 miles)
(Not pictured, me dying the last 10 miles)
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Beautiful ride this weekend on the Natchez Trace Parkway SW of Nashville 🚴♂️ made it 50 miles, my longest ride yet!
(Not pictured, me dying the last 10 miles)
(Not pictured, me dying the last 10 miles)
I have an extra desk chair if you need it. Ask and you shall receive
October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have an extra desk chair if you need it. Ask and you shall receive
Had the pleasure of attending the SPARRC Methodology Workshop on Causal Inference this week at UCSD, it was great meeting so many cool (and impressive) people studying religion and cooperation!
August 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Had the pleasure of attending the SPARRC Methodology Workshop on Causal Inference this week at UCSD, it was great meeting so many cool (and impressive) people studying religion and cooperation!
Attended the first ever performance of Dolly: A True Original Musical on Friday night at Belmont University! Awesome show. And (the actual) Dolly Parton came on stage to introduce the show (as poorly photographed below)! One of the many pluses of living in Music City! 🤠
July 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Attended the first ever performance of Dolly: A True Original Musical on Friday night at Belmont University! Awesome show. And (the actual) Dolly Parton came on stage to introduce the show (as poorly photographed below)! One of the many pluses of living in Music City! 🤠
Love The Office Easter eggs in the @psychscience.bsky.social submission guidelines 😂
June 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Love The Office Easter eggs in the @psychscience.bsky.social submission guidelines 😂
My paper (with Cheryl Kaiser) “Partisan Communities and Affective Polarization” has been accepted by Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS)! 🥳
This is the paper I’m most proud of (so far), and I can’t wait to see it in print! 😊
osf.io/preprints/ps...
This is the paper I’m most proud of (so far), and I can’t wait to see it in print! 😊
osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My paper (with Cheryl Kaiser) “Partisan Communities and Affective Polarization” has been accepted by Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS)! 🥳
This is the paper I’m most proud of (so far), and I can’t wait to see it in print! 😊
osf.io/preprints/ps...
This is the paper I’m most proud of (so far), and I can’t wait to see it in print! 😊
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Have also recently discovered a little genre called “fiction” (took me long enough…) and these two books are too good…
February 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Have also recently discovered a little genre called “fiction” (took me long enough…) and these two books are too good…
Recently read @kurtjgray.bsky.social’s new book Outraged and it is great! Highly recommend for anyone interested in moral psych!
February 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Recently read @kurtjgray.bsky.social’s new book Outraged and it is great! Highly recommend for anyone interested in moral psych!
Highly recommend the new Stanford Prison Experiment doc! A few of the most interesting things I learned from it:
- Zimbardo claims guards made the rules and their behavior occurred naturally… but archival evidence shows there was a day of training for the guards and some were told to “be tougher” 🧵
- Zimbardo claims guards made the rules and their behavior occurred naturally… but archival evidence shows there was a day of training for the guards and some were told to “be tougher” 🧵
December 18, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Highly recommend the new Stanford Prison Experiment doc! A few of the most interesting things I learned from it:
- Zimbardo claims guards made the rules and their behavior occurred naturally… but archival evidence shows there was a day of training for the guards and some were told to “be tougher” 🧵
- Zimbardo claims guards made the rules and their behavior occurred naturally… but archival evidence shows there was a day of training for the guards and some were told to “be tougher” 🧵
Happy fall from Annie and Miel!
October 18, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Happy fall from Annie and Miel!
Dog days of summer 🐕🐕
July 5, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Dog days of summer 🐕🐕
Belmont students taking in the eclipse through small breaks in the clouds
April 8, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Belmont students taking in the eclipse through small breaks in the clouds
Miel is NOT a fan of storms 🌩️
April 2, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Miel is NOT a fan of storms 🌩️
Snow day in Tennessee ⛄️
January 15, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Snow day in Tennessee ⛄️
It’s a great day to be a Husky! Onto the national championship 🏈 🔥
(Picture taken after defending my dissertation in 2022)
(Picture taken after defending my dissertation in 2022)
January 2, 2024 at 4:51 PM
It’s a great day to be a Husky! Onto the national championship 🏈 🔥
(Picture taken after defending my dissertation in 2022)
(Picture taken after defending my dissertation in 2022)
Annie the Vizsla loves to point at our other dog… 😂
December 23, 2023 at 9:42 PM
Annie the Vizsla loves to point at our other dog… 😂
November 25, 2023 at 1:38 AM
At long last, my paper on the null regions framework with Jessica Glazier and Yuichi Shoda is officially published in Royal Society Open Science. It is published open access, check it out here! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧪
November 22, 2023 at 1:33 PM
At long last, my paper on the null regions framework with Jessica Glazier and Yuichi Shoda is officially published in Royal Society Open Science. It is published open access, check it out here! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧪
New to blue sky, so what better way to introduce myself than with an updated pre-print of my paper with Cheryl Kaiser, “Geographic Sorting and Affective Polarization”?
Check it out here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Check it out here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 4, 2023 at 7:48 PM
New to blue sky, so what better way to introduce myself than with an updated pre-print of my paper with Cheryl Kaiser, “Geographic Sorting and Affective Polarization”?
Check it out here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Check it out here:
osf.io/preprints/ps...