On top of that, I also got to see one of my wonderful RAs, Alyssa Pavek, give her first data blitz in the social psych world. She presented some of the work that she has been helping me with on how humorous critiques of the economic system may inadvertently hurt our social movement potential.

This past weekend I attended the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologist (SSSP) conference. I presented work on economic fatalism and the importance (and difficulty!) of differentiating between heartfelt expressions of collective hopelessness and strategic, unemotional ones.

Our data suggests that the emergence of new unions in RTW states may be a defensive response to worsening financial conditions, compared to union shop states that may form new unions both as a defense and preemptive response to protect worker financial well-being.

We find that RTW laws have a prevailing detrimental effect on efforts to organize new labor unions even decades after their enactment. We also find evidence that RTW laws limit the effectiveness of existing labor unions to improve worker material conditions...

🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT!

Why is there no coherent labor movement in the U.S., despite widespread outrage at economic inequality? One answer is that structural/systemic factors (such as Right-to-Work legislation) impede collective organizing.

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😬 Reanimating my bluesky account to say I will be at @spssi.bsky.social this week! Stop by on Friday to hear about how liberals and conservatives may attend to group power cues differently, and on Sunday to hear about how humorous critiques of capitalism could be harming social movements.

I will be presenting some work on structural constraints of labor organizing done in collaboration with @aalaukik.bsky.social and Gregory Webster at @spspnews.bsky.social. Catch me at the Political Psychology (11:00 am - 12:15) and the Critical Perspectives pre-conferences (3:00-4:15) on Thursday!

Speaking today at #SSSP in Memphis about how structural factors like labor laws and material conditions can inhibit collective organizing.
If you are not here yet, you can still book your tickets to Memphis to see this riveting blitz with some fancy multi-level modeling.

I also have a tutorial for Lollipop plots that plot differences between group means across a number of variables.

If you ask me, whoever chose to not name this graph *Lolliplots* missed big time. 🙄

Anyway, here is the code: sites.google.com/view/egarcia...

Last semester, I taught myself how to plot maps using R. Because I suffered a bit too much through this process, I figured I would make an easy tutorial for choropleth maps like the one below. I put this tutorial up on my website: sites.google.com/view/egarcia...
I hope this helps someone!

🚨 New pub alert 🚨 Just out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social 's Political Psychology, with @jorislammers.bsky.social, Laura Van Berkel & Matt Baldwin. We look at how the typical association between conservatism and system justification changes as the result of temporal comparisons. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Today in the social area brownbag we heard from @aalaukik.bsky.social on his work on the tug-of-war model of attitude associations and its application to the IAT. Super cool work on how we can apply mathematical modeling to study social psychological processes! Check out pre-print link below 👇

Super excited to guide people through my MS’s work during the poli psy pre-conference at #SPSP2024. I’ll be discussing why people who dislike the status quo are not motivated to change it, and some methodological issues capturing the group’s attitudes.

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