The Center for Conflict and Cooperation at NYU

The future of this newsletter

The Center for Conflict and Cooperation newsletter is merging with The Power of Us to explain the science of belonging, conflict, and cooperation in the…

Jun 26 • 

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The Collected Intergroup Intellectual Humility Scale: New Preprint

We give you a sneak peak a new preprint where we discuss how Intellectual Humility is measured + we created a consolidated scale.

Jun 16 • 

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Podcast: What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health

Jay was featured on Derek Thompson's podcast, where he talked about our new consensus paper and the reaction to it

Jun 11 • 

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May 2025

Behind the Scenes of the Consensus Statement on Potential Negative Impacts of Smartphone and Social Media Use

A sneak peak at how we tried to obtain consensus from over 100 experts about the impact of social media

May 27 • 

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Changing the incentive structure of social media to reduce threat and negativity

Our evolutionary instincts are wired to detect threat and social media often exploits these instincts

May 8 • 

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April 2025

The role of social identity in spreading moral outrage online

Why moral and emotional messages spread like wildfire on social media + we are hiring a new Lab Manager!

Apr 22 • 

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Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change

Apr 2 • 

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March 2025

Using Natural Language Processing in Behavioral Science: A How-To-Guide

As NLP becomes a popular analysis technique, it is important to use it wisely. We offer a How-to-Guide from our new paper.

Mar 10 • 

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January 2025

2024 Year in Review

Summarizing our key findings from the past year

Jan 6 • 

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December 2024

How Social Media Warps Your Reality

What you see online isn't necessarily representative of the real world

Dec 2, 2024 • 

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October 2024

The connection between political polarization and public health

There's a surprising connection between our public health and how divided we are politically.

Oct 31, 2024 • 

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Election Edition: How political identity affects what we believe

Why social identity shapes our susceptibility to misinformation

Oct 2, 2024 • 

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