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Conservative Moral Judgments and "Dark Triad" Personality Traits?

Readers have been asking me to comment this new study (by Marcus Arvan at the University of Tampa), which has just come out in a peer reviewed journal. Here's the abstract:

This study examined correlations between moral value judgments on a 17-item Moral Intuition Survey (MIS), and participant scores on the Short-D3 "Dark Triad" Personality Inventory – a measure of three related "dark and socially destructive" personality traits: Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy. 567 participants...

Scenes from a Science Communication Training: Presenting Presenter View

Via @ashpags, one of our LSU trainees at the NSF "Science: Becoming the Messenger" workshop, comes this amazing and funny picture. In it, you see my colleage Dan Agan teaching scientists how to use PowerPoint's "presenter view" to make their presentations more, uh, excellent.

If you look closely, I think you will see why this picture is completely awesome and rather "meta" (larger original here):

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Reality Fights: Why Left and Right Believe Different Facts

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On Tuesday I'm giving a talk at Louisiana State University with a political psychologist, Everett Young, Ph.D., who has taught on and extensively studied the psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. (For one of his syllabi, see here.)

The talk will be called "Reality Fights: Why Left and Right Believe Different Facts." Here's a bit of the write up:

With the increased incivility and political polarization in American politics, it is important to understand why the Left and...