Antoine Marie PhD
@a-marie-sci
🇫🇷 political psychologist @SciencesPo Paris. I study how people reason and communicate about divisive political topics 🔥 ANR Access ERC Nominee @InstitutNicod @AarhusUni_int @ENS_Ulm Don’t hate what you don’t understand.
Mon apparition sur la chaîne Twitch de "Vous avez le droit" (aka @SébastienCanevet), le premier vulgarisateur du droit en France: m.twitch.tv/videos/28205...
𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐭-𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐞 𝐦é𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐟é𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬 ? / 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐞 𝐁𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 "𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬"?
les personnes les plus engagées moralement étaient aussi les plus susceptibles d'accepter cette conclusion erronée.
Leur conviction morale les rendait plus attentifs à des données solides — et c'est exactement ce qu'on espère.
People high in intellectual humility were consistently less likely to share hostile and false news. The takeaway: genuine epistemic rationality isn't about loudly moralizing logic. It requires something harder — restraining the ego, trusting your hunches less, and trusting others more.
Across three large U.S. studies (N = 4,800, two preregistered, including a nationally representative YouGov sample), we find that people who strongly moralize rationality are more likely to share hostile outgroup news — including outright fabricated stories.
New post on my Substack summarizing our ambitious cross-national study of online hostility, published in @nature.com Nature Human Behavior - with @boralexander.bsky.social @m-b-petersen.bsky.social @leapradella.bsky.social
New post by me on @mchangama.bsky.social's substack The Bedrock Principle on “The psychology of speech repression”. Thanks Jacob Mchangama! Link below. 👇
Robert Trivers, a theoretical genius and likely the Einstein of evolutionary biology, passed away. His theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, and self deception are among the deepest and most encompassing in the social sciences. Great post on them by @lionelpage.bsky.social
Our paper just hit 50 citations 🎯: "Political conspiracy theories as tools for mobilization and signaling", Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022, with @m-b-petersen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
La présence de l’IA générative dans la couverture du conflit en Iran, ou la campagne des municipales françaises, réactualisent l’idée que nous serions parvenus à une époque de “post-vérité”.
Mort de Quentin D. à Lyon : mon nouvel article dans The Conversation sur la radicalisation politique, co-écrit avec Peter Barrett. En accès libre ci-dessous. L'un des concepts clés est celui de "l'escalier de la radicalisation" : progressif et insensible, mais pouvant aboutir à l'irréparable.
La mort d'Alex Pretti, abattu par des agents fédéraux à Minneapolis le 24 janvier dernier, était d’une barbarie inouïe pour un pays démocratique.
🚀 Le 24 décembre de 10h à 11h, je parlerai sur France Inter de comment rendre nos discussions politiques en famille plus productives et moins conflictuelles. Ce sera lors de l'émission d'Eva Roque, "SOS Noël" (lol), avec l'humoriste Florent Peyre. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
New blog post on why it's not the best idea to talk about all Rassemblement national voters as a homogenous bunch of "racists". In English and French below.
Lay people don’t response easily to large quantitative contrasts in policy efficiency when described in the abstract. Further, people seem even less sensitive to policy efficiency when they *moralise* the issue highly: they'll support almost any policy scenarios aiming to reduce CO2 emissions...
high efficiency policies at least 40 times more impactful than low efficiency policies--and hugely profitable by a hundred million euros rather than costing this amount--received only a bit more support than low efficiency policies.
We presented naïve French respondents to policy scenarios in which a CEO or minister deployed a public policy meant to reduce CO2 emissions through carbon capture and storage technology.
🔥Laypeople Have Difficulty Processing Efficiency When Assessing Environmental Policies New Open Access paper on people's judgments of environmental policies with @hugo_trad and @stricklandbrent at @bppjournal.bsky.social Behavioral Public Policy 🔥 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🔷 First, hyper-sensitive dispositions to detect threat, from social threats in particular. 🔷 Second, motivations to try to keep people *mobilized* for moral causes and against dangerous groups, by controlling information flows and beliefs. Basically, a policing motivation.
🔥 All political movements, left and right, engage in speech repression when it favours their interests and worldviews, or offers status-enhancement opportunities. Even those claiming to be “pro-freedom”. The default is a state of *moral hypocrisy*.
With the same unbelievable courage, Daryl Davis has approached, befriended, and caused tens of KKK members to leave the klan. Here's an awesome interview in which he details his approach with Yascha Mounk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvt5...
With breath-taking courage, Deeyah approached the racists in their homes to film them. By showing them respect and empathy, and asking the right questions, she gets them to feel dissonance, to realise their hateful generalisations make no sense. To watch urgently if you haven't.
Deeyah Khan just released on YouTube her magnificent documentary on the US "neonazis" (Meeting the enemy, 2017). It is one of the most moving and important documents there is out there about political hatred and how to reduce it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvt5...
English translation of my essay expressing skepticism of the notion of a "post truth" era--from a cognitive perspective. Critical comments welcome.
*Why is it taboo to publicly express discriminatory or "dangerous" statements? A "common knowledge" approach.* In all human societies, there exist "taboo" statements and topics in the sense that their public expression causes fear or is strongly morally disapproved of.