The Power of Us

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Conducting research on social identity, morality & politics since 2010. Our newsletter is now hosted by The Power of Us: https://www.powerofusnewsletter.com/

Incoming Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. @stevepsychology on TikTok

managing editor @powerofus ✍️ investigating intergroup contact and housing \ud83c\udfe1 policy.

Psychology Professor at New York University | Author of "The Power Of Us" book & newsletter (http://powerofus.substack.com) | Director of The Social Identity & Morality Lab | On sabbatical

Psychology professor at the University of Toronto studying effort, empathy, and AI. Author of Speak Now Regret Later. The ideas are mine though I sometimes collaborate with the machines I study to help me put them into words.

Professor of Philosophy, Director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy, and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium at Cal Poly Pomona. Co-author of Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change (MIT 2025)

Professor of philosophy and department chair, John Jay College Professor of philosophy, CUNY Grad Center Alum, Deep Springs College Author, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

Kareena del Rosario is a postdoc at University of Michigan and received her PhD from NYU in 2025. She studies the unseen influence of emotion and morality on social dynamics and health.

Social Psychology Postdoc, NYU Incoming Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science, Stony Brook University ('26)

I study online influence—how narratives spread, how coordinated actors simulate “majorities,” and how to build resilient digital spaces—using large-scale data, computational social science, and simulation to stress-test attacks and defenses.

Professor of Communication and Psychology

Co-director Center for Conflict and Cooperation

Philosophy prof at Purdue University who works on issues at the intersection of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, moral theory, and evolution

Diego Reinero Ph.D. is a social psychologist and a MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies how people develop shared or conflicting realities, influence one another, and find common ground across difference.