Trevor Spelman

@TrevorSpelman

Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern Kellogg, Management & Organizations

Joined April 2017

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Trevor Spelman @TrevorSpelman Feb 24

What happens when a Democrat or Republican breaks from the party line on a major issue? Most people assume it'll cost them — rejection, judgment, lost trust.

Our new paper in JPSP @AbdoElnakouri Nour Kteily @EliJFinkel shows these fears are consistently overblown. 🧵

Trevor Spelman @TrevorSpelman May 27

Working on this project with @wjbrady & team was a highlight of my PhD. We engineered our own ranking algorithms on Bluesky to study how engagement-based feeds shape exposure to toxic political content and perceptions of partisan norms.

Out in Nature today — Billy's thread 👇

William J. Brady @william__brady May 27

✨New paper out @SpringerNature✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we custom-built. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional content + does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵

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Trevor Spelman @TrevorSpelman Mar 26

I've been thinking about relationships as microcultures since Maya first told me about this idea a couple years ago. So excited to see that the full theory paper is now out. It's the kind of idea that you'll see everywhere & that reframes things you thought you already understood

Maya Rossignac-Milon @mrossignacmilon Mar 26

New preprint! ✨Relationships as Microcultures Theory ✨with @emma_s_miller, @LydiaFEmery, Joshua C. Jackson, and @EliJFinkel! osf.io/preprints/psya…
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Trevor Spelman @TrevorSpelman Jul 25, 2025

Interested in research at the intersection of politics and organizational behavior? Check out our session at AOM!

We're bringing together micro + macro experts to share the latest insights from research in this area. Open discussion to follow.

Details in the flyer below 👇

Trevor Spelman @TrevorSpelman Jul 22, 2025

Incredible new work led by the amazing @CurtisPuryear !

Curtis Puryear @CurtisPuryear Jul 22, 2025

New preprint! We developed new measurement tools to study moralization in ~2B X & Reddit posts and ~5M traditional media texts.

Key finding: moralization increased markedly on social media from 2013-2021; more than traditional media; associated with multiple user dynamics
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