Ian Anson

Competitive hygge when

When Jesse Ventura drove his Winnebago all over Minnesota in '98, with weirdos flocking behind him like the Pied Piper on his way to winning the governor race, we should have paid more attention

Is there *anything* a politician could do to lose your support? We wanted to know who says "no" to this question, and how we might encourage them to change their mind.

3 survey experiments and a large scale cross sectional study later, and we know much more about this exceptional form of bias!

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The real "perils of presidentialism:" daycare is closed today but our jobs are not

I'm glad I'm not the only one who makes this graph. Somehow it's the only way to ensure consistent progress.

Not to mention people's cars getting mauled by front end loaders 😱

The New Yorker: making my lunch break feel impossibly short on the daily

Moore's Law of Sledding

the structure of scientific devolutions

(Converse with laser eyes dot jpeg)

My research methods students played "mad libs" today to create practice research questions. One asked them to propose an IV that explained variation in life satisfaction among Millennials.

They proposed "running in marathons for fun" and I can't help but feel a little called out

That sinking feeling when you're on your phone and Libby tells you a book you tagged is now available at your library, and you smash the borrow button but somehow you're already 5th in line 😭

Proud to be in the 2% 🤠

I love following university presses on here.
I would have never, ever thought to seek this book out, and now here I am trying to get a copy. Posture politics!

A home temperature gauge showing it's 26 degrees outside

Sooo close to 32... You can do it, Baltimore...

It increasingly feels like we are just living in the Long Woodstock '99s

When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the Amazon HQ2 competition In 2017, Amazon launched a high-profile competition to choose a location for its second headquarters (HQ2). More than 230 U.S. cities submitted bids, many offering huge incentive packages to lure t…

I recently joined Eric Stokan (UMBC) and Nate Jensen (Texas) to publish a study that investigates how bid transparency affected the public discourse surrounding cities' frenzy to land Amazon's HQ2 in 2017. Check out a summary of our work here (out now in PSJ):

psjblog.net/2025/12/17/w...

Saw an ad that said "now, you can become the BEST at watching NBA" and it permanently rewired part of my brain

Be careful what you wish for, #Baltimore edition:

The Bobcats that came to clear the snow from our street just mauled my neighbor's car...

It feels so good to be a Tar Heel

In 2022 curling became my #1 favorite spectator sport, and it will apparently never be dethroned

Pictured: me arriving at MPSA in my third year of grad school, after driving across Indiana in my nearly broken down Mitsubishi

Endooooooohohohoho... Geneity!

I've had students *intern* for Calvin Ball and I never put this together lmao

Partisan, Humble Thyself: How Political Overconfidence Fuels Affective Polarization Ongoing research shows that many Americans erroneously believe themselves to know more about politics than their peers. This form of “political overconfidence” has been associated with extreme ideolog...

Great study! These findings are quite consistent with my own in this vein--I think we are coming to understand that the confidence-affect link is profoundly important in understanding deliberation, attitudes, and partisanship today!

preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

We have reached a new stage of the ongoing Maryland Snowcrete-pocalypse. A swarm of Bobcats has arrived. They're driving in circles pushing snow around in front of my house, beeping like crazy and shaking the walls. So far they have removed approximately 1 square foot of snowcrete. Good good

Just... please stahp

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another legislative shenanigan was made

Sure, we have the Big Five, but we urgently need to develop the "do you listen to Goose or Geese?" personality inventory

Sadly, political scientists have shown again and again that the public is animated by perceptions like this in virtually all realms of policy and public debate