A group of psychology researchers take a picture while participating in the European Association of Social Psychology's Summer School.

This #MemberMonday, check out the outstanding work done by SPSP members @jimaceverett.bsky.social (also an SPSP Board member) and Claudia Manzi on the European Association of Social Psychology's Summer School! Congrats to all the scholars who made this event a success!

📰: ow.ly/SFMW50X73J0

It was so wonderful to have you here. You’re such a bright light and made the experience so much fun and so rewarding. I’m looking forward to working together in the future :)

So grateful for the chance to attend the EASP Summer School organized by @jimaceverett.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @jimaceverett.bsky.social and @mgreinecke.bsky.social for your mentorship in the Moral Psych of AI workstream, and to all of the other amazing students I had the chance to learn from!

So grateful for the new research ideas & friendships made at the EASP Summer School at Uni of Kent! Thank you to @jimaceverett.bsky.social & @mgreinecke.bsky.social for being amazing mentors of our Moral Psychology of AI workstream. Here are some pics of us working & exploring Canterbury, England!

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@fannylalot.bsky.social
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The 2025 EASP Summer School at the University of Kent is kicking off in just a few days and we are SO excited to welcome 80 brilliant early-career researchers from across Europe for 10 days of collaboration, community, and cutting-edge social psychology 🙏

Find out more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Congratulations Emily! Your work is so interesting and important and I'm really excited to see what you do with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social!

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all.

jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Roses in the garden 😍

Congratulations!!!

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

In Granada and enjoying this beautiful view while working my slides 😍

Is anyone going to SPSP in Chicago and interested in submitting on a symposium about moral psychology and AI? 🤖

Join Prof. Jim Everett (@jimaceverett.bsky.social) exploring cutting-edge questions in AI ethics:
📅 June 2: "Trust in Artificial Moral Advisors"
📅 June 3: "Negative Perceptions of Outsourcing to AI"
@universidadgranada.bsky.social | moral sci lab | @cimcyc.bsky.social
#AIEthics #MoralPsychology

I'm trying to think about these photos of my roses as a reminder for persistence in my research. Even when things look like they are dormant and not fitting, there’s a season coming when it will all come together.

I think this is in some ways a nice metaphor for research in academia. Sometimes it can feel like there is no progress with paper rejections, dead-ends, problems in research infrastructure. But even when it feels like nothing is happening, things are happening in the background.

One day seemingly all at once, buds appear. The roses burst open all in one go and the garden is alive with different fragrances.

All winter, the garden looks bare. The branches seem brittle, the ground lifeless. It gets to February and it seems like a lot of work to sort everything out, with little apparent benefit. You do it, and the garden still looks lifeless and dull. But beneath the surface, progress is happening.

Every spring, my roses remind me about something important in academia that is easy to forget: the power of perseverance, patience, and the confidence that hard work will pay off in the end .

I love my garden this time of year when all the roses come out 🌹🥰

🚨🚨 NEW PRE-PRINT 🚨🚨

Prominent theories in political psychology argue that threat causes increases in conservatism. Early experimental work supported this idea, but many of these studies were (severely) underpowered, and examined only a few threats and ideological DVs. 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...

And aside from the ethical risks, we form negative character impressions of those who use AI for such socio-relational tasks! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Changing Practices and Priorities in Social Psychological Research Methods and Reporting

Kudos to the four editors and scores of authors for bringing the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition to the public and open access! The other chapters are likely to be my reading project this summer ... Here's my own contribution, in any case.

the-hsp.com
doi.org/10.70400/ZUT...

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

Understanding Trust in Moral Machines: ERC-Funded Psychology PhD Scholarship Understanding Trust in Moral Machines: ERC-Funded Psychology PhD Scholarship: The studentship lasts three years and will cover tuition fees at the Home rate (£5,006 per annum) and will additionally pr...

I've posted an advert for PhD scholarship to work with me on moral psychology and AI at the University of Kent 🤖🧠📚

Full details here: www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships...

Is anyone putting together a symposium for #SESP2025 in 🇵🇹 Lisbon? I would like to go, but the symposium-only format is proving difficult. Looking to present grant-funded research on occupational moral roles, which also fits stereotypes, social categories, etc.

What makes people feel entitled to rewards—the effort they put into their work or the outcomes they achieve?

Out now in PNAS; with Jin Kim and Jared Wong:

Achievement.

Effort seems to matter very little (if at all).

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

AP headline: "He was killed in a road rage shooting. AI allowed him to deliver his own victim impact statement"

The AP's use of pronouns in this headline sure is ... something

Very keen to work with potential applicants to come work me at Kent on things related to moral psychology :)