9/9 I love working with open responses because they can provide insights that established scales often don't. But not everyone has an army of research assistants or programming experience. We hope that SCORES will make the use of open-response data in research more accessible.
8/n Of course SCORES also has it's limitations. E.g. it doesn't work great for long responses. We include this guide to help researchers decide whether or not they want to use SCORES:
7/n It also shows different quality indices. It weighs them by default to select the ideal cluster number, but you can also use this view to make your own decision.
6/n SCORES automatically names the clusters based on the most central response and shows you all responses that fall into the cluster. You can of course also re-name the cluster if you don't like the default name.
5/n Researchers then have a lot of flexibility, e.g. you can exclude certain words, set min and max number of clusters, use outlier detection (and be more or less exclusionary with outliers), and merge similar clusters (and decide how similar they have to be to be merged).
4/n SCORES has an intuitive, user-friendly interface (no programming knowledge required) and a tutorial mode that can guide researchers through the decision processes. You simply upload your data and select which columns you want to include in your analysis:
3/n SCORES clusters responses via word embeddings (which reflect similarity in meaning), similar to the process of reading through the responses, creating coding categories, and having human coders assign each response to a category.
2/n Have you ever read a cool paper that uses open response data & analyzes it using word embeddings (e.g. psycnet.apa.org/buy/2022-585... by @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social, a paper I LOVE) but were too intimidated by the methodology to do something similar? If so, SCORES might be for you!
Abstract Free-text responses are a crucial part of psychological research, enabling participants to respond without bias toward a predefined set of answers. Unfortunately, many established methods for analyzing such responses require extensive manual coding, which is time- and resource-intensive. To address this issue, automatic-processing methods based on word embeddings and clustering techniques have been proposed. In this article, we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity), a user-friendly, graphical tool that makes such automatic methods easy to use and understand for psychological researchers.
1/n I'm really excited to share this (open access) paper in which we introduce SCORES (Semantic Clustering of Open Responses via Embedding Similarity) - a user-friendly tool to analyze (short) open-response data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... With the magical @bpaassen.bsky.social.
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Postdoc position!
Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.
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Hi folks! We are conducting a meta-analysis examining the relationship between different facets of gender or gender-related essentialism and prejudice against transgender people. Therefore, we are requesting your unpublished data to include in the meta-analysis! The inclusion criteria are: 🧵
McGill is hiring a faculty lecturer in social psychology, in a (non-adjunct) permanent teaching position.
Please consider being my colleague, Montreal is really great: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
New paper, led by Pia Dietze (newly on bsky! @piadietze.bsky.social) and Riana Brown (@rrrianabrown.bsky.social): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Why do people oppose plant-based alternatives to meat? We find it has a lot to do with a symbolic association between meat & masculinity. And with sexism. Open access in SPPS with A. Salmen, V. Krings, & @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social
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Can you celebrate diversity while undermining it? Our new paper in American Psychologist discusses how people/organizations can appear committed to diversity while their conceptualizations of diversity actively undercut it.
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
🚨 LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe Pre-conference at #SPSP2026
Come participate in small group discussions and networking opportunities designed to spark collaborations across borders!
Submit your abstract by 23 Oct. Our goal is to have representation across all continents!
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New paper! "Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions" With the magical @kirameans.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people!
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We are very grateful for all contributions!
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Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...
Please consider participating in our research! We're looking for social psychologists (broadly defined) who study gender (broadly defined). Research is (unfortunately) limited to people from/living in US, Canada, Australia, European Economic Area, and UK.
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My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can.
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and feel free to chat to my current grad students @kirameans.bsky.social and Heejoo Chung (not on here) to find out what it's like to work with me.
I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!
Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.
"Moral Policing: How Society Justifies Controlling Women’s Bodies": @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social and I have written a short blog piece for @spspnews.bsky.social on our work on bodily autonomy.
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