Het Kenniscentrum Psychologie en Economisch gedrag was er ook (UL). We vroegen mensen wat zij willen dat wij gaan onderzoeken. Veel verschillende vragen gekregen en goede gesprekken gehad!

#PrejudiceResearch people.... drop everything!

New meta-analysis on norms and anti-minority prejudice.... lots to learn... including how important CONTACT NORMS are!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Waarom maken mensen geen gebruik van sociale voorzieningen? Waarom maken mensen geen gebruik van sociale voorzieningen en toeslagen, terwijl ze er recht op hebben?

Waarom maken mensen geen gebruik van sociale voorzieningen en toeslagen, terwijl ze er recht op hebben? Olaf Simonse van de Universiteit Leiden sprak er over tijdens een CBS-microdatamiddag voor gebruikers. Zijn promotieonderzoek leverde interessante resultaten op.

My lab was in a meeting this week working on a grant for Minerva to understand how propaganda and violent online rhetoric spill over into offline conflict around the world.

We got an email in the middle of our meeting noting that the funding program was cancelled.

So devastating for everyone.

Child dying from measles just glad he isn't autistic - The Beaverton TORONTO – Quarantined in his hospital room after contracting a fatal case of measles, little Timothy Bartlet told reporters how glad he was that his parents opted not to vaccinate for fear of giving h...

Child dying from measles just glad he isn’t autistic

Nu ook het officiële account van het Rijksmuseum en het Rijksmuseum Twente erbij en nog wat andere accounts. Dit pakket wordt regelmatig bijgewerkt. go.bsky.app/6SNszxK

Interessant, dat wist ik niet, dank!

Zo houden datahandelaren ons in de gaten (maar wie controleert hen?) Zonder dat je het doorhebt, worden jouw persoonlijke data elke dag verhandeld. Een wereld waar dagelijks miljoenen in omgaan. Toch weten we in Nederland weinig van deze handel af. Wat gebeurt er preci...

Een oudje maar ik kwam er laatst weer op, over datahandelaren: decorrespondent.nl/3472/zo-houd...

Heftig, waar haalt die derde partij die informatie vandaan dan? Een datahandelaar wellicht? Dystopisch…

Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update) Podcast Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 12/26/2024 · 1h 15m

What I find wild about this episode is how much the story telling about the woes of science and incentives align with narratives behind shutting down science funding.

“Unethical scientists in a broken system are wasteful and creating wrong and useless results”

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Homepage | European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

Let use European alternatives for digital products: european-alternatives.eu

Conference poster in red and gray with a picture of a revolutionary club meeting as they used to take place during the Paris Commune of 1871 - often in occupied church buildings. The picture shows a female speaker addressing a rowdy and diverse crowd from the pulpit.

Conference: "The Pasts, Presents and Futures of Communalism." With keynotes by Debbie Bookchin, Isabell Lorey and Hannah Proctor. 9-10 January in Nijmegen. For the full programme and mor info on registration check www.vivelacommune.org

The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne Psychology's infamous bully

To tolerate habitual lying, even when it comes from someone who occasionally advances good ideas, normalizes behavior that undermines everyone’s trust, just the way falsifying data does.

Scientists should demand both intellectual rigor and personal integrity. jimcoan.substack.com/p/the-troubl...

Thorstein Veblen probably had something to say on the matter in his Theory of the Leisure Class!

Resilient Responses to Victimization and Other Trauma: Positive Emotion Regulation and Other Understudied Psychosocial Strengths - Sherry Hamby, Elizabeth de Wetter, Katie Schultz, Elizabeth Taylor, V... Although many psychosocial strengths have been explored, there remains a need to identify under-appreciated strengths that help people overcome trauma. The obje...

Most emotion regulation research focuses on negative emotions. In focus groups, people said managing positive emotions (being able to cheer themselves up) was key to overcoming trauma. Now we've created a measure and have data backing up their insight. #edusky #psychscisky #academicsky

The below is incredibly strong evidence that the vaccine-autism link is nonsense.

But a few people noticed that the prevalence graph I linked seemed to *sort of* show the opposite: that non-vax status in kids was weakly associated with a HIGHER rate of autism.

Why?

Let's look at another study.

New meta-analysis by Bardach et al #PsychBull

Intergroup contact does very well relative to other school interventions to reduce prejudice.

I feel like I'm watching a horserace here!

Go contact!

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #PrejudiceResearch

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Two PhD openings in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam about adolescents and climate friendly behavior: one co-supervised by me, and another one more on computational modeling. Thanks for sharing

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I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation

Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Citizens and Sodomites. Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700) (Leiden: Brill, 2024) brill.com/display/titl...

Mooi, ik ben benieuwd, aangeschaft! Mooi cadeau voor mijn vrouw die onderzoek doet naar polyamorie :) en de LM hebben mijn eigen interesse. Kerst kan niet vroeg genoeg beginnen!

Erg interessant, maar wat jammer dat het zo duur moet zijn :(

Yeah it’s a bit getting used to, look for ‘starterpacks’, they can help you find people with specific backgrounds you might find interesting. All ok here, love to K

You’re here! Or, well, in Delhi to be more precise, what brings you there? Uni work?

“Why were people rational before 1970 and irrational thereafter?”
Fascinating perspective on the historical unfolding of the “rationality wars” in psychology and economics by Gerd Gigerenzer.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It is common practice in correlational or quasiexperimental studies to use statistical control to remove confounding effects from a regression coefficient. Controlling for relevant confounders can debias the estimated causal effect of a predictor on an outcome; that is, it can bring the estimated regression coefficient closer to the value of the true causal effect. But statistical control works only under ideal circumstances. When the selected control variables are inappropriate, controlling can result in estimates that are more biased than uncontrolled estimates. Despite the ubiquity of statistical control in published regression analyses and the consequences of controlling for inappropriate third variables, the selection of control variables is rarely explicitly justified in print. We argue that to carefully select appropriate control variables, researchers must propose and defend a causal structure that includes the outcome, predictors, and plausible confounders. We underscore the importance of causality when selecting control variables by demonstrating how regression coefficients are affected by controlling for appropriate and inappropriate variables. Finally, we provide practical recommendations for applied researchers who wish to use statistical control.

"Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification".

In their great article, Anna Wysocki et al. discuss the importance of carefully thinking about control variables. Why you wonder? 🧵

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What Makes a Good Theory? Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Computational Brain & Behavior Computational Brain & Behavior -

Finally our editorial for the "What makes a good theory?" special issue is out (co-edited with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @jcskewes.bsky.social, Sashank Varma, and Todd Wareham). It's an interdisciplinary issue and the contents are transdisciplinary.

#philsci #metasci #cogsci #ai #psych 🧪

📢We are running a call for papers on *understanding and countering disinformation and propaganda* for a special issue in Behavioral Science & Policy

Check out details below👇, all disciplines and approaches welcome, please share and submit your work!

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