New paper from me at Perspectives on Psychological Science!
"Reframing the Performance and Ethics of Empathic AI: Wisdom of the Crowd and Placebos"
I use analogies to two classic psychological effects to recast recent findings about the performance of empathy by LLMs.
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
My lab (u.osu.edu/spal/) and Ken Fujita’s lab (u.osu.edu/fujita/) at OSU are hiring a joint lab manager (a full-time postgraduate researcher) to start this summer!
Come work in two incredibly fun labs in a thriving social psychology department.
Application and more information soon to come!
Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :)
Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106
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The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st.
Please share, thank you 🙏
The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j
The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf
“As much as partisans might be attracted to different types of entertainment content, they — at least white partisans — are also sensitive to social signals about who else is watching."
news.illinois.edu/racial-polit...
Announcement of two new SPSP awards in 2026 for faculty and student research with an April 20 application deadline.
SPSP is excited to announce 2 new awards for 2026:
🔬SPUR Faculty Research Award: For faculty at undergrad institutions funding student-faculty partnerships
🎓Student Research Award: For MA and PhD students conducting original research
Apply by April 20: https://ow.ly/tL3R50YsSEb
Did you know that Collabra: Psychology is SIPS’s official journal? We'd love to hear your thoughts about Collabra's potential future directions!
Please consider filling out this anonymous 5 to 10-minute survey:
A paid summer internship is available in Microsoft Research NYC for a *PhD student later in their degree*, with experience designing human questionnaires/experiments, collecting data on prolific, running statistical analysis, and writing papers. If you know exceptional candidates please ping me. 🙏
New postdoc position at Cornell! This is a bit of a unique one: It's a teaching postdoc focused on integrating active learning strategies into psychology courses (including one of my own). Should be a lot of fun!
Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31738
Are you attending @cogdevsoc.bsky.social 2026? Come join us for an afternoon pre-conference workshop on motivation in development! We'll bring together developmental, educational, and computational perspectives to ask: Can we build a unified account of motivation across the lifespan? ✨
Honored to see our UML paper featured by the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
The article highlights how unsupervised machine learning can help social scientists uncover hidden structure in beliefs and attitudes.
www.ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2026/ne...
When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please!
forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...
I’m excited to announce a special issue I am guest editing at SCAN with Johanna Jarcho and @maureenritchey.bsky.social on the intersection of memory and social cognition. Find more info here: academic.oup.com/scan/pages/c...
Members of the Social Cognition Lab presented 4 exciting posters at #SPSP2026, all of which are now available via OSF:
I'm really proud of this paper I wrote with my grad student proposing that children's racial biases are driven in part by racial differences in social status. Part of making the world a better place for children of color is ending racial inequity.
• Effects of stimulus individuability on IAT performance: osf.io/qpgyw/
• Generalization from exemplars to categories: osf.io/8qe6m/
• Counterattitudinal learning: osf.io/48vq2/
• Stories shaping intergroup bias: osf.io/g9d6k/
Members of the Social Cognition Lab presented 4 exciting posters at #SPSP2026, all of which are now available via OSF:
Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐
We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...
We're excited about the upcoming Computational Psychology preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social this Thursday. See our action-packed full day agenda below! Featuring 3 keynote talk themes with related early-career speakers, data blitz session, panel discussion. Don't miss it! #SPSP
It’s time yall! I’m excited to co-organize a symposium with @freemanjb.bsky.social at @spspnews.bsky.social this week!! Come by Friday morning (8am, room 450B) to see some amazing talks by phenomenal researchers! @xallysie.bsky.social @chujunlin.bsky.social @whatsinertia.bsky.social #SPSP2026
Lab manager position in the Cognitive Development Lab Please forward to motivated students! Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/182022 Deadline: March 2, 2026 Questions? Email andrei.cimpian@nyu.edu
Looking for a lab manager! Join us! 😊
apply.interfolio.com/182022
Congratulations to the 2026 APS Spence Award recipients: Dorsa Amir, William Brady, Emily Finn, Daniel Yon, Yuan Chang Leong, Andrew Grotzinger.
Congratulations to the 2026 APS Spence Award Recipients! @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social, @esfinn.bsky.social, @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social, @ycleong.bsky.social, @danieljamesyon.bsky.social,
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