Only symposia!

New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences.

Steps to counter this are in motion.

If you
- have an SBE proposal under review
- serve on an SBE grant panel

You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

"Vibes" has consumed so many of my other words, and now I fight it

This paper claims that watching sports causes zero-sum thinking, with experimental and longitudinal evidence
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Really cool work as usual!
Is there a way to disentangle "this is all capturing the same construct" from "these are real and distinct constructs but further back in the causal chain such that they cause perceptions of relationship quality (thereby loading on same factor)"? If this makes sense

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

SCORE | Center for Open Science SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, with Michael Varnum.
This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵

What really drives someone to support violent extremism? I am thrilled to share our new article published today in PNAS. Together with an incredible team of collaborators, we conducted a preregistered study across 58 countries with over 18,000 participants. This is what we found.

Interested in attending the CPA Social & Personality pre-conference in Montreal on June 3rd? See below for more information!

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Ok this is getting embarrassing for me, so #stats people you know the Akaike information criterion (AIC) right?

Uh ... how do you pronounce Akaike? I gotta verbally say it sometimes in teaching, and am tired of making a fool of myself lol

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.

As a person organizing a conference right now who is.... less into it, the world needs more people like you!

cOMPaRatiVe cOGNitiONHumans share acousticpreferences with other animalsLogan S. James1,2,3,4* Sarah C. Woolley 1,2, Jon T. Sakata1,2,Courtney B. Hilton5,6, Michael J. Ryan3,4, Samuel A. Mehr5,7,8Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefersome sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergentevolution may generate similarities in preference across speciesand underlie Darwin’s conjecture that some animals “havenearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have.” In this study,we show that humans share acoustic preferences with a rangeof animals, that the strength of human preferences correlateswith that in other animals, and that humans respond fasterwhen in agreement with animals. Furthermore, we foundgreatest agreement in preference for adorned, ancestral, andlower-frequency sounds. humans’ music listening experiencewas associated with preferences. These results are consistentwith theories arguing that biases in processing sculpt acousticpreferences, and they confirm Darwin’s century-old hunchabout the conservation of aesthetics in nature

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species)

he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals

doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

A threat to many fields of research wanting to conduct longitudinal evaluations is participants may remember their previous answers.

Retest reliability, memory accuracy, long-term effects of interventions.

We instead show people don't remember what they last said.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

#psych

Emotional stimuli in psychology just got a high-tech upgrade. 🚀In our new paper in AMPPS, we introduce and validate the Library of AI-Generated Affective Images (LAI-GAI). We combined generative AI with a rigorous validation pipeline to modernize affect induction procedures.👇

We're raising money (matched dollar for dollar!) to support paid research experiences for underrepresented students in our department at McGill. No amount too small to show support for science training these days....

crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/pr...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Looking for field study, for class, using unobtrusive observation for DV?

Our new paper, led by Siobhan Murray (w Rose Meleady) is for you!

Cafeteria allowed menu boards with & without animal images

Odds of choosing vegetarian meals rose 22% if animal image present.

Neat paper finding ~3% socialization of prejudice in german adolescents social networks

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

thanks all!

not necessarily, my understanding of the term was as a generic 3rd variable on which two labs might differ, so this moderated whether something was replicated or not

I'm looking for a cite on the potential of hidden moderators as responsible for failed replications. This was a regular dialog in peak replication crisis, but can't find/recall a specific cite arguing or laying out this possibility. Maybe a perspectives piece?

just reminder, deadline March 12

The Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in Childhood Racial bias emerges early in a fairly consistent manner in the U.S. and in other societies in which group-based inequality is prevalent. Specifically, White children often show in-group preferences w....

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.

I still remember when they mixed up you and Calvin, glad that is coming back around again

preach.

maybe this would work for certain types of papers in certain fields, like "this algorithm is now 15% more efficient, check it", but not when thinking and consideration is necessary

Yet another good reason to mute or block the trolls in your life

These negative social ties--known as 'hasslers"--are chronic stressors and are linked to impaired physical health and faster aging.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
doi.org/10.1177/2515...