TWO social psychologists got it!!!! Congrats to Mina Cikara and @olsonista.bsky.social !!!!

Congratulations! 🎊

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

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The takeaway: awareness isn’t enough on its own.

Manuscript in progress.
Open to feedback and collaboration.

Just presented at AES 2026.
Our paper, The Implicit Bias Paradox, asks a simple question: if people know about bias, why doesn’t behavior change?

Grateful for the opportunity and collaboration at the Stereotypes, Implicit Bias, Group Norms, Attitudes, and Learning (SIGNAL) Lab
#PsychologyResearch #ImplicitBias #BehaviorChange #Socialpsychology #Academia

Excited to present our poster at
Advancing Excellence in Scholarship Research Conference 2026 hosted by the University of Virginia where we introduce the Awareness-Emotion-Motivation (AEM) framework - exploring how emotion and motivation shape whether bias actually shifts.

Algorithms Don't Need Your Surname to Guess Your Caste. That's a Problem A Dalit student graduating in the mid-2020s will encounter screening systems built on decades of unequal hiring, skewed promotion data, and biased public records. Unless institutions change how algori...

www.theindiaforum.in/caste/algori...

Crowds & Identities -- a starter pack.

Please share.

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Are you an planning on appyiyng for a PhD in psychology in the fall? Want to learn more about the application process and what programs are looking for? Come to our info session!

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

We're looking for a PhD student working on the (mis)perception of social norms in social networks (in collaboration with Vincent Buskens at Utrecht University). Deadline: April 1, 2026. More information here: socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...

PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences.

The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below!

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Two political psych starter packs!

Both have been around, but 2 has had a lot more people added.

Check them out if you haven’t already

1: go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx
2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj

Really excited to announce that our paper introducing an expanded framework and measure of advantaged identity management has been accepted @ PSPB! You can check out the thread below for more details and find an updated preprint here: tinyurl.com/2uvem5nh

Eight common errors I see in PhD applications and interviews, and how to avoid them Convince a supervisor that you’re a great fit for their laboratory by preparing questions, honing your personal statement and showcasing strong team-player instincts.

My new career column in Nature is out.

After reviewing hundreds of PhD applications for my lab and admissions at the UIUC, I kept seeing the same mistakes.

I share 8 common application and interview mistakes and what applicants can do differently.

doi.org/10.1038/d415...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We’re #hiring a #PhD candidate at NIDI (The Hague).

Together with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and @glorenz.bsky.social, I will supervise a project on the connection of different dimensions of social cohesion in ethnically diverse schools.

Deadline 1 April 2026.

More information:

Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals

🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New work from @drsanaz.bsky.social : using smart phone sensing data, one of the biggest predictors of people higher on authoritarian measure was Facebook and social media use #spsp

Attend our Demystifying Clinical Psychology Conference (April 17th and 18th on Zoom)! We will demystify clinical psychology PhD programs and provide professional development opportunities! See you there!

Registration: tinyurl.com/CUDCPDCP26

Tentative Schedule: tinyurl.com/DCPSchedule2...

I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨New pub alert!🚨
Research on the health benefits of LGBTQ+ community involvement is nuanced. Led by Dr. @barnhartwr.bsky.social, our longitudinal study found… 1/4

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am thrilled to share my new first author pub in JAD! 🥳 We found minority stress was associated with concurrent and future experiences of defeat, and defeat was associated with prospective minority stress in sexual minority college students reporting SI.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1meFzbXYj0...

🧵New paper out in @commspsychol.nature.com We tested whether language-based assessments (LBAs) can predict not just subjective well-being (life satisfaction) but also psychological well-being (autonomy). Across 3 studies, we found that LBAs work well for some constructs—but not all! 1/

(When and how) does basic research in clinical psychology lead to more effective psychological treatment for mental disorders? An important aim of basic research in Clinical Psychology is to improve clinical practice (e.g., by developing novel interventions or improving the ef…

When you find a paper that hits the exact target of what you are looking for 🤌🤌🤌

"(When and how) does basic research in clinical psychology lead to more effective psychological treatment for mental disorders?"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The deadline for this fully-funded PhD studentship with me and @alexhendry.bsky.social
is tomorrow (18th Feb). Apply if you are interested in improving executive functions in children from neurotypical and neurodiverse families.

New preprint! We investigate the risk of algorithmic bias (across race/ethnicity, gender, and their intersection) in machine learning models predicting suicide attempts across 3 clinical settings in over 1.2 million patients.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Dark blue hexagon, with a light blue frame. Features a brain facing the left, with the front half as a wire-frame mesh of light blue, and the back half with several polygon segments of different colours. Below is written "ggseg" in light blue.

The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠

For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains.

#rstats #neuroimaging #openscience

What we have learned about adolescent mental health and where we are going after a decade with the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study This review synthesizes ten years of research utilizing data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, emphasizing how the study’s…

The first article in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience special issue 10 years of @theabcdstudy.bsky.social is now online! 🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth: 2018–2024 This evidence base update investigates the empirical support of psychosocial interventions for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) in youth, focusing on the period since the prior review....

New paper with @yr2lab.bsky.social!

Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth: 2018–2024
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....