Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My collaborator Alessandro Sparacio is leading a new multisite study examining the effectiveness of self-administered mindfulness meditation for stress reduction. More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alessa...

Those experiencing delusions were more likely to jump to conclusions on certain tasks. 🤔 But the *strength* of delusional beliefs did not correlate with propensity to jump to conclusions. Open access link below. #logic #psychiatry #criticalThinking #cogSci #decisionScience

APS's journal AMPPS has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review. @dsbarra.bsky.social 

oh wow! lovely to see people engaging with my research 😃 www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Is there a relationship between delusional ideation and a jumping to conclusions cognitive bias? Our new meta-analysis led by Rose Doherty (wisely not on social media) syntheses evidence from 42 studies and finds... nothing! First publication from her PhD research 🎉

Our recently published paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review on #reasoning styles and #belief in God is now featured by @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social! Thanks, Jonathan Caballero, for the interesting article. 📄 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Mysterious ways our reasoning styles relate to belief in God. #psynomPBR paper by @omidghasemi.bsky.social @onurcanyilmaz.bsky.social @jennyterry.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social. Post by J Caballero

I had hoped AI could unlock the secrets of the universe. Sadly, I was wrong...

Why do scientists disagree with each other? This new study from @justinsulik.bsky.social et al. surveys psychologists to find that scientific divides are associated with differences in researcher cognitive traits. @mi3lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just in time for Easter lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/apri...

new preprint available! Trust from Mistrust: When is Trust Rationally Justified? Co-authors @michalk.bsky.social @stevebland.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... Drawing on insights from Nietzsche's Human All-too-human, we develop a framework for wisely placing trust 🧵

Wendy Higgins (@wchiggins.bsky.social), who developed all these projects that interrogated the validity of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test, has just been awarded her PhD and joined BlueSky! Follow her for more cutting-edge research on measurement and meta-science!

Dr Wendy Higgins, who developed several brilliant projects that interrogated the validity of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test, has been awarded her PhD and joined BlueSky! Follow her for cutting-edge research on measurement and meta-science as she begins the next stage of her academic carer! 😀

Is Publons defunct? It got bought by Clarivate Analytics several years ago (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publons). When I dig around on their webpage attempting to access it I go round in circles. I was thinking of mentioning it in a metascience paper as an example of an attempt to reward peer review.

I’ve seen philosophers citing work on the RMET. Might be a good time to stop doing that.

Yes, constantly

Reading the Mind in the Eyes test... Ugh. Uninterpretable is an understatement - check thread with links for why this test should never be in your social cognition battery. Ever.

worst fight I ever got into in grad school was me borderline losing my shit completely at autism dev researchers about this kind of thing

Really dig this paper and kudos to the authors on a methodologically rigorous, transparent evaluation of a widely used measure of social cognition across nine (!) existing datasets. Well worth checking out

If there was a March Madness for measure I most loathe, this would wear the crown

Have you every found yourself wondering whether the most widely used measures of social cognitive ability measure what they are supposed to measure?

🚨New Paper Klaxon 🚨 Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief. Now out at PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here's a quick 🧵 on what we did and found!👇 1/ 11 🧪 #atheism #religion #culture #evolution

You know how Dennett wrote about *belief in belief* in Breaking the Spell? Well we found it! Maybe. Evidence that even atheists in secular spots tend to intuitively prefer faith over #atheism, using the Knobe effect. Updated preprint here, and a thread below. Enjoy! 🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Reiterating "that RMET scores are unsubstantiated, and thus uninterpretable" & again recommending "that researchers stop using the RMET as a measure of social cognitive ability and re-evaluate existing research findings based on RMET scores" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)

read some good news on January 20 2025 theconversation.com/most-of-us-t...

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

🧵1/2 Two new podcasts on morphology instruction! On the Teaching Literacy Podcast, we dive into the research on morphology instruction, talk about when and how to teach morphology, and discuss misconceptions about mispronunciation correction and Heart Words: open.spotify.com/episode/3vnc...

new paper just dropped, led by Samantha Stanley and with a great team including @colognaviktoria.bsky.social @neillevy.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Social-science journals have a key role to play: they must prioritize transparency to improve the credibility and verifiability of published research” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're upping our game at Religion, Brain & Behavior! New editorial: "Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yeah, we're doing this again.

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Response to commentaries on our recently published multisite study that failed to find evidence for cognitive dissonance theory (led by @willemsleegers.bsky.social and @vaidis.bsky.social) journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

A new poll comes out—do people really believe it? In a new chapter I organize the techniques researchers use to assure that respondents believe their answers. In short, bells & whistles only get us a little closer to everyday conceptions of what it means to "believe." tinyurl.com/BeliefTechniques

New research by Wendy Higgins, @vsavalei.bsky.social, Vince Polito, and me: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores demonstrate poor structural properties in nine large non-clinical samples. osf.io/preprints/ps...

It's OUT! 🥳 My first (shared) first author paper with @kimdoell.bsky.social , @madalina.bsky.social , @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and 254 amazing collaborators is published 🌍 Hope our dataset would be useful to many! Cant way to see the research that will come from it 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is there any research which finds that in some country (or countries) conservative/right-wing people appear to be significantly more supportive of some form/s of climate change mitigation policies than liberal/left-wing people?

In a new paper led by Losia Lagisz, we find that 222 “Best Paper” awards across 27 subject areas lack transparency, inclusivity, and support for Open Science. Of particular concern, concepts that align with Open Science were almost absent from assessment criteria ☹️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My PhD student and I wrote a thing about theory of mind, autism, and psychological measurement: www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/its...

📢 New preprint led by @omidghasemi.bsky.social with coauthors Onurcan Yilmaz, Ozan Isler, @jennyterry.bsky.social, and me. We examine the relationship between reflective and intuitive thinking and belief in God across 19 counties.

New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep. 🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

I have a strong intuition that non-experimental psychology studies successfully replicate in pre-registered replication studies much more often than experimental psychology studies. Can anyone provide me with evidence for — or against — my intuition?

New study replicates evidence that Republicans will declare incorrect beliefs to signal allegiance to their social or political group: factual accuracy is trumped by group loyalty. This is especially true for extreme partisans and for the most outlandish claims www.psypost.org/2024/02/expr...

🤩In one of the largest experiments conducted in #ClimateChange psychology –63 countries, 258 collaborators, almost 60k participants– we reveal targeted strategies to increase climate change awareness and action around the globe. out in @ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We tested 10 behavioral interventions to mitigate #climatechange in 63 countries (N = 59,440) The interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to non-climate skeptics, and differed across outcomes. Our paper is in Science Advances : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Really excited to share this one with y'all! "Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief", a new preprint with Ryan McKay, Jazi Brown-Iannuzzi, Rob Ross, Gord Pennycook, Jon Jong, and Jon Lanman osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇