Really like this paper! Combines simulations of theoretical models and empirical tests of those models using multiple methods! If you are interested in belief systems, check this out!

Out @thejop.bsky.social: measuring shocks like weather or immigrant exposure has vast researcher degrees of freedom. We (@phanxi.bsky.social) show: equally plausible measures diverge + yield spurious results. So, investigate the full set. For us, a null for climate opinion www.doi.org/10.1086/735706

You need to bring in the same toolkit as in studies that try to establish causality without randomization. I know it sounds unfair, but I don’t make the rules. These situations are instances of post-treatment bias, if you want to read up on it as a psychologist:

So happy that this paper is out! Led by my fabulous friend @ashleykrause.bsky.social :)

This new paper offers practical solutions for pluralistic ignorance (when people assume their opinon is unpopular when many others share it): -in loose cultures, share accurate information -in tight ones, lowering the costs of speaking up can spark social change. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m grateful to contribute a public-facing article to ASA's Contexts Magazine on how national contexts shape attitudes about abortion. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @scholars.org @johnjaycjphd.bsky.social #PublicSociology #ComparativeResearch #ReproductivePolitics #ASA

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

Looking for data that the government is pulling down? We may have it backed up for you. Check our portal: portal.datarescueproject.org Know of data being taken down or worried about a data source? Let us know: baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/r7V1c44...

Meta-analysis finds that social norms messaging (telling people what others do or think they should do) has no effect on improving health behaviors once publication bias is accounted for. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just published in Behavior Research Methods: The individual-level precision of implicit measures w/ @ianhussey.mmmdata.io 🧵👇 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Awesome preprint on model checking for VAR Models. Would love to see more "model checking" tutorial papers for various models, including a showcase what happens if the assumptions you impose on your data are not met in the data. 🧪 #psychscisky osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now. "Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you, like me, love hiking, you know rugged terrain *does* something to you 🥾😰 In a new paper led by @tsudaka.bsky.social, we asked: Is rugged terrain linked not only to how your knees feel but also how you think about authority? (1/n) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...