"Right-wing political orientation is positively associated with national identification even among individuals who are disadvantaged by the system." New work by Luca Caricati: doi.org/10.1002/casp...

New paper by Jolynn Pek and colleagues criticizes the z-curve approach of detecting selection bias.

What is a *felicitous falsehood*? "[a]n inaccurate representation whose inaccuracy does not undermine its epistemic function.” — Catherine Z. Elgin (2017, p. 3) 5/🧵

My partner made a custom 'guess who' for Christmas :)

"Philosophers of science have much to learn from the history and philosophy of art and artistic representation."

UK's Health and Safety Executive to the University of Birmingham: “The lack of consultation and information gathering means you cannot demonstrate sufficient understanding of the risk to your staff from work-related stress in your business.” #UKHE #AcademicSky

"How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point?" The Szilard point is "the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding."

My science is more sciencey than your science! "Boundary work is more contentious, however, when it desciences research on ideological grounds." New work by Robbie Sutton and @stefanleach.bsky.social on science rejection. Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

'An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the Russell Group university “does not have appropriate arrangements in place” for managing workplace stress and was unable to demonstrate that it is managing the risks associated with excessive workloads.' 1/2

;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3

📣We are excited to announce that FORRT is one of the few initiatives worldwide to be formally endorsed as a Programme of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD, 2024–2033)! 🎉

A global study of minimal groups finds discrimination in favor of the in-group in all 20 countries, yielding a large overall effect (OR = 4.58). The degree of intergroup discrimination was related to higher societal uncertainty www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Minority Power "Marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages." #SocialPsyc

"Our analyses highlight that the United States and other English-speaking countries are not the most individualist cultures in the world...Instead, Northwest European countries rank highest on measures of individualism." New work by @pakaliyski.bsky.social et al. dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

A perspectivist framework for understanding statistical assumptions: "The description of the world underlying statistical models has to be understood from the perspective that is sketched by the statistical assumptions." By @kinozhao.bsky.social hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/qasl4fza #PhilSci

We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Multiple Testing "Given the results of this review and previous literature, it could be prudent to revisit the question of whether MC [multiplicity control] is ever necessary." doi.org/10.1037/cap0... #Psychology #Methodology 🧪

Recent report highlights the strong representation of major consulting firms and large corporations on Australian university councils. parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/dow...

Motivated Reasoning "Quite undoubtedly, motivated reasoning is *a thing.* What we need, is more research to find out what thing it is *exactly.* New narrative review by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social, @marlephie.bsky.social, & @zpid.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1525/coll...

"Much of what we know comes from what other people tell us. Thus, the epistemology of testimony is a critical area of social epistemology." "Liars and deceivers are what we might call epistemic adversaries."

New in @socialdevelopment.bsky.social! What's behind some parents' discomfort with their kids' intergroup interactions? Potentially assumptions about who is mean, pushy, reckless, or just too different. #devpsyc #socialpsyc #familysci doi.org/10.1111/sode...

New study finds university students from lower social class backgrounds are more likely to gauge their success at uni by the positive impact they have on their families and communities. Open Access: doi.org/10.63608/ssj... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #SocialPsyc

Adversarial peer review - gatekeeping against "junk science" that would "pollute" the precious literature. Constructive peer review - a more collaborative approach aimed at improving authors' work. Thread on how the adversarial approach prompts defensive strategies in authors...

Durham, UK, tonight

I heard Spencer Greenberg talk about this on a pod (2 psychologists 4 beers) a few months back and thought it seems like a really cool project. I like how they randomly select studies to replicate. Often estimates of "replication rate" (or of median power) have an unclear denominator imo

“Positivism Creep” “The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.” By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social

Excellent presentation today by @shelleymckeown.bsky.social at Durham University in which she considered two “problems” with intergroup contact: (1) Does contact lead to *within* person change in attitudes? (2) Does contact even happen in the first place?

UK Metascience Funding "The UK government has announced a major increase in funding for metascience over the next four years, including a more than trebling of investment in the UK Metascience Unit."

"Replication rates are higher than experts predicted and p-hacking is much less common than we expected!" replications.clearerthinking.org/three-surpri...

"What can be done about effects of demand characteristics is acknowledging their potential contribution to the effect, and discussing in good faith how a demand account – as any other competing account – represents a sensible alternative for the interpretation of the data." #SocialPsyc #PsycSci

I really like this one. We've said for years that partialling changes variables in ways that are difficult to know. Here, we show the latter. Be careful out there. Anxiety with depression partialled is not anxiety.

This is *exactly* the same phrasing as the management used @qmul.bsky.social. This is work that has been withdrawn as part of legal industrial action. Management is demanding staff undoes their own industrial action and performs the work they have not been paid for, on top of their existing work.

“Union-Busting Tactic” The University of Sheffield argues staff who do not replace missed teaching due to strike action are in breach of contract, and so should forfeit an *additional* two weeks of pay. #UKHE #AcademicSky

Steep drop in international students causes Essex University to cut 400 jobs over the next two years and close one of its campuses. #UKHE #AcademicSky

Statement from the European Association of Social Psychology's Executive Committee regarding Miles Hewstone. #SocialPsyc

Chief financial officers in 74 English universities “were asked whether they viewed the current financial situation as a ‘short-term challenge’ or a ‘systematic and longer-term issue’. Seventy-two of the seventy-four respondents indicated the latter.” ircaucus.ac.uk/publications...

New preprint 🎉 Living systematic reviews ensure evidence stays current osf.io/preprints/ps... In this brief comment (all four pages are here ⬇️), @iaiversen.bsky.social and I cover the benefits and challenges of living systematic reviews, along with two ways to increase their uptake 🧵 1/8

"Nearly every aspect of IH [intellectual humility] is still being questioned: how to measure it, how it develops, how to increase it (if at all), and even what it is, especially whether IH should be seen as descriptive or prescriptive."

"Miles Hewstone no longer holds the honorific title of Emeritus Fellow at New College, which is part of Oxford. He has resigned as a fellow of the British Academy, a respected body that promotes humanities and social sciences." archive.is/2025.11.28-1...

Introduction to the new Handbook of Social Identity Research by Kate Reynolds and Nyla Branscombe Open Access: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b... #SocialPsyc #PsycSci

Many analysts are not always equal analysts "Should every analyst's contribution be weighted equally?" From "Ten Strategies To Improve Many-Analysts Studies" by Alexandra Sarafoglou, @balazsaczel.bsky.social et al. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #MetaSci

Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing): What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?

“This article focuses on the epistemic specificity of humanities research which makes it not only not suitable for replication, but also at odds with many of the other scientific reform measures touted as solutions to the so-called replication crisis.”

Building previously hidden moderators into a theory as boundary conditions can lead to overspecification and reduced parsimony. New work by Johannes Ziegler and @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/2151...

Bloomberg podcast with Katherine Griffiths on sexual harassment at Oxford University. #AcademicSky #UKHE

#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology is coming to grips with the now-public news that a prominent member of our community has been credibly accused by many women of harassment. As painful as it is, acknowledging such issues is important for moving on and for generating safer work & study spaces.

Statement by the International Contact Research Network responding to the recent Bloomberg article on Miles Hewstone and sexual harrassment. "First and foremost, we stand by the victims of these abuses." #AcademicSky #PhdSky #SocialPsyc

In case you can't access the original article in full: archive.is/M2wK8