Two new studies use Christmas - a religious event characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environments - to examine the role of environment in shaping people’s implicit biases doi.org/10.1525/coll...

This study empirically examines the reasoning capabilities of LLMs, suggesting potential roles and limitations of algorithmic tools in social science, providing new evidence for data-driven academic practices doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Are you interested in ✨ registered reports, ✨ open data, ✨ replications, and ✨ diversity science? If the answer is yes, then you should join us for the online SIPS@SPSP Preconference on February 24, 2026! The registration is open, and discount codes are available. More 👇

Anybody knowledgeable in measurement (especially in adaptations for Mexican culture) and/or prosopagnosia that would be willing to serve as a reviewer for @collabrapsychology.bsky.social ? At the point where decliners are mostly recommending people who have already declined😅

New in cognitive psychology, from @drsatrevik.bsky.social, Thea Granerud, Mona Nijhof, and @ams79.bsky.social: Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Divergent Effects of Inversion on Facilitation and Interference in Holistic Face Processing doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in Methodology and Research Practice: What Predicts Within-Variance After Correcting for Measurement Error? A Re-Analysis on Podsakoff et al. (2019) doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in Personality Psychology: Interpersonal Problem Profiles of Antagonistic Traits and the Comparisons With Big Five Traits doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Victim-survivors of sexual violence were rated as less likable than individuals who had experienced other forms of trauma, regardless of rater gender or sexual violence history doi.org/10.1525/coll...

The Consequences of Optional Stopping on the Research Literature doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Children’s Cognitive Reflection Skills Predict Their Conceptual Learning doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Hypothetical Judgment and Real-Life Decision-Making in Sacrificial Dilemmas: A Replication of “of Mice, Men and Trolleys” doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): "Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?" A #CREP project with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000 doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation? a #CREP project with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000 is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll... #OpenScience #Metascience

A new CRC-associated publication led by @helenahartmann.com gives insights into what it means to use feminist approaches in one's research 🤔💁‍♀️ Guess what - you might already be using some of them without knowing! 😱 Read the paper to find out more ⤵️

Who Reaches Out to Old Friends and What Do They Say? doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Do Indirect Measures Predict Affect-Specific Automatic Behavior —Moderated by Cognitive Control Resources? An Investigation Into the Domains of Disgust, Speech Anxiety, and Liking vs. Disliking of a Minority Group doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in Clinical Psychology: Measuring Depression and Anxiety With 4 Items? Adaptation of the PHQ-4 to Increase Its Sensitivity to Subclinical Variability. From @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in Methodology and Research Practice: Validity of a One-Stop Automatic Algorithm for Counting Clusters and Shifts in the Semantic Fluency Task doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Machiavellianism scales often miss key facets across affect, behavior, cognition, and desire. Our new paper in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social introduces the M4 scale, built with Ant Colony Optimization to capture Mach more comprehensively. It is freely available here: doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Assessing the ABCDs of Machiavellianism: Development and Validation of the M4 Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization, from @mp-grosz.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in developmental psychology: How Language Background Influences the Relationship Between Morphological Awareness and Literacy Skills in Monolingual and Bilingual Schoolchildren doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in Social Psychology: Authenticity Affordances as Social and Health-Related Cues: Associations With Self-Esteem, from @antoniofreitasphd.bsky.social and Ashley Araiza doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Simply observing how another socially relevant person responds to a stimulus is sufficient to create stimulus-response episodes which can later be retrieved from memory to guide one’s own actions - regardless of whether the observed person is trustworthy. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

To what extent do the Big Five traits and self-esteem predict voluntary and involuntary dropout from military training? From @etienneheitz.bsky.social and Hubert Annen. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Refugees are often marginalized, vulnerable, and at-risk for substandard healthcare and pain management. In our newest paper, we examined how people evaluate refugees’ sensitivity to pain, finding evidence consistent with a sensitization effect. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New 📰 Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis doi.org/10.1525/coll...

🎉 New paper out- open access! 🎉 We explain what we mean by feminist practices, why they are important, & ideas to make academia more inclusive for everyone. With the amazing Feminist Wonderlab @helenahartmann.com @kohinoordarda.bsky.social @nscorralfrias.bsky.social, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

"Our participants identify a misunderstanding of feminism as a concept, specifically that it is only for women." #AcademicSky #OpenSci #FeministSky

New paper out with the Feminist Wonderlab and this is an important one ❤️

Incorporating feminist approaches in psychological science: why, what, and where. From @helenahartmann.com, @kohinoordarda.bsky.social, @v-meletaki.bsky.social, @nscorralfrias.bsky.social, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧵:

new perspective in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social suggests “analysis blinding has the potential to prevent fruitless discussions and tension between original authors and replication teams in replication projects while preserving a healthy scientific debate” online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Muslims’ Psychological Responses to Subtle Versus Blatant Expressions of Anti-Muslim Prejudice, from Franziska Stanke, @niclaskuper.bsky.social, Karolina Fetz, and Gerald Echterhoff doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Excited to share my first publication! TLDR; mind-wandering is contagious & classmate behavior can cause an increase in task-unrelated thoughts! Thank you to my collaborator, @michaeljkane.bsky.social for guidance throughout this project. You can read it here - online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

📢 New paper out! Check it out if you are interested in how themes of agency and communion shape racial and ethnic experiences and correspond with this aspect of identity! 👉 doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in cognitive psychology: Shifting Attention: Unveiling the Ordinal Semantics Dominance in Spatial-Numerical Associations doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in developmental psychology: Parental Attitudes and Children’s Language Development: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of the Early Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New in social psychology: The Revised Moral Foundations in Iran: Validation and Sociodemographic Correlates of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire-2 doi.org/10.1525/coll...

What Paradigms Can Webcam Eye-Tracking Be Used For? Attempted Replications of Five Cognitive Science Experiments doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Do you enjoy a good, sweaty training session now and then? Then you’ll score high on our Value of Physical Effort (VoPE) scale—just out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social Curious or want to use it? doi.org/10.1525/coll... w/ J Staehler, @wanjawolff.bsky.social & J Schueler

New in cognitive psychology: Analyzing the Affective Consequences of Normal Sleep Fluctuations: A Multiverse Investigation Using Experience Sampling Data, from Stephen Murphy, @kvgaever.bsky.social, @daviddeseg.bsky.social, and Mariek Vanden Abeele doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New: Research from @marcald.bsky.social, @bjongkees.bsky.social, Filippo Gambarota, Massimiliano Pastore, Nicola Cellini, and Roberta Sellaro examines the effects of stress on working memory doi.org/10.1525/coll...

In this new #RegisteredReport, @leopoldroth.bsky.social, Tassilo Tissot, Thea Fischer, and Sophie Masak examine the role of gender on the relationship between high effort at work and positive moral judgments doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Is It (Un)romantic in Here or Is It Just Me? Daisi R. Brand, @cmleckfor.bsky.social, and Richard B. Slatcher on the role of environmental factors on facilitating intimacy between strangers doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Presidential address from @priyasilverstein.com at #SIPS2025: “Improving psychological science is hard” It is, but SIPS is also the best community I could ever imagine to work on that improvement with 🥹 Join and support! 🙏🏻 improvingpsych.org

🚀#SIPS2025 starts today! 🚀 We are so excited to: 🎤 hear from the speakers, 📚 learn during the workshops, 🛠️ conduct projects during hackathons, 💬 and discuss ideas with the SIPS Community! We encourage all participants to post their thoughts about the conference with the hashtag #SIPS2025!

Out now in Collabra: Psychology: Automated Reproducibility Testing in R Markdown. The R package reproducibleRchunks, which stores metadata about original computational results and verifies later reproduction attempts automatically. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

New personality psychology research questions the predictive validity of the Moral Character Questionnaire - particularly when it comes to predicting dishonesty or prosociality online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...