not just arxiv

"when directly asked if it was an AI or a human, [AI] claimed to be human 100% of the time" "when asked to report a ZIP code, over 80% of [AI]’s responses were 90210 (Beverly Hills)" :-D www.surveypractice.org/article/1460...

Sure, correlation does not mean causation, but that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting. This site maps how a wide range of tastes and preferences correlate with personality traits (and vice versa), not all of which are unsurprising: buff.ly/YwPu1TY via @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social

mkey

How to make an echo in your echo chamber sound even more like you? "Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms" arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14434 "users can use [basic value] controls to architect feeds reflecting their desired values. [such] feeds diverge.. from engagement-driven feeds."

AI doesn't take away your dirty work, AI redefines it.

Jinli Wu's paper is out. "The mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind or mentalist focus/orientation) and that behavior carries greater significance in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus/orientation). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Rethinking measurement invariance causally by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance. A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation. Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results

‼️ doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

"war exposure significantly predicted increases in religiosity"... p = .034 doi.org/10.1080/1050...

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Arguably, the most annoying way to name your paper: make it a question which you don't answer in the paper.

It's not around mainstream media, but right now in Serbia academics are blocked out of universities, and their students are beaten up by a police for just trying to keep up with their duties. Video from the Department of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

More and more positions like that (not just in the U.S.)

A random paper, just—the art of science "In preliminary analyses, ipsative value scores showed almost no association with the outcome measures, whereas the raw mean scores showed robust associations. The raw mean scores were therefore used..." doi.org/10.1007/s109...

New paper in Proceedings B, forcing us to rethink the canonical understanding of cultural differences in independent and interdependent agency.

"the mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind focus) and behavior ... in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus)." @yuliacd.bsky.social I like this idea very much; explains all that Western fuss about "being a good person". osf.io/preprints/ps...

"Sage against the machine" — is a behind-the-paywall title of a Hindustan Times article reviewing our paper ( doi.org/10.1038/s414...) on perception of wisdom in people across cultures (thanks to @igi.bsky.social ) there's a paywall but just in case www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...

ok - might be sending all my *best* ideas there imsj.org

Just like the ego in Freudian theory acts as a negotiator between the id and the superego, personality is a battleground where culture collides with situational demands. #nocontextdrops

Values are not what people *are* (hence the weak association with behavior) Values are what people *aspire to be* #nocontextdrops

Just a Cattell's box - good for teaching and reflecting on psychological data

I like Ellen Hamaker's articles, how very simple things such as a correlation coefficient may turn out so incomprehensibly complicated. doi.org/10.1080/0027...

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

wow they reached inside the LLM and identified specific value-mandating neurons in a neuron net. Sounds like a neuroscience but with LLM's brains arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17712

Timothy Leary's wild bio came across, and GenAI seems to be our version of 60's LSD 1. both are acronyms 2. nobody knows how it works 3. feels sort of dangerous/illegal 4. uni's are excited AND terrified 5. the bravest of professors give it to students 6. everybody uses it anyways 7. very trendy

from Leary's handbook

what could be more natural

what "slider" and "measurement scale" actually mean Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

indeed! should have been an epigraph to my blog maksimrudnev.com/2025/04/24/n... Source: doi.org/10.1080/0022...

what a strange idea to measure values (=conscious beliefs) through implicit associations doi.org/10.1016/j.pa... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

timely

Next step towards making sense of non-invariance An effect size measure to quantify the degree of non-invariance and make sense of it, now with multiple groups It doesn't have cutoffs yet but it's for the best because invariance is continuous not binary doi.org/10.1080/1070...

"The utilitarian motivation for the social sciences is they can protect us from bad social-science reasoning."

Bookmark: a nice collection of video seminars on basic values from the key scholars whatdowevalue.com.au/events/

there is no such thing as [see thread] scholar.google.com/scholar?star...

"Claude expresses many practical and epistemic values, and typically supports prosocial human values while resisting values like "moral nihilism" ...unlike human value.. Claude’s trans-situational values are predominantly service-oriented, pragmatic and epistemic" arxiv.org/abs/2504.15236

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

How do you come up with the scale name? There are no rules how to make a good name and little thought is given to it. I reflect on that in a blogpost btw: "Onomastics is the study of proper names, including their etymology, history, and use. " maksimrudnev.com/2025/04/24/n...

Is it unethical to make public an anonymous review which you received on your manuscript after submission to a journal? I am so often tempted to expose the quality of some reviews. (Even journals that practice 'transparent' peer-review don't publish reviews of the rejected papers).

A study measures the performance of ChatGPT and open-source LLMs in annotating US media tweets for political content. All models were outperformed by a supervised classifier. The authors urge caution when using chatbots for social science annotation. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

something about this friday night R coding

Are there any null-result scale development studies? It feels like a study aimed at introducing a new scale can't fail, otherwise it's not publishable. Moreover, a scale could be disqualified only by being replaced or forgotten. Then, overall, how scientific is scale development?

Our article "Dimensions of wisdom perception across twelve countries on five continents" received 13464 article downloads in 2024, placing it as one of the Top 25 downloaded Social Science papers out of 415 published in Nature Communications last year. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My new favorite English verb: it-is-what-it-is-ing

the authors pay $2690.00 so the readers can read their paper in Scientific Reports (www.nature.com/srep/open-ac...). But why not showing some questionable ads on the same page, right?

Another evidence that a person-country congruence of values is associated with higher SWB, now with political values but unfortunate measurement decisions and uninsured implied causality doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Rejected hypotheses require more effort (and drive p-hacking)