New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

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When I was a younger faculty, I kept wavering on whether I should apply for the Rising Star every year. And then when I finally worked up the courage to apply, I was no longer eligible. Lesson here is that you should not miss your shot and just apply! Don’t pray for someone to secretly nominate you!

Excited to share that I’ll be the incoming Editor of AMPPS. My first priority is building a diverse team of Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. If you’re interested, DM me or add your name via this super simple survey. cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share!

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

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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/...

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To prevent Ps from pasting (GPT-generated) responses to your text entry Qualtrics question, disable pasting. Add this code to the OnReady section of your question's javascript: jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" .InputText").on("cut copy paste",function(e) { e.preventDefault(); }); Enjoy!

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Is a #PhD worth it? In data from #Canada, doctoral grads earned less at first because (A) they entered the job market later, but they surpassed others if they (B) got academic jobs and (B) kept them. So a PhD's value is waning as B and C become harder. econpapers.repec.org...

We’re hiring a tenure track assistant professor in our amazing Vassar cognitive science department! If you have any questions, let me know. I’ll be at Cog Sci in San Francisco all week if you’d like to chat in person

The word “Research” is doing way too much work. We need separate words for “creating new verifiable knowledge” and “looking shit up on the internet”

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Survey invitations often describe the topic of the survey. A simple, classic example of how this biases results: survey recruitment materials about bird watching led to higher estimates of the % of people who engage in bird-watching. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.

every year my lab does a re-read + edit of our Handbook, a documentation resource for how we do science this year we also updated our Public Handbook, an open-access version for folks wanting to improve their own docs it's at handbook-public.themusiclab.org and available for noncommercial re-use

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

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Social Psychology is calling for Special Issue proposals. We will be reviewing proposals on a rolling basis & foresee multiple Special Issues over the next year or more. For more information about what we are looking for, please see the call here: osf.io/2f3vp #socialpsych

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Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

Very useful set of guidelines for conducting social psychology lab experiments by @eddiehj.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, and colleagues. Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Few quotes follow…

NEW PAPER ALERT! From “it’s hell out there” to being one of the “lucky ones”: The trends and tales of the Canadian psychology academic job market from 2012 to 2022. If you are on the psych job market or hiring, this is a MUST read! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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Incredible reporting from USC student journalists about how a ginned-up financial crisis is being used to crush faculty and staff power.

A book I will always recommend on this broader topic.

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Advances in Psychological Science Open (APSO), APS's new open access journal in the field of #psychology, is seeking to appoint additional Associate Editors! #AcademicSky Learn more: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Chat GPT is a lot like your Uncle Bill. If you ask him something everyone knows about, he’ll probably give you the correct answer. If you ask him something obscure, he’ll just make stuff up. Also, he’s subtly racist.

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“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

1. Quick—which of these shapes is different from the others?

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Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025. Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice. 1/2

University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada has not 1, not 2, but THREE TT psychology positions! Indigenous and/or Black scholar, open area careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Applied social and Open area teaching careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Come join us!