Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character | PLOS One

(PDF) Essential moral self remains unchallenged: Successful replication of Strohminger and Nichols (2014) with extensions comparing morality to ideology and religion www.researchgate.net/publication/...

What predicts religious disbelief? Is it primarily about thinking deeply on religion & finding claims incredible? Not really. Authors find it's mostly about a lack of credible religious examples (parents not attending worship, being good religious role models). In other words, mostly socialization.

New Preprint! We find that close and distant future generations get less moral concern than even the most neglected human and non-human groups today. This is noted for boundless and zero-sum moral trade-offs. 🔗https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c9p8f_v1 #FutureGenerations#MoralPsychology#Psychology

Nice article about fertility technology — really appreciate the framing that isn’t “something gotta give” but rather “society loses out if women can’t have it all.” Featuring Kleven’s child penalties in a very pretty plot! worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil...

And this personal experience has also blended into research, and with Brian Earp and colleagues, we actually have a new pre-print on this exact topic on how we judge people who lose weight by both typical and "artificial" means www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Imagine a person who acts one way online (by email, on social media) but a different way in person. Which of the two is more revealing of their true self? Our new paper: This seemingly simple question shows something about how people see certain environments as ‘natural’ osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper out in SPPS w/ @jaimiekrems.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1177/1948... People who oppose abortion typically suggest that their position is motivated by concern for the unborn. But is there more going on?

🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do LLMs shape writing? Our research shows they make language more uniform, reducing diversity and altering how personal traits appear in text. These shifts have big implications for identity, culture, and fairness. #LLMs #NLProc arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266

Hey all - I’ll be giving a talk this year at SPSP that’s part of a symposium exploring novel work on conspiratorial beliefs. Would be great for anyone attending to come see me, alongside some other remarkable researchers!

Re-upping this once more before the conference. I’ll be presenting some work on the relationships between conspiracy mentality, counterfactuals, and free will/det beliefs on Saturday at SPSP! Come by, listen, say hello! Also, I’m on the market, looking for post-docs - keep me in mind!

Super duper cool work on moralization by my superstar labmate @abbycassario.bsky.social 😍. Check it out at @spspnews.bsky.social !

How do attitudes become moralized? We find that moral conviction spreads between connected attitudes over time. + Those with highly connected belief systems (ideologues) have highly moralized belief systems! Come see us at the moral psych pre-con poster session @spspnews.bsky.social to learn more😃

Join us for our SPSP symposium! We present research on responses to personal, blatant, systemic, and historical racial prejudice. Featuring 3 in-person talks & a recorded session from Keith on Whova. #SPSP2025

Friends tend to agree if you're ready or not for a long-term, committed relationship. Friends are important for forming/maintaining relationships, so that can be either good OR horrible for you/your relationship. Congrats Hyewon Yang on her first first-author paper! doi.org/10.1177/0265...

Currently putting together SRCD SECC Conversation Hour "Building Your Career: Postdoc and Academic Job Market Insights" to take place during the conference. Who has been on the postdoc and/or job market **this** year and can talk about their experiences and will be at the SRCD conference?

Latest from @mjbsp.bsky.social et al. With a lovely title that tells us the effect, meaning I don't need to write about their findings here! (folks, I'm sure that also helps people cite your work!) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1/ Our lab's new paper #SPPS, w/ PhD student Hanna Puffer Using nationally representative data 2004-2020, asked: generalized prejudice (GP) remained invariant or evolved in US? Answer: Evolved. Answer: And it has become more politically affiliated. #PrejudiceResearch #AcademicSky

New open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Check out my recently published commentary where my collaborators and I discuss how those tapped to do DEI work is disproportionately placed on individuals with minoritized identities. We also briefly discuss how to improve this. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The problems w/ two-wave cross-lagged models are becoming widely known. Some proposed a "triangulation method" (2nd screenshot) to identify spurious effects in such designs We show that this test doesn't work in plausible situations. It shouldn't be used. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I’ve said it before (as have others) and I’ll say it again, there’s no such thing as a non-causal mediation analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I’ve got a lot of new followers, so I wanted to introduce myself a bit! I’m a 5th year doctoral candidate, looking for post-docs. I am primarily an identity researcher, with a focus on how political identity affects misinformation belief, exacerbates polarization, and impacts DEI pushback.

Registered Report: Cognitive Ability, But Not Cognitive Reflection Predicts Expressing Greater Political Animosity and Favouritism: http://osf.io/sdx3v/

Super awesome work by Abby and co. on how being smarter doesn't necessarily attenuate our tendencies to dislike those we perceive to be ideologically different bsky.app/profile/abby...

🚨🚨 NEW PAPER🚨🚨: From me and my awesome TBS lab/FAU team! Just accepted at BJSP. We find that cognitive ability, but not cognitive reflection is associated with MORE animosity towards ideologically discordant groups and MORE favoritism towards ideologically concordant groups. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Political Psychology startpack expanded from 50 to 150 follows go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx

We find that when tested in an ecologically valid setting the effect of threat on ideology is consistently weak, and often non-significant. Moreover, threats sometimes shift people towards liberalism and the effect sizes of liberal and conservative shifts are similar. 3/n

Across many possible specifications, the big picture remains the same: sometimes threats can push people towards conservatism, but sometimes they push people towards liberalism, and other times there's no effect on ideology. And effects tend to be very, very small. 6/n

In light of our findings, we urge researchers to consider alternative theory regarding the etiology of political conservatism. 7/7

Check out the extremely cool and comprehensive work on threat and ideology by my very talented lab sister @abbycassario.bsky.social

Theory predicts that threat experiences shift people towards conservatism and that this is particularly true for those with certain personalities. In our paper forthcoming at SPPS, we find limited support for these predictions in the ~real world~ 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...

Here's a paper that explains the difference between standard errors and standard deviations: bmj.com/content/331/... Here's our paper, which shows that experts (doctors, professors, data scientists) mix them up: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A bi-directional effect between beauty and prosociality: Participants expected attractive avatars to behave more prosocially and rated those who behaved prosocially as more attractive. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

It has been a challenge to identify predictors of moralization. This new study finds that perceived polarization prospectively predicts attitude moralization during the 2020 US Presidential election psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... #psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci Polisky

I worry that the difficulty in telling what is real and what is just ChatGPT’d will further bias people towards scholars they already know, making it more difficult for new or less prolific scholars to have their deserved impact.

We (w/ Josh Jackson) are very excited to announce the Special Issue “Historical Psychology” to be published at CRESP. Send your papers our way! Deadline: 9/1/24

A nice companion with this recent paper of mine with @shreevallabha.bsky.social that focused on within-person political animosity (which includes 🇺🇸 and 🇳🇱 data) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Comparing within and between-person predictors of affective polarization in Spain collective economic threats and political and national identities predicted affective polarization. Exploratory analyses found some left-right differences too storage.googleapis.com/jnl-up-j-irs...

Just came across this interesting paper: Does the addition of lower tier publications to a CV help or hurt the perceived strength of academic psychologists? Answer: Helps! psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-...

just out with Carey Stapleton at Public Opinion Quarterly: doi.org/10.1093/poq/... Those with high political self-confidence express more partisan animus and greater support for out-party discrimination. High levels of personal self-esteem, however, predict an intolerance of out-party hostility.

Do you think that learning more about causal inference is not worth it because you're running experiments anyway, or because you're interested in predictive questions? In that case, I've written a paper just for you, out now in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #polisky #Sociology #metasci New paper, w recommendations and alternatives, re power analysis. By @rogerthegs.bsky.social et al. Open accces @ PSPR journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper by @shreevallabha.bsky.social & co: Blaming current groups for their ancestors atrocities (historical blame) is something that happens AND is not well accounted for by existing psychological models of blame 🔒 psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... 🔐 osf.io/j3vp9

As part of a large collaboration of social psychologists and sociologists, we tried to understand belief system structure across Europe osf.io/9r84f

'Factors that amplify and attenuate egocentric mentalizing', a new Review by Andrew R. Todd & Diana I. Tamir  Web: go.nature.com/3vOvdPk PDF: rdcu.be/dw1cp #psychology #psychscisky