Hostile and benevolent sexism are both on the decline in 1,097 studies, N = 339,740 since 1996. Note that "3" on these scales is already a neutral response. Even bigger progress in countries with more hostile sexism. From Matthew D. Hammond psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles... #phdsky #psych

New paper out in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! 🎉 How do we figure out who will accept or reject us in a new group? We show that people generalize relational value across friendship ties—forming a network gradient of approach & avoidance. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lq3x51f8w...

McGill has an open rank search in clinical psych: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...

Part of a new CREP paper out (failing to) replicating Griskevicius et al 2010 in JPSP Using this to plug how I think CREP is a great framework if you teach a Research Methods class, a number of my students ended up as authors, which they found pretty cool 1/3

Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

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)

New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7) spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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!

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/...

"63% rate of likely AI-generated responses" on mTurk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026! We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods. Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer.. Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years. (See Bauer 2007)

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

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Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics? Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study! Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

🐶 Now out in JPSP! 🐶 with @boegershausen.bsky.social & @gpaolacci.bsky.social We find that people spontaneously pay attention to some types of biases but not others when evaluating the fairness of decision outcomes doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung. bit.ly/3HkcyBf

In a study of naturally occurring ostracism experiences: After experiencing ostracism, people initially prioritize withdrawal and prosocial coping responses. Prosocial responses increase overtime. Anti-social responses were relatively rare journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

I unfortunately think demand characteristics are an underappreciated cause of a lot of effects in the lit

The international social cognition network (ISCON) now officially has a blue sky account. Follow for news of awards and events

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

New paper out from the Self & Motivation Lab on Safety and Threat in the Environment Perceptions (STEP). The STEP scale assesses people's overall, gut-level impressions of any given space and uniquely predicts engagement, interest, & desire to recruit others journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

A new piece - well, almost a whole book! - by our team, reflecting more than a decade of work.

🌡️ Hotter, wetter weather linked to more violent crime In South Africa, violent crime rises with heat, rain, and pollution. especially in warmer months. Researchers found climate factors now drive 60% of homicide-related social costs. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉 Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social ‬and Jas Cloutier! @apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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/...

New from @ara-eunkyung.bsky.social + me: social psychologists are often interested in space, but have to choose between abstractions at high levels of geography or images taken with limited geographic scope. We identify a tool to sample space at scale: mapping platforms, such as Google Street View.

We had a new tutorial on representational similarity analysis come out recently. Led by @xallysie.bsky.social with Ruoying Zheng and @chujunlin.bsky.social This technique lets you compare patterns across diff types of measures (eg correlate correlation matrices), super flexible

🎉 New paper in Social and Personality Psychology Compass 🎉 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀: 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 🔗 https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.111

In a TiCS paper, @chujunlin.bsky.social & I propose a high-dimensional model of social impressions. Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift. shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)

Check our new—dare I say provocative—paper in Motivation Science, led by @eddiehj.bsky.social: "Valid Replications Require Valid Methods: Recommendations for Best Methodological Practices With Lab Experiments" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Le site de Projet Implicite en français a fait l’objet d’une mise à jour conséquente. Quatre tests sont disponibles, y compris en version tactile (pour les téléphones mobiles et tablettes). N’hésitez pas à partager cette nouvelle et/ou à nous faire part de vos commentaires. implicit.harvard.edu

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Paper w/ @tcarpenter.bsky.social & @alexgoedderz.bsky.social at PSPB!🚨 The standard IAT is only 5 min long. We found that making the IAT longer by taking it multiple times greatly improves predictive validity. 🧵below, with practical advice about how to run IATs! LINK: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Registration for the Person Memory Meeting (Oct 13-16 in Lisbon, POR) is open! Info is here jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com/personmemory

Thrilled to share that my first first-authored publication is officially out (soon to be in press at Social Cognition)! 🚀 "From Data to Discovery: Unsupervised Machine Learning in Social Cognition" 📄 OSF preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

We have a lovely new paper out, showing that even ignorant people can be very good at recognising who's knowledgeable based on minimal cues

I just updated my post on equivalence testing with {marginaleffects} so that it's consistent with the latest version. (Some of the notes and code were outdated.) www.carlislerainey.com/blog/2023-08...

Finally published: my paper with mathematician Rene L. Schilling. In it, we attempt a comprehensive theoretical formalization of the substantive basis of person judgments. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed** beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

New lab paper in JESP! What is the association between gender and food portion sizes? And how might such associations impact actual real-world treatment? We used lab and field studies to explore this question 🍽️

I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com! In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory. Some key take-aways:

Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!

Stable funding, bold AI—Waterloo 🧭#Postdoc alert! Build wiser #AI at @UWaterloo’s Wise Judgment Consortium & CHARM lab. Topics: cultural reasoning, multi‑agent LLMs, preference modelling. Global, CIFAR backing, CAD 65k + benefits. Apply ➜ forms.gle/bM49EdkkhrXe... #ResponsibleAI #postdocjobs share!