For researchers interested in semantic change over years and decades... I've created a toolkit — lexichron — for measuring long-term shifts in word meanings using Google Ngrams and other corpora (e.g., COHA, COCA). Here's the public GitHub repo: github.com/eric-d-knowl... 🧵

What if we had law journals run by people who weren’t literal law students

I have todd heathertons toaster. Def weird but makes a good toast.

Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Associate or Full professor not working in Canada? Canada (McGill) wants you.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

FABBS(Federation of Assoc in Behavior&Brain Sciences) is pleased to honor Calvin Lai, recipient of the Kellina Craig-Henderson Early to Mid-Career Award AND Early Career Impact Award! Dr. Lai’s pioneering work examines implicit bias& applications to policing&hiring. Congrats @calvinklai.bsky.social

While teaching a course on Item Response Theory this semester, I created a Shiny app for visualizing some polytomous item response models: falkcarl.shinyapps.io/polytomous/ This is an initial draft, so comments/questions/suggestions are welcome! #Psychometrics #RShiny #IRT

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

Excited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ISCON is pleased to announce the winner of best 2024 paper in social cognition award, which is: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Paper was led by @davidschultner.bsky.social, w Ben Stillerman, Bjorn Lindstrom, @leorhackel.bsky.social, Damaris Hagen, Nils Jostmann, and @davidamodio.bsky.social 1/4

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence 1/

New paper out led by my student Jeremy Rappel using a natural language processing approach to examine behavior in leaked far right Discord chatrooms. We find that *estimated* basic psychological needs are related to posting behavior and use of hate speech. 1/n journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) is pleased to announce Dr. April Bailey as the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award! Dr. Bailey is a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD in 2019 from Yale University.

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

💡New research suggests that suggest that basic psychological needs provide an important and largely untapped theoretical framework for understanding extremist participation and radicalization. Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/YW5b50Xrla5

🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social: Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case? 👉 Read the full paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...

Y'all. N>3,800. !!!!!!! Goodness gracious.

POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell @cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185 @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Our new study shows that living in states with higher levels of structural sexism was associated with worse cardiovascular disease outcomes for both men and women, especially for diabetes and stroke. @pahoman.bsky.social @deborascience.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Immigration raids during Trump II have increased daily student absences by 22 percent in the California Central Valley, with largest increases among the youngest students.

Ouch

My colleague Falk Lieder and I are hiring a new post-doc at UCLA to join the #WiseJudgementConsortium. The ad is here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10650

Appreciated the chance to share @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social and I's work on Streetview Sampling on 🎃! The 📸🚘 costume is only for today, but the methods paper and tools are open access: guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉 powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com - Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models - Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters - Fast! (Instant results)

Deadline approaching! (Nov 1) Please consider submitting your fave 2024 paper for the ISCON best paper award

We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here 1/n guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Our new paper out in American Psychologist. Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp. Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

In this behemoth effort led by @anhhtran.bsky.social, we reanalysed 11 experience-sampling datasets, and found limited evidence that context (intensity, controllability, and social features) meaningfully shaped everyday emotion regulation strategy use.

There is a robust link between intergroup contact & reduced prejudice, but does contact actually cause a reduction in prejudice? Across multiple longitudinal data sets (N > 20,000), very few people reported increased contact AND reduced prejudice. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

McGill psych is hosting a panel for under rep minority folks possibly interested in attending grad school on Oct 20. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/246051...

cool paper extracting spatial distance from Turkish youtube videos, concludes people walk closer to their ingroup (on sidewalks etc), non religious men avoid religious women www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper and R package for (more flexible) power analysis in multilevel: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2025 Early Career Award! Recognizing a junior scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of social cognition. Nominees must have received their PhDs no earlier than 2019. More info here: www.socialcognition.net/early-career...

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2024 Best Social Cognition Paper Award! This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2024. More info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...

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)