Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

Can Think-Aloud be really useful in understanding human minds? Building on our previous work, we formally propose reopening this old debate, with one of the largest Think-Aloud datasets, "RiskyThought44K," and LLM analysis, showing Think-Aloud can complement to comp cogsci.

Always liked this related joe heath take induecourse.utoronto.ca/absent-minde...

one academic view i hold is that declared helplessness surrounding administrative tasks is both rude and non-credible

You can learn better by making your own predictions than by watching someone else's predictions, even if they are the same as yours. New computational approach to show the benefits of active/generative learning developed together with the fabulous @ebonawitz.bsky.social rdcu.be/eILdR

Fascinating. This study identified environmental features associated with obesity rates from satellite images. Here are street views of some of the most important features, per their models.

Looking to run more? A new paper by Emily Balcetis, Jordan Daley, Bradley Tao, & Bryce Lexow highlights how to best finish that race! The takeaway? Runners get to the finish line by focusing on subgoals rather than the larger goal of completing the race www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

We replicate with experiments: When prejudiced Whites are primed to think about population growth, their support rises for assuring Latina women---but not White women---have access to abortion, contraception, and sterilization.

Across large-N surveys and original data, we find: ➡️ Whites in places with more Latino growth are more supportive of legal abortion. ➡️ This effect is absent among non-Whites. ➡️ It’s driven exclusively by Whites higher in prejudice.

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

Natalism for me but not for thee. Read my new working paper w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social and Ben Newman: we show some conservative white people support legalizing abortion and contraception access in an effort to minimize the growth of the non-white population.

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If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️ datamgmtinedresearch.com 1. Organizing data (Ch. 3) 2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9) 3. Documenting data (Ch. 8) 4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)

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🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

"For everyday arguments prior beliefs play a larger role on perceived argument quality than argument quality itself" 📢New paper from: Calvin Deans-Browne & Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tiny friend at Thea’s agility practice this morning - finally, a “cool” morning!

I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)

The undergrad leading discussion today led our class on a simulated space excursion (their idea!) where the class had to decide the fate of humanity - they had ten values and twelve tokens: 2 tokens = guaranteed to keep 1 token = 50/50 chance to keep 0 tokens = eliminated for certain

Made a very cool new friend* at the tip of the parking garage!! * she is skeptical

I have never taught a paper solo-authored by a woman and not had multiple students refer to the author as "he." I have never taught a paper solo-authored by a man and had even one student refer to the author as "she." #AcademicSky

Forever in my heart

my favourite thing about the APS Rising Star programme is that you only get to be a former APS Rising Star if you currently pay APS dues I don't, so I'm not on the list anymore. god-tier level of pettiness, i respect it

In one of the more stunning and high-stakes cyclone interactions in memory, Hurricane #Humberto and Tropical Storm #Imelda appear poised to interact in a process commonly known as the #Fujiwhara Effect. bmcnoldy.blogspot.com/2025/09/high...

Look, the world is an absolute mess but we’re still growing and celebrating 1200 lb pumpkins. While there are still preposterously huge gourds, I believe there is still hope

A wonderful 39th birthday with everything a girl could wish for: friends, cake, underwater scooters, a positive department vote on tenure…bring on the next year! 🥳

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

We're pleased to announce the results of our 2025 Board elections! Congratulations to our newly elected leaders Nick Rule, Josh Ackerman, Alison Martingano, and Rich Chang. Thank you to them and everyone who stepped forward as candidates! Learn more: ow.ly/MEhn50X1Bbc

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...

detection d' is generally overestimated, coz we tend to be too lazy to collect the necessary data in order to correct for the unequal variance between target present vs absent distributions. turns out we can do this for free - using reaction times data. so, let's do it~ osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈

Have I mentioned Florida is beautiful and that we’re hiring??

One of my Takes is that much advice about imposter syndrome (in academia) is wrong bc a lot of what we call I.S. is actually a recognition of the gap btwn the intellectual virtues we want to define our careers vs the careerism we operate w, & we should listen to that Anyway headline made me laugh

🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨 Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging. Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible). Salary: NIH levels. Details 👇

As I was out there today, I kept thinking of Sam Sommers, whose beautiful memorial service was yesterday, put together by his family and the wonderful folks in the Tufts psych dept. I would like to be more like Sam: kind and caring, and not taking myself too seriously.

Tonight's sunset walk

Check out our review paper published at PSPR! 🙂

Morning glow

Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People with Nonbinary Gender Identities -- now online at Personality and Social Psychology Review. Main article: doi.org/10.1177/1088... Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #SocialPsychology #IntergroupBias #Transgender #Nonbinary

"basic cognitive processes underlying explanatory reasoning give rise to a systematic inherence bias among practicing scientists—a tendency to explain phenomena in terms of their inherent properties rather than external factors" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Casually dropping the job posting here, and happy to answer questions about NDSU and life in Fargo, @erinwestgate.bsky.social might say I’m an ”expert” now 😆 tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn

If you applied to North Dakota State Unjversity’s job in developmental psych, you too could eat your (delicious) way across Fargo!!! (Downside: I’m told it gets cold here?)

If you applied to our job at Florida, you too could ditch work* on the first cool early autumn day to go paddling! * okay okay so I came home afterwards and answered emails for hours

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 working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/

Daughter: “Dad, can I stay on my phone until 11pm tonight.” Me: “No. How about 10pm? ” Daughter: “Sure. That's what I wanted anyway.” ... ... Daughter: “Also, we learned about anchoring in school today.”

If you applied to our job at Florida, you too could dive in a duckweed-infested swamp hole on the weekends!

RIP, Mark Norell. As somebody who was enthusiastically interested in dinosaurs, particularly in my childhood, I read his breakthrough insights with great interest in the 1990s. The emergence of the knowledge that birds were dinosaur descendants was a great lesson for me about how science advances.