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The White House is threatening Iran if they kill protesters. It's funny how that works when felon47 wants to shoot protesters here

"Right-wing political orientation is positively associated with national identification even among individuals who are disadvantaged by the system." New work by Luca Caricati: doi.org/10.1002/casp...

there are apparently ways to get a postmark at dropoff www.nstp.org/article/usps...

New paper by Jolynn Pek and colleagues criticizes the z-curve approach of detecting selection bias.

Researchers recently asked Americans what income level other people need in order to live a good life. A whopping 86% of Americans reported income levels well below what others say they themselves need. Fascinating!

This important meta-science article should not be hidden behind a paywall.

Jeez!

"Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite." Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Oh dear

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A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies revealed that math anxiety is “just as likely to be a consequence of [low math performance] as it is a cause.” They report that this cycle of mutual influence could be prevented by early math anxiety interventions. Read more at psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Poland’s foreign minister 👇

🚨Now at almost 85,000 signatures. Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Deadline is approaching for submitting abstracts for the scientific programe for our annual conference. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to get your work noticed by others in the applied behavioural science and public health community. 7th December! www.bsphn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

Participants from the US donated more to a girl (vs. a boy) in need. Participants from China showed the opposite pattern. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

So ... you'll get minimum wage minus the repayments?

An adversarial collaboration on "cancel culture" reveals that many university students support restrictions on academic debate and research on campus, including the cancellation of talks, the revocation of teaching positions, and the removal of books. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Waitlisting people can lead to inequality. A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So, is "When Prophesy Fails"—the foundation of cognitive dissonance theory—debunked? Unclear. The article making this claim is... odd. It describes Festinger and Schachter as leftwing radicals, critiques the political slant of their funding, generally refers to their work as failed... 1/n

Believe in growth mindset? Alex Burgoyne’s talk at #psynom25 might change your mind. Their meta-analysis found that growth mindset interventions did not predict academic achievement once publication bias and study quality were accounted for. 1/

"The more egalitarian a country the more pronounced the sex differences "

You now need to opt-out of letting Google use your G-Mail to train its AI. Go to your general settings and scroll to Smart Features: Unclick it. Done.

Several recent studies calling into question System Justification Theory have emerged from this dissertation, such as Chapter 2: "Results [from 42 countries] largely favored self- and group-interest explanations over SJT across cultures."

I never had Labour pegged for this level of cruelty. Remember, we're talking about people who are forbidden from working here, often for years at a time, so they have nothing. Labour deserve to be swept from office like a snowplough clearing a blizzard of hatred. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Experimental participants to us

A shout out to my Durham University colleagues Lynda @drboothroyd.bsky.social and Linda Lidborg, authors of the study you refer to that pours evidential cold water over the ‘feminine body traits signal reproductive potential’ claim. Nice work!

Youyou Tu's work on anti-malarial compounds that saved millions of lives (w/Nobel+Lasker recognition) wins the low citation/huge impact cell. The original paper has 87 citations as of today: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11721477/ Hopefully she can get to 100. What for huge citations and moderate impact?

Very proud to share another first first-authored paper from our lab — led by Joelle Flöther and now published in 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧 & 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺! 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 Open Accces: doi.org/10.1080/1529... (1/5)

New Article alert by the amazing @julianedegner.bsky.social and co: "Testing the multicomponent ingroup identification model in diverse stigmatized groups: model fit, group differences, and predictors of social identification" www.tandfonline.com

I am noticing a lot of research that I read is problem admiring, finding new ways to repackage problems, and nearly nothing on efforts to problem solve. A whole bunch of easy is rewarded more than hard won difficult.

New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law

Strange how the bootleggers’ radar always finds new coordinates. Nigeria seems to be blinking now… curious timing.

"I’m actually biased in favor of the intuitive value of preregistration; but things that seem intuitively sensible can turn out to be wrong anyway. Increasingly, I’m wondering if this is one of those things."

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview. This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association. I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

It's Monday so here's my @FT column on an epic new podcast on Fela Kuti, hosted by Jad Abumrad, which examines the Afrobeat pioneer's life, loves, sounds and politics. The series is vast and wide-ranging and, after 12 eps, I still didn't want it to end. www.ft.com/content/2737...

interesting! wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...

WTAF!!!

Want to do a PhD in Psychology at Durham? I'm looking to supervise candidates interested in researching #PMDD and/or #neurodivergence - drop me a message to chat or discuss ideas!

Do people lie to benefit the in-group and harm the out-group? In a new paper, we found that people lied 9% more to help in-group members than out-group members! This is evidence of coalitional dishonesty Democrats & Republicans both lied anonymously to double in-group members earnings (N=5,230)

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Politically Extreme Individuals Exhibit Similar Neural Processing Despite Ideological Differences www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Interesting.... scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

This is Modern Day 2025 !! Pay Attention !!

There are different ways of interpreting the effect of system threat. In my work with @chuma73.bsky.social et al., we argue that it can be viewed from the perspective of social identity theory "as a case of increased superordinate ingroup bias following a threat to the superordinate ingroup."