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NEW ARTICLE ALERT!! "Do culturally diverse destinations attract or deter tourism? Probing competing psychologies in global travel records" doi.org/10.1080/1368... With the amazing Stefania Paolini among others!

I worry that initiatives like this will break pro-social norms. Willingness to give feedback generously is one of the most beautiful things in our community. Plus, universities pay profs with the understanding that this is part of the job description, so the idea we do this for "free" is laughable.

I survived marking - yay! 💪

Fear of Speaking Out at the University of Newcastle, Australia "I've got a terminal disease, so I can stick my neck out to protest what's happening. But anybody else at the university who has kids to take care of, who has a rent or mortgage to take care of, they're basically held over a barrel."

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A paper I think about a lot these days. "People high in the motivation to express prejudice are relatively likely to resist pressure to support programs promoting intergroup contact and vote for political candidates who support oppressive policies." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

“Whatever the pressure, whatever the noise I’ll not change my position on the war. I am the British Prime Minister!” 🇬🇧 Powerful words at this perilous time. I’ll discuss NATO and Carney’s stand on the war on today’s OShow with Lars Roesen from Denmark 🇩🇰🇨🇦

"As behavioural scientists, we have fallen into the trap." archive.ph/cjsBq#select...

Can the colour of a bin help to improve recycling habits? Research shows that bins standing out from their surroundings collect more waste, meaning city architects should take 'saliency' into account when planning the design of public spaces. Read more: www.bps.org.uk/news/first-p...

Am teaching a course on Pain & the humanities this yr, and I can't stop thinking about this 1950 experiment conducted in New York hospitals and Cornell University hospital, where physicians burned the hands of women in labor (IN LABOR) to create a measure for pain/study pain thresholds. #histmed

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

From February 2026 - Adolescent Exposure to Economic Inequality and Belief in the ‘American Dream’ on Entering Adulthood - https://cup.org/4rmfyyE - @sldemora.bsky.social & Benjamin J. Newman #OpenAccess

If you are quite right wing on immigration and generally would like to control it and limit it, fair, but I’d like to persuade you that fiddling around with ever more stringent indefinite leave to remain, length of asylum or citizenship sits the way. Why? Bc knock on effects on integration 1/🧵

There are some colleagues on here who published on these issues more and more recently. The best start is of course @saragoodman.bsky.social and her fairly recent review that gathers the research showing citizenship access is overwhelming positive for integration in most countries 8/

Richard Homenya presents an odd finding: why do cultures in sub-Saharan Africa score lower than the West on collectivism? #spsp2026 @spspnews.bsky.social

New preprint from me argues that p-hacking inflates Type I error rates in some philosophies of significance testing but not in others. osf.io/preprints/ps...

This one hits hard.

PAPA LEONE YES

The stages of online samples in my research career: 1. too difficult/expensive/unrepresentative 2. too expensive but representative 3. pretty affordable but less representative 4. cheap and full of bots with garbage responses 5. wide price range and maybe full of non-people pretending to be people

Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable. For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics

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Overestimated effect sizes and underestimated power explain the Open Science Collaboration's (2015) low reproducibility rates. Preprint by Almudevar & Almudevar (2026): arxiv.org/abs/2602.15697

Five-minute Times Higher Education UK Redundancy Survey

A meta-analysis on reducing discrimination finds: 1) passive interventions, such as short-term education or bias reminders, are ineffective 2) targeting behavior directly to inhibit bias (eg making individuals accountable or changing social norms) is helpful psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Remember when various gvts solution for the fact covid wasn't going away was to simply stop testing for covid?

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"This scheme is intended to provide early career researchers of outstanding promise with an opportunity to complete a major project. It is open to scholars from any discipline and of any nationality." #PhDSky #AcademicSky

"Republicans are more than mere hypocrites. They believe 2A rights are subject to Wilhoit’s maxim...laws are designed to protect some (conservatives) but bind others (everyone else)." Great @schaller67.bsky.social on Pretti and gun rights at @atrupar.com's place: www.publicnotice.co/p/alex-prett...

Large language models can accurately score people’s Big 5 personality traits on the basis of their brief, open-ended narratives. LLM ratings converged with self-reports and predicted daily behaviour & mental health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

New work by Stefania Paolini & Patrick Kotzur (@durhampsych.bsky.social) and international team proposes a rupture-habit model to make sense of emerging findings in everyday intergroup contact. Paywall: doi.org/10.1038/s441... Free Access Link: trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

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