New work ledby the amazing @AvivMokady ! Aviv asked whether our expectation-confirmation framework applies to information seeking in the context of the self. Briefly, he found that Ps in our settings preferred self-violating info! #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #self

Excited to share this new article of my PhD student Edith Rapo on the association between depression and seeking feedback from others about oneself, depending on the anticipated feedback's valence and congruence with the self-perception. Open Acces in BRAT 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Breaking a hiatus to post this. A group of Israeli Social Psychologists, myself included, wrote a letter to speak out clearly against the Israeli government’s decisions and the resulting devastation in Gaza. docs.google.com/document/d/1... In hopes of peace and safety for all, and soon

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

You know you did something right when your graduate student’s mentees get him this as an end-of-year token of appreciation

👋 Good evening, folks! We want to celebrate your latest achievements across our social media channels. Do you have a new project, article, or professional update you're excited about? DM us here or email a link to [email protected], and we'd love to share your news!

🔎 New preprint out: Preventing and eliminating bots and participant fraud in online surveys: Two case studies from international LGBTQ+ social research. 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #socialpsyc Eager for thoughts on our unique approach to tackling significant participant fraud (43%!) in the LEVEL UP! survey 🧵⬇️

Are you at #SIPS2025 in Budapest? We have PCI Psych stickers and (a limited number of) free PCI Psych t-shirts! You can fill out this form if you are here and interested in getting a tshirt: forms.gle/qYtUqohfZVBx... (Stickers are plentiful, get yours at the registration desk!)

🎉 New face database just dropped! The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods. Thread 🧵👇

Explanations for sample size deviation I never thought of: We were unable to reach the pre-planned fMRI sample size due to an Iranian missile taking the fMRI facility out-of-service. #Escapism #ThisNeedsToEndNow

The best things in life are free. That includes the 6th edition of The Social Psychology Handbook. Where are my social science nerds at? #sociology #psychology #socialpsychology openpublishing.princeton.edu/projects/the...

Two-year postdoc in political psychology at the University of Cologne, Germany Enquiries: @jorislammers.bsky.social Further info: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... #SocialPsyc #PoliPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Application open for postdoc positions in the social sciences/psychology in the COFUND programme Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship at the University of Münster!! 🥳 Please share with potential applicants (must have PhD & been away from Germany/international) 🙌🏼 www.uni-muenster.de/COFUND-MDC/a...

Uncertainty, not mental content, drives dorsomedial prefrontal engagement during inferences about others www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Today’s yield: -Paper accepted at a top-tier journal -Paper rejected from a top-tier journal -Commentary draft finalized -Talk successfully delivered (first time on the specific topic) -Maybe helped in convincing someone on social media. Hard to decide which one I value more 🫣

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!

Got 4 cycles of laundry and 2 reviews done on a single weekend. I guess I’m willing to do a lot for a little #escapism

Job Alert: We are searching for a postdoc (1 fte, 22 months) for a DFG-funded project on bias reduction via cognitive conflicts. Feel free to contact me via e-mail (address provided in the post) or DM. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/ux0vb9i0

Hi friends, the Spark Society's NSF funding has been terminated. We are dedicated to continuing our work and hope we can rely on you for support.

If you’re comfortable, here’s a form to submit info on terminated NSF grants for greater collective transparency and insight among grantees: Kudos to @scott-delaney.bsky.social for putting together. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

This rigorous and critical meta-analysis of the existing experimental research on the effects of ChatGPT on learning and higher-order thinking may be more valuable for the critiques of the literature it raises than its findings. Kudos! doi.org/10.1016/j.co... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

"Publications typically describe the discovery as it ideally should have happened, reporting only the evidence relevant to the proposed claims."

Very useful set of guidelines for conducting social psychology lab experiments by @eddiehj.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, and colleagues. Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Few quotes follow…

✊️ Political extremism fuels collective action regardless of political content. New research coauthored by lab member @fannylalot.bsky.social now out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social ⬇️ #socialpsyc #socpsyc #polpsy

Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025. Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice. 1/2

I'm going to be teaching an intergroup relations graduate seminar next year(!!!), and I'm starting to daydream about what should go into it. Does anyone have an example syllabus they'd be willing to share as inspiration? Or papers they feel really *must* be covered? #psychscisky #socialpsych

One of the unexpected perks of having this sticker on my laptop: people avoid sitting next to me on the train 🤷‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ #life

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #SocialPsychology

very excited to see this work, which started out as my PhD thesis, finally published (open access)! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp... Main takeaways 👇 In both 🇨🇦Canada & 🇮🇸Iceland, higher-class individuals look more attractive/healthy/competent and more positive/warm 1/n

If you identify as a Jewish member of the academic community, and are appalled by the actions being taken in the name of defending our community, please consider signing this letter (which can be done anonymously) and also sharing it with others: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

Hey SPSP community! ✨ Just a heads up that Fellow applications are now open through April 21. It's a great way to recognize those who've made lasting contributions to personality & social psych over the years. Self-nominations are welcome! More details: ow.ly/M7q350Vi4MZ

🧵1/4 Excited to celebrate Anna Huang‘s first first-authored paper just published in EJSP. 🥳 In this theoretical article, Anna explores how Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorization Theory (SCT) apply to individuals with Mixed racial-ethnic identities.

Thank you, #ISCoP2025! 🎉 It’s always a pleasure to share our discoveries with our amazing local community of cognitive scientists! And a huge thanks to @nivreggev.bsky.social for the mentorship and 📷!

Recently, the @easystats.bsky.social team (a mix of academics and former academics) discussed the challenges faced by those transitioning from #psychology #academia to data-related jobs, as well as some advantages they have that they might not be aware of. Here's what we came up with 🧵: 1/

Excited to see this now out in the world! We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/N

Recently proposed U.S. policies including cuts to NIH funding, keyword censorship of grants, withdrawal of information from the public, and mass layoffs of employees in federal agencies threaten the integrity of science and well-being of people throughout the world.

Vergeßt nicht, daß ein jedes Volk diejenige Regierung verdient, die es erträgt! Don't forget that every people deserve the government they can tolerate! ‎אל תשכחו, כל עם מקבל את השלטון אותו הוא מוכן לסבול! Source: The White Rose / Weißen Rose

Are you an coming to SPSP and want to learn about finding self-funded postdocs? Sign up for my mentoring session on Friday at 12:30! Note the content is evolving, and I will cover postdocing outside of the US www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D44A8... @spspnews.bsky.social #SPSP2025 #socialpsyc

📢 New Publication! Over 5 days of learning about ingroup and outgroup members, we found that contact eliminated racial bias in recall of person-knowledge Open access link below #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪

Come work with us!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Psychology Job Alert Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oxford Applications due 13th March 2025 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

The commissars have arrived open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Make sure to submit your abstract and join us in Chemnitz this June!🎉 👉🏼 www.soscisurvey.de/EASPintersec... #SocialPsyc

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

Good scheme by @elife.bsky.social Classification is always tricky but sharing this info seems very valuable (especially together with the reviewer evals)

OMG. A standalone, GitHub-supported, seriously upgraded version of SPM is coming to town. Can’t wait!

Discover the #TISP Dataset now out in #ScientificData! The open access dataset includes responses from 71,922 people in 68 countries on their perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes. 🌍🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As an exercise in keeping some positivity, here are some things that happened this week: - a lab member got an interview for a prestigious fellowship - a lab member won a different great fellowship - a manuscript passed desk in a fab journal - we figured out how to respond to a tough R&R for a RR