We scrolls about 100 meters a day of social media content, much of it highly emotional. In a new paper led by Jonas Schöne (JPSP) we show that people tend to remember stronger emotional expressions, which leads them to estimate feeds as more emotional. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning. Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

New paper in Nature Human Behavior (led by Matan Rubin), where we manipulated the perceived identity of a real-time empathic response to be or AI. We observed a drop in perceived empathy when label was AI, and this effect was mainly driven by emotion. rdcu.be/et9ad

The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy. Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...

Can you predict whether people are happy or sad by the way they walk? If we could, that would be pretty fun. Anyway, this paper claims you can predict both valence (positive negative) and arousal (calm and excited) from footsteps. But, can you? See thread🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04190

Can learning from past peace processes help promote peace in ongoing conflict? Check out our new paper (with Michal Reifen-Tagar, Noa Omri, and Eran Halperin @picr-lab.bsky.social ) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1/

Does daily use of ChatGPT reduce loneliness? I was very excited to see that OpenAI just published its first paper on GPT use and well-being with an experimental design. The outcome is quite disappointing . 🧵 www.media.mit.edu/publications...

🚨New job alert! My lab is hiring a lab manager. Perfect position for a graduating senior who is interested in full-time research before applying to graduate school. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #MLSky Apply here: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

Can emotion regulation interventions spread from treated to non-treated people in a group? We examine this question in a paper published in @naturecomms.bsky.social, led by Michael Pinus and Yajun Cao. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The best examples of emotional contagion is infants starting to cry when they hear another person crying (knowing nothing about the context). But could it simply be an aversion to noise? And is contagion stronger for neg emotions than for pos emotions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very cool paper on using ML to predict habit formation.

My lab and I are looking to take an applied class on Graph Machine Learning, similar to this Stanford class: web.stanford.edu/class/cs224w/. Any suggestions?

People's misrepresentation of collective political beliefs as more extreme than they actually are is an issue associated with various polarization-related outcomes (including acrophily). It seems that disclosing this bias doesn't fully solve the problem. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come join our multi-country study on social preferences for political extremes!!

When asked to describe street food in the US and why it's so bad compared to other countries, I like to point out that I live in a place where Goldfish crackers are considered a legitimate salad topping.

When we present our work on attraction to extremity, people often ask whether this is a new phenomenon. We found this great paper from 1968 showing that people assign more sincerity, competence, trustworthiness, and likability to extremes on their own side. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper! Led by Elena Kozakevitch-Arbel, with Simone Shamay-Tsoory, we used multi-dimensional reinforcement learning approach to examine whether people are sensitive to different dimensions of social scenarios during empathic interactions www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧵

First paper from our lab on LLMs and emotional support (led by @joannazli): Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios. Short thread of the results 1/7   osf.io/preprints/ps... #Psychology #AcademicSky #SocialPsyc

“Should I be a caring man or a dominant man?” Postdoc at the University of Geneva with Vincenzo Iacoviello and Clara Kulich #SocialPsyc #Psychology #PhDSky #PsychJobs

🚨new paper🚨Stereotypically, women are seen as more emotional than men. How is this translated into judgments of emotionality? In a paper by Megan Gorges we show that stereotypes turn into judgements when people aggregate multiple emotional expressions. #psychsciski #socialpsyc osf.io/preprints/os...

New work in press at PSPB! With Aashna Poddar, Adina Williams, and Andrei Cimpian We found intersectional male-centric and White-centric biases based on a list of 4,000+ first names in large-scale (English) text using word embeddings Results overview ⬇️ osf.io/preprints/os...

Our paper explains how social identity shapes information processing and contributes to the belief and spread of #misinformation We argue that understanding the interplay between social identity and accuracy is crucial in addressing misinformation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are looking for a new colleague - please share 👇 Full #professorship in general #psychology at TU Dresden It's a great psych department with fantastic resources and colleagues. Get in touch w/ questions @dgps.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @s4sn.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/11075

New paper with Lameese Eldesouky and Kate Ellis on loneliness. Using EMA, we show that when people feel more lonely, they are less likely to share their emotions, compared to when they feel less lonely (within individual), revealing a vicious cycle. #PsychSciSky authors.elsevier.com/c/1iUtFheKdy...

Super excited to present the first empirical paper in a new line of work that focuses on the spread of psychological interventions. This one is about the spread of emotion regulation interventions to reduce negative emotions in intergroup conflicts. > osf.io/km6r4

Job alert! Come and work with my brilliant colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social 🌟 We're hiring two Assistant Professors in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science - closing date is a leap-year special = 29.2.24 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEX240/a... #Psychology #BehaviouralScience

📢Come join the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University📢 Our lab has an open Research Coordinator position! We invite applicants from psychology, poli sci, sociology, econ, data science, et al. Position begins in Spring or Summer of 2024. Please share to all who may be interested!

The call for applications for the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is now open! 🎉 For more information about the eligibility criteria and how to apply, click here: bit.ly/3t0QB2F

leftists and rightists emotional responses are shaped by the emotional responses of their political outgroup bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... #socpsych #psychsky #polisky

Now out in @PsychScience, led by Yael Millgram and Matt Nock: Using EMA, we examined how knowledge about what made people emotional in their daily lives impacted their desire, ability, and success in emotion regulation. A really exciting research space in ER. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I am pausing my war Twitter hiatus to remind affective scientists that our the deadline for submitting abstracts to the #emotion preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social is tomorrow! We have an amazing day planned and I am looking forward to seeing you there.

There has been a really impressive migration to Blue Sky, but most of the users in my world either don't post on either platform or just post on X. This is not a good sign. If you post, try to make it here so that we can build this feed.

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in clinical psych at USC and our priority deadline is only 11 days away! Join a thriving department on the best coast. 🏖️ I'm on the search committee & happy to answer questions. #PsychSciSky #PsychSky #ClinPsychSky #ClinPsych usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

We're excited to join Bluesky and to spread the word about our upcoming conference in New Orleans (March 1 - March 3, 2024)! Abstracts are due November 15, 2023. society-for-affective-science.org/conferences/... #AffectSci

Yi Ting Huang and I have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher on an NSF-funded project, "Syntactic processing across socioeconomic status: Linking input to comprehension". Apply by Nov 15; start Jul 1, 2024 with flexibility. Please disseminate widely! ejobs.umd.edu/postings/114...

Attention tenure-track faculty (whether tenured or not)! Please help me out by taking a short (4-question, multiple choice) anonymous survey on informality in recruiting. This is NOT for research, and I'll post the results here. And please repost. illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Puritanism needs purity, and moral psychology needs pluralism.

Still trying to figure out what I think about this paper, which seems to suggest that using a more nuanced model of distinct emotions predicts sharing on social media better. Is it obvious or statistically confounded? Not sure. Would love to hear thoughts. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The University of Chicago social psych area is hiring at the TT assistant professor level! Please apply and help us spread the word as we continue to build up our social psychology area. Job ad here; review begins 10/23: apply.interfolio.com/132645

Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024! The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.

I’ve been trying to make this happen in one form or another for almost 7 years, and it’s finally out. Data on income inequality and mobility within detailed demographic groups, nationally and at the state level, designed with researchers and the public in mind. www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/in...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences! Focus on higher-order/causal reasoning. Due date Nov 15. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions! www.cogsci.uci.edu/employment.php

Words of wisdom

Another RCT investigating whether playing Tetris can prevent the development of PTSD. www.nature.com/articles/s41... The authors conclude that the "[r]esults provide evidence that [Tetris] can prevent the development of childbirth-related PTSD symptoms up to six months postpartum." However, 👇

Looking for a #PhD in computational neuroscience (#AI based modelling of brain imaging data to improve prediction of complex neurodevelopmental disorders) consider applying to the KCL MRC DTP and selecting our project kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/ai-d... #neuroscience #neuroimaging

Blue Sky is allowing users to choose whether they want to see reposts. This is a very interesting move. When it comes to emotions, people are more likely to share negative emotions than to produce them, so reducing reposts increase exposure to positive emotions.

Come join our department at UC Riverside! We are hiring in Cognitive and Cog Neuro this fall (and some other jobs to follow soon...) aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01788 #PsychJobs #CogSci #PsychSciSky #DevSci

Some more old stuff: want to learn about mixed methods research, i.e., integrating quantitative and qualitative methods? Or do you want to include mixed methods in your course, but lack expertise? Check out my free four-part lecture series (total time ~ 2 hours) osf.io/cs4h9/

Had a really interesting lab meeting discussing Amin Rahimian's paper on where to seed interventions in social networks to reach maximum impact. Check out this cool paper: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...