Prediction: Social psychologists will still insist that the book's thesis is valid, thereby ironically validating its thesis

I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀 1/

🎉 New paper accepted at JPSP: ASC! Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask: When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race? Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>

Just bumping this -- I'll be recruiting a new graduate student this cycle, to start in fall 2026. So will my colleagues Karen Gasper and Reg Adams. I'm currently the area coordinator. Reach out if you have questions about Penn State Social Psychology -- WE ARE!

✈️🥩♻️ How accurately do people perceive the #climate impact of different lifestyles — and how do those perceptions relate to their own behavior and policy preferences? Our new study investigated exactly this in China, Germany, and the US.🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🐶New preprint! 🐶 co-led by Ayça Akkuş w/ @drcharlie.bsky.social & Brock Bastian We explore cultural and individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern in a sample of >6500 participants from 41 cultural groups. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time. scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/

Prayer's effects on health have been studied many times. Small studies initially reported some benefit, but more rigorous studies found null or even harmful effects. In sum, prayer seemed ineffective, recommending focus on more promising interventions: doi.org/10.1002/1465...

PsyArXiv also recently switched to a pre-moderation workflow due to AI slop (the attached graph shows the 2025 increase caused by a large review backlog due to the moderation switch): blog.psyarxiv.com/2025/08/20/c...

New preprint w/ @fbartos.bsky.social , Ben Jones, and @tvpollet.bsky.social . Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7 osf.io/preprints/ps...

A self/other asymmetry in the perceived emotional costs of self-reporting good deeds: Participants believed that (1) reporting their own good deeds will leave them feeling worse, and that (2) others will not suffer similar negative feelings. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

🙂🧠 "At the within-person level, declines in life satisfaction predicted subsequent declines in cognitive function, and vice versa." (n > 60,000 from multiple countries) doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉 powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com - Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models - Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters - Fast! (Instant results)

We just started a website highlighting articles that would make good candidates for a Robustness Report. 🌐 Check out the website: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org 📄 Read our first blog post: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org/inaugural-po...

In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock Today they are outweighed 1 to 20 Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

"Overconfidence persists in tournament chess, a real-world information environment that should be inhospitable to it" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How FAIR is shared data in psychology? We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable! What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice. 👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy... @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci

Are some people more selective in who they help?
Our new paper w/ Isabel Thielmann says: Yes!! 
👉 psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Today's HotFresh recommended paper is: Dorison, C. A., & Charlesworth, T. E. S. (2025). What Is Rationality, Whom Is It Ascribed To, and Why Does It Matter? Evidence From Internet Text for 66 Social Groups and 101 Occupations. Psychological Science, 36(9), 713-731. doi.org/10.1177/0956...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Our new paper out in American Psychologist. Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp. Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

"As the second registered report to challenge its efficacy, this study’s results cast serious doubt on the BTS [Bayesian truth serum] as a reliable tool for mitigating socially desirable responding and improving the validity of self-report data in psychological research." doi.org/10.1177/2515...

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"like fish unaware of their wet surrounds, academics don’t feel the pain because it’s all they’ve ever known."

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

📢 Authenticity checks are out of beta, with upgrades for ease of use. Authenticity checks work with Qualtrics and Prolific to detect AI-generated responses in your research with 98.7% precision, so you can trust the data you collect is authentic. #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity #AIDetection

There is a robust link between intergroup contact & reduced prejudice, but does contact actually cause a reduction in prejudice? Across multiple longitudinal data sets (N > 20,000), very few people reported increased contact AND reduced prejudice. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

New paper! - I was wrong! We checked and checked again we were definitely wrong. And I couldn't be happier that we are able to publish these findings at QJEP - Satchell, Hall & Jones 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

In our now published letter in @pnas.org, we raise two wider issues for behavioral science: 1) Intentions are poor predictors of behavior 2) Effects on intentions need not generalize to effects on behavior We join calls for researchers to measure actual behavior: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🐶Now out at JNB🐶 We examine the prevalence and psychological correlates of lay beliefs in physiognomy - the idea that a person's character is reflected in their facial appearance. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

100% this, especially with Wiley given their anti-preprint stance.

"In countries with multiparty systems or less polarized media ecosystems than the U.S., ideological and partisan gaps in self‐reported trust in science are typically substantially weaker than in the U.S., if they exist at all... not a stable characteristic of conservativism"

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Interesting summary of the tactics used by the animal agriculture industry to counteract efforts to advocate for dietary shifts as a climate change mitigation strategy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Evidence of convergent validity among thin-slice behavioral coding metrics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science! The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents. Info 👇

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#AcademicSky #PhDLife Cross-national graduate student survey finds 43% (overall) experience discrimination/harassment as part of their studies www.nature.com/articles/d41... My Ask #1: check in with your students. They okay? My Ask #2: check yourself. Are you causing their problems?

"When a stereotype-inconsistent group member was presented, those with both greater inhibitory and greater updating ability showed more stereotype reduction, suggesting that these executive functions are jointly important for regulating stereotype accessibility" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

Thrilled to announce a new paper out this weekend in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social. Moral psychologists almost always use self-report scales to study moral judgment. But there's a problem: the meaning of these scales is inherently relative. A 2 min demo (and a short thread): 1/7

@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems. Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hostile and benevolent sexism are both on the decline in 1,097 studies, N = 339,740 since 1996. Note that "3" on these scales is already a neutral response. Even bigger progress in countries with more hostile sexism. From Matthew D. Hammond psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles... #phdsky #psych

🚨 new paper out w/ @simonchauchard.bsky.social in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social on the link between misinformation and religiosity- does religious belief cause people to endorse more misinformation? And if so, what can we do about it? thread below ⬇️

Giving to a good cause is a complex decision: (1) how much? (2) to which charity?  Research by Kretschmer & Smeets suggests separating them (in that order) leads to larger, more cost-effective donations: buff.ly/nnI3AAB TL;DR:🧵 buff.ly/uv7Rgqa

Experimentally reducing the relevance of sexual desire in participants' partner preferences decreased prioritization of attractiveness for both men and women www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New review! We synthesized literature on empathic AI: AI-generated emotional support is rated higher than human responses, but people's knowledge of the source shapes their perceptions. W/ @desmond-ong.bsky.social @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social @anatperry.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...