This is both very funny and barely distinguishable from rationalizations I’ve heard people offer absolutely in earnest.

🧵 New paper out in JPSP: Morality Cut Both Ways. Can reading facts make you moralize an issue — or lose a moral conviction? We ran 6 studies, 4,464 participants. The results were surprising. 👇 #MoralPsychology #Attitudes. @icedteas.bsky.social 1/8

@marlephie.bsky.social and I are searching for a postdoc in SciComm research. Feel free to contact us before applying!

So excited that this joint project got funded - already looking forward to getting started! 🎉

Time to get morbid... but also a bit hopeful? 🕯️😇 I'm beyond thrilled that the DFG has decided to fund the 3-year project "#digitalafterlife"—in which @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and I will scrutinize the use of existing and emerging digital technologies (#genAI) to cope with mortality and grief 🙌

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨THREATENED BY SCIENCE🚨People often reject science at odds with their prior beliefs. In three studies, we now show that much of this can be explained by feelings of threat and we test how affirmations in #SciComm might help alleviate such threats. Now out in Public Understanding of Science! 🧵1/4

Thrilled this is out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 Do we have 2 kinds of beliefs? Some beliefs seem insensitive to evidence and rarely guide behavior, etc. To explain this, several theories divide belief into 2 types. I argue the explanation isn't in the *mind* but in the *world*

1/ We've been measuring intellectual humility wrong. Most scales ask "are you intellectually humble?" but the people least humble are the most miscalibrated about it. They overclaim. The #humilityparadox. Out today in Behavior Research Methods. Here's what we did instead. 🧵

Fascinating deep dive into the characteristics of papers and peer reviews at a journal, with a lookback pre-COVID and pre-chatGPT. Papers and reviews showing more signs of AI over time, but also lower writing quality. orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu... orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu...

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon. Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.

Appreciated this history of citation indices, though of course the alternative history where citation indices were never introduced does not seem non-ruinous. open.substack.com/pub/davidoks...

How does Nazi propaganda influence the emotions of Germans today? In a registered report in EJSP Lara Ditrich, Katharina Bernecker and I tested the affective consequences of Nazi propaganda pictures shown among pictures of Nazi terror on recipients emotions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/so...

Some lovely diagrams and contrasts in Ziman’s (1981) “Science: The New Model”: doi.org/10.1177/0270...

🔴🔴 dear hive mind: what are your favorite experimental (partisan) identity primes? I only know of a few papers that primed partisan identities, and even fewer that did it successfully.. Any hints would be greatly appreciated 🙏

There is no creative research without academic freedom. In a paper on the history of psychology in #Hungary, I show how political regimes act like sorting machines - shaping what research becomes (im-)possible. A timely reminder with Hungarian elections ahead in April. doi.org/10.1007/s436...

There is no creative research without academic freedom. In a paper on the history of psychology in #Hungary, I show how political regimes act like sorting machines - shaping what research becomes (im-)possible. A timely reminder with Hungarian elections ahead in April. doi.org/10.1007/s436...

When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Great post elaborating on how (not) to use AI (and technology) in scientific research!

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

@in-mindmagazine.bsky.social provides such a great platform for science communication! We wrote a short piece about autobiographical memory in the digital age - take a look (before you scroll through your past next time)!

Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h... We invite you to: 1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6 2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit 3) Share this post

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

New preprint with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social: Novel social identities shape belief in true and false information In 3 exps (N = 1,459) we randomly assigned people to one of two novel groups. People trusted (and then believed claims more from) their in-group osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

Finally out! TLDR: People don't feel shit cause they believe wild conspiracy theories, they believe CTs cause they feel shit. CT beliefs are often confabulations explaining their existential predicament. I drew on LOTS empirical stuff to try & make this defeasible: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our preprint has evolved! v2 of “Digital Behaviourism” is out now with a new title, new co-authors, and a deeper dive into the behavioural concepts that shape our online lives. It’s time to move beyond “screen time” and focus on function of online behaviours. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Great thread. Definitely worth reading!

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

How well do you remember your birthday in 2024? What about 2019?🎂🎁 If you can’t remember, what would you do to find out? In our new open-access study, we show how important and useful digital tools are for reconstructing past experiences. 📱 doi.org/10.1080/0965...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

New Special Issue of #HOPOS on Paul Feyerabend. Featuring a new transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists” as well as eight new papers. Link to the special issue: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...

Motivated Reasoning "Quite undoubtedly, motivated reasoning is *a thing.* What we need, is more research to find out what thing it is *exactly.* New narrative review by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social, @marlephie.bsky.social, & @zpid.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Working on this with Fabian and Regina was an extremely inspiring and thought-provoking experience. Motivated reasoning is such a fascinating and consequential psychological phenomenon! 👇🏼

Motivated reasoning is a well-understood phenomenon - or is it? In a new paper just published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social we discuss three known unknowns. doi.org/10.1525/coll... Here is a 🧵

Social media ~ mental health meta-analysis: - Cited 7 times - The 45 included studies appear not to exist - The authors’ institution appears not to exist - The journal editors won’t respond

Works the other way around too. “If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

At ZPID we are searching for a tenure track assistant professor for Psychological Metascience in joint appointment with @unitrier.bsky.social preferably someone who has conducted quantitative research in metascience in psychology or related disciplines. Questions? Feel free to contact me personally.

Reviewer comment: „Some references, such as Smith et al. (2018), Johnson and Lee (2020), and Chen et al. (2021), could be synthesized more concisely to improve flow and readability.“ Problem: I am citing none of these references. Welcome to the world of AI reviews …

Reviewer comment: „Some references, such as Smith et al. (2018), Johnson and Lee (2020), and Chen et al. (2021), could be synthesized more concisely to improve flow and readability.“ Problem: I am citing none of these references. Welcome to the world of AI reviews …

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Researchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

🚨 New publication: How to improve conceptual clarity in psychological science? Thrilled to see this article with @ruimata.bsky.social out. We discuss how LLMs can be leveraged to map, clarify, and generate psychological measures and constructs. Open access article: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Have you ever tried explaining your research with ... a short story?! 🤔 Believe me, it's extremely gratifying to change your perspective and let your creativity run loose. 💙 Then YOU can be a guest author for @scienceandfiction.net! 😱 DM me for more info 😁

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.