POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell @cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185 @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

new paper!!

We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/

Only one day left to apply for the Moral Psychology Preconference at SPSP! We have an outstanding line-up of invited speakers, will have blitz contributed talks, a best poster award, and more. Don’t miss it!

Only 9 days left to submit!! Come join us in Chicago in Feb!

Very excited to share that my first paper, with Peter Mende-Siedlecki and @leorhackel.bsky.social, is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com! ☺️ Can getting more rewards make you feel more skilled, even if your performance doesn't change? www.nature.com/articles/s44...

check out our october newsletter featuring @kirstanbrodie.bsky.social 🎃 open.substack.com/pub/marginal...

In their recent book, Brownstein, Madva, and Kelly argue that people don’t necessarily join causes because they think they’re going to win in the short term … yet their decision to participate during a seemingly hopeless period creates the conditions for ultimate victory www.vox.com/politics/463...

We propose that the everyday psychology of rules and 3rd party punishment is at the core of authoritarianism Our view posits no new constructs, is ideology-agnostic, & considers relevant only interactions w the state See our new working paper "Authoritarianism in Action" osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are hiring - come work with us! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

So excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in @commspsychol.nature.com 🎉 In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions. www.nature.com/articles/s44... (1/4)

Looking for a postdoc? Apply for Cornell’s Klarman Fellowship with me! I’m interested in rules, rule-breakers, and curiosity, broadly construed. Link for more info here: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... (3 years, $80K/yr; Oct 15th deadline) Email me directly if you’re interested!

@anagantman.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully gotten back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition

Share your revenge stories with us!!

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire. Our computational cognitive model explains why! Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7 News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu 🧵

@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social, and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully got back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold! psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: [email protected] RTs appreciated 💫

🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola

The idea that pursuing moral excellence leads to the most authentic life contains an annoying conflict—how can we be authentic if constrained by morals? Research by @jowylie.bsky.social et al finds pursuing aesthetic excellence has the edge in finding one’s true self: buff.ly/OJczpSc

We are starting to plan next year’s SPSP Morality Preconference—tell us who you want to hear from!!!

Why do scientists still struggle to answer basic questions about the safety of digital tech from AI to social media, even as families point to rising evidence of individual harm with concern & grief? @orbenamy.bsky.social & I have a new article in @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

need a break from doom scrolling? check out this month's feature @raziasahi.bsky.social 🤩 open.substack.com/pub/marginal...

Thank you all so much for having me!! It was a joy to share more about my research in psychology and law. If you want to learn more about legal judgment & decision making, intriguing Supreme Court cases and what “objectively reasonable” actually means to people, listen to this episode!

Women are seen as more moral, research by @jowylie.bsky.social et al finds—people mentally picture “a morally good person” as a woman, tend to ascribe morally good traits more to women than to men, and stereotype behaviours associated with moral goodness as feminine: buff.ly/Wbe1Udk

Decades of scholarship on gender have shown that women are judged to be more caring and more communal than men--a core component of moral goodness. We used multiple methods (N= 5,376) to test a basic claim: People think that women are morally superior to men. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Are women morally wonderful? Excited by this paper, with @jowylie.bsky.social, @anagantman.bsky.social, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social, Peter Mende-Siedlecki, and Heleni Singer. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We (@stysyropoulos.bsky.social, @jowylie.bsky.social, Gordon Kraft-Todd, @nathanliang.bsky.social, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social) found striking self-serving asymmetries in how people judge others’ public virtue and how they expect their own to be judged. Check it out below!

In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of new work on the philosophy & cog sci of norms. If you want to get up to speed on it, check out this newly revised SEP entry on the Psychology of Normative Cognition by @dryan149.bsky.social, Stephen Setman & me. plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...

We're just a few days away from this year's Morality Preconference!! Don't miss it! #SPSP2025

I’m hiring a lab manager to start July 2025! Submit CV and cover letter as soon as possible as review will begin immediately. Link to the job ad is here: tinyurl.com/22ye3wsv Please share with any undergrads or mentees who might be interested!

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to [email protected] by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!

been thinking a lot in my lab about what it means to use the state to go after your enemies (for no reason at all). the beginnings of that thinking are in our paper on what makes state punishment unique (now in press at EJSP) #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky osf.io/preprints/ps...

there are so many rules to follow! only some of them the state enforces; in our new preprint "the psychology of state punishment" @jowylie.bsky.social connie chiu, nicolette dakin, wil cunningham & i argue state punishment is unique 🧵 #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check out our new working paper!

what counts as breaking a rule? you might think this q is easy, but people actually integrate signals from morality, legality, punishability, and normativity to figure it out, new preprint w/ @jowylie.bsky.social & dries bostyn osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky

been seeing lots of work lately on whether LLMs can give ethical counsel, but i am not so optimistic. it's pretty hard to know good advice when you get it! and sometimes the best moral advice transcends the prompt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/plea... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

For the love of me, I just don’t understand people who get upset for getting emails after hours. The only reason you know it’s after hours is because you checked your email after hours. Just open it at 9am and pretend the other person’s message just arrived.

Thread on novel new study about “whether the race of the rule breaker affects enforcement of phantom rules”

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

Request for Moral Psych folks!! If you’re planning to attend the Morality Preconf @ this year’s SPSP conference & have NOT signed up yet, please DM or email me! The precon is already sold out (!!), and we are trying to gauge interest so that we can push for more space! Thank you! #MoralPsych

Request for Moral Psych folks!! If you’re planning to attend the Morality Preconf @ this year’s SPSP conference & have NOT signed up yet, please DM or email me! The precon is already sold out (!!), and we are trying to gauge interest so that we can push for more space! Thank you! #MoralPsych

new monthly newsletter just dropped! make sure to check it out!! it features this year's selected marginalia x boston college colloquium speakers: marginaliascience.substack.com/p/newsletter... @xanni.bsky.social @rebeccazoo.bsky.social

Blueksy! I will be recruiting a PhD student and a lab manager in the Fall of 2025. The lab will study rules and curiosity from a moral psychology lens—exploring how we judge rule-breakers, reason about rules, and what sparks our curiosity in the moral domain.

Join us in Denver!!!

Very excited to share the #SPSP2025 Moral Psychology pre-conference will be taking place on Feb 20th in Denver Poster submissions are open - Deadline is Oct 17 spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-p... co-organised with @jowylie.bsky.social & @diegoreinero.bsky.social

check out our july newsletter featuring Mookie Manalili! 🌴☀️😎 #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #AcademicSky #cogpsyc open.substack.com/pub/marginal...