Join us in an hour for this week's Cooperation Colloquium with the excellent Terence Dores Cruz

I've never liked that we typically teach introductory social psychology as a series of 'classic' studies (see also: Robbers' Cave, Stanford Prison) that are just bad research. If we want evocative stories, we either need to do serious researchin the field, or look to disciplines that do.

🔔 Registration for the European Conference on Personality in Edinburgh, Scotland is now open! Join us for #ECP22 and connect with researchers from around the world! More information: www.ecp22edinburgh.org Register here: www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-... #PersonalityPsychology #eapp

I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Terence Dores Cruz (University of Amsterdam) The costs and benefits of gossip in reputation-based cooperation Date: Friday, November 7 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 9am NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

We are excited for our upcoming CBEN preconference in Leiden on April 14th on “Socio-Ecological Variation in Conflict and Cooperation”. Keynotes: Daniel Balliet, Elisabetta Palagi. Submit your abstract by Nov 30. More info can be found here: www.cognitionbehaviorevolution.nl?p=1120

🌏 #ICSD2026 is on! Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄 Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵

Today's Cooperation Colloquium!

Accepted a review request from Sci Rep because the abstract sounded interesting (stupid, I know). (a) There's a rebuttal letter which reveals that this is (at least) round 3 (!) of the review process; (b) I am reviewer #5. None of this was clear from the invitation. Incredibly disrespectful.

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Christian Ruff @ccruff.bsky.social Neurocomputational mechanisms of mentalizing in social interaction When: October 24, 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Publishing in social psychology: Reviewer 2 (me): please spell out your causal assumptions Authors: lol, we'd rather stop claiming we're doing causal inference Editor: *crickets*

WORK! At Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) We're recruiting a PhD student in experimental sociology! More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Today's Cooperation Colloquium!

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Setayesh Radkani @setayeshradkani.bsky.social: What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model Date: Friday, Oct 10 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 Vienna / 9 am NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

In an online study with 3,371 participants from 13 societies, Jin et al. found that perceived societal honour norms predicted both greater competition and cooperation. @shuxianjin.bsky.social @ayseuskul.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us in three hours for this week's Cooperation Colloquium!

My PhD student @qinyuxiao.bsky.social has written a wonderful tribute to Gary Bornstein’s influential paper on team games (doi.org/10.1207/S153...) — a paper that remains as relevant today as it was over 20 years ago. You can read Qinyu’s short piece here: doi.org/10.1038/s441...

The US government continues to abduct and disappear people in my former hometown.

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Talbot M. Andrews @talbotmandrews.bsky.social (Cornell): Overcoming the social dilemma of climate change Friday, Sep 26, 15:00 UTC+2 Vienna / 9 am NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Spent a few lovely days at the Matterhorn Symposium in Brig 🇨🇭, where I presented joint work with @mkasper.bsky.social and others on biased institutions. Next stop: Kassel for #DPPD25 and a talk on our new scale for HEXACO personality states.

Come to Scotland, everybody!

Buonasera Milano

This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/

First Cooperation Colloquium of the semester! Doruk İriş @dorukiris.bsky.social: Normative expectations of reciprocal negotiators Friday Sep 12, 14:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 8 am NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

A paper straight out of a feminist sci-fi novel

Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics? Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study! Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Friends and colleagues in the Berlin area: Next week (8-12 Sep) I will be visiting the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung (WZB) (Berlin Social Science Centre) @wzb.bsky.social Let me know if you'd like to meet for a coffee / drink / currywurst

I'll be giving talks 3 days in a row in 3 different Danish cities later this month. If you're in Aarhus, Copenhagen, or Odense and want to listen to me yap, well, I'll be there.

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Off to Vienna 🇦🇹 on this lovely Dundee morning

A poet on measurement

I hate to say it, but this is why at this point, I ignore anything published in low-quality mega journals. It's not just Frontiers and MDPI, it's also Sci Rep, Humanities and Social Science Communications, Plos One, etc. This is *obvious* nonsense -- this should never have gotten past the editors.

Completely nonsensical article in @natureportfolio.nature.com Humanities and Social Sciences Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Authors Anser, Ali, and Javid had another paper retracted for manipulated peer review: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

I will be travelling tomorrow (29th) to Florence for SPUDM #spudm #spudm25, and heading to Lucca the next day. If you also arrive early, happy to meet up!

Trade offer? Extortion by the seagull mafia?

Just participants in a replication game in Tilburg. Good fun if you enjoy muckraking and very helpful for improving your own code documentation.

⚡ Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia ⚡ We are excited to announce the next run of Cooperation Colloquia. With @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, @setayeshradkani.bsky.social, @kris-smith.bsky.social, @alexmesoudi.com, & more. Every second Friday, 15:00 CE(S)T Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Missed this last month: Scientific Reports actually retracted an article because a mediation analysis violated causality assumptions retractionwatch.com/2025/07/11/r...

Trying to revive the old Twitter thing: @qinyuxiao.bsky.social and I just got to Tilburg for TIBER -- anybody else already in town?

📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'! 🗓️ Dec 4 & 5 📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr 💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

I’ve been staying at St Andrews, Scotland for the past week, enjoying the beautiful town & nature and discussions on science. Thanks a ton @simoncolumbus.bsky.social for hosting me and the fantastic full-course dinner - Simon turned out to also be an amazing cook!

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

📣 New registered report in @nathumbehav.nature.com with Ivan Soraperra, @jonathanschulz.bsky.social, and Shaul Shalvi: rdcu.be/eAcMA With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.

For the last few weeks, Cecilie Strandsbjerg from @cphsodas.bsky.social visited me at St Andrews as part of a project on developing new personality scales for experience sampling studies. To round off the visit, we went for a coastal hike with @qinyuxiao.bsky.social, who's visiting from Vienna.

So pleased and proud to share this work. I started trying to think clearly about authority punishment in 2018. This new paper with Setayesh Radkani is the first fruit of that labour. Why so much struggle? See thread. 1/17

The incentives are stacked against being honest about future research. If researchers have sound ideas for what further research is needed, they will want to use them, especially in a grant-driven world. I say: let's give up the pretence and abandon discussion sections altogether.