New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎 ➡️ osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 1/10

📊 New #PSPB research: Embracing impartial beneficence - the principle that we should strive to improve others' well-being regardless of their relationship to us - does not preclude people from caring deeply about those close to them. 📑Read more: https://ow.ly/C9j350XIGzb

How do some children learn to eat some animals while continuing to care for others? New research suggests that this is caused by resolving the conflict between moral values and human cultural practices. Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/81NL50XHCS7

Excited to announce a new open-access EMP Lab paper on empathic AI: an interdisciplinary collaboration between psychology, philosophy, & engineering on motivated empathy expression and reception with social robots. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social 1/n

How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837

Thrilled to share this new preprint, co-authored with @peterlush.bsky.social and Chloé Fournier Bernard! We offer a broad and structured discussion of leading methods developed in the past >60 years to tackle demand artifacts in psychological research and beyond. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Looking for some new reading!? 📖

How do people disengage, reengage, and flexibly adapt goals? A new meta-analysis reviewed 235 studies (1,421 effects) on goal adjustment. A model that unifies the fragmented field is put forward. @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social‬

Congrats to Abigail Cassario, one of the winners of SPSP's 2025 Student Publication Prize! Her research with Mark Brandt found minimal evidence that threats like unemployment, immigration, or COVID-19 shift people rightward. Learn more: ow.ly/TunV50XhgP5

We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here 1/n guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...

Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us! We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.

"Re-imagining science and knowledge as pluriversal can expand the prevailing limited theoretical perspectives in social and personality psychology." Introduction to PSPR Special Issue @jadler.bsky.social

Looking to run more? A new paper by Emily Balcetis, Jordan Daley, Bradley Tao, & Bryce Lexow highlights how to best finish that race! The takeaway? Runners get to the finish line by focusing on subgoals rather than the larger goal of completing the race www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

📣Just announced: Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a Special Issue focused on elevating theoretical perspectives from non-Western societies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Learn more: ow.ly/6Z1O50X4Uug

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026! We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods. Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Led by @chopwood.bsky.social, team (including @joaograca.bsky.social) showed that, across many countries: ✳️ greater #speciesism is associated with more right-leaning political ideology (effect strongest in U.S.) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📊New research challenges assumptions about group favoritism. A study of 12K+ people across 45 non-Western countries finds economic inequality can lead people to favor advantaged outgroups over their own. Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/Bkpx50WVb2G

Confidence in absence as confidence in counterfactual visibility: a CogSci proceedings paper with star MSc student Maya Schipper, is now out on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇

Who needs art history or Arfican American studies or cognitive science when you can learn how to amplify productivity with GenAI?

Headed to #CogSci2025 next week! Interested in computational cognitive science applied to climate change and real-world policy? Come find me! My lab at UCLA is recruiting 1–2 fully funded PhD students. We work on: • decision-making • climate perception • human–AI collaboration for policy design

Meta-analytic support that success leads people to revise their goals upward and failure leads to downward revision. Very cool new model of the various moderators and mediators in these relationships, and what hypotheses follow. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Well worth reading, IMO I appreciate the multi-level, cross-correlated modelling described in the paper #ConspiracyTheory #Context @realistresnevalgp.bsky.social @crnetwork.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to announce that the Social-Cognitive Science Lab is no longer operated solely by myself and a few imaginary creatures. Welcome Cy Butler & Tomas Vanderkam to SoCoSci as we kick off our first year! socosci.com/blog/welcome...

📈New meta-analysis reveals when "moral licensing" really happens. After good deeds, people act less morally only when being watched by others, not when alone. This explains why many online studies failed to replicate the effect. Read more in #PSPB: ow.ly/YFIp50WmjYE

Check out our new work with @xallysie.bsky.social, @erichehman.bsky.social, and my student Ruoying on a tutorial for Representational Similarity Analysis! Thanks for the fun collaboration!!

We had a new tutorial on representational similarity analysis come out recently. Led by @xallysie.bsky.social with Ruoying Zheng and @chujunlin.bsky.social This technique lets you compare patterns across diff types of measures (eg correlate correlation matrices), super flexible

Your Brain on ChatGPT https://lobste.rs/s/rgjqbd ##cogsci ##vibecoding

Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

Does being reminded of your ingroup's role in the harm experienced by outgroup members lead you to see them as feeling less 'human' emotions? Looking at inequalities arising from climate change and fast fashion, our new paper at @plosone.org challenges this earlier claim in #dehumanization research.

📊Research reveals that experiences of awe help children become more generous and kind. When kids encounter vast mysteries like rainbows or starry nights, they feel more relaxed and willing to help others. Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights: ow.ly/M5z950VZg5N

Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology

📈New #PSPB research uses machine learning to map cultural differences beyond traditional theories like individualism-collectivism. The method reveals both known patterns and novel dimensions in comparing countries like USA, China, and Japan. Learn more: ow.ly/C3bb50VXMqL

The defense of commonsense knowledge against scientific expertise is used as a political weapon across countries onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #polpsy #Polisky

🔔‼️ New papers alert In these papers, @lakens.bsky.social takes a deep dive into the two major crises in psychology. Concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology are discussed. A must-read for every psychology researcher! Available in #OA 👇👇

📊Research shows that people who endorsed absolute honesty but then lied are viewed as more moral than those who admitted lying can sometimes be appropriate. Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights: ow.ly/gRLF50VX8PB

🔔‼️ New paper alert: “Novelty, Consistency, Transparency: The Trilemma of Psychological Sciences and its Consequences on Open Science Practices” Paul Bertin and Kenzo Nera propose that novelty, consistency and transparency can be conceptualized as a trilemma. Curious about this trilemma? 👇👇

Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

My union @swcolumbia.bsky.social has created a resource to support international students who are experiencing increasingly higher risk of immigration enforcement. We have done this on our own time while the University has remained silent and complicit. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yikes, it looks like ChatGPT might be widening the productivity gap in science. Men report using ChatGPT more than women—and since its launch, their publishing rate has grown 6.4% more than women's. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Very proud of this new piece out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! ✊✊Political extremism (left & right) fuels collective action regardless of political content. 📊We use data from two real-world protests in 🇫🇷: against COVID19 (typical right) and pension reform (typical left) and find this asymmetric U-shape

Online First Publication: Hu tested whether having more friendship involvement versus romantic involvement had a higher association with depressive symptoms using a four-wave longitudinal data set spanning from adolescent to midlife. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #ResearchPublishing

Live from #spsp2025: @abdoe.bsky.social shedding light on pluralistic ignorance. Democrats & Republicans *believe* they fundamentally disagree on core values, but in reality, are far more similar than they are different (ds~=1.3)--despite real differences (e.g., in conformity & traditionalism).

Live from #spsp2025: Kristin Laurin giving a talk abt how a small vocal minority (~8%) of politically extreme users on X overwhelmingly like & RT senators' partisan, polarizing tweets. Most users disapprove of partisanship but will fall in line and RT these more visible tweets @spspnews.bsky.social

What happens when parasocial relationships end? If you’re attending the Social Cognition preconference tomorrow at #SPSP2025, stop by my poster to find out!

📢 New Publication! Over 5 days of learning about ingroup and outgroup members, we found that contact eliminated racial bias in recall of person-knowledge Open access link below #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪

🎉Now published! Read it here: 🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251314913 #SocialPsych #PsychSciSky

Question for #PsychSciSky folks who have stopped using Qualtrics: What do you use now? Are there better alternatives that still have survey flow, skip logic, randomization, etc? I'm familiar w/ psytoolkit and jsPsych but curious what else is out there!

Research in @science.org showing structures in whale song thought to be uniquely human! Why? We think cultural learning! Led by @inbalarnon.bsky.social with @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social and me! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...