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maxprimbs.bsky.social
PhD Student, Radboud University (Netherlands). Researching how our social and cultural environments shape our implicit biases. Big Team Science & Statistics enthusiast.
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In the movie "The Green Book" Tony (Viggo Mortensen's character) is given a book that marked places that would service Black people or were safe to travel to. One common threat this book marked were sundown towns, towns in which Black people were arrested, threatened, or attacked after sundown.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Mediation Question: One of my friends did a mediation analysis. I made a DAG for her and the effect is not identifiable. What is the correct interpretation of a statistically significant mediator in this scenario? #CausalSky

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Interested in doing a postdoc in Europe? Want to do research on prejudice, social cognition & AI without fear of the keyword police? Stay tuned for a new 1-yr postdoc position! And if you have your own funding, get in touch!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Contact Researchers: What are your preferred control conditions for imagined contact interventions?

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Analysis of 666,623 respondents over 17 years (2007–2023) finds the "American = White" effect is getting weaker Open access: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Some people’s research will be flagged and then will move on with clarification. Other people’s research will be flagged and… it’s done. The differences in who those people are will not be random.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Social psychologists: Does anyone know of an existing method for manipulating identity conflict, or making one identity more salient than another?

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

This sounds like the same error I blogged about a few years ago, the common error of trying to control for population (or body size or many etc) by dividing the outcome variable by it. Props to the authors for seeking review and taking the issue seriously. Role models for us all.

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

New paper accepted at Social Cognition with @gijsbijlstra.bsky.social, @felixthoemmes.bsky.social and Rob Holland. We introduce Directed Acyclic Graphs and Balancing Weights to social sognition researchers. These tools aid researchers in formalizing causal assumptions and estimating causal effects.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Of course the picture is of an IAT 😂😅

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Do I know anyone who went to SISPP and is willing to share their application materials?

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

I'm running a ManyDAGs projects where research teams will be co-authors. Is it standard practice to get IRB approval for those?

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

New Data Colada blog, nicely illustrating how preregistration allows you to evaluate the severity of a test (and in this case, find it lacking). Especially important with difficult to replicate experiments! datacolada.org/122

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

😂 “Fighting the beat and winning: stereotype threat and White people’s rhythmic performance” “Stereotype threat may impede White individuals’ ability to perform actions requiring rhythmic ability (e.g. clapping on beat, dancing).” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... h/t @neillewisjr.bsky.social

submitted 58 days ago • 15 comments

A special milestone on my journey 🎓🎉 I recently graduated Cum Laude from the acclaimed Research Master in Behavioural Science at Radboud University. Thank you to everyone who supports me, I appreciate you very much! I am excited about what's next!

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments