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🙋‍Come by my poster next Tuesday 8-10AM to discuss the good, the dad, and the ugly of Representational Similarity Analysis! (Not an April fools' joke) 🔗 www.cogneurosociety.org/poster/?id=5...

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The Trump tax plan only works by cutting public services. This incredible visualization combines the potential tax cuts (which mostly go to the rich) and loss of services (mostly borne by the poor). It is a giant wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest. budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...

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The updated version of the IIT-Concerned letter has now been published in NN, thanks to the herculean efforts of the corresponding authors (thank you!!!). Here's the link. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Still, the process was frustrating. When the letter was first posted in the archive (1/n)

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New Paper in Philosophical Psychology: Trust in experts is low. Why? How bad is it? And what should we do? To answer these questions, we reviewed philosophy (when ought we defer to the experts) and psychology (when do people defer to the experts). Link in comments!

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A year ago @kurtjgray and I argued that popular discourse about the "loneliness epidemic" might be making people more lonely. Today @NatureComms published direct evidence for this: reading news stories about the risks of isolation makes people feel worse about being alone. 🧵

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check out our march newsletter featuring Joseph Outa! open.substack.com/pub/marginal... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #AcademicSky #cogpsyc

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In another preprint, we (@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social) found that Americans underestimate how many future generations others see as worthy of consideration in policy and collective decisions, a form of pluralistic ignorance that may hinder long-term action.

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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!

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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

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Happy SPSP Day to those who celebrate! I’m looking forward to starting this conference off sharing new research, “Right, Wrong or Reasonable? Morality in Legal Decision Making” in the Moral Pre conference!! #SPSP2025

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Very interesting perspective from @katestarbird.bsky.social on our recent preprint 👇

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Excited to be a panelist at the Diversity & Climate Committee Undergraduate Mentoring Event! 🎉 If you're a diverse undergrad in psych, don’t miss this chance to connect, ask questions, and network with amazing scholars & grad mentors. Spots are limited—join us!

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Call for papers! Pablo Abitbol, Santiago Amaya and I will be co-editing a Special Issue on "Memory, Emotion and Forgiveness" in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. If you are a philosopher and/or psychologist working at the intersection of memory, emotion and forgiveness [1/2]

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Calling all social cognition researchers; have you ever wondered about the suitability of your measures in the investigation of individual differences? 👥 Well, we have (some) test-retest estimates for you! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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I finally moved to BlueSky 🦋 For quick introductions, I'm Alexa (they/ them), a Dev Psych PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto 🇨🇦 working w Dr. Christina Starmans. My work is broadly related to children & adults' social cognition, moral judgment, & perceptions of change. I'm happy to connect!

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Happy to share our new paper published in BJSP. We found that individuals assigned moral value to both biodiversity and cultural diversity independent from instrumental or individual-centric concerns. 1/6 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I will be reading applications for our PhD program this year. Our lab studies social cognition, attitude formation and change, and social learning and memory. For more information, please read this document: benedekkurdi.com/files/Kurdi_.... The deadline is December 1.

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Request: Are there examples of replications or studies examining whether results change when tested with a larger or different sample of stimuli?

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✨ APPLICANT PORTAL IS OPEN! ✨ Submit your psych PhD statement here: www.asfp.io/applicants/s... Get your drafts in by Thursday October 31 and get fast and free feedback from experts! Spread the word!

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Thrilled to share a new preprint on the phenomenology of counterfactual thought with Natasha Parikh, Kevin LaBar, and my inimitable undergraduate mentor, @felipedebrigard.bsky.social! Impoverished episodic counterfactual simulation is associated with increased anxiety osf.io/preprints/ps...

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We just released jsPsych v8.0! There's lots of behind-the-scenes improvements here thanks to a complete rewrite of the core code. There are also some user-facing changes. Changelog is here: github.com/jspsych/jsPs...

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Thrilled to share that my first lead-author publication with Sam Grayson, Mia Kussman, @mildner.bsky.social, and @dianatamir.bsky.social is out in Computers in Human Behavior Reports! In-person and virtual social interactions improve well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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Wake up babe, first package release just dropped on GitHub 🔥😤🔥 I've begun to compile the custom JS + CSS I use to ✨prettify✨ my Qualtrics surveys under the hood, and the first thing done here is emulating the Simple layout UI while using the Flat layout: github.com/1nathanliang... More to come!!

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happy february! check out our february newsletter to meet guest editor @wmfang.bsky.social

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🚨We're hiring a lab manager!🚨We're looking for a stellar post-bacc interested in studying emotions, supporting lab infrastructure, and building community. Please spread the word! See links in 1st comment for our mission and culture. Review starts 3/1! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18407/r...

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Do others also just use Roxygen2 to document custom functions in R? docstring? #R

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what better way to start the new year than to dive into our january newsletter??!? this month's newsletter features @fuhred.bsky.social & information about our meetup at SPSP2024! #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #AcademicSky #cogpsyc open.substack.com/pub/marginal...

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the marginalia science team was recently interviewed by @hitchtheory.bsky.social (tysm fahima!) for the @spspsc.bsky.social spotlight student newsletter! #psychology #socialpsyc check it out here: spsp.org/news/newslet...

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Applications are now open! The Center is now accepting applications to our Pittsburgh Summer Program 2024 (July 8 - July 12) Use the link to our website to find out more: ow.ly/sH3150QinpU

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Does anyone know of an openly available stimulus set where human faces are depicted from all angles, including from the back? #PsychSciSky #Psychology #AcademicSky

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New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We’re surprised in many situations, like surprise parties, lab tasks, & suspenseful basketball games. Despite being in completely different situations, does our brain process unexpectedness similarly? 1/9

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🧠Hippocampal functions modulate transfer-appropriate cortical representations supporting subsequent memory🧠 Just published in the Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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check out our new piece in Aeon/Psyche about why we love bad guys! this was a nice change of pace from the usual academic writing (and working with an editor is amazing; 10/10 experience). #PsychSciSky #socpsych #psychology

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Martin is one of the kindest people I've gotten to know—perks of joining his lab may also include becoming a pro ultimate frisbee player 👀

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Fewer than half of Republicans (47%) now say that science has had a mostly positive effect on society. In 2019, 70% of Republicans said this. 🧪 www.pewresearch.org/science/2023...

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Delighted to share this new preprint lead by Arthur Le Pargneux. When somebody needs to "take one for the team" (pull a late night, walk an extra mile, trudge through mud), do people think that moral responsibility falls upon whoever has the weakest bargaining position? osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/2

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🚨New WP🚨 Intuition favors belief in false claims. But why? @rorchinik.bsky.social argues its the result of rationally adaptative intuitions adjusting to low base rate of false claims in the US media environment Check out Reed's talk at SJDM on 11/18 9:10am! PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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I am recruiting Ph.D. students to join our Social Injustice and Social Change group at UCSB! You still have until December 1 to apply. Application fee waiver are available (for qualified domestic applicants).

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📣 Seeking PhD applicants passionate about fMRI, EEG, & data science to study race/ethnicity & religion effects on how we see ourselves & world around us. We’re a supportive & hard-working lab committed to open science. Applications due 12/1. Still time to apply — spread the word! spl.psych.ucsb.edu

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I will be recruiting one or more PhD students this year to work with me in the University of Illinois graduate program. My core interests are still in experimental studies of social cognition and evaluative learning.

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Join the Princeton Psych dept this summer as part of our inaugural Visiting Internship for PhD Students (VIPS) program! If you have no summer funding, the approval of your advisor, and matching research interests, consider applying. Deets: psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

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New paper in Psych Science led by Clara Colombatto in which we show that, contra expectations of policymakers, vaccine nationalism actually decreases trust in leaders. Redistributive leaders are trusted more than nationalistic leaders —even by more nationalistic participants.

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Here's a little blurb about the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making, an interdisciplinary network I direct at Penn State. We got support from the Rock Ethics Institute, College of Liberal Arts, and Social Science Research Institute to foster exciting collaborations ssri.psu.edu/news/new-con...

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Say you find a condition in which people tend to fixate on a stimulus for longer than average. Does this mean that they are attending to or processing this stimulus more? It turns out, not necessarily, since mind-wandering results in similar effects! Happy to be a part of this fun new paper:

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@asmithflores.bsky.social's paper on children's reasoning about social relationships & empathy is now published in Open Mind! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... For folks who missed the preprint on Twitter, here's a quick summary (1/4)

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1. New paper with Madeline (Gracie) Reinecke now in press at Cognitive Development! We find that kids think God can't change moral rules. Full text here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... Summary below: #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc 🧪

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