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Psychologist @williambrady.bsky.social will be one of our Zoom speakers at today's Consortium conference in the noon session on algorithms and emotions, as well as the interdisciplinary roundtable later on. Come listen! @ssripennstate.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social

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In 5 experiments (N=2,498), the use of moral–emotional expressions in messages increases intentions to share on social media When people share messages with moral–emotional language, others see them as more partisan + less open-minded Via @williambrady.bsky.social : psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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New preprint! My entry into the ongoing AI empathy discussion: "Reframing the performance and ethics of 'empathic' AI: Wisdom of the crowd and placebos." osf.io/preprints/ps...

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"Tests of AI empathy typically don't compare a chatbot's cold comfort with the kind of socially embedded care that truly nourishes us. If they did, the chatbots would lose" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is an important challenge for studies of AI and empathy. And an empirical question!

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Hi Chicago friends, next week on Friday 3/7, @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social and I will be standing up for science at Federal Plaza at 12pm! Join us at @standupforscience.bsky.social in Chicago and nationwide! For more background info, read here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

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Congrats to all the rising stars! ✨✨

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If you want to see more of our data on longitudinal trends in moralization, I'm giving a symposium talk tomorrow morning at 8:00AM in Four Seasons Ballroom 1 #SPSP2025

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And I know I'll be hosting a panel on AI and the future of Psychology w/ @mjcrockett.bsky.social @robbwiller.bsky.social Kurt Gray & David Yeager #spsp2025 #comppsych

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Jonas Dalege: minority groups can only influence if they have strong connections and the majority group doesn't have a strong belief network #spsp2025 #comppsych

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@cinoolee.bsky.social: compiled 1000+ sm posts about racial discrimination and matched set on non-race topic...both AI and humans are sig more likely to flag posts about race for removal (36% more likely!) Triggered by identity threat + tone-policing #spsp2025 #comppsych

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@gandalfnicolas.bsky.social: social groups are represented in LLMs in similar ways compared to human data, warmth and competence are key but only explain about 50% of variance (need more dimensions). #spsp2025 #comppsych

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Sanaz Talaifar: smart phone passive sensing study: Liberals have less fun than conservatives (they are on social media lot...). Also, people vastly overestimate daily routine differences among lib vs conservatives #spsp2025 #comppsych

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@curtispuryear.bsky.social a study of a decade of twitter posts shows and new measure of moralization shows that moralization has substantially increased over time (d = .45!). Driven by both self selection and within-user increase over time! #comppsych #spsp2025 (also stay tuned for this paper😎)

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Niyat Kachhiyapatel: LLM analysis of events in people's lives: people feel most uncertain during negative, emotional inducing events #comppsych #spsp2025

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@madalina.bsky.social: sample of 63 countries test several interventions to increase climate policy support. Writing letter to future gen is best. Doom & gloom messaging great for increasing sharing but not for increasing support! #spsp2025 #comppsych

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Xavier Roberts-Gaal & @fierycushman.bsky.social: environmental variability predicts goal learning and stability predicts action learning in a really cool transmission experiment #spsp2025 #comppsych

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Gabriel Fajardo & @freemanjb.bsky.social have created a new connectionist model of trait formation (impression from faces). High dimension, dynamic models may buy us better model outcomes and situational variability #spsp2025 #comppsych

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I'll be live tweeting some talks from the #compsych precon at #spsp2025 follow the hashtag to check them out! @markthornton.bsky.social @chujunlin.bsky.social

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@emmatempleton.bsky.social a network analysis of meet and greet conversations with strangers shows: there are certain central topics that function to help speakers find common ground - strangers don't start conversations randomly! #comppsych #spsp2025

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New research led by @zhpinkman.bsky.social investigating the impact of LLMs on the reduction of linguistic diversity and its societal implications. "We're getting the language into its final shape - the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else." George Orwell, 1984

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This was a really interesting project to be part of, and cool use of causal methods to study a big societal question. I recommend reading the preprint, and looking at our last theoretical paper (linked here) that generated the predictions tested in this paper.

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👀New preprint! In 3 prereg experiments we study how engagement-based algorithms amplify ingroup, moral and emotional (IME) content in ways that disrupt social norm learning (and test one solution!) w/ @joshcjackson.bsky.social and my amazing lab managers @merielcd.bsky.social & Silvan Baier 🧵👇

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I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!

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Recorded at a much calmer time... thanks to Wendy Hasenkamp at Mind & Life for this conversation, and to the many brilliant friends & colleagues who inspired the ideas in here... podcast.mindandlife.org/molly-crocke...

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✨New preprint✨How does repeated exposure to transgressions online shape moral judgment? Results show two competing processes: 💠We get desensitized = ⬇️ wrong 💠Transgression seems more infamous =⬆️wrong Relative strength of each may predict outrage to viral transgressions w/ @danieleffron.bsky.social

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Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research don't meet basic standards of reproducibility...

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Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵

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