Collabra: Psychology
@collabrapsychology.bsky.social
An open access, open science psychology journal from @ucpress.bsky.social, and the official journal of @improvingpsych.org (SIPS). Editor-in-Chief: @donvanraven.bsky.social
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New in Methodology and Research Practice: Methodological Trends and Differences: A Comparative Analysis of Economics and Psychology doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Methodological Trends and Differences: A Comparative Analysis of Economics and Psychology
This study provides a large-scale comparison of how economics and psychology use research methods to investigate substantive phenomena. By mapping these methodological trends, we aim to foster greater...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
New in Methodology and Research Practice: Methodological Trends and Differences: A Comparative Analysis of Economics and Psychology doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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@simine.com co-founded @improvingpsych.org, driving reform in psychology, and the open-access journal @collabrapsychology.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social , prioritizing methodological rigor. Now Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science, she champions transparency and rigor in research. (2/4)
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
@simine.com co-founded @improvingpsych.org, driving reform in psychology, and the open-access journal @collabrapsychology.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social , prioritizing methodological rigor. Now Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science, she champions transparency and rigor in research. (2/4)
Big congratulations to Simine Vazire @simine.com, 2025 individual winner of the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Award for her work championing methodological reform in psychological science award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...
Simine Vazire – Einstein Foundation Award
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November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Big congratulations to Simine Vazire @simine.com, 2025 individual winner of the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Award for her work championing methodological reform in psychological science award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...
#RegisteredReport: The Influence of Offender Identifiability in Second- and Third-Party Punishment. From @teesieb.bsky.social and @mtwardawski.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
The Influence of Offender Identifiability in Second- and Third-Party Punishment
The identifiability effect describes humans’ tendency to respond differently to identified versus anonymous individuals. While this phenomenon has been extensively studied regarding the identifiabilit...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#RegisteredReport: The Influence of Offender Identifiability in Second- and Third-Party Punishment. From @teesieb.bsky.social and @mtwardawski.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
New in Methodology and Research Practice: Introducing the Treatment Decision Framework (TreaDeF) – a Decision Theoretic Approach to Using Evaluation Study Data to Inform Individual Treatment Decisions doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Introducing the Treatment Decision Framework (TreaDeF) – a Decision Theoretic Approach to Using Evaluation Study Data to Inform Individual Treatment Decisions
We present TreaDeF, a formal, uncertainty-aware diagnostic treatment decision framework. TreaDeF is situated within statistical decision theory, merging traditional informal, human-centered and algori...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
New in Methodology and Research Practice: Introducing the Treatment Decision Framework (TreaDeF) – a Decision Theoretic Approach to Using Evaluation Study Data to Inform Individual Treatment Decisions doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Semantics and Statistics in the Formation of Causatives in Hijazi Arabic: Data From Semantic Ratings, Grammatical Acceptability Judgments and Computational Modeling. New in developmental psychology from Khadeejah Alaslani, Ronnie Wilbur, and @ambridge.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Semantics and Statistics in the Formation of Causatives in Hijazi Arabic: Data From Semantic Ratings, Grammatical Acceptability Judgments and Computational Modeling
The aim of the present study was to investigate the possibility that Hijazi Arabic – like other languages previously studied – uses morphosyntactic marking to differentiate events of more- versus less...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Semantics and Statistics in the Formation of Causatives in Hijazi Arabic: Data From Semantic Ratings, Grammatical Acceptability Judgments and Computational Modeling. New in developmental psychology from Khadeejah Alaslani, Ronnie Wilbur, and @ambridge.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Two new studies use Christmas - a religious event characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environments - to examine the role of environment in shaping people’s implicit biases doi.org/10.1525/coll...
The Complex Ring of Jingle Bells: The Association Between Christmas and Implicit Bias Towards Racial, Religious, and Sexual Minorities
Every year, billions of people celebrate Christmas all over the world – a religious event that is characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic envi...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Two new studies use Christmas - a religious event characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environments - to examine the role of environment in shaping people’s implicit biases doi.org/10.1525/coll...
This study empirically examines the reasoning capabilities of LLMs, suggesting potential roles and limitations of algorithmic tools in social science, providing new evidence for data-driven academic practices
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Automating Social Science: LLMs vs. Human Experts in Variable Relationship Identification
Empirical research in social psychology centers on formulating testable hypotheses about variable relationships. However, the ability of human researchers to synthesize vast datasets and model intrica...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This study empirically examines the reasoning capabilities of LLMs, suggesting potential roles and limitations of algorithmic tools in social science, providing new evidence for data-driven academic practices
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Explore SPSP Annual Convention preconferences—specialized sessions offering in-depth insights, networking, and collaboration in personality and social psychology.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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✨ registered reports,
✨ open data,
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✨ diversity science?
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Anybody knowledgeable in measurement (especially in adaptations for Mexican culture) and/or prosopagnosia that would be willing to serve as a reviewer for @collabrapsychology.bsky.social ? At the point where decliners are mostly recommending people who have already declined😅
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Anybody knowledgeable in measurement (especially in adaptations for Mexican culture) and/or prosopagnosia that would be willing to serve as a reviewer for @collabrapsychology.bsky.social ? At the point where decliners are mostly recommending people who have already declined😅
New in cognitive psychology, from @drsatrevik.bsky.social, Thea Granerud, Mona Nijhof, and @ams79.bsky.social: Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation
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Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation
It has been suggested that stress management techniques may reduce acute stress for police officers and thus lead to more optimal performance in critical situations. In a preregistered between-subject...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
New in cognitive psychology, from @drsatrevik.bsky.social, Thea Granerud, Mona Nijhof, and @ams79.bsky.social: Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation
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Divergent Effects of Inversion on Facilitation and Interference in Holistic Face Processing
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Divergent Effects of Inversion on Facilitation and Interference in Holistic Face Processing
The face inversion effect—where face recognition performance declines dramatically for inverted faces—has long been central to understanding face perception. While some studies argue that upright and ...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Divergent Effects of Inversion on Facilitation and Interference in Holistic Face Processing
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New in Methodology and Research Practice: What Predicts Within-Variance After Correcting for Measurement Error? A Re-Analysis on Podsakoff et al. (2019) doi.org/10.1525/coll...
What Predicts Within-Variance After Correcting for Measurement Error? A Re-Analysis on Podsakoff et al. (2019)
Podsakoff et al. (2019) investigated the average percentage within-variance (PWV) in intraindividual studies in applied psychology and explored study characteristics that predict it. The PWV shows a p...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
New in Methodology and Research Practice: What Predicts Within-Variance After Correcting for Measurement Error? A Re-Analysis on Podsakoff et al. (2019) doi.org/10.1525/coll...
New in Personality Psychology: Interpersonal Problem Profiles of Antagonistic Traits and the Comparisons With Big Five Traits
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Interpersonal Problem Profiles of Antagonistic Traits and the Comparisons With Big Five Traits
This study examines the interpersonal problem profiles associated with Antagonistic Triad (AT) traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—as well as four elemental AT factors: Antagonism, Em...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New in Personality Psychology: Interpersonal Problem Profiles of Antagonistic Traits and the Comparisons With Big Five Traits
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Victim-survivors of sexual violence were rated as less likable than individuals who had experienced other forms of trauma, regardless of rater gender or sexual violence history
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Sexual Violence Victim-Survivors Are Seen as Less Likable, Regardless of Observer Gender or Sexual Victimization History
Dozens of studies have found that men and individuals without a history of sexual violence tend to endorse more rape myths, including being more likely to blame sexual violence victim-survivors and se...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Victim-survivors of sexual violence were rated as less likable than individuals who had experienced other forms of trauma, regardless of rater gender or sexual violence history
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The Consequences of Optional Stopping on the Research Literature
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The Consequences of Optional Stopping on the Research Literature
Optional stopping is the practice of repeatedly analyzing data during the data collection process with the intention of terminating collection once statistical significance is observed. While there ar...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Consequences of Optional Stopping on the Research Literature
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Children’s Cognitive Reflection Skills Predict Their Conceptual Learning
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Children’s Cognitive Reflection Skills Predict Their Conceptual Learning
The developmental Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT-D) measures children’s ability to override immediate reactions for more considered responses, a skill crucial for learning non-intuitive concepts, part...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Children’s Cognitive Reflection Skills Predict Their Conceptual Learning
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Hypothetical Judgment and Real-Life Decision-Making in Sacrificial Dilemmas: A Replication of “of Mice, Men and Trolleys”
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Hypothetical Judgment and Real-Life Decision-Making in Sacrificial Dilemmas: A Replication of “of Mice, Men and Trolleys”
Do people respond similarly to hypothetical moral dilemmas as they do to real-life dilemma situations? Bostyn et al. (2018) explored this question by confronting one group of participants with a real ...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hypothetical Judgment and Real-Life Decision-Making in Sacrificial Dilemmas: A Replication of “of Mice, Men and Trolleys”
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Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): "Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?" A #CREP project with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000
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Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): "Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?" A #CREP project with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000
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Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Expert Consensus Messaging as a Lever Against Vaccination Misinformation
The spread of misinformation about vaccines can slow down collective efforts to respond to life-threatening diseases, and thus severely damage public health. Strategies for counteracting misinformatio...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
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Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?
a #CREP project
with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000
is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
#OpenScience #Metascience
a #CREP project
with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000
is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
#OpenScience #Metascience
Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student...
doi.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?
a #CREP project
with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000
is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
#OpenScience #Metascience
a #CREP project
with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000
is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
#OpenScience #Metascience
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A new CRC-associated publication led by @helenahartmann.com gives insights into what it means to use feminist approaches in one's research 🤔💁♀️
Guess what - you might already be using some of them without knowing! 😱
Read the paper to find out more ⤵️
Guess what - you might already be using some of them without knowing! 😱
Read the paper to find out more ⤵️
Incorporating feminist approaches in psychological science: why, what, and where. From @helenahartmann.com, @kohinoordarda.bsky.social, @v-meletaki.bsky.social, @nscorralfrias.bsky.social, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Incorporating Feminist Practices Into Psychological Science—The Why, the What and the How
Feminism is about all forms of challenging social, economic and political power taken by a dominant group. Applying a feminist lens to scientific research brings many advantages, such as broadening th...
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September 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A new CRC-associated publication led by @helenahartmann.com gives insights into what it means to use feminist approaches in one's research 🤔💁♀️
Guess what - you might already be using some of them without knowing! 😱
Read the paper to find out more ⤵️
Guess what - you might already be using some of them without knowing! 😱
Read the paper to find out more ⤵️
Who Reaches Out to Old Friends and What Do They Say? doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Who Reaches Out to Old Friends and What Do They Say?
Social relationships, such as friendships, promote well-being. Yet research shows that most people have lost touch with a friend that they care about (i.e., have an “old friend”) and that they are rel...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Who Reaches Out to Old Friends and What Do They Say? doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Do Indirect Measures Predict Affect-Specific Automatic Behavior —Moderated by Cognitive Control Resources? An Investigation Into the Domains of Disgust, Speech Anxiety, and Liking vs. Disliking of a Minority Group doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Do Indirect Measures Predict Affect-Specific Automatic Behavior —Moderated by Cognitive Control Resources? An Investigation Into the Domains of Disgust, Speech Anxiety, and Liking vs. Disliking of a M...
With three studies, we scrutinized the domain specificity of indirect measures in predicting behavior. We compared indirect and direct measures of disgust (Study 1, N = 121), speech anxiety (Study 2, ...
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August 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Do Indirect Measures Predict Affect-Specific Automatic Behavior —Moderated by Cognitive Control Resources? An Investigation Into the Domains of Disgust, Speech Anxiety, and Liking vs. Disliking of a Minority Group doi.org/10.1525/coll...
New in Clinical Psychology: Measuring Depression and Anxiety With 4 Items? Adaptation of the PHQ-4 to Increase Its Sensitivity to Subclinical Variability. From @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Measuring Depression and Anxiety With 4 Items? Adaptation of the PHQ-4 to Increase Its Sensitivity to Subclinical Variability
The PHQ-4 is an ultra-brief (4 items) screening questionnaire for depression and anxiety. In this brief report, we test the benefits of adding one additional response option (“Once or twice”, in betwe...
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August 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New in Clinical Psychology: Measuring Depression and Anxiety With 4 Items? Adaptation of the PHQ-4 to Increase Its Sensitivity to Subclinical Variability. From @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...