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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · Apr 26

Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character | PLOS One

Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character

Could judgments about others’ moral character be changed under group pressure produced by human and virtual agents? In Study 1 (N = 103), participants first judged targets’ moral character privately…

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · Apr 25

(PDF) Essential moral self remains unchallenged: Successful replication of Strohminger and Nichols (2014) with extensions comparing morality to ideology and religion www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · Apr 2

#PhDone

mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · Apr 2

Despite all the upheavals, some bright spots!

Yesterday, @shreevallabha.bsky.social successfully defended her dissertation; approved with no revisions! 🎉

Dr. Vallabha’s dissertation work is the most comprehensive study of moral humility to date 👀

Photo of Dr. Vallabha in front of her power point slides

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · Mar 22

What predicts religious disbelief? Is it primarily about thinking deeply on religion & finding claims incredible? Not really. Authors find it's mostly about a lack of credible religious examples (parents not attending worship, being good religious role models). In other words, mostly socialization.

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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · Mar 19

New Preprint!

We find that close and distant future generations get less moral concern than even the most neglected human and non-human groups today. This is noted for boundless and zero-sum moral trade-offs.

🔗https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c9p8f_v1
#FutureGenerations#MoralPsychology#Psychology

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Mar 19

Nice article about fertility technology — really appreciate the framing that isn’t “something gotta give” but rather “society loses out if women can’t have it all.” Featuring Kleven’s child penalties in a very pretty plot!

worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil...

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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · Mar 15

And this personal experience has also blended into research, and with Brian Earp and colleagues, we actually have a new pre-print on this exact topic on how we judge people who lose weight by both typical and "artificial" means

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(PDF) Even with Diet and Exercise, Ozempic Use Reduces Perceived Effort and Praiseworthiness of Resulting Weight Loss

PDF | The injectable medication Ozempic (semaglutide) has demonstrated unprecedented effectiveness in promoting significant weight loss. However, its... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · Mar 17

Imagine a person who acts one way online (by email, on social media) but a different way in person. Which of the two is more revealing of their true self?

Our new paper: This seemingly simple question shows something about how people see certain environments as ‘natural’

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Jordan Moon @jordanmoon.bsky.social · Mar 17

New paper out in SPPS w/
@jaimiekrems.bsky.social
(open access)
doi.org/10.1177/1948...

People who oppose abortion typically suggest that their position is motivated by concern for the unborn. But is there more going on?

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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · Feb 18

🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals

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zhpinkman.bsky.social @zhpinkman.bsky.social · Feb 18

How do LLMs shape writing? Our research shows they make language more uniform, reducing diversity and altering how personal traits appear in text. These shifts have big implications for identity, culture, and fairness.
#LLMs #NLProc
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266

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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · Feb 18

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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · Feb 18

All the best! Looks amazing!

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Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hey all - I’ll be giving a talk this year at SPSP that’s part of a symposium exploring novel work on conspiratorial beliefs.

Would be great for anyone attending to come see me, alongside some other remarkable researchers!

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Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social · Feb 18

Re-upping this once more before the conference. I’ll be presenting some work on the relationships between conspiracy mentality, counterfactuals, and free will/det beliefs on Saturday at SPSP! Come by, listen, say hello!

Also, I’m on the market, looking for post-docs - keep me in mind!

Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hey all - I’ll be giving a talk this year at SPSP that’s part of a symposium exploring novel work on conspiratorial beliefs.

Would be great for anyone attending to come see me, alongside some other remarkable researchers!

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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · Feb 18

Super duper cool work on moralization by my superstar labmate @abbycassario.bsky.social 😍. Check it out at @spspnews.bsky.social !

Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · Feb 18

How do attitudes become moralized? We find that moral conviction spreads between connected attitudes over time. + Those with highly connected belief systems (ideologues) have highly moralized belief systems!

Come see us at the moral psych pre-con poster session @spspnews.bsky.social to learn more😃

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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · Feb 18

How do attitudes become moralized? We find that moral conviction spreads between connected attitudes over time. + Those with highly connected belief systems (ideologues) have highly moralized belief systems!

Come see us at the moral psych pre-con poster session @spspnews.bsky.social to learn more😃

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Jonathan Doriscar @jonds7.bsky.social · Feb 12

Join us for our SPSP symposium! We present research on responses to personal, blatant, systemic, and historical racial prejudice. Featuring 3 in-person talks & a recorded session from Keith on Whova.
#SPSP2025

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Bill Chopik @chops310.bsky.social · Feb 10

Friends tend to agree if you're ready or not for a long-term, committed relationship. Friends are important for forming/maintaining relationships, so that can be either good OR horrible for you/your relationship.

Congrats Hyewon Yang on her first first-author paper!

doi.org/10.1177/0265...

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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · Jan 31

Currently putting together SRCD SECC Conversation Hour "Building Your Career: Postdoc and Academic Job Market Insights" to take place during the conference.

Who has been on the postdoc and/or job market **this** year and can talk about their experiences and will be at the SRCD conference?

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Jan 30

Latest from @mjbsp.bsky.social et al.

With a lovely title that tells us the effect, meaning I don't need to write about their findings here!

(folks, I'm sure that also helps people cite your work!)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Jan 23

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Our lab's new paper #SPPS, w/ PhD student Hanna Puffer

Using nationally representative data 2004-2020, asked: generalized prejudice (GP) remained invariant or evolved in US?

Answer: Evolved.

Answer: And it has become more politically affiliated.

#PrejudiceResearch #AcademicSky

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Nour Kteily @nourkteily.bsky.social · Jan 26

New open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined”

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined | Annual Reviews

A key debate in the psychology of ideology is whether leftists and rightists are psychologically similar or different. A long-standing view holds that left-wing and right-wing people are meaningfully ...

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Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social · Nov 19

Check out my recently published commentary where my collaborators and I discuss how those tapped to do DEI work is disproportionately placed on individuals with minoritized identities. We also briefly discuss how to improve this.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The unequal burden of DEI bans | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Cambridge Core

The unequal burden of DEI bans - Volume 17 Issue 4

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