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Eliana Hadjiandreou @elianahadtime.bsky.social · 10h

Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In our now published letter in @pnas.org, we raise two wider issues for behavioral science:

1) Intentions are poor predictors of behavior
2) Effects on intentions need not generalize to effects on behavior

We join calls for researchers to measure actual behavior: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Expressing intentions is not climate action letter published in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512457122

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

Data, analysis code, and study materials available here: osf.io/s9nj8/

Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

We suggest that physiognomy is an appealing (and historically persistent) idea because of the quick & automatic way in which first impressions come to mind.

The more people trust their intuitions, the more confident they are that they can read character traits from faces.

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

However, belief in physiognomy was most strongly associated with an intuitive thinking style. This replicated in our British, Dutch, & Nigerian samples.

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

In Study 2, we examined various psychological correlates.

For example, we found that belief in physiognomy was positively related to the belief that personality traits are biologically determined.

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

Our main goal was to better understand *who* believes in physiognomy.

In our large Dutch sample, we found negligible differences across gender, age, education, and income. Belief in physiognomy does not seem to vary much across sociodemographic groups.

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

Across 4 studies, we found that belief in physiognomy is common in British, Dutch, & Nigerian samples.

In a representative sample of the Dutch population (n > 2500), around 50% at least somewhat endorsed the belief.

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

The practice of physiognomy dates back to ancient Greece and ancient China.

Today it's mostly seen as pseudoscience in academic circles.

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 1d

🐶Now out at JNB🐶

We examine the prevalence and psychological correlates of lay beliefs in physiognomy - the idea that a person's character is reflected in their facial appearance.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

100% this, especially with Wiley given their anti-preprint stance.

Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 12d

Why are we still sending our work to Wiley and other publishing companies so that they can profit from it? There's so many better options now, for example: psychopen.eu/journals/

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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 5d

"In countries with multiparty systems or less polarized media ecosystems than the U.S., ideological and partisan gaps in self‐reported trust in science are typically substantially weaker than in the U.S., if they exist at all... not a stable characteristic of conservativism"

Are There Ideological Differences in Science Denial?

Debates about issues such anthropomorphic climate change have raised alarm that there may be systematic differences in liberals’ and conservatives’ tr…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 6d

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting summary of the tactics used by the animal agriculture industry to counteract efforts to advocate for dietary shifts as a climate change mitigation strategy.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 7d

Evidence of convergent validity among thin-slice behavioral coding metrics

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 8d

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!

The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.

Info 👇

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8d

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 8d

#AcademicSky #PhDLife

Cross-national graduate student survey finds 43% (overall) experience discrimination/harassment as part of their studies

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My Ask #1: check in with your students. They okay?

My Ask #2: check yourself. Are you causing their problems?

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 8d

Fingers crossed for "yes"! 🙃

Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 8d

"When a stereotype-inconsistent group member was presented, those with both greater inhibitory and greater updating ability showed more stereotype reduction, suggesting that these executive functions are jointly important for regulating stereotype accessibility"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 9d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

Thread 🧵1/10

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Vlad Chituc @vladchituc.bsky.social · 10d

Thrilled to announce a new paper out this weekend in
@cognitionjournal.bsky.social.

Moral psychologists almost always use self-report scales to study moral judgment. But there's a problem: the meaning of these scales is inherently relative.

A 2 min demo (and a short thread):

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 9d

I'm teaching a master course on pretty much this topic. There are many good books out there that vary a lot on how accessible vs. technical they are and whether they focus on descriptive vs. normative theories. Some examples:
- Rational Choice in an Uncertain World
- Risk Savvy
- Rationality

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Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · 13d

@clauslamm.bsky.social & I contributed to a global study that analyzed 21 million trials across 30 languages, revealing semantic priming [SP] as a robust cognitive mechanism across cultures and writing systems.
Lead by @aggieerin.bsky.social and @slewis5920.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages - Nature Human Behaviour

In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Buchanan et al. show evidence confirming the phenomenon of semantic priming across speakers of 19 diverse languages.

doi.org

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