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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 6d

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 6d

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 6d

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 6d

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 6d

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 6d

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 6d

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 6d

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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Philipp Schmid @philippschmid.bsky.social · 14d

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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Aleksandra Lazić @alelazic.bsky.social · 19d

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
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#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...

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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · Sep 3

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 ⤵️

Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 25

New in Methodology and Research Practice: Validity of a One-Stop Automatic Algorithm for Counting Clusters and Shifts in the Semantic Fluency Task doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Validity of a One-Stop Automatic Algorithm for Counting Clusters and Shifts in the Semantic Fluency Task

We introduce PROXIS, a computational algorithm for the Semantic Fluency Task (SFT), which automatically counts clusters and shifts. We compared its output relative to human coders and to another clust...

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Michael P. Grosz @mp-grosz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Machiavellianism scales often miss key facets across affect, behavior, cognition, and desire. Our new paper in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social introduces the M4 scale, built with Ant Colony Optimization to capture Mach more comprehensively. It is freely available here: doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Assessing the ABCDs of Machiavellianism: Development and Validation of the M4 Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization

Machiavellianism (Mach) is a personality trait characterized by cold rationality, cynicism, duplicity, and the strategic and egotistical pursuit of goals. Despite recent advances in the measurement of...

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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 22

Assessing the ABCDs of Machiavellianism: Development and Validation of the M4 Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization, from @mp-grosz.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Assessing the ABCDs of Machiavellianism: Development and Validation of the M4 Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization

Machiavellianism (Mach) is a personality trait characterized by cold rationality, cynicism, duplicity, and the strategic and egotistical pursuit of goals. Despite recent advances in the measurement of...

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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 22

New in developmental psychology: How Language Background Influences the Relationship Between Morphological Awareness and Literacy Skills in Monolingual and Bilingual Schoolchildren doi.org/10.1525/coll...

How Language Background Influences the Relationship Between Morphological Awareness and Literacy Skills in Monolingual and Bilingual Schoolchildren

We investigated differences in morphological awareness and literacy skills between monolingual and bilingual schoolchildren, and whether relationships between morphological awareness and literacy skil...

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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 18

New in Social Psychology: Authenticity Affordances as Social and Health-Related Cues: Associations With Self-Esteem, from @antoniofreitasphd.bsky.social and Ashley Araiza doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Authenticity Affordances as Social and Health-Related Cues: Associations With Self-Esteem

Behaving authentically can be considered a privilege of the powerful, because acting in accordance with one’s subjectively true nature can entail overcoming situational constraints and expecting other...

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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 18

Simply observing how another socially relevant person responds to a stimulus is sufficient to create stimulus-response episodes which can later be retrieved from memory to guide one’s own actions - regardless of whether the observed person is trustworthy. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

No Matter of Trust: Retrieval of Observationally Acquired Stimulus-response Bindings Occurs in Interactions With Both Trustworthy and Untrustworthy Partners

Recent findings show that simply observing how another person responds to a stimulus is sufficient to create stimulus-response (SR) episodes, which can later be retrieved from memory to guide one’s ow...

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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · Aug 18

To what extent do the Big Five traits and self-esteem predict voluntary and involuntary dropout from military training? From @etienneheitz.bsky.social and Hubert Annen. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Personality and Dropout From Military Training

This prospective study examined whether Big Five traits and self-esteem predict voluntary and involuntary dropout from military training, beyond the effects of age, education, and self-reported physic...

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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · Aug 14

Refugees are often marginalized, vulnerable, and at-risk for substandard healthcare and pain management. In our newest paper, we examined how people evaluate refugees’ sensitivity to pain, finding evidence consistent with a sensitization effect.

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Judgments of Refugees’ Sensitivity to Pain: Evidence for a Sensitization Effect

Refugees are often marginalized, vulnerable, and at-risk for substandard healthcare and pain management. Yet, little is known about how other individuals evaluate refugees’ pain sensitivity. As such, ...

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Nicholas A. Coles @nicholascoles.bsky.social · Aug 14

New 📰

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans

Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects

In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis

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A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in experimental psychology. Yet, little is known about the direction, magnitude, and consistency of their effects. We conducted a three-...

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Vasiliki Meletaki @v-meletaki.bsky.social · Aug 13

🎉 New paper out- open access! 🎉
We explain what we mean by feminist practices, why they are important, & ideas to make academia more inclusive for everyone. With the amazing Feminist Wonderlab @helenahartmann.com @kohinoordarda.bsky.social @nscorralfrias.bsky.social, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Aug 13

"Our participants identify a misunderstanding of feminism as a concept, specifically that it is only for women."

#AcademicSky #OpenSci #FeministSky

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 theoretical perspectives, encouraging collaboration with — and inclusion of — marginalized groups, and widening the scope of research methods. We aim for this perspective piece to provide an access point for why researchers should incorporate feminist approaches in psychological science, what feminist approaches could look like and how researchers can start incorporating them into their own work. In answering the why, what and how of feminist practices, we strive to make working in a feminist way more legible and accessible, with the ultimate aim of cultivating a more comprehensive understanding of human psychology from diverse perspectives. Based on the lived experiences from an anecdotal survey as part of a SIPS hackathon, which revealed a lack of clear conceptual understanding of feminist approaches and feminism, and on our unique viewpoints as eight feminist ECRs working in different domains of psychological science, we propose constructive approaches for integrating feminist values and practices into psychological science. We highlight what possible barriers exist to incorporating feminist practices into one’s own work and how future research can embrace feminist practices. We also provide a short glossary explaining terminology that can support the communication of feminist research as well as a curated checklist of feminist practices to start out with. This perspective piece warmly invites—and promotes—researchers from all backgrounds and experience levels to engage in and contribute to the exploration of feminist values and practices within the realm of psychological science.

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