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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · Jul 7

We had a new tutorial on representational similarity analysis come out recently. Led by @xallysie.bsky.social with Ruoying Zheng and @chujunlin.bsky.social

This technique lets you compare patterns across diff types of measures (eg correlate correlation matrices), super flexible

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 1d

McGill psych is hosting a panel for under rep minority folks possibly interested in attending grad school on Oct 20.

Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/246051...

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 4d

cool paper extracting spatial distance from Turkish youtube videos, concludes people walk closer to their ingroup (on sidewalks etc), non religious men avoid religious women

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 5d

Paper and R package for (more flexible) power analysis in multilevel: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

APA PsycNet

psycnet.apa.org

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 6d

mmmmm good figure

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ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · 12d

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2025 Early Career Award! Recognizing a junior scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of social cognition.

Nominees must have received their PhDs no earlier than 2019.

More info here: www.socialcognition.net/early-career...

Early Career Award | Home

www.socialcognition.net

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ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · 12d

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2024 Best Social Cognition Paper Award!

This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2024.

More info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...

Best Paper Award | Home

www.socialcognition.net

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Protzko @protzko.bsky.social · 13d

Hostile and benevolent sexism are both on the decline in 1,097 studies, N = 339,740 since 1996.

Note that "3" on these scales is already a neutral response. Even bigger progress in countries with more hostile sexism.

From Matthew D. Hammond

psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles...

#phdsky #psych

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Yi Zhang @yizhang96.bsky.social · 14d

New paper out in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! 🎉

How do we figure out who will accept or reject us in a new group?

We show that people generalize relational value across friendship ties—forming a network gradient of approach & avoidance.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lq3x51f8w...

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 15d

McGill has an open rank search in clinical psych:

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...

Tenure -Track Position (Open Rank), Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 19d

A little hectic to collect it all in a semester, but I think a pretty fantastic learning experience for the students, so would recommend CREP you teach a Research Methods class: osf.io/wfc6u/ 3/3

Collaborative Replications and Education Project (CREP)

CREP’s mission is to provide training, support, and professional growth opportunities for students and instructors completing replication projects, while also addressing the need for direct and direct+ replications of highly-cited studies in the field. Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 19d

This was one of those 2010 papers where some results are entirely unbelievable. Read a paragraph, cohen's d =3.69 on some outcome. My class teams failed to replicate about 10 times alone. 2/3

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 19d

Part of a new CREP paper out (failing to) replicating Griskevicius et al 2010 in JPSP
Using this to plug how I think CREP is a great framework if you teach a Research Methods class, a number of my students ended up as authors, which they found pretty cool 1/3

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
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...

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 21d

Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

A Practical Guide to Specifying Random Effects in Longitudinal Dyadic Multilevel Modeling - Kareena S. del Rosario, Tessa V. West, 2025

Analyzing over-time dyadic data can be challenging, particularly when using multilevel models with complex random-effect structures. In this tutorial, we discus...

doi.org

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xavier roberts-gaal @xrg.bsky.social · 23d

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 23d

New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7)
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

SPSSI Journals

Traffic stops are common and consequential for citizens’ legal socialization and for racial gaps in police-community trust. Efforts to change the tenor of police interactions, however, may discount t...

spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dave Hauser @davehauser.bsky.social · Aug 13

To prevent Ps from pasting (GPT-generated) responses to your text entry Qualtrics question, disable pasting.

Add this code to the OnReady section of your question's javascript:

jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" .InputText").on("cut copy paste",function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
});

Enjoy!

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 27d

Loosely id throw out... anywhere the theoretical construct space is pretty saturated?

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 28d

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

journals.sagepub.com

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 28d

"63% rate of likely AI-generated responses" on mTurk

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

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Aug 28

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!

We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.

Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

Postdoctoral Associate

jobs.colorado.edu

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · Jun 20

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer..

Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years.

(See Bauer 2007)

Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · Jun 20

i’m not going to write a thread today about problems with latent class growth analyses nope nope NOPE i won’t do it

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · Sep 3

what is the opposite of a bloodbath

Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · Sep 3

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics?

Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study!

Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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