I named my fists Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer and Vohs because bad hits stronger than good in the moment
I named my fists Greenwald and Banaji because you won't even be aware of what hit you.
I named my fists Kahneman and Tversky because I’m gonna make your losses loom larger than your gains
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I named my fists Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer and Vohs because bad hits stronger than good in the moment
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Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Very interesting work by @evavivalt.bsky.social and @sdellavi.bsky.social. Particularly intriguing is the finding that a surprising negative relationship between confidence and accuracy is accounted for by a subset of persistently overconfident forecasters.
🚨 New working paper!
How well do people predict the results of studies?
@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
How well do people predict the results of studies?
@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Very interesting work by @evavivalt.bsky.social and @sdellavi.bsky.social. Particularly intriguing is the finding that a surprising negative relationship between confidence and accuracy is accounted for by a subset of persistently overconfident forecasters.
I have an academic diary in which I reflect on what I learnt from academic experiences, conferences, other gatherings and from interactions with academics including things I learnt during peer review processes and some of the perspectives reviewers show me. It’s fully hand writing. It’s helping me.
Finding it hard to focus when you're working? Lots of good ideas popping into your head? You need a Good Ideas book. When those good ideas pop into your head - write them in the Good Ideas book and then get back on task. Now you don't have to worry about forgetting that good idea
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I have an academic diary in which I reflect on what I learnt from academic experiences, conferences, other gatherings and from interactions with academics including things I learnt during peer review processes and some of the perspectives reviewers show me. It’s fully hand writing. It’s helping me.
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Hi folks! If you are a US-based PhD student interested in the development of gender stereotypes in childhood and do not have summer funding, consider applying for VIPS. Reach out to me by email. This is separate from my previous message about adol/lgbtq projects.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program
The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...
psych.princeton.edu
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hi folks! If you are a US-based PhD student interested in the development of gender stereotypes in childhood and do not have summer funding, consider applying for VIPS. Reach out to me by email. This is separate from my previous message about adol/lgbtq projects.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
Reposted by Ipek Guvensoy
Experimental participants to us
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Experimental participants to us
Hello, I started a new blog and I plan to share my reflections in this space.
In my latest reflection, I explore how curiosity can restore meaning to knowledge.
On the desire to understand and the desire to know open.substack.com/pub/ipekguve...
In my latest reflection, I explore how curiosity can restore meaning to knowledge.
On the desire to understand and the desire to know open.substack.com/pub/ipekguve...
On the desire to understand and the desire to know
So tell me Mr. Feynman, I am curious why the desire to know outweighs the desire to understand in academic settings?
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Hello, I started a new blog and I plan to share my reflections in this space.
In my latest reflection, I explore how curiosity can restore meaning to knowledge.
On the desire to understand and the desire to know open.substack.com/pub/ipekguve...
In my latest reflection, I explore how curiosity can restore meaning to knowledge.
On the desire to understand and the desire to know open.substack.com/pub/ipekguve...
I often notice that my thoughts are a bit of a mess when I speak English or Spanish. People notice that I don’t follow the typical word order in Spanish and English. It’s difficult for me because, in my native language, Turkish, there is no strict syntax, as long as you don’t break certain clusters.
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I often notice that my thoughts are a bit of a mess when I speak English or Spanish. People notice that I don’t follow the typical word order in Spanish and English. It’s difficult for me because, in my native language, Turkish, there is no strict syntax, as long as you don’t break certain clusters.
I was asking myself to what extent we understand the nature of prejudice many times. I have started reading the recent chapter written by Bodenhausen and Cheryan (2025). It fruitfully made me ask many questions. I hope to have the opportunity discuss it with future students.
doi.org/10.70400/ELP...
doi.org/10.70400/ELP...
doi.org
November 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I was asking myself to what extent we understand the nature of prejudice many times. I have started reading the recent chapter written by Bodenhausen and Cheryan (2025). It fruitfully made me ask many questions. I hope to have the opportunity discuss it with future students.
doi.org/10.70400/ELP...
doi.org/10.70400/ELP...
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Hypernormalization describes life in a society where two main things are happening:
1) people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken
2) people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation
1) people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken
2) people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation
October 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hypernormalization describes life in a society where two main things are happening:
1) people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken
2) people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation
1) people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken
2) people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation
Reposted by Ipek Guvensoy
Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
Reposted by Ipek Guvensoy
Is there a link between positive intergroup contact and meta-attitude accuracy? Yes - for both majority and minority groups! Have a look at our new paper led by the brilliant Ipek Guvensoy 🙂 doi.org/10.1177/1368... #PrejudiceResearch #IntergroupContact
March 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Is there a link between positive intergroup contact and meta-attitude accuracy? Yes - for both majority and minority groups! Have a look at our new paper led by the brilliant Ipek Guvensoy 🙂 doi.org/10.1177/1368... #PrejudiceResearch #IntergroupContact