Margaux Wienk
margauxwienk.bsky.social
Margaux Wienk
@margauxwienk.bsky.social
🇳🇱 | PhD from Columbia | Digital nomading for a bit | How places and changes influence social cognition and well-being | Social Data Science
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Awesome preprint on model checking for VAR Models. Would love to see more "model checking" tutorial papers for various models, including a showcase what happens if the assumptions you impose on your data are not met in the data.

🧪 #psychscisky

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Have these people ever interacted with a Dutch person. No one here has ever started a sentence with: “that’s a great idea…”
Don’t say you are surprised 🤖🇩🇪

A Harvard study shows that ChatGPT, in terms of cultural attitudes, is closest to Germany and the Netherlands - countries of rationalism, discipline, and trust in institutions.
October 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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/...
July 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now.

"Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less
www.nature.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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New paper out in PSPB: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We investigated whether historical Ku Klux Klan presence in an area is associated with higher levels of modern-day implicit bias.
December 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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If you, like me, love hiking, you know rugged terrain *does* something to you 🥾😰
In a new paper led by @tsudaka.bsky.social, we asked: Is rugged terrain linked not only to how your knees feel but also how you think about authority? (1/n)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rugged terrain and rigid hierarchy
Human societies differ markedly in their endorsement of hierarchical authority, ranging from strict obedience to powerful leaders and militaries to mo…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM