Max Primbs
@maxprimbs.bsky.social
PhD Student, Radboud University (Netherlands). Researching how our social and cultural environments shape our implicit biases. Big Team Science & Statistics enthusiast.
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Max Primbs
@maxprimbs.bsky.social
· Dec 16
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.
We investigated whether historical Ku Klux Klan presence in an area is associated with higher levels of modern-day implicit bias.
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- if you simultaneously intervene on X and M, that can inform you about mechanisms. However, some ppl get confused when they couch this in mediation terminology. Probably better to reason "like an experimentalist" -- "If this mechanism is true, than if I do this and that, then..."
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
- if you simultaneously intervene on X and M, that can inform you about mechanisms. However, some ppl get confused when they couch this in mediation terminology. Probably better to reason "like an experimentalist" -- "If this mechanism is true, than if I do this and that, then..."
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1st paper in thread. The 2nd & my last submitted paper of 2025 is my big theory paper that took over a year to write. Some of you have generously invited me to speak about it but very few have seen the paper. I propose what I call Racial Contrast Theory, to examine Black-Asian relations
osf.io/easwg
osf.io/easwg
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
1st paper in thread. The 2nd & my last submitted paper of 2025 is my big theory paper that took over a year to write. Some of you have generously invited me to speak about it but very few have seen the paper. I propose what I call Racial Contrast Theory, to examine Black-Asian relations
osf.io/easwg
osf.io/easwg
I publish a lot more than I review and I'm happy to review papers in my areas of expertise!
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I publish a lot more than I review and I'm happy to review papers in my areas of expertise!
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Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
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Has anybody made a Responsible Use of AI policy for their lab that they'd be willing to share with me?
I'd like to develop one for my own lab, and I think some examples of what other folks are doing would be helpful.
I'd like to develop one for my own lab, and I think some examples of what other folks are doing would be helpful.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Has anybody made a Responsible Use of AI policy for their lab that they'd be willing to share with me?
I'd like to develop one for my own lab, and I think some examples of what other folks are doing would be helpful.
I'd like to develop one for my own lab, and I think some examples of what other folks are doing would be helpful.
Two papers accepted this week 🎉
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Two papers accepted this week 🎉
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Opportunity for PhD's in the Netherlands (Dutch speaking): temporary job as research assistant on NWO's grant assessment system. This paid position would be a six-month break in your PhD after which you go back to finishing your PhD.
Very interesting opportunity!
More info: tinyurl.com/2fwz4xru
Very interesting opportunity!
More info: tinyurl.com/2fwz4xru
Promovendi als tijdelijke onderzoeksassistent beoordelingssystematiek | Werken bij NWO
Binnen het domein Sociale en Geesteswetenschappen (SGW) zijn we op zoek naar een tijdelijke onderzoeker die een belangrijke bijdrage levert aan onderzoek naar onze beoordelingssystematiek. Spreekt je dat aan, solliciteer dan nu.
www.werkenbijnwo.nl
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Opportunity for PhD's in the Netherlands (Dutch speaking): temporary job as research assistant on NWO's grant assessment system. This paid position would be a six-month break in your PhD after which you go back to finishing your PhD.
Very interesting opportunity!
More info: tinyurl.com/2fwz4xru
Very interesting opportunity!
More info: tinyurl.com/2fwz4xru
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"Schrödinger's causal inference" (n):
The practice of making causal claims or interpretations within a scientific article - typically in the title, abstract, implications, or conclusion - while simultaneously warning that the study design is unsuitable for causal inference.
The practice of making causal claims or interpretations within a scientific article - typically in the title, abstract, implications, or conclusion - while simultaneously warning that the study design is unsuitable for causal inference.
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"Schrödinger's causal inference" (n):
The practice of making causal claims or interpretations within a scientific article - typically in the title, abstract, implications, or conclusion - while simultaneously warning that the study design is unsuitable for causal inference.
The practice of making causal claims or interpretations within a scientific article - typically in the title, abstract, implications, or conclusion - while simultaneously warning that the study design is unsuitable for causal inference.
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TU/e has gained a new research centre: META/e. Daniël Lakens and Krist Vaesen were among the founders of this knowledge hub for metascience—research aimed at improving the practice of science itself. “We want to be a home for every researcher who occasionally wonders: what are we even doing?”
Knowledge centre META/e: home for those improving science
TU/e has gained a new research centre: META/e. Daniël Lakens and Krist Vaesen were among the founders of this knowledge hub for metascience—research aimed at improving the practice of science itself. ...
www.cursor.tue.nl
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
TU/e has gained a new research centre: META/e. Daniël Lakens and Krist Vaesen were among the founders of this knowledge hub for metascience—research aimed at improving the practice of science itself. “We want to be a home for every researcher who occasionally wonders: what are we even doing?”
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Two new studies use Christmas - a religious event characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environments - to examine the role of environment in shaping people’s implicit biases doi.org/10.1525/coll...
The Complex Ring of Jingle Bells: The Association Between Christmas and Implicit Bias Towards Racial, Religious, and Sexual Minorities
Every year, billions of people celebrate Christmas all over the world – a religious event that is characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic envi...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Two new studies use Christmas - a religious event characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environments - to examine the role of environment in shaping people’s implicit biases doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
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New publication: “Reshaping the happy face advantage with reinforcement learning”
Happy to share this paper by tjitsvanlent.bsky.social with Rob Holland, Harm Veling, & erikbij.bsky.social. We investigate whether instrumental learning can change biases in emotion recognition
tinyurl.com/2s397h34
Happy to share this paper by tjitsvanlent.bsky.social with Rob Holland, Harm Veling, & erikbij.bsky.social. We investigate whether instrumental learning can change biases in emotion recognition
tinyurl.com/2s397h34
Reshaping the happy face advantage with reinforcement learning
Recognising emotional expressions is important for successful social interactions. Prior research has demonstrated that emotion recognition is influenced by evaluative associations people have with...
tinyurl.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
New publication: “Reshaping the happy face advantage with reinforcement learning”
Happy to share this paper by tjitsvanlent.bsky.social with Rob Holland, Harm Veling, & erikbij.bsky.social. We investigate whether instrumental learning can change biases in emotion recognition
tinyurl.com/2s397h34
Happy to share this paper by tjitsvanlent.bsky.social with Rob Holland, Harm Veling, & erikbij.bsky.social. We investigate whether instrumental learning can change biases in emotion recognition
tinyurl.com/2s397h34
I mean this already seems to be the inofficial policy. Many universities (also in blue states) added statements that they will not sponsor visas for Assistant Professor positions.
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I mean this already seems to be the inofficial policy. Many universities (also in blue states) added statements that they will not sponsor visas for Assistant Professor positions.
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A bit of news. I was nominated for the #Vietnam International Awards for ongoing work to build a research centre in Ho Chi Minh (more on that later).
I am not finalist but feel honored enough to attend the ceremony on Nov 8 in London alongside many innovative people that are working to give back.
I am not finalist but feel honored enough to attend the ceremony on Nov 8 in London alongside many innovative people that are working to give back.
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A bit of news. I was nominated for the #Vietnam International Awards for ongoing work to build a research centre in Ho Chi Minh (more on that later).
I am not finalist but feel honored enough to attend the ceremony on Nov 8 in London alongside many innovative people that are working to give back.
I am not finalist but feel honored enough to attend the ceremony on Nov 8 in London alongside many innovative people that are working to give back.
Thank you fellow Dutchies for these surprisingly sensible election results!
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thank you fellow Dutchies for these surprisingly sensible election results!
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🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
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🎉 Excited to share our new paper “Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members.” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🎉 Excited to share our new paper “Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members.” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
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We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here
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guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
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guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here
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guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
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guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
Is anyone I know willing to share their cover letter for an American postdoc offering?
I have plenty of faculty materials, but none for a Postdoc yet.
I have plenty of faculty materials, but none for a Postdoc yet.
October 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Is anyone I know willing to share their cover letter for an American postdoc offering?
I have plenty of faculty materials, but none for a Postdoc yet.
I have plenty of faculty materials, but none for a Postdoc yet.
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End of the Paul Meehl Graduate School Symposium, with wonderful chats over dinner. Last year was great, this year even better! So nice to talk to this crowd of metascientists.
Thanks to @sajedehra.bsky.social for the organization of my favorite metascience event of the year!
Thanks to @sajedehra.bsky.social for the organization of my favorite metascience event of the year!
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
End of the Paul Meehl Graduate School Symposium, with wonderful chats over dinner. Last year was great, this year even better! So nice to talk to this crowd of metascientists.
Thanks to @sajedehra.bsky.social for the organization of my favorite metascience event of the year!
Thanks to @sajedehra.bsky.social for the organization of my favorite metascience event of the year!
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Guten Morgen! Heute berichte ich euch vom Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium, das von meiner PhD Kollegin @sajedehra.bsky.social und meinem Supervisor @lakens.bsky.social organisiert wird! 📈
October 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Guten Morgen! Heute berichte ich euch vom Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium, das von meiner PhD Kollegin @sajedehra.bsky.social und meinem Supervisor @lakens.bsky.social organisiert wird! 📈
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Now @maxprimbs.bsky.social talking about his super exciting Many-Dags project, asking experts in his field of implicit researchers to draw DAGs about a theory in his field.
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Now @maxprimbs.bsky.social talking about his super exciting Many-Dags project, asking experts in his field of implicit researchers to draw DAGs about a theory in his field.
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I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...).
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ericshuman.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...).
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Cool new study by @joelleforestier.bsky.social @page-gould.bsky.social & Alison Chasteen
Can social media contact reduce prejudice?
#PrejudiceResearch
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Can social media contact reduce prejudice?
#PrejudiceResearch
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Cool new study by @joelleforestier.bsky.social @page-gould.bsky.social & Alison Chasteen
Can social media contact reduce prejudice?
#PrejudiceResearch
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Can social media contact reduce prejudice?
#PrejudiceResearch
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...