Nick Camp
@ncamp.bsky.social
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Social psychologist in org studies, @UMich. I study racial inequality where institutions and individuals meet. Dad to Julian (2 legs) and Eddie (4 legs).
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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)
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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...
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Me shaking my head in Orioles
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Not as fun as either, but Mapillary has free API calls
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We should make police interactions more respectful. However, enforcement is an investigatory tool, it undermines these goals. Interactions can’t build trust if they start with a lie. As traffic stops become the vehicle for investigation and immigration enforcement, the costs will be severe. (7/7)
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Because they entail so much choice, however, police departments can rein in discretionary stops. We found one directive in which merely advised officers to curtail equipment stops reduced racial gaps in stop rates, by bringing down the high number of equipment stops of Black drivers (6/7)
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This context means different things to Black and White drivers. We asked DMV customers to listen to recordings of equipment + moving stops and report their trust in the officer. White participants were generally trusting, but Black customers were skeptical of officers in high-discretion stops. (5/7)
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Looking across a range of agencies, we find that stops of Black drivers are much more likely to be for minor offenses relative to Whites, particularly in urban police departments. Statewide agencies, focus on enforcement rather than investigation, show no disparities in discretionary context (4/7)
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Every driver is breaking some traffic law at some time. However, officers have more choice in enforcing some offenses (broken taillight) than others (drunk driving). Minor stops are ambiguous: all the more so since police are permitted and encouraged to use them as a pretext for investigation. (3/7)
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Psychologists (including me) have thought about how officers talk with citizens, and the benefits of making stop interactions more respectful. But, a narrow focus on what goes on during stops overlooks the decision that leads to those stops in the first place (2/7). academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Leveraging body-worn camera footage to assess the effects of training on officer communication during traffic stops
Abstract. Can training police officers on how to best interact with the public actually improve their interactions with community members? This has been a
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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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ICE arrested a dad dropping off his kid at my son's school today. Elementary school. What a fucking world.
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Don’t think I will.
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🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI.

@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:
Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools
Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.
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Is there a second page to generate the readings, slides, assignments, lecture recordings, and Simpsons references?
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This semester, I want my lab to play around with GPT for some content-coding type tasks. Do folks have other recs for accessible methods papers/tutorials, e.g. from @thomasdavidson.bsky.social 's "[special issue](journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... of Soc Methods)?
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And you can find the accompanying (short! assignable!) theory paper here:
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😱gust is here, too soon. If you're teaching a class on racial inequality, policing, and/or institutions, I have a teaching guide on institutional interactions with readings, resources, and a sample syllabus to take the edge off.
deepblue.lib.umich.edu
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The June 2025 special issue of Social Cognition -- Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1 -- was guest edited by Jimmy Calanchini, Juliane Degner, and Colin Smith, with support from Bertram Gawronski.

The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....
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This is a methods paper for a platform that didn’t exist until 15 years after Barker’s passing.
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Thanks @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social and @maddblackprof.bsky.social for organizing the special issue of Social Cognition, which is a must-read. Also thanks to my in-laws for walking my dog Eddie, also visible on Street View
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We’ve also created walk-thru notebooks, available at this repository. Did I mention these stimuli are cheap? $7 will get you 1,000 image calls on Google SV. If you do not have that much change in your couch, we also guide you through Mapillary, an open source and completely free service.
GitHub - mind-in-society-lab/street_view_tutorial: Streetscapes at Scale: Mapping Platform APIs as a Tool to Sample Space
Streetscapes at Scale: Mapping Platform APIs as a Tool to Sample Space - mind-in-society-lab/street_view_tutorial
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