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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Aug 18

Listening to the episode now and the section on cognitive dissonance pushed me to share this paper of ours: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Reasons to be skeptical of cognitive dissonance theory!

A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance - David C. Vaidis, Willem W. A. Sleegers, Florian van Leeuwen, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Bjørn Sætrevik, Robert M. Ross, Ka...

According to cognitive-dissonance theory, performing counterattitudinal behavior produces a state of dissonance that people are motivated to resolve, usually by...

journals.sagepub.com

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · May 1

What are the current recommendations for online multilevel modeling tutorials?

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Apr 22

Got multiple opinions here but one is about the ordering in the Methods section. I think it's generally in the wrong order: www.willemsleegers.com/blog/8-the-r...

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My personal website.

www.willemsleegers.com

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Mar 21

Could anyone share some examples/references to instances where an original mediation analyses was later shown to be the result of confounding? I'm sure there are lots of theoretical examples, but would be nice to see some empirically demonstrated examples!

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Mar 20

While writing you run npm dev and velite watch so that when you render a Quarto doc it automatically refreshes.

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Mar 19

I use Quarto files in mine, but the actual website is built using Next.js, React, and velite: www.willemsleegers.com

I like Quarto and all, but the website functionality they offer is too restricting if you want full control.

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My personal website.

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Mar 11

Yup. I think it's very important to consider how the public looks at these kinds of studies. Researchers need to have a good explanation for why these studies are worth doing. Satisfying your curiosity is not one of them.

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PHAIR @phair-society.bsky.social · Feb 25

Did you know? 💙
You can subscribe to the PHAIR Society to receive blog and journal updates by email here: phairsociety.org

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PHAIR @phair-society.bsky.social · Feb 12

We can't wait to learn from our keynote speakers at the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 📣

#animaladvocacy

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PHAIR @phair-society.bsky.social · Jan 21

Welcome to the Society for the Psychology of Human Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR) BlueSky page! 💙

Here we aim to advance and promote scientific research on moral and social psychology, diet and health, human-animal relationships, sustainability and environmental psychology. 🌱

phairsociety.org

Animal Advocacy Conference

blogs.kent.ac.uk

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Jan 10

I can think of something obvious that makes liking kebab somewhat problematic!

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Jan 8

It happened again, I revamped my website: www.willemsleegers.com

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My personal website.

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Nov 26

Bem's Feeling the Future paper.

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Nov 20

I think it's worth thinking about whether we already are sufficiently convinced the evidence from the literature is too weak and that instead of running a project on further establishing that there should be more future-oriented projects aimed at testing CDT instead.

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Nov 19

Looks very interesting! I put it on my wish list for the holidays. ;)

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Nov 18

Check out the commentaries to our paper, as well as our response! For those interested in cognitive dissonance, I think these make for an interesting read.

Rob Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social · Nov 18

Response to commentaries on our recently published multisite study that failed to find evidence for cognitive dissonance theory (led by @willemsleegers.bsky.social and @vaidis.bsky.social) journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Nov 15

Seems fine to me. =)

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Aug 19

What is the status of Nisbett & Wilson's (1978) Telling More Than We Can Know paper? Are there any good replications/reviews? (I couldn't find any quickly).

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · Jul 1

🐶Now out in PHAIR 🐶

Does generalized prejudice extend across species lines?

I used data from the LISS panel & the European Values Study to test if people who devalue human outgroups also tend to devalue the welfare and interests of non-human animals.

doi.org/10.5964/phai...

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Jul 2

I should be doing more to spread our paper around, although it's hard to find the time now that I'm not in academia anymore. Thankfully we did receive several Commentaries on the paper and we got to write a Reply, which will hopefully be published soon and maybe spark some debate!

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

I feel like social media has failed me. Somehow I didn't hear about this failure to replicate the induced compliance paradigm for cognitive dissonance: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... - would love to hear what people closer to this research make of the finding.

A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance - David C. Vaidis, Willem W. A. Sleegers, Florian van Leeuwen, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Bjørn Sætrevik, Robert M. Ross, Ka...

According to cognitive-dissonance theory, performing counterattitudinal behavior produces a state of dissonance that people are motivated to resolve, usually by...

journals.sagepub.com

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Apr 17

The question is how fit would you have been without having two kids! I think the kids can also be blamed for tiredness when they're not around!

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Feb 27

Two research positions (a Research Fellow and a Junior Research Scientist position) on the psychology of global catastrophic risk and effective altruism: www.eapsychology.org/jobs

Jobs & Working With Us — Effective Altruism Psychology Research

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Feb 7

No hard feelings at all! I truly do appreciate the feedback and your (re)posts. =)

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Willem Sleegers @willemsleegers.bsky.social · Feb 7

I think this is kinda pedantic, though. It's far from the most important thing to focus on when reposting this finding. The feedback is appreciated but I'd rather see the first considerations to be about what the results mean for the dissonance literature (and psychological research in general).

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