Very persuasive!…even though I still feel the ick
05.03.2026 17:18
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Very persuasive!…even though I still feel the ick
I saw we were fighting about what AI will do to (social) science.
I have some thoughts (originally written for a book on scientific inquiry) and decided to turn them into my first substack article. Co-written with Nat Rabb!
tomstello.substack.com/p/standing-o...
Can this thing also answer Prolific surveys? I am beginning to really worry that the MTurkification of Psych Science might be nearing an end
I'm hiring a postdoc at @cmu.edu (w/ far.ai & @dgrand.bsky.social + @gordpennycook.bsky.social)!
How do LLMs shape human beliefs — and what do we do about it? AI safety meets behavioral science.
Open to technical and social science backgrounds.
Huge congrats, Tom!!!
The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is pleased to announce its 2026 proposal cycle for interdisciplinary seed grants for morality and ethics research. Check out our call below, and visit our website (from the press release) to learn about eligibility and how to apply.
@ssripennstate.bsky.social
I got 99 problems in online survey research but social desirability ain‘t (a huge) one
Important paper ⬇️⬇️
Excellent article! The tone is very measured but the implications are definitely worth field-wide attention!
Super proud advisor moment: kudos to @jdweng.bsky.social for his first first-author publication! With @minzlicht.bsky.social, we inverted the empathy selection task to look at preferences to receive empathy. We can speculate on what people want from AI, but a motivational account suggests we ask
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To potential students, 10/10 would recommend working with Greg Depow!
After a provocation from Todd Kashdan I wrote up some frustrations I have with "wellbeing science", specifically the idea that it was born with life satisfaction scales.
I think this belief is untrue and unhelpful.
profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...
So of course I screwed up the announcement post for the new Hardcore History by not including g the art of Erich Sayers that goes with the show.
So...here it is now
We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college.
Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.
Excited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The economists accuse those, to whom the enunciation of their atrocious villainies communicates a thrill of horror, of being sentimentalists. It may be so: I willingly confess to having some tincture of sentimentalism in me, God be thanked!
Excited to share our new paper in Cognitive Development! We replicate that children punish for both retributive and consequentialist reasons — and, surprisingly, intergroup context doesn’t change these effects. tinyurl.com/ycyhcn5a Check in out! ✨
this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
Recently presented at @theloveconsortium.bsky.social's Virtual Symposium on Empathy as an Interpersonal Process with Dr. Kotiuga and Dr. Monroy. I presented on how empathy predicts perceptions of partner responsiveness across positive and negative emotional contexts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyRA...
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Check out new ShinyApp for testing measurement invariance!
By Schemmerling, Kotzur, & Friehs. Out in Social Cognition
guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
(I *love* how researchers create these, and share. Great service to field. Thanks!)
Please join us for "Empathy as an Interpersonal Process," a virtual symposium with moderated discussion on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time.
Learn more here:
www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events
Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3
Learn more about Dr. Jessica Maxwell's speed dating study, featuring data from 400+ participants at 16 events, in her conversation with TLC Founding Director Sara Algoe in this video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjv...
Major shoutout to @andrew.heiss.phd for recreating FiveThirtyEight's p-hacking app. My teaching prep panic at discovering the broken link lasted only a few minutes of googling thanks to this beautiful replacement:
stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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Our latest TLC Newsletter spotlights @jaimiekrems.bsky.social from UCLA and her work as Co-founder/Director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, the first academic hub dedicated to decoding and strengthening friendship.
Learn more in our latest newsletter here: go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
Grace Vieth shares how the unique contextual features of adult friendships make them ideal relationships for positive processes in the latest TLC Newsletter. Read her deep dive here.
go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...