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Kinga Bierwiaczonek

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Meta-analysis / Meta-research / Social psychology / University of Oslo / Former Stanford & Leibniz Institute for Psychology

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OSF

The preprint is available here:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Thankful for another fruitful collaboration with @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social, Meeyoung Cha, @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social, Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Asbjørn Følstad, @antongollwitzer.bsky.social, @nckobis.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social,

16.02.2026 07:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

07.12.2025 08:31 👍 14096 🔁 4324 💬 249 📌 97

This project took over 10 years in total. I couldn't have completed it without my wonderful co-authors: Dinh Hung Vu, Rongtian Tong, Mike W.-L. Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social

17.12.2025 18:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Meta-Analysis of Social and Contextual Correlates of Migrant Adaptation to Living in Receiving Societies - Nature Communications Here, the authors use meta-analysis to examine factors that are associated with the successful inclusion of migrants. They find that the strongest correlates of migrant adaptation are the presence of ...

Our new meta-analysis of 1,114 studies on cross-cultural adaptation is now available via Nature Communications!

What is it that actually helps immigrants adapt to the new culture? In this paper, we test a number of different adaptation correlates to find out. Check it out!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

17.12.2025 18:38 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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UK Government boosts investment in metascience - Research on Research The UK government has announced a major increase in funding for metascience over the next four years, including a more […]

UK Metascience Funding

"The UK government has announced a major increase in funding for metascience over the next four years, including a more than trebling of investment in the UK Metascience Unit."

05.12.2025 09:02 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3

Preparing this talk gave me an opportunity to reflect on what lessons I've learned from psychology's replication crisis and credibility revolution, and what advice I would have for other fields. We've come a long way!
Video: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM?...
Slides : osf.io/cuj62/files/...

03.12.2025 22:50 👍 49 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1
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🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

14.11.2025 14:35 👍 219 🔁 106 💬 11 📌 8
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Unpacking the Integration Puzzle: Overlooked Insights from Meta-Analytical Research. A Response to Berry (2025) Bierwiaczonek responds to Berry's (2025) criticism. Evidence indicates mainstream orientation, not integration, drives adaptation.

📢 The acculturation debate continues: A Direct Response to John Berry's critique was just published in advances.in/psychology!

@kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social addresses recent criticisms and reveals crucial, overlooked findings from meta-analytical evidence.
advances.in/psychology/1...

12.11.2025 10:02 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

This is why we have sample size justifications. Some people might mindlessly dismiss small N studies. But a well justified sample size (see online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...) defends against such mindlessless.

07.11.2025 16:49 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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Cambridge University Press conducted a survey on 2.8k researchers - 𝟓𝟎% 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦. www-cambridge-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/us/universit...

23.10.2025 20:08 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
FAIRness differed mainly by repository, with GitHub and OSF showing lower median scores than PsychArchives, Zenodo, and Figshare

FAIRness differed mainly by repository, with GitHub and OSF showing lower median scores than PsychArchives, Zenodo, and Figshare

How FAIR is shared data in psychology?

We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable!

What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice.

👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy...

@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci

21.10.2025 05:48 👍 52 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 4
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The Authorship Integrity Toolkit - UK Research Integrity Office The Authorship Integrity Toolkit Practical resources to support responsible authorship in research UKRIO is pleased to present the Authorship Integrity Toolkit – a new collection of resources to help ...

🔹 The Authorship Integrity Toolkit ukrio.org/resources/th...
with:
◽ Guidance on Good Authorship Practice
◽ Model Authorship Dispute Procedure
◽ Template Authorship Strategy Agreement

20.10.2025 07:02 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration

When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐

Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!

October 28, 1pm GMT.

Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...

@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org

13.10.2025 10:41 👍 23 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1
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New publication!

Matthew Horsey, Kana Imuta and I integrate insights from social, cognitive, political, and developmental psychology and propose a lifespan model of conspiracy belief formation, from infancy, through childhood and adolescence, into adulthood.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

21.09.2025 10:19 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!

📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom

👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

18.09.2025 15:41 👍 27 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1
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GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr

While re-writing my R tutorials I removed the Bayes material from individual tutorials, rewrote it, and collected it in its own home. Just pushed the resulting tutorial `discovr_bayes` to github, it's a gentle intro to Bayesian estimation using rstanarm. github.com/profandyfiel...

16.09.2025 20:19 👍 33 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
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Kicking-off her PhD journey, @wagunyego.bsky.social talked about her initial findings capturing epistemic injustice and its relationship to trust in science. So many interesting avenues to go from here, more exciting stuff coming over the course of the next years of her dissertation. #SciReLab

16.09.2025 16:07 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy to share that our #bibliometric analysis of #translational psychological treatment is now published OA in the latest issue of @apajournals.bsky.social's Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice! doi.org/10.1037/cps0...

Terminological inconsistency may threaten the progress of the field!

16.09.2025 12:17 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al.

An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors.
The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

04.08.2025 21:27 👍 134 🔁 59 💬 6 📌 4
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Thrilled to share that The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism is now available. Milan Obaidi's and my goal was to create the book we missed as students—a complete overview over every major perspective in the field.

28.07.2025 14:38 👍 34 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 4

The book features many prominent scholars such as Alex Schmid, Robin Bergh, John F. Dovidio, Tore Bjørgo, @katrif.bsky.social, Inger Skjelsbæk, Erica Molinario, David Webber, @katarzyna-jasko.bsky.social, Arie Kruglanski, Mirra Noor Milla, Whinda Yustisia, @kbierwiaczonek.bsky.social

28.07.2025 14:52 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
1/8 🧵

18.07.2025 08:32 👍 60 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 9

Robust Bayesian Multilevel Meta-Analysis: Adjusting for Publication Bias in the Presence of Dependent Effect Sizes: https://osf.io/9tgp2

08.07.2025 09:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fresh of the press! I'm incredibly proud of this new paper by Kiki Vu and myself where we show how much bias is introduced when people use workarounds to test interaction hypotheses meta-analytically. Check it out: advances.in/psychology/1...

08.07.2025 09:32 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It's ok to acknowledge one's positionally in the world while doing research. There's no way to avoid the reality that where you stand is based on where you sit.

~Andy Sterling #metascience25

01.07.2025 09:23 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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@crsugimoto.bsky.social observes that with current Trump cuts to science (about 50%), China will take over as the top science spender in the world this year (without the cuts this would happen by 2030 or so).

01.07.2025 08:51 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Check Scientific Papers for Best Practices A modular, extendable system for automatically checking scientific papers for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

See scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/ to install the newest version

And scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/a... for a set of introductory blog posts about the project and some new modules.

01.07.2025 08:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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New preprint! We meta-analyzed data from 1,114 studies to identify the strongest correlates of migrants' adaptation to living abroad. Co-authored by Kiki Vu, George Tong, Mike Cheung, Nora Benningstad, Evita van Duin, Karine Lindholm, Colleen Ward, and @kunstjonas.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...

26.05.2025 16:34 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Related: PhD students who are told that "identifying a gap" is the most important part of research is probably one of the reasons we have a replication crisis.

15.04.2025 19:16 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
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Our commentary on emotion-conspiracy theory frameworks was just published! While @lpummerer.bsky.social et al.'s AMCT model is excellent, we show mathematically how model complexity exponentially decreases cross-cultural replicability. Thanks @igi.bsky.social for the invitation!

13.03.2025 15:09 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0