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In human society, our reputation is extremely important. Sometimes the #motivation to look good is stronger than the motivation to do good. In an interesting new paper, WZB economist, Kai Barron, shows that people are willing to lie to appear honest. bit.ly/33Nlgyv (PDF)

Wonderful talk by Annika Nieper showing #gossip can lower individual #cheating in a die rolling paradigm. People subsequently use information about cheating partners to lower #trust in them #ASPO2019

Fantastic discussion of the psychology behind why people don’t speak out against, and even defend, norms they secretly despise (via You Are Not So Smart) It will change how you think about binge drinking, free speech on campuses, cult behavior, and wine snobs. youarenotsosmart.com/2019/07/02/yan…

Fascinating lab-in-the-field study on norms and corruption by Nils Köbis!

Ethicists, Moralists, Psychologists, and Trolleyologists! I am pleased to announce our latest paper: "Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000 participants" just out in PNASNews pnas.org/content/early/… (thread)

Had a great poster session at #ROPH20 where I presented our paper on fake news: psyarxiv.com/82r6q 🙃

Why are rumours always coming from a “friend of a friend”? It’s the sweet spot between plausibility and risking our reputation if we claimed it came from a friend (or indeed directly from us) if the rumour turns out false—cool study by Sacha Altay et al: buff.ly/317eu6d

NEW PREPRINT: Who's buying up all that toilet paper? 🧻 Across two studies (N = 601, UK sample), Honesty-Humility predicts lower 🛒 stockpiling in the past 🛒 intentions to stockpile in the future Preprint: psyarxiv.com/8e62v Thread ⬇️

Motivated misremembering: New paper finds that people tend to recall being more generous in the past than they actually were, even when they are incentivized to recall their decisions accurately. nature.com/articles/s4146…

CoPSY members Lau Lilleholt, @SchildChristoph, and Ingo Zettler compared the probability of dishonesty across different implementations of a cheating task, now available via Journal of Economic Psychology, doi.org/10.1016/j.joep…

🧐=open peer review invitation=🧐 @fierycushman, Liane Young, & Hauser (2006) Replication & Extension 3 principles of harm Hoi Shing (Michelle) Cheng's Registered Report Stage 1 with data analysis code on simulated random dataset. Details👇Feedback welcome!

📰Recommended reading. In this paper, BCCP Fellow @RobertStber shows that many subjects prefer willful ignorance to avoid having to incur in altruistic punishment. #EconTwitter #SocialNorms #SocialPreferences Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great tool to discover related articles based on one article you enter! connectedpapers.com

Incredible public good for cooperation researchers! Check out app.cooperationdatabank.org with over 2600 coded studies on cooperation and on-demand meta-analyses! Congrats and huge thanks to Giuliana Spadaro, @IlaTiddi, Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social, Shuxian Jin 金淑娴 | @shuxianjin.bsky.social, annette ten teije and Daniel Balliet!

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Interested in #gossip and #reputation? Join our talk series! 📍 Biweekly Thursdays at 4pm CET. Sing up here: bit.ly/36RoZyG 🚨Early career researchers can submit a blitz talk here: bit.ly/36MYACa 🚨 Spread the word! #Econtwitter #psychtwitter

New interdisciplinary online talk series about gossip research; Biweekly online keynote and blitz talks; First talk: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 #gossip #socialpsychology Annika Nieper @catherinemolho Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1…

Incredibly proud and happy that our paper on defining #gossip is now officially out & #openaccess in Group and Organization Management Journal! This paper was a team effort by our ERC group (Annika Nieper, Martina Testori, Elena Martinescu) working on gossip led by Bianca Beersma! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/5

💡Our #interdisciplinary Force of Gossip Series is back! More research on #gossip, #reputation & #cooperation!💡Register here: bit.ly/3AG09za #ECRs, few spots available for a blitz talk: bit.ly/3hqnM7d 📅 October 14, 16:00 (CEST) #psychtwitter #EconTwitter