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📢Paper Alert 📰 Our meta-analysis on 17 replications of Adam Hahn's 2014 studies on the question whether people are aware of their cognitions reflected on implicit measures is now published Collabra: Psychology 👉tinyurl.com/goedderz2025 Keep reading for a quick summary (1/6)

Interesting new paper in Nature Human Behaviour. The authors conclude that variation in fatal police shooting rates across agencies is "far from random" and "primarily associated with...differences in crime rates, 911 call rates, officers per capita and the prevalence of guns."

Fascinating. It makes me wonder if part of the continued prominence of cognitive tasks like the Stroop Task or the Implicit Association Test in the public imagination is also attributable to how these tasks produce insight...

My latest with S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis on the blue place, Edvard Larsen, Quadlin, and Crabtree. "Missing Results of Discrimination" Intersectionality theory argues that race and gender cannot be fully understood in isolation or through an additive approach. However, field experiments frequently examine

Prejudice is common in modern societies. Reducing that prejudice is difficult to do, particularly in a cost-effective and scalable manner. Can AI help solve this problem? My new working paper with Semra Sevi, Mitchell Bosley, and Crabtree examines this question! To do so, we

...is there value in a life that is neither happy nor meaningful? Shigehiro Oishi & I argue "yes" - that living in "interesting times" can itself offer a third (if unconventional) path to the good life. Check out our latest TiCS piece (gift link): authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7ERX4sIRv…

🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science! We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science. Four years in the making. Led by Zander Furnas 1/n

the A/B testing at OpenAI creating the creepy sycophancy problem made me think of this passage from Frankenstein: the doctor carefully selected each part of the creature for its beauty, only to be horrified by the effect of the whole.

This paper by Michael Inzlicht and Brent Roberts is worth studying. It's been in my head all day because it's so true. Link below.

If you run conjoint experiments, you need to read this. Most conjoints estimate average effects for each attribute. But what if the effect of one attribute depends on the others? This new paper introduces a data-adaptive conjoint design that hunts for heterogeneity: Where

New WP (w/ D. Green and Robb Willer): “Politicians’ Bipartisan Appeals to Civility and Partisan Divides.” Working w/ the 🇺🇸 Nat Gov. Association, we test an elite-driven campaign to bridge partisan divides at scale using addressable 📺 ads! osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Wow! Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings. That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in PNASNews w/ Communication Neuroscience Lab, Prof Michael E. Mann, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the all-new 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

New fun short paper alert w/raihan in PNAS! Learning about congressional stock trading reduces trust in congress, which in turn reduces citizens' own willingness to follow the law broadly. See thread from Raihan. Hope it helps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Elizabeth Warren pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Fresh out in Psychological Review! Why do so many societies explain events through fate, spirits, or divine will—but rarely invoke “chance”? My new article examines the cross-cultural absence of chance-based explanations and what it reveals about human cognition.

🚨New WP🚨 Can AI do "deep canvassing"—the time-intensive, empathic persuasive dialogues that durably reduce prejudice when done by humans? Spoiler: Yes! We find durable reduction in prejudice toward undocumented immigrants LLMs make deep canvassing possible at scale