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So many people confuse LLMs (or genAI, in general) for models of human cognition, language, learning, etc., so I thought it may be useful to share once more my brief comment, titled "Psychological models and their distractors". (open access link: rdcu.be/cGQpY) 🧵

Still remains a masterclass in building a garbage platform

If you had to pick *1* measure of racial attitudes to predict white Americans' Trump support, we find opposition to anti-racism (agreement w/ statements like "People these days can’t speak their minds without someone accusing them of racism") is most correlated

🧵 spain has some of europe's best neighbourhood-level income data, but it's buried in the statistical office website i scraped and structured the data to make it accessible with one line of code check out my new R package: pablogguz.github.io/ineAtlas/

In a remarkable new study, Simine Vizier (simine vazire), Sarah Schiavone (Sarah Schiavone), and Mijke Rhemtulla (Mijke Rhemtulla) surveyed 724 personality/social psychology researchers to investigate what they think of their own field. First, the good news: 🧵

Hi all! Maryam Kouchaki and I will be recruiting a shared lab manager through Kellogg's Behavioral Research Fellow program. Please apply and forward to interested RAs who are interested in pursuing PhDs. More info here: kellogg.northwestern.edu/academics-rese…

Applications are now open for the EASP 2025 Summer School 👇easp.eu/news/itm/easp_…

In our new PNASNews paper, across 21 experiments with 23,000+ participants, we identify a critical distortion that shapes decisions involving tradeoffs: we find that people systematically overweight quantified information in such decisions. Paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵

PhD student and postdoc friends! I'm conducting a paid 5-10 minute online survey on experiences receiving feedback in academia. Have a few minutes to spare? I'd LOVE to hear from you. 👋🏼😊 hbs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_88…

I'm mostly gonna be on BlueSky for the foreseeable future [at]leesplez.bsky.social

Apply to the EASP Summer School at Kent University--I'll be give a guest lecture! It features 6 classes: -Conspiracies & Misinformation -Moral Psychology & AI -Social Identity & Extremism -Human-Animal Relations -Political Cognition -Close Relationships easp.eu/news/itm/easp_…

People often claim scientists’ ethical or political endorsements undermine scientific integrity, but is that true? Actually, “the value-free ideal (VFI) — a traditional conception of objectivity — [was] not correlated with generalized trust in #science". doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

Very happy to share that our work is now published in PNAS (PNASNews)! 🎉 It's a systematic look into how demographic and psychological factors are associated with misinformation susceptibility. Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) Thread below and can be read in full here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A large study, with 3774 participants across 24 labs and 6 countries, did not replicate the finding that making status motives salient increases pro-environmental behavior. Collaborative Replication & Education Project osf.io/preprints/psya…

In summer 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor, Francesca Gino, over charges of research misconduct. By coincidence, one of her affected papers also had some funny-looking data from a *different* B-school superstar, Dan Ariely... (1/3)