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Cool new study by @joelleforestier.bsky.social @page-gould.bsky.social & Alison Chasteen

Can social media contact reduce prejudice?

#PrejudiceResearch

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hi everyone! i made a support groupchat for students who are currently applying for PhD/PsyD programs, wanting to apply to these programs, or for students who want more information. If you would like to join, please reach out and I will add you! 🥰

Critical ignoring offers some great strategies to help navigate our noisy information landscape.

People across the political spectrum suddenly agree that social media can lead to political violence and online calls for civil war have skyrocketed

I explain how social media rewards negativity, division and hostility--and what we can all do about it: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/social-med...

Applying for a Ph.D.? These 10 tips can help you succeed Our Letters to Young Scientists columnists offer their advice

I heard that students need to have a 1st author paper to get into a PhD program

This is not true in psychology--most students we admit at NYU & most of the students from my own lab who got into PhD programs do not have publications, let alone 1st author publications
www.science.org/content/arti...

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)?
If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants.

Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

I have finally gotten round to writing my AI Use Statement for a grad. course I'm teaching in Gen AI...

I would be grateful of your thoughts!

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📊How do people in couples influence each other's political preferences? New research suggests that our closest relationships actively shape our political identities rather than simply reflecting pre-existing similarities.

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Table 1 Summary Guidelines for Conducting Lab Experiments in Motivation and Emotion ___________________________________________________________________________ Pre-Manipulation Setup • Consider physical environment on the way to the lab room • Consider physical environment of lab room (e.g., cameras, mirror, room size, social) • Create a plausible cover story • Be mindful of the psychological state of participants at the start of experiment Experimenters/Confederates • Ensure consistency between multiple experimenters/confederates • Compare effect of multiple experimenters statistically • Keep appearance/clothing consistent • Be cognizant of informal/formal style of interacting • Note differences in physical attractiveness • Track emotion and personality variables of experimenters • Keep blind to condition Independent Variables (IVs) • Use a strong IV – aim for a psychological sledgehammer • Be careful that IV is not so strong that participants ignore DV • Ensure multiple IVs are similar in strength • Check effectiveness of manipulation and appreciate its complexity • Pre-test to insure IVs are the same psychologically in different times and places • Avoid experimenter demand • Avoid confounds Dependent Variables (DVs) • Create sensitive DVs • Consider challenges with self-reported effort • Consider challenges with self-reported emotion • Be aware that the order of presentation of variables might influence results • Pretest Applying Guidelines to Replications • Consider the benefits of conceptual replications for theory testing • Select studies for replication that have a reasonable chance of being replicated • Note that expectations of non-replication influence researchers and outcomes • Use exact original method when replicating a specific effect • Test correlations that logically follow from experimental hypotheses if possible • Insure participating labs in projects follow instructions of the study coordinators Data Management • Take steps to avoid errors i…

Very useful set of guidelines for conducting social psychology lab experiments by @eddiehj.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, and colleagues.

Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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None of this research suppresses free speech. All this research advances knowledge & understanding about how science is communicated to the public, how the public learns & thinks about science, & how scientific knowledge is put into practice. 6/

Looking forward to reading this!

This is incredible! Thank you!

Good luck to everyone presenting at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in NYC this weekend!

When presenting research on the persuasive effects of diff messages, a common question is whether the effects generalize to other ppl/populations. An important question, but a question that I think is very under-appreciated is whether the effects generalize to other *messages like this one*.

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Thank you! This is so helpful, and something I wish I knew about in undergrad!

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero).

Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU
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Political Behavior | Volume 47, issue 1 Volume 47, issue 1 articles listing for Political Behavior

Check out the March edition of political behavior! There are tons of open access artciles!

link.springer.com/journal/1110...

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