Daqing Liu

Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵

I find the UCLA statistical consulting group website very helpful.

A great, intuitive way to demonstrate hypothesis testing. Might use it in my class.

📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'!

🗓️ Dec 4 & 5
📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr
💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more

Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

This is sick on different levels.
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, then the irrelevant details may not match up to the prototype and therefore increase judgment of ordinariness as well as lower extremity of character judgment. It's just my guess.

Instead of measuring humanisation and relatableness, would a measure of how banal/ordinary the protagonist is explain away some of the dilution effect? If people tend to hold prototype of virtuous or evil characters that are distant from real life (e.g. they're often from history, news or fictions)

Could there be a "banality" or "ordinariness" effect in moral perception?

And Published!!!

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The Moral Dilution effect. Including non-diagnostic (irrelevant) information leads to less extreme evaluations of moral character.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

@rogerthegs.bsky.social had a bad character hypothesis for moral disgust! Our recent work showed that people make bad character inferences from other people's condemning expression of disgust.

Thanks for sharing the chapter. It's been a fun read!

Changing Practices and Priorities in Social Psychological Research Methods and Reporting

Kudos to the four editors and scores of authors for bringing the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition to the public and open access! The other chapters are likely to be my reading project this summer ... Here's my own contribution, in any case.

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Examining the relationship between moral outrage on social media and activism A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science examines how expressions of moral outrage on social media are linked to online activism, specifically petition-signing behavior.

"Platforms are calibrated to capture attention by amplifying moralized and emotional content. This can have benefits, such as raising awareness of injustices by propagating expressions of outrage," explains @stefanleach.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-05...

🧵New paper out in Cognition

Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)?

@danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module.

50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...

A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating - Nature Reviews Psychology Impression formation occurs when a perceiver infers another person’s traits, goals and preferences and forms an attitude towards that person. In this Perspective, Amodio describes the unique and inter...

I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com!

In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.

Some key take-aways:

look forward to reading it!

Very cool and interesting! So does this suggest people don't really want to be seen as 'highly'moral? If they choose to act morally consistently when being watched, supposingly they'd have a more moral reputation.

Very keen to work with potential applicants to come work me at Kent on things related to moral psychology :)

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Out now and open access at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! How do people's trajectories in well-being tend to differ? 🧵 (with Robin Wollast, Chloe Bracegirdle, Olivia Spiegler, Chris Sibley, Éric Lacourse, and @sengupta.bsky.social) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do attitudes become moralized? We find that moral conviction spreads between connected attitudes over time. + Those with highly connected belief systems (ideologues) have highly moralized belief systems!

Come see us at the moral psych pre-con poster session @spspnews.bsky.social to learn more😃

Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies?

Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵
w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social

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✨New preprint✨How does repeated exposure to transgressions online shape moral judgment? Results show two competing processes:
💠We get desensitized = ⬇️ wrong
💠Transgression seems more infamous =⬆️wrong
Relative strength of each may predict outrage to viral transgressions w/ @danieleffron.bsky.social

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

"This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment."

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@qmucu.bsky.social

Powerful Myths: Common Misconceptions About Statistical Power Lukas Lengersdorff and Claus Lamm discuss three misconceptions that stand in the way of an informed discussion.

Three Myths About Statistical Power

🔹️ Myth 1: Power is an objective feature

🔹️ Myth 2: With low power comes low credibility

🔹️ Myth 3: High power protects against questionable research practices

BSky author: @clauslamm.bsky.social

EASP Summer School 2025 Social Psychology News Articles

🔥 The 2025 EASP Summer School will take place from 20th - 30th July at the University of Kent, UK.

The call for applications and the website will be shared at the beginning of November.

www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

Thank you for making this! Could you add me please?

Drink tea & carry on,
new semester approaching.

Over 100 social psychologists in this new Starter Pack, with more being added.

Let me know if you want to be included!

#SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪

New pub @ JPSP🚨Asian=Machine, Black=Animal? The Racial Asymmetry of Dehumanization🚨We uncover the hidden racism that Asian people often face and contrast it with that of Black people, introducing a new way to understand and unify Asian stereotypes. osf.io/v2guk 🧵1/9