Daqing Liu

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
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Social psychology folk: if you teach undergraduates emotion in a social psychology module, what do you include in your key reading? I think the emotion chapter in the 6th Handbook of Social Psychology has good coverage but would like more recommendations!

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An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment

This is a belated post about our paper in @poqjournal.bsky.social.

We analyzed 100 survey experiments fielded by TESS (tessexperiments.org), using only information from the proposals to identify intended hypotheses.

Here are some of the things we learned:

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Fig. 3. Scatter plots of the synthetic and empirical estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Showing N = 30,135 item-pair correlations, N = 257 scale reliabilities, and N = 1,568 scale-pair correlations for (top) the pretrained SBERT model and (bottom) the fine-tuned SurveyBot3000 model. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

Fig. 4. Prediction error of the synthetic estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Our prediction model allowed the error term to vary freely according to the predictor, the synthetic estimate. The thin-plate splines show that some synthetic estimates were predictably more accurate.

Fig. 5. Accuracy by domain. Accuracy differed across domains. SurveyBot3000 accuracy (colored) was always higher than SBERT accuracy (gray). Results were largely consistent whether accuracy of items was tested (left, circle) within domains or (right, cross) across domains.

Fig. 1. Multistep training procedure for the SurveyBot3000, which produces synthetic estimates of interitem correlations. (a) Pretraining base model (SBERT). (b) Fine-tuning SurveyBot3000. (c) Validation. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example.
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Hey #rstats and #stats people, does anyone know of any references that explain the hazards of trying to run or interpret models with all combinations of many predictors? (i.e., including multiple 2-way and 3-way interactions)

Motivated reasoning is a well-understood phenomenon - or is it?

In a new paper just published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social we discuss three known unknowns.

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We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.

Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.

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Deadline: Jan 23

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It's been a fun conference! Thank you to all disgust nerds for making this happen @iast.fr

WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr

Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing):

What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?

Training initiative FORRT has released a platform for those who wish to discover and publicize computer and tabletop games about open research and publishing! Linked through this landing page:

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AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

YouTube video by University of Kent Social Psychology Summer School at Kent

📽️ We have an official video for the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) summer school 2025!

Not only does it show my face as a still (why, oh why??), it also features my best take on #socialpsychology yet...

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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.

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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.

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@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...