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Me shaking my head in Orioles

Not as fun as either, but Mapillary has free API calls

We should make police interactions more respectful. However, enforcement is an investigatory tool, it undermines these goals. Interactions can’t build trust if they start with a lie. As traffic stops become the vehicle for investigation and immigration enforcement, the costs will be severe. (7/7)

Because they entail so much choice, however, police departments can rein in discretionary stops. We found one directive in which merely advised officers to curtail equipment stops reduced racial gaps in stop rates, by bringing down the high number of equipment stops of Black drivers (6/7)

This context means different things to Black and White drivers. We asked DMV customers to listen to recordings of equipment + moving stops and report their trust in the officer. White participants were generally trusting, but Black customers were skeptical of officers in high-discretion stops. (5/7)

Looking across a range of agencies, we find that stops of Black drivers are much more likely to be for minor offenses relative to Whites, particularly in urban police departments. Statewide agencies, focus on enforcement rather than investigation, show no disparities in discretionary context (4/7)

Every driver is breaking some traffic law at some time. However, officers have more choice in enforcing some offenses (broken taillight) than others (drunk driving). Minor stops are ambiguous: all the more so since police are permitted and encouraged to use them as a pretext for investigation. (3/7)

Leveraging body-worn camera footage to assess the effects of training on officer communication during traffic stops Abstract. Can training police officers on how to best interact with the public actually improve their interactions with community members? This has been a

Psychologists (including me) have thought about how officers talk with citizens, and the benefits of making stop interactions more respectful. But, a narrow focus on what goes on during stops overlooks the decision that leads to those stops in the first place (2/7). academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

SPSSI Journals Traffic stops are common and consequential for citizens’ legal socialization and for racial gaps in police-community trust. Efforts to change the tenor of police interactions, however, may discount t...

New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7)
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Psych Job Wiki - Research Assist. & Lab Manager Psych Jobs 2025-2026 Welcome to the Predoc Positions page. All jobs listed below are predoc and lab manager positions. If the start dates are not Spring 2026 or Fall 2026, you will see an asterisk nex...

Interesting, I recall postings being free, and you could pay to make it a featured listing. I guess they changed the policy 😔 Have you posted to the jobs wiki? sites.google.com/view/psychjo...

ICE arrested a dad dropping off his kid at my son's school today. Elementary school. What a fucking world.

Don’t think I will.

Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI.

@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

Is there a second page to generate the readings, slides, assignments, lecture recordings, and Simpsons references?

Start Generating: Harnessing Generative Artificial Intelligence for Sociological Research - Thomas Davidson, 2024 How can generative artificial intelligence (GAI) be used for sociological research? The author explores applications to the study of text and images across mult...

Other examples: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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This semester, I want my lab to play around with GPT for some content-coding type tasks. Do folks have other recs for accessible methods papers/tutorials, e.g. from @thomasdavidson.bsky.social 's "[special issue](journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... of Soc Methods)?

Ingroup vigilance in collectivistic cultures | PNAS Collectivistic cultures have been characterized as having harmonious, cooperative ingroup relationships. However, we find evidence that people in c...

Whether interdependent cultures promote harmony or have different forms of conflict relative to independent cultures www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

And you can find the accompanying (short! assignable!) theory paper here:

😱gust is here, too soon. If you're teaching a class on racial inequality, policing, and/or institutions, I have a teaching guide on institutional interactions with readings, resources, and a sample syllabus to take the edge off.

The June 2025 special issue of Social Cognition -- Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1 -- was guest edited by Jimmy Calanchini, Juliane Degner, and Colin Smith, with support from Bertram Gawronski.

The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....

This is a methods paper for a platform that didn’t exist until 15 years after Barker’s passing.

Thanks @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social and @maddblackprof.bsky.social for organizing the special issue of Social Cognition, which is a must-read. Also thanks to my in-laws for walking my dog Eddie, also visible on Street View

Streetscapes at Scale: Mapping Platform APIs as a Tool to Sample Space | Social Cognition We introduce a ubiquitous but overlooked resource for studying the psychology of space: street-level imagery—streetscapes—from mapping platforms such as Google Street View, Apple Maps, and Mapillary. Relative to other sources of stimuli, streetscapes are unique in their ecological validity, their spatial resolution, their geographic scope, and their scale. To capitalize on these strengths, researchers can repurpose tools that mapping platforms maintain for software developers. Using these Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), one can sample a massive number of streetscape stimuli with minimal cost. This tutorial introduces the reader to a programmatic approach to sampling streetscapes with mapping APIs. We provide the reader with both concrete examples in the most common mapping platform, Google Street View, and a general procedure they can tailor to their platform and research question of choice.

You can read the paper here (open access). Streetscape images can be a flexible source of stimuli, given their scale and resolution. We hope our tools can help bridge the micro and macro in the field, letting us ask and answer new questions about how people think about the contexts around them.

GitHub - mind-in-society-lab/street_view_tutorial: Streetscapes at Scale: Mapping Platform APIs as a Tool to Sample Space Streetscapes at Scale: Mapping Platform APIs as a Tool to Sample Space - mind-in-society-lab/street_view_tutorial

We’ve also created walk-thru notebooks, available at this repository. Did I mention these stimuli are cheap? $7 will get you 1,000 image calls on Google SV. If you do not have that much change in your couch, we also guide you through Mapillary, an open source and completely free service.

Some have used screenshots as stimuli. Using the developer tools, you can automate this process. We walk you through how to sample points and pull streetscapes. You can pick random points on a map, or partition space into neighborhoods, census tracts, or other regions.

New from @ara-eunkyung.bsky.social + me: social psychologists are often interested in space, but have to choose between abstractions at high levels of geography or images taken with limited geographic scope. We identify a tool to sample space at scale: mapping platforms, such as Google Street View.

DR. SANTA J. ONO UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED AS SOLE FINALIST FOR UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA’S 14TH PRESIDENT The University of Florida Presidential Search Committee has unanimously and enthusiastically recommended Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., to be considered by its Board of Trustees as the sole finalist to become t...

news.ufl.edu/2025/05/anno... I think he’s going to love it there.

Police shootings database 2015-2024: Search by race, age, department Filter the Washington Post database, which includes police shooting statistics between January 2015 and December 2024, by unarmed police shootings, race and age of victim and more.

www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/inv...

Just noticed this, but the Washington Post no longer tracks police shootings as of this year.

Bay Area wait was long enough for us to run lab experiments at the DMV offices www.apa.org/pubs/journal...