Nick Camp

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

2.3.2.5 Algorithmically confounded Behavior in found data is not natural, it is driven by the engineering goals of the systems. Although many found data sources are non-reactive because people are not aware their data are being recorde...

Yeah, any non-experimental study on a private platform, esp longitudinal, should think about algorithmic drift. Particularly worrisome since algo can be changed for subset of users or without notice

Advances in AI are used to spot signs of sexuality Machines that read faces are coming

Sigh...

www.economist.com/science-and-...

Also, interesting comments on sifting through footage with the aim of finding positive interactions to share with the public, an issue @robvoigt.bsky.social and I observed in other vendors' pitches to PDs: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

and replacing it with this:

Two people thought that! I think I have next year's costume ready...

Appreciated the chance to share @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social and I's work on Streetview Sampling on 🎃! The 📸🚘 costume is only for today, but the methods paper and tools are open access: guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Come join OS at UM!

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.