Adam H. Smiley

College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes Moral differences contribute to social and political conflicts. Against this backdrop, colleges and universities have been criticized for promoting liberal moral attitudes. However, direct evidence fo...

This is an interesting one (and directly relevant to all your students lives!)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

lol almost 60% of Instagram users would truly prefer to live in a world without the platform.

Writing lecture notes in Quarto during missile attack in Kyiv underground

#AcademicLife in Ukraine: preparing for lectures at night during a massive missile attack on Kyiv in an overcrowded underground station
#EconSky #UkrainianView #RStats

New example for AsPredicted.

Today, Trump directed his team to fire the commissioner BLS because he didn’t like the jobs numbers BLS released. This is a move straight out of an autocratic playbook. 1/

Really important question. I’d be interested to hear how you would answer this question for clinical and non-clinical psych. Clinical psych the impact feels easy to see (treating disorders, therapy, etc.), social psych (my area) I of course still see its value but it isn’t quite as obvious

Appreciate the extreme subtlety of this attempt to re-write history.

At least I assume so, I guess maybe it’s provosts or other higher higher ups making these decisions. But you’d think they know the toll this takes 🤷🏻‍♂️

The ridiculous thing about this to me is that many (full/associate) professors who are swamped with all these letters are the same ones that have the power to change what their own institution asks for… and are choosing not to do so.

I'm fully convinced that if we simply cut our letter requirements from 3 letters down to 2 (or even just 1 for certain applications), we would be saving everyone a lot of time...

Many junior scholars struggle with managing a research pipeline.

So, academics: how do you do manage your pipeline?

How many projects are you working on at one time?

How do you know if you have too many/too few projects?

Other tips that you have?

Nashville is Americans' favorite big city.
(@today.yougov.com)
today.yougov.com/society/arti...

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior.

Official job ads coming soon...

Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

"In response to all these individual logics of capitulation, we must recognize that the externalities imposed by capitulation are undeniable: yes, it may help you find a way out of this extortion, but it legitimizes an attack on the rule of law and hastens the end of our freedom"

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

The amazing thing about brave people speaking out is that it inspires others to do the same by creating a permission structure. Since I published this article 4 hours ago, I've heard from multiple sources confirming what's in it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

Attended the first ever performance of Dolly: A True Original Musical on Friday night at Belmont University! Awesome show. And (the actual) Dolly Parton came on stage to introduce the show (as poorly photographed below)! One of the many pluses of living in Music City! 🤠

Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Trolling you 🧌

It’s like a mini celebration every time

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Published in a social psych journal but my new paper might qualify!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Screenshot of title and abstract of paper, "In their God we trust: Religious Cognition increases cooperation across religious divides." Abstract: Belief in moralizing Gods is widely thought to foster cooperation between coreligionists, but there is disagreement regarding whether this effect is limited to the religious ingroup or if it extends to members of religious outgroups. Here we report the results of a cross-cultural research program that demonstrates that people who think about God (a) are more trusted by both coreligionists and members of other religious groups and (b) typically behave in a more trustworthy manner toward both ingroups and outgroups. We ran three preregistered studies (N= 1,784) with Christians and Muslims in the United States, Jews and Muslims in Israel, and Christians and Hindus in Fiji. Our contexts varied in multiple ways, including the level of intergroup conflict. Using two-player trust games involving real money, we varied whether participants interacted with ingroup or outgroup members and whether reciprocators considered God when deciding how much to return to trustors. We nd in each context that making moralizing God beliefs of one player salient enhances both intragroup and intergroup cooperation. Our ndings add to a nascent literature documenting the potential for religious cognition to extend moral norms across intergroup divides. We discuss implications for theories of the emergence of moralizing Gods and implications for public debates about religious pluralism in diverse societies.

Now out in JPSP! Behavioral economic experiments w/ Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews in the U.S., Israel and Fiji show that belief in God can facilitate cooperation, even across religious divides! More about our work (co-led with @jeremyginges.bsky.social) below! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

The Seattle Sounders orca jersey is here and it's perfect 😍

15/15! Guessed (correctly) about Kabbalah though. Fun quiz!

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

This emergency food aid, enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week, will be incinerated tomorrow rather than distributed in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Another in a long list of Trump's crimes against humanity.

Awesome stage today!

Anyone have previous SPSP symposium abstracts (for the entire symposium, not just a single talk) they’re willing to share? Or is there a collection of these online somewhere? #SPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social

Anyone have previous SPSP symposium abstracts (for the entire symposium, not just a single talk) they’re willing to share? Or is there a collection of these online somewhere? #SPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social

😂 on it!

Here are my beginner-friendly interactive graphs to help build intuition about key stats concepts:

- bit.ly/dss_shiny_random_assignment
- bit.ly/dss_shiny_mean_sd
- bit.ly/dss_shiny_correlation
- bit.ly/dss_shiny_intercept_slope
- bit.ly/dss_shiny_least_squares

Hope they're helpful! #rstats

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.

Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.

I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.

github.com/bretthollenb...