Our review is organized around a recent framework of demand effects proposed by P. Lush and I, which identifies three stages in the production of demand artifacts: hypothesis formation, motivation, and control strategy.
doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Our review is organized around a recent framework of demand effects proposed by P. Lush and I, which identifies three stages in the production of demand artifacts: hypothesis formation, motivation, and control strategy.
doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Thrilled to share this new preprint, co-authored with @peterlush.bsky.social and Chloé Fournier Bernard!
We offer a broad and structured discussion of leading methods developed in the past >60 years to tackle demand artifacts in psychological research and beyond.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Mostly US participants. The person perception models are silent regarding cultural differences. Not sure how your suggested default tendency would explain discrepancies within the same population of participants, between long existing and novel social groups.
17.11.2025 08:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are not suggesting what perceivers should do, but test what they actually do, given the two types of information
17.11.2025 08:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for the input!!
This is a test of the models in the context of novel groups, no prior knowledge of the perceivers. Discrepancy from prior findings with long-existing groups can be attributed to confounding boundary conditions, such as specific motivations or extrapersonal associations
In this new research, we found that truth beliefs can be successfully conditioned:
Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures.
This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Looking for some new reading!? 📖
14.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0In this research, we found that individuating information dominates social group information when forming impressions about members of newly learned social groups. This dominance was observed both on self-reports *and* more automatic measures *despite* conditions favoring group-level impressions.
14.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
- We used highly salient group cues (skin tone)
- We instructed participants to form group-based impressions
- We tested both more and less automatic evaluations (via indirect and self-report measures)
- We improved the structural fit of our measures and experimental paradigm
Let’s discuss: How should person perception models evolve given this evidence?
#SocialPsychology #PersonPerception #ImpressionFormation #Prejudice #Stereotypes #ImplicitBias #JESP
This overturns familiar assumptions of perceivers as “cognitive misers” and calls for rethinking how we conceptualize automatic evaluations.
14.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Even with skin tone as a group marker and explicit instructions to form group-based impressions, people relied more on the actual characteristics of the individual they encountered.
14.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The result?
Across the board, individuating information outweighed group information -- not only for more controlled, less automatic evaluations, but also for automatic evaluations!
Building on a provocative finding by Navon & Bar-Anan (2023), we designed two large-scale experiments (Ns = 605, 657) that address previous methodological limitations and tested which information dominates less\more automatic evaluations of individual group members
14.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social:
Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case?
👉 Read the full paper
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...
-- Call for Papers --
Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
"Progress in theorising means treating our theories as works in progress in need of continuous improvement, and this sometimes also means having to kill one’s darlings."
Martijn van Zomeren and @ayseuskul.bsky.social introduce the ERSP special issue on theorizing in social psychology.
#SocialPsyc
Nice 🧵 about a brand new paper in our journal! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
01.09.2025 10:20 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics?
Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study!
Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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New article on the potential contribution of experimental demand artifacts to evaluative conditioning effects now published OA in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
26.08.2025 18:36 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Demand Characteristics
"Demand artifacts need not be seen only as a vexing problem. Precisely because they are so conceptually and methodologically challenging, they represent an opportunity for methodological and theoretical development."
#SocialPsyc
As the fall semester begins, I'd like to send a call to anyone who would like to get involved in our Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. We're a dedicated network of morality and ethics researchers focused on breaking outside siloes to work together on big questions.
moralconsortium.psu.edu 1/n
This project could not have happened without the incredible collaboration of Profs. Carmel Sofer, Bat-Sheva Hadad & @talmoran.bsky.social, former lab members Adi Langer & Hadas Wardi, and especially the amazing post-docs @mayanna.bsky.social & @maayantrzewik.bsky.social who co-led the project. 🙌
20.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The new Teach@Tuebingen fellowship call is open. For 1/2 or 1 year you can do research & teach here. Decent salary & benefits. If you are interested in joint numerical cognition research with our lab, feel free to contact me as a host professor. Deadline June 20th.
uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
That the The Handbook of Social Psychology is open-access and free-&-accessible to everyone might change the way I teach Social at every level. Organize content around these entries and add supplemental ones as needed.
#SocialPsychology #AcademicSky
openpublishing.princeton.edu/projects/the...
Is anyone putting together a symposium for #SESP2025 in 🇵🇹 Lisbon? I would like to go, but the symposium-only format is proving difficult. Looking to present grant-funded research on occupational moral roles, which also fits stereotypes, social categories, etc.
09.05.2025 10:52 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Alison Bianchi is guest editor for a special issue of Social Sciences: "Group Processes Using Quantitative Research Methods." See attached for details--submissions are due on October 31st, 2025.
30.04.2025 14:58 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Job - Alert 🌿
✨ Professorin/Professor (w/m/d) - W2-Professur für Sozialpsychologie
Deadline: 2025-05-22
Location: Germany, Würzburg, Bayern
www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=7494
#hiring #THWS #Socialpsychology #socialscience #Psychology #professor
Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad
Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025.
Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice.
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