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Michał Białek

@mbialek82.bsky.social

Moral psychology, language, (meta)cognition, open science

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library In two studies (N = 886), we examined how individuals judge and select feedback providers for those who either handle criticism well or poorly after performing a low-quality task. Prosocial liars who...

We approve of prosocial liars, who give people false but positive feedback, even when they only lie prosocially to those they deem as vulnerable to negative feedback. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

24.11.2025 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Aurora Borealis Simpsons scene. 
Superintendent Chalmers: Good lord, what is happening in there?
Skinner: An age effect.
Superintendent Chalmers: An age effect? At this time of the year, at this time of day, in this particular cohort, localized entirely within your kitchen?
Skinner: Yes.
Superintendent Chalmers: May I see it?
Skinner: No.

Aurora Borealis Simpsons scene. Superintendent Chalmers: Good lord, what is happening in there? Skinner: An age effect. Superintendent Chalmers: An age effect? At this time of the year, at this time of day, in this particular cohort, localized entirely within your kitchen? Skinner: Yes. Superintendent Chalmers: May I see it? Skinner: No.

Both kids are gone so naturally, I'm making the most of my precious free time.

01.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 58    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

After 2 years its finally out! See for yourself whether songs in a foriegn vs native language are perceived as better or not? That was my experience, but it seems not a very popular one.

22.01.2026 09:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This sounds fascinating. I noticed very early on in my life in Poland that I was particularly interested in the lyrics of songs - something that barely happens to me with English ones.
"Tata Kazika" was the very first one.
Not the easiest choice. 🤣

07.01.2026 09:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New paper in JPSP with dream team Erik Løhre, S. Prasad Chandrashekar, & Thorvald Hærem! Registered report replication + extension: desire for status is linked to greater overconfidence.

Many thanks to Erik for initiating the idea and project!

psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ps…

OA: osf.io/fyx9c_v1

01.04.2025 06:32 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I'd follow this line of research, but I have two large grants on other topics and my day is only 24h long.

31.03.2025 06:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, I was so surprised too. I was pretty sure I missed something untill having a conversation with Budescu. maybe translation indeed cause misunderstandings across languages, yet no one ever tested if it has any practical impact on decisions.

31.03.2025 06:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cognitive fatigue is assumed to affect moral judgment, but what about physical fatigue? Research with athletes and firefighters by Stefanczyk et al suggests it is unaffected: buff.ly/34KazhT
via coauthor @mbialek82.bsky.social

21.03.2025 09:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

One thing striking is that the same post of yours has less than 10% of the attention compared to Twitter. It's hard to migrate here permanently.

31.03.2025 06:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Research by Milczarski et al into a potential foreign language effect on risk aversion suggests (a) there is no foreign language effect and (b) verbal probability expressions (“likely” v “70% chance”) eliminate risk aversion (!) buff.ly/N8Cvlhj
via coauthor @mbialek82.bsky.social

27.03.2025 09:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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For those keeping track of replication rates across fields:
experimental asset market research is looking at a cool 21.4% replication rate.

From @chrhuber.bsky.social & @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social & Michael Kirchler

www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

#metasky #metascisky

23.12.2024 15:51 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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Good morning, Bluesky Friends! 🗽💙 🌊

22.12.2024 12:59 — 👍 28178    🔁 6295    💬 321    📌 245
carton, at climate summit, audience member objects "what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing"

carton, at climate summit, audience member objects "what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing"


I feel a bit like this about open science. The reforms will likely lead to positive outcomes, even if we overestimate their ability to solve our problems (e.g., replication crisis)

The open science movement got us to THINK about what we're doing. That's a positive spin-off if nothing else.

19.12.2024 14:33 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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(PDF) Moral-Dilemma Judgments by Individuals and Groups: Are Many Heads Really More Utilitarian than One? PDF | Moral dilemmas often involve a conflict between action-options that maximize outcomes for the greater good (utilitarianism) and inaction-options... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

Santa awarded my for Christmas with an acceptance at #Cognition. In the paper, we report that groups are mor eutilitarain becuase they focus on consequences more, but just as much as solo deciders on norms and are similarly acion averse.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

21.12.2024 15:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

geez - i only read the headline and was among "those people" who believed in the finding. Thanks for a reminder to never trust anything without propper check

19.12.2024 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

whhere is this from?

19.12.2024 19:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Do we cooperate because of institutions, or do institutions exist because we cooperate?

In this @pnas.org paper led by @jliep.bsky.social, with @lfitouchi.bsky.social & N. Baumard, we develop a mathematical model that answers this question.

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

16.12.2024 14:12 — 👍 78    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 4

Because selecting "NO" is admitting a loss?

16.12.2024 08:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Do I know anyone who is in or from Bangladesh? I have a couple of cultural questions. It's for science!

15.12.2024 19:02 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
The undetected reflection test prime effect on moral judgments.

The undetected reflection test prime effect on moral judgments.

Table 7 showing the CRT (a mathematical reflection test) failing to predict multiple explications of utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas.

Table 7 showing the CRT (a mathematical reflection test) failing to predict multiple explications of utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas.

Process dissociation revealed more consistent correlations between reflection tests and moral dilemma judgments, but did not reveal that a mathematical reflection test (CRT) predicted utilitarian judgment. Moreover, what logical reflection predicted was more utilitarian AND more deontological responses (rather than more of one and less of the other).

Process dissociation revealed more consistent correlations between reflection tests and moral dilemma judgments, but did not reveal that a mathematical reflection test (CRT) predicted utilitarian judgment. Moreover, what logical reflection predicted was more utilitarian AND more deontological responses (rather than more of one and less of the other).

The general discussion (Section 5) admits that "correlations between reflective cognitive style and utilitarian judgment ...depended on how utilitarian judgment was measured and, most importantly, fluctuated depending on how cognitive style was assessed. This is in line with previous research emphasizing the instability of this relationship (Baron et al., 2015), and the fact that not all measures of cognitive style predict moral judgment in the same way (Byrd & Conway, 2019)."

The general discussion (Section 5) admits that "correlations between reflective cognitive style and utilitarian judgment ...depended on how utilitarian judgment was measured and, most importantly, fluctuated depending on how cognitive style was assessed. This is in line with previous research emphasizing the instability of this relationship (Baron et al., 2015), and the fact that not all measures of cognitive style predict moral judgment in the same way (Byrd & Conway, 2019)."

Another paper challenges #dualProcessTheory about #ethics: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

- no effect of reflection test prime
- reflection tests about #math didn't predict utilitarian responses
- reflection tests about #logic predicted more utilitarian AND more deontological responses

11.12.2024 11:59 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

SERVICE UPDATE

We normally don't ask you to "share like and subscribe" but please distribute this.

You are now able to delete the link after it embeds on your post so you can get those precious extra characters, and we will catch your post mentioning research.

#AcademicSky #Medsky #HigherEd

11.12.2024 15:00 — 👍 276    🔁 145    💬 8    📌 11

This is what makes these comparisons very, very biased. Still, the income in the US appears to be fairly nice.

07.12.2024 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

but you have to pay helathcare/childcrae of your pocket vs its included in the tax. You should not compare these values directly.

07.12.2024 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Sunbathers on beach at Marina Piccola Capri Island Italy.  Water runs through a natural arch in protruding rock, and a mountainside is visible.  People lay on blankets or towels, and there's a cafe nearby.
CREDIT:  Jaak Nilson / Alamy Stock Photo

Sunbathers on beach at Marina Piccola Capri Island Italy. Water runs through a natural arch in protruding rock, and a mountainside is visible. People lay on blankets or towels, and there's a cafe nearby. CREDIT: Jaak Nilson / Alamy Stock Photo

Thinking about #ReverseVampires, here's what we can conclude:

1. They love sunshine.
2. They enjoy garlic.
3. Really good at crossing moving water.
4. Especially good at reflecting in mirrors.

My CONCLUSION: The Reverse Vampires are just Italians.

(📷: Jaak Nilson)

06.12.2024 02:21 — 👍 160    🔁 25    💬 15    📌 3

Yeah, the pitchforks may be more and more visible now; more than ever.

06.12.2024 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, their healthcare system is even worse than I expected. How can people of a super-rich society live like this?

06.12.2024 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Methods and stats hive mind: I am aware of the Thomas et al. (2014) critique of relative weights analysis but vaguely recall another more recent paper taking a critical look at RWA. Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?

05.12.2024 22:08 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Report to amplify, please read.
#UkrainianView

04.12.2024 19:15 — 👍 119    🔁 75    💬 2    📌 4

I hope to never end up here at any stage of my academic career

05.12.2024 00:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Overall, all the tips are handy, and as an example, well-written. You are a role model of modern academia, thanks for all your input!

04.12.2024 10:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0