Vitória Sgorlon

Just as I was writing about my dictator game design.

Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved

A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Friends don't let friends give preregistration a bad name. Exploratory findings are fine; you just have to label them!

Converse (1964)

oh noooo

Crucial information!

[noise from pocket]: "I have more of a comment than a question"

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Ultimately, the authors of the study conclude:

"[Our] results suggest that in-class phone bans represent a low-cost, effective policy to modestly improve academic outcomes, especially for vulnerable student groups, while enhancing student receptivity to digital policy interventions."

THIS IS MARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Electoral Role Models: Political Empowerment and Candidate Emergence - Political Behavior Does the election of politicians from historically underrepresented groups spur others to enter politics? Some political scientists and policymakers posit that the election of women and people of colo...

New research by Andrew Janusz, Patrick Silva and Andrea Junqueira finds that electing women or Afro-Brazilian mayors doesn’t boost similar candidacies for local office. Representation isn’t enough, systemic barriers still hold aspiring leaders back.
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Measuring Belief Certainty in Political Knowledge - Political Behavior Political knowledge measures what people know and how they reason about politics, but scholars still debate how to best measure the concept. A growing body of survey research has demonstrated the theo...

In Robert Vidigal's newest paper, he shows that how some people feel about their political knowledge matters just as much as what they know. A smarter way to measure what citizens understand, and why it matters for democracy. #PoliticalPsychology
Read more:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

“just 68% of the 7,057 researchers whose work had produced null results had shared them in some form, and just 30% had tried to publish them in a journal.”

What a joke.

#NullEffectsMatter

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Treatment effects of WhatsApp Multimedia Deactivation on False Rumors Accuracy and True News Accuracy Judgments

Treatment Effects of WhatsApp Multimedia Deactivation on Polarization and Subjective Well-Being

These findings are consistent with the “minimal effects” theory: the misinformation reduction did not translate to user belief accuracy and polarization changes.

Although users saw less false content, their attitudes stayed the same.

This research shows partisan categories aren't always central to political reasoning. When parties aren't reliable information sources, citizens find alternative ways to organize their political environment.

i'm not at all qualified to evaluate this study but i am absolutely going to share it with my students, scared straight style

If I suddenly had to start writing my papers in German I would absolutely use AI to help me

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Studying economics and business in college makes students become much more conservative.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Any data on Hispanic Evangelicals?

I've been reluctant about using another social media platform but just abandoned the late Twitter (also reluctant to call it X). Hope to share some cool research soon!
(And might also copy and paste it on Twitter)