In a large, preregistered study (see preprint), we compared InteroMap to emBODY. Overall, InteroMap demonstrated superior construct validity and usability
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Prof at UCLouvain Evaluative learning | Demand artifacts | Methods
In a large, preregistered study (see preprint), we compared InteroMap to emBODY. Overall, InteroMap demonstrated superior construct validity and usability
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology π§΅π
18.11.2025 22:06 β π 28 π 13 π¬ 2 π 2New publication. Congrats to the whole team, and especially @paulbertin.bsky.social who led this effort. Thanks also to the editor (Nicolas Sommet) and reviewers, who desserve credit for improving our paper.
15.11.2025 08:31 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks to ChloΓ© Fournier Bernard, @mayanna.bsky.social and @jeremybena.bsky.social for the inspiring collaboration !
15.11.2025 08:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We discuss whether this Truth Beliefs Conditioning effect should be considered an experimental demand artifact, and whether it matters.
This research follows-up on a recent article that examined three outstanding questions raised by instruction-based procedures:
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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...
This overturns familiar assumptions of perceivers as βcognitive misersβ and calls for rethinking how we conceptualize automatic evaluations.
14.11.2025 16:40 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 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 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 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 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0In case you find it useful, we have recently elaborated on this issue here (see section 5.1): doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
12.11.2025 16:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I found the general discussion rather cautious, but this point might be further elaborated on. Another issue is that these manipulations are sometimes totally ineffective (Ps simply don't trust a hypothesis that runs against commonsense) but this does not seem to apply in this case 3/
12.11.2025 16:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0As a result, demand effects may operate differently in these studies vs. in original procedures where the experimental hypothesis is not directly communicated. The same issue applies when probing demand effects based on instruction-based replication procedures 2/
12.11.2025 16:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If I may add a few thoughts, a major issue with this widespread approach to demand effects is that experimenters usually do not tell their Ps about their hypothesis. This communication creates unique demand characteristics that may consequentially depart from the original procedure 1/
12.11.2025 16:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Congratulations, Ian !
03.11.2025 21:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0bsky.app/profile/chem...
27.09.2025 12:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0β52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracyβ
V-Dem data
Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!
10.09.2025 12:46 β π 70 π 25 π¬ 2 π 3Remarkable thread by Micah Allen here ππΌ
27.08.2025 17:00 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New 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 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1It is amazing that most organizations (businesses, media, NGOs, political parties) that worried about the threat of the far right for decades have spent no time or energy to thinking how to operate in a far right world. They just continue to do the same and are surprised by a different outcome.
23.08.2025 13:57 β π 208 π 53 π¬ 7 π 2New π°
Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans
Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects
In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what weβve learned via meta-analysis
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Very pleased to be featured in the August Editorial for Nature Mental Health! The stomachβs turn: elucidating the gutβbrain axis www.nature.com/articles/s44...
07.08.2025 09:08 β π 52 π 9 π¬ 1 π 1π’Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS.
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countriesπ
Check out the full msπ
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I find it amusing that ChatGPT can write predictive processing theories that are about as plausible as many published versions. I guess they really are that predictableβ¦
13.07.2025 06:41 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1π
07.07.2025 07:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0After more than 7 years working on it, Iβve just submitted the manuscript for Discovering Statistics using R second edition. Tonnes more work on website/package and so on, but getting to this stage is monumental psychologically. Itβs the book I feared Iβd never finish.
04.07.2025 18:50 β π 149 π 6 π¬ 8 π 2New research shows that simply changing how a reaction vessel is positioned on a magnetic stirrer can significantly change a reaction's speed and product quality, influencing the reproducibility of results. #ChemSky #ScienceSky #EduSky
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25.06.2025 10:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by refereesβ reports and author responses β to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science
https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01