Olivier Corneille

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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900 The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

“52% 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 democracy”

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The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?

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!

Remarkable thread by Micah Allen here 👇🏼

Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem Attitude research has long been concerned with the potential influence of demand characteristics in evaluative conditioning effects. Here, we argue that this concern remains justified and cannot be r...

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/...

It 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.

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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 we’ve learned via meta-analysis

doi.org/10.1525/coll...

The stomach’s turn: elucidating the gut–brain axis - Nature Mental Health Philosophers and scientists have debated for centuries about how cognition and emotions are produced and the causal roles the body and brain serve. The advent of more sophisticated models of gut–brain...

Very pleased to be featured in the August Editorial for Nature Mental Health! The stomach’s turn: elucidating the gut–brain axis www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢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 countries🌏

Check out the full ms👇
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 predictable…

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After more than 7 years working on it, I’ve 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. It’s the book I feared I’d never finish.

Position of flask on magnetic stirrers can drastically affect reproducibility of experiments Comprehensive examination reveals improper siting of reaction vessels can affect catalyst formation, alter nanoparticle formation and change yields

New 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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Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science

https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01

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We may all have thought trade and import tariffs gaf drifted out of the spotlight, but it’s definitely back on the radar.

A good time to check out @timharford’s Seven truths about trade—still true, even under 50% tariffs for the EU:

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Economic pressure is a major threat to press freedom.

@rsf.org is clear: "The economic indicator on the RSF World Press Freedom Index now stands at an unprecedented, critical low"

The global state of #pressfreedom is classified as a 'difficult'. For the first time #WPFD2025
rsf.org/en/rsf-world...

We also recruited “observers” who were matched with the original “actor” participants, shown their choices, and asked to predict the actors’ choice process. Actors were more accurate than observers, suggesting that their accuracy came from some kind of first-person introspection.

Introspective access to value-based multi-attribute choice processes - Nature Communications People routinely choose between multi-attribute options, such as which movie to watch. Here, the authors show people often have accurate insight into their choices, challenging the notion that people ...

Are we “strangers to ourselves”? Classic theories say people have limited insight into how they decide. Our new paper at @natcomms.nature.com challenges this view. With @rcarl.bsky.social sky.social, @hedykober.bsky.social y.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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My paper on concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology across 2 crises is now in press at the International Review of Social Psychology. After revisions it was 17500 words, so it is split in 2 parts: osf.io/dtvs7_v2 and osf.io/g6kja_v1

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
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Fifty years from now, there will be a moment of silence to remember some of this.

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform
USA: Hold my beer...

Enough internet. Time to cheer myself up by writing about how dark energy will eventually destroy the universe.

So good. 🤡

@brendanvduke.bsky.social

Several countries have recently managed to stop and even reverse the erosion of their democratic institutions.

In each case, people resisted growing authoritarianism.

This shows that when democracy deteriorates, its fate is not sealed, and democratic institutions can be reclaimed.