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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · 1d

We don’t need advanced features like AI or business intelligence—just a clean interface, solid randomization options, and the ability to connect with research companies. Usuall #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc staff. Do you have any recommendations?

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · 1d

I’m looking for an easy-to-use survey platform to replace Qualtrics. The prices have recently skyrocketed, and it seems we can no longer justify the cost.

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Sandra Geiger @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social · Sep 7

🌏 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

It’s not that people doubt biodiversity is declining—it’s that we underestimate how many others already share this concern.

In our new Perspective, we review work on pluralistic ignorance and set out a research agenda to:

Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda

Most people believe that biodiversity loss is human-caused, yet they may not realize how many others share this belief. Such collective misperceptions…

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our first preregistered report on climate communication has just been accepted. It will form the first‑author paper for my PhD student, Dominika Jurgiel. The process wasn’t easy, but it was worth it. #SocialPsyc

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Improving Communications about Climate Change: Consensus and Con...

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Sep 3

Let's see how many things may go unnoticed: it is possible to classify these actions using several criteria (Borges, 1942).

Borges, J. L. (1942). El idioma analítico de John Wilkins. Sur, 92, 103–109.

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Polish Social Psychology Society @pspspl.bsky.social · Jul 28

ThrowBack!
18 years ago in the very first issue of @socialpsychbull.bsky.social two Polish psychologists laid out their model of social perception called "the agent vs. recipient perspective in perceiving self and others"

🔗 doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.16537

in 🇵🇱 use AI
#psychology
#SocialPsyc

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Jul 27

#socpsych #socialpsychology #environmentalpsychology

Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Jul 27

OUP has announced the release of a volume on climate obstructionism. The publication is set for September31. The entire volume will be available as OA. Inside is a chapter on climate misinformation led by @stecula.bsky.social and John Cook, with my small contribution.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jul 24

'the average effectiveness of choice architecture ("nudge") interventions on behaviour is smaller than often reported and there is substantial heterogeneity in their effects.'

Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · Jul 23

New paper just dropped:

Szaszi, Barnabas, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dilip Soman, Susan Michie. (2025). Generalizability of Choice Architecture Interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology.

Thanks to @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social for doing the lion's share!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Generalizability of choice architecture interventions - Nature Reviews Psychology

Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this Review, Szaszi and colleagues show that the avera...

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Jul 19

Delayism links to lower climate anxiety and higher denial, posing a subtle but rising barrier as outright denial is low in both countries. Study conducted with Taciano Milfont and Michal Glowczewski. #socpsych #socialpsychology #environmentalpsychology

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Jul 19

🌳 Preprint Alert 🌳

You can find out here, if anyone is interested in how the British and Poles think about the need for immediate climate action. Our study reveals that "climate delayism"—beliefs justifying inaction despite accepting climate change—is prevalent in PL/UK.

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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Mar 24

Magic occurs whenever quantitative social sciences and ethnography/cultural anthropology intersect.

Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · Mar 24

I'm rereading the transcripts of our interviews with people talking about their life satisfaction.

I am again struck by how pathetic our little 0-10 scales are at capturing what they're saying.

Here's a retired lady telling my assistant what it's like having a son with paranoid schizophrenia.

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Jan 6

Our new preprint on measuring green workplace behaviors has just been published on SocArxiv! The paper is based on three solid studies and quite a painstaking analysis. I'm curious to hear your feedback, as the paper will soon be submitted to its target journal.

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Nov 12

Our latest work on justice in academia is now available in HEQ. It’s a solid piece of empirical research, and I’m glad to have contributed statistical expertise to the team. 🤓

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The Effect of Organisational Justice, Academic Identification and Legitimacy of Academic Authorities on Student Loyalty

Our work contributes to existing research on student loyalty by testing a model that includes organisational justice as a predictor. In Study 1 (n = 257, Polish sample), students' perceived organisat...

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Nov 12

Please do!

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Mar 21

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We lack knowledge of participants' reactions to our inquiries, and traditional practices like cognitive interviewing have largely been phased out. Consequently, the experience of studying human versus synthetic users yields similar phenomenological outcomes.

Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Mar 21

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Loose thought. The rapid acceptance of LLMs within the psychological community as substitutes for human participants can be attributed partly to the significant reliance on data from external research firms and web surveys.

LLMs and future Psychology

A thought experiment prepared for the Stanford psychology faculty salon on LLMs.

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Mar 21

How do I see the future of psychology? For example, this passage may be a standard one in a few years: We analyzed the synthetic users' data generated by three alternative AI algorithms to check for the robustness of the results.

Can we take the psyche out of psychology?

Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Mar 20

Loose thought. I wonder who is the equivalent of Feyerabend in statistics?

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Mar 20

2️⃣/2️⃣

Seriously though, this is a decent review. It was a pleasure to write it with the next generation of environmental psychologists from NCU, who took over at some point when I couldn't look at a screen anymore.

Link to the preprint below:

(PDF) ‘Disruption to end the destruction’: support for the circular economy within and against the economic system

PDF | On Mar 14, 2024, Adrian Dominik Wójcik and others published ‘Disruption to end the destruction’: support for the circular economy within and against the economic system | Find, read and cite all...

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Mar 20

🚨Article Alert 1️⃣/2️⃣🚨
Did you lose sleep over what factors influence support for individual and collective pro-environmental actions? Worry no more! This concise introduction will help you grasp the topic in half an hour!
#SocialPsyc #ClimateChange #EnvPsych #Envhun

www.elgaronline.com

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Mar 18

ICYMI: How the oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s

Research shows industry lobbying against support for solar panels and electric cars while enjoying subsidies itself

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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich @davdittrich.economicscience.net · Feb 27

via Mark Rubin:
Introduction to recent issues in the philosophy of statistics by Kao, Mayo, and Shech.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04128-z

#Stats

#Statistics

#PhilSci

via https://fediscience.org/@MarkRubin/110103603541297259

Statistics play an essential role in an extremely wide range of human reasoning. From theorizing in the physical and social sciences to determining evidential standards in legal contexts, statistical methods are ubiquitous, and thus various questions about their application inevitably arise. As tools for making inferences that go beyond a given set of data, they are inherently a means of reasoning ampliatively, and so it is unsurprising that philosophers interested in the notions of evidence and inductive inference have been concerned to utilize statistical frameworks to further our understanding of these topics. However, the field of statistics has long been the subject of heated philosophical controversy. Given that a central goal for philosophers of science is to help resolve problems about evidence and inference in scientific practice, it is important that they be involved in current debates in statistics and data science. The purpose of this topical collection is to promote such philosophical interaction. We present a cross-section of these subjects, written by scholars from a variety of f ields in order to explore issues in philosophy of statistics from different perspectives. The articles in this collection can be divided into roughly two categories. The f irst group contain articles by Mayo and Hand (2022), Radzvilas et al. (2021), Rubin (2021), and Spanos (2021), and are concerned mainly with foundational issues in philosophy of statistics.

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Adrian Wojcik @adwojcik.bsky.social · Feb 25

Specifically, we show a general negative relation between collective narcissism and the Environmental Performance Index.

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