Eric Hehman

@erichehman.bsky.social

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prejudice, person perception at McGill | https://prejudicemap.org

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 3d

New paper out led by my student Jeremy Rappel using a natural language processing approach to examine behavior in leaked far right Discord chatrooms.

We find that *estimated* basic psychological needs are related to posting behavior and use of hate speech.
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

approach used to estimate needs from Discord posts

Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty black box, so validated on a variety of posting behaviors, and hate speech. Those expressing more needs were more engaged in these hate group chats. The Relatedness need was also associated with more hate speech (though shakier).

Check it out if interested

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 3d

We estimated Discord user's needs using an approach which was new to me and kinda cool, you align their written posts with the semantic structure of established basic psychological needs self-report scales. To the extent they align more, you infer more needs. Pic shows this

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 3d

Psychological needs are more recently being used to understand extremist behavior. Theoretically you join to feel autonomy, competence, have friends. The dataset is quite large, 20,000,000 posts from 90,000 users in 233 rooms, many of these chats were various hate groups.

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 5d

Also agree, Biggest (new) issue is data collection. Local politics always been an issue (just particularly poignant now)

Reposted by Calvin K. Lai, Michael W. Kraus, Eric Hehman

Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · 7d

The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) is pleased to announce Dr. April Bailey as the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award! Dr. Bailey is a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD in 2019 from Yale University.

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Brendan Nyhan, David Rothschild , and 11 more Kim L. Scheppele, Brendan Nyhan, David Rothschild, Guy Grossman, Trevon D. Logan, Aaron Sojourner, James Goodwin, Eric Hehman, Tim Stephens, Karen O’Leary, Manisha Sinha, Charles T. Mathewes, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, David Darmofal

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Eric Hehman

Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 13d

💡New research suggests that suggest that basic psychological needs provide an important and largely untapped theoretical framework for understanding extremist participation and radicalization.

Read more in #SPPS: ow.ly/YW5b50Xrla5

Hands typing on a backlit laptop keyboard in a dimly lit environment, focusing on the user's fingers actively engaged in work.

Reposted by Olivier Corneille, Eric Hehman, Colin Tucker Smith

Mayan Navon-Shapira @mayanna.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social:

Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case?

👉 Read the full paper
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt, Eric Hehman , and 2 more Linda J. Skitka, Mark J. Brandt, Eric Hehman, Allison Eden, Jill A. Jacobson

Jess Salerno @jesssalerno.bsky.social · 15d

POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

Cornell University, Psychology

Job #AJO31185, WDR-00055818(EVG) Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology, Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Reposted by Eric Hehman

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 15d

When do interaction/moderation effects stabilize in linear regression?: https://osf.io/35t84

Reposted by Eric Hehman

Paul Stillman @stillman.bsky.social · 16d

How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 33 more Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ingmar Weber, Linda J. Skitka, Julie L. Lockwood, Joshua S. Weitz, John Horgan, Simon J. Greenhill, Cort W. Rudolph, American Library Association, Andrew Curry, Lesley A. Hall, Christian E. Weller, Juan Cole, Iikka Korhonen, Ian Hussey, Jonathan Hopkin, Peter Stewart, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Bessma Momani, James Goodwin, Eric Hehman, Dana R. Fisher, Fiona Moore, Matthew Lebo, Kate Starbird, Catherine J. Frieman, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Jill A. Jacobson, Georg Weizsäcker, Karen O’Leary, Farah Mendlesohn, Dunlap, Susanne Lachmuth

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17d

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Early Career Rescue Fellowship

www.uni-konstanz.de

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, David M. Amodio, Eric Hehman

Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 19d

there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 22d

There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance

Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way

But this is not the only one…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”

In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Eric Hehman

Emily Dore @emilydore.bsky.social · 21d

Our new study shows that living in states with higher levels of structural sexism was associated with worse cardiovascular disease outcomes for both men and women, especially for diabetes and stroke.

@pahoman.bsky.social @deborascience.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Image shows a screenshot of the first page of the article, State-Level Structural Sexism and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in the United States, published in Social Science & Medicine

Reposted by Will Jennings, Nazita Lajevardi, Eric Hehman , and 1 more Will Jennings, Nazita Lajevardi, Eric Hehman, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 21d

Immigration raids during Trump II have increased daily student absences by 22 percent in the California Central Valley, with largest increases among the youngest students.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Paolo Crosetto, Leo McCann , and 2 more Linda J. Skitka, Paolo Crosetto, Leo McCann, Eric Hehman, Brian Weatherson

Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 22d

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Alexander Wuttke, Melanie C. Green , and 5 more Cas Mudde, Alexander Wuttke, Melanie C. Green, Markus Wagner, Eric Hehman, Marcus Credé, Juan Ramón, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 22d

Ouch

Reposted by Eric Hehman

Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 28d

My colleague Falk Lieder and I are hiring a new post-doc at UCLA to join the #WiseJudgementConsortium. The ad is here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10650

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Eric Hehman

Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 28d

Appreciated the chance to share @arajo-eunkyung.bsky.social and I's work on Streetview Sampling on 🎃! The 📸🚘 costume is only for today, but the methods paper and tools are open access: guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Reposted by Brady T. West, Alexander Wuttke, Magnus Johansson , and 2 more Brady T. West, Alexander Wuttke, Magnus Johansson, Eric Hehman, Elina Takola

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · Oct 28

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)

Screenshot of https://powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com/

Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · Oct 22

This is an impressively bad photo haha, but the work seems really interesting! Any chance of getting access to the poster somehow?

Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · Oct 22

Deadline approaching! (Nov 1) Please consider submitting your fave 2024 paper for the ISCON best paper award

ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · Sep 26

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2024 Best Social Cognition Paper Award!

This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2024.

More info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...

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