Kai Sassenberg
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Kai Sassenberg
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Leibniz Institute for Psychology @zipd.bsky.social & Uni Trier (Germany)- Open Science & social influence (conspiracy beliefs, power, social norms, competition) - views are my own
Inducing flexibllity mindsets are among the few treatments that influence, in particular, those with pronounced attitudes (not just the undecided fence sitters).
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August 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Flexibility mindsets had similar effects on environmental intentions when induced within or outside the environmental domain. These results add to a line of research @kwinter.bsky.social and I and a number of other colleagues have conducted over the last > 10 years.
doi.org/10.1080/1046...
Flexibility mindsets: Reducing biases that result from spontaneous processing
Spontaneous (i.e., heuristic, fast, effortless, and associative) processing has clear advantages for human cognition, but it can also elicit undesirable outcomes such as stereotyping and other bias...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We explicitly focused on confirmatory research (sorry, I should have indicated that). And yes: at least one hypothesized pattern per prediction. If you a preregistration contains two hypotheses specifying two predicted patterns - even better. I guess we agree, but my post was not perfectly worded.
August 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
June 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM