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Eric Hehman

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Context Matters, Doesn't It? The Role of Context in Everyday Emotion Regulation Strategy Use: https://osf.io/axzk6

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There is a robust link between intergroup contact & reduced prejudice, but does contact actually cause a reduction in prejudice?

Across multiple longitudinal data sets (N > 20,000), very few people reported increased contact AND reduced prejudice.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

by Eric HehmanReposted by Mark J. Brandt

McGill psych is hosting a panel for under rep minority folks possibly interested in attending grad school on Oct 20.

Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/246051...
cool paper extracting spatial distance from Turkish youtube videos, concludes people walk closer to their ingroup (on sidewalks etc), non religious men avoid religious women

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2025 Early Career Award! Recognizing a junior scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of social cognition.

Nominees must have received their PhDs no earlier than 2019.

More info here: www.socialcognition.net/early-career...
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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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Hostile and benevolent sexism are both on the decline in 1,097 studies, N = 339,740 since 1996.

Note that "3" on these scales is already a neutral response. Even bigger progress in countries with more hostile sexism.

From Matthew D. Hammond

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#phdsky #psych

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New paper out in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! 🎉

How do we figure out who will accept or reject us in a new group?

We show that people generalize relational value across friendship ties—forming a network gradient of approach & avoidance.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lq3x51f8w...
This was one of those 2010 papers where some results are entirely unbelievable. Read a paragraph, cohen's d =3.69 on some outcome. My class teams failed to replicate about 10 times alone. 2/3

by Eric HehmanReposted by Mark J. Brandt

Part of a new CREP paper out (failing to) replicating Griskevicius et al 2010 in JPSP
Using this to plug how I think CREP is a great framework if you teach a Research Methods class, a number of my students ended up as authors, which they found pretty cool 1/3
New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7)
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Traffic stops are common and consequential for citizens’ legal socialization and for racial gaps in police-community trust. Efforts to change the tenor of police interactions, however, may discount t...
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We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.
Loosely id throw out... anywhere the theoretical construct space is pretty saturated?

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"63% rate of likely AI-generated responses" on mTurk

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below
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The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).
The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).
Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics?

Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study!

Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!

We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.

Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
Postdoctoral Associate
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🐶 Now out in JPSP! 🐶
with @boegershausen.bsky.social & @gpaolacci.bsky.social

We find that people spontaneously pay attention to some types of biases but not others when evaluating the fairness of decision outcomes

doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
In a study of naturally occurring ostracism experiences: After experiencing ostracism, people initially prioritize withdrawal and prosocial coping responses. Prosocial responses increase overtime. Anti-social responses were relatively rare

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I unfortunately think demand characteristics are an underappreciated cause of a lot of effects in the lit
New 📰

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...
A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics
Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in experimental psychology. Yet, little is known about the direction, magnitude, and consistency of their effects. We conducted a three-...
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