When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms:
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Hi everyone! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026.
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Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5
PhD Position on Factual Belief Polarisation at Rahoud University, The Netherlands with @roderikrekker.bsky.social, @hakancakmak.bsky.social, @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social, and Carolien van Ham.
#PhDSky #PsychJobs #SocialPsyc polipsy
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations
We have to file and/or pay taxes every year regardless of where we live in the world to be treated like this
Maybe more of a Mars Volta tune
A screenshot with the gmail address editor.In.chief011@gmail.com that is impersonating Mark Brandt. The email reads, "Dear XXX, I'm sending you and your family my best wishes. I've encountered a small issue that I'd love to discuss with you - would you be open to a conversation about it? The board would appreciate your assistance."
I'm flattered to report that someone thinks I'm important enough to impersonate.
If you get an email that looks like this, it's not from me.
I will never send you best wishes.
🚨 #Jobalert
Are you interested in researching the interplay between AI and politics and its societal consequences? Would you like to join a new Research Priority Area and work in an interdisciplinary team?
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Just opened: 2 calls for positions in political theory in the "Moralizing Politics" project led by C. Rostbøll @ucph.bsky.social
1️⃣PhD Scholarship, "The Dignity of Work": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
2️⃣PhD Scholarship, "Cancel Culture": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
⏰ April 13
🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇
Our institute is hiring
1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology)
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2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology
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Come join me today, as I present our exciting new work on 4- to 12-year-old children's application of religious norms across 14 countries and 32 cultural/religious groups!
This article by Joep van Lit and Carolien van Ham is very useful for those interested in empirically studying democratic erosion in all its complexities.
not really sure that is a premise uniquely help by experimental *social* psych.
🎤 Delighted to give the keynote today at the 6th Annual Conference of the Political Psychology Network!
🏛️ I present my current book project on how democratic resilience can be strengthened — and which evidence-based interventions actually work.
Looking forward to the exchange!
Per protocol analysis strikes again!
Folks, if you randomize but then don‘t analyze some of the people who got randomized (maybe because they didn’t adhere to instructions, maybe because they dropped out), randomization will no longer do all the heavy causal inference lifting.
Lol, there's a WWE pay per view event in Chicago while I'm at a conference. Come to my session on relationships on Friday at 8am. I'll let you hit me with a folding chair
I can’t be at @spspnews.bsky.social this year, but folks from the lab are still presenting cool stuff!
Go check it out!👇
Excited to share that I’ll also be presenting a working paper with @mjbsp.bsky.social and @shreevallabha.bsky.social on political attitude centrality and stability as a featured data blitz at the #SPSP2026 computational psychology preconference.
Come check it out! ☺️
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Glad the all clear is through
I lived through one at my uni. Don’t wish on anyone, their kids, or even their enemies. No way to live.
I can’t attend the zoom, but would read the paper! Looks important!
What effect does politician corruption have on the publics they serve? Ramos et al. explore in their paper from this month's issue. Read the full piece for their findings on corruption's toll on perceived morality & justice of society & what it means for people's well-being. doi.org/10.1111/pops...
New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...
In #polarized times, #morality fuels not just strong attitudes, but deep social divides.
At #SPSP2026, our symposium “Moral Minds in Polarized Times” explores how moralized political thinking emerges, how it polarizes, and how it can be reduced. Join us Sat. 2/28 at 3:30pm. 🧵
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, @joshmccrain.bsky.social, and I are putting together a panel at PolMeth in July on using CongressData, CSPP, and SenateData. We are aiming to have up to 5 people (preference to junior faculty using the data or interested in doing so). Please reach out to me if interested!
What Americans Think of Words like “Democracy” and “Authoritarianism” In These Times.
We recently tested how civic terms landed in today's political climate with a large sample (N=5,393) of Americans. Read more at open.substack.com/pub/moreinco...
