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Social Cognition @socog-guilford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Prior research has cast doubt on the validity of implicit measures, finding small correlations amongst indirect measures of racial bias. However, these measures vary systematically on key procedural aspects. 🧵👇 Open thread below:

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Social Cognition @socog-guilford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Welcome Eva A. García Ferrés (@egarciaferres.bsky.social) as the inaugural Social Media Coordinator for Social Cognition (@socog-guilford.bsky.social)! Eva, a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, will share and highlight the innovative scholarship of our authors! Follow us for more!

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Abhay Alaukik @aalaukik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Late announcement (busy summer...) but I'm delighted to share that I've joined Dr. Nicholas Coles (@nicholascoles.bsky.social) as a postdoc at UF🎉 Looking forward to spending this year modeling and answering pressing questions in big-team science, politics, and collective intelligences!

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Abhay Alaukik @aalaukik.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🚨New preprint🚨: Attitude measures like the IAT reveal biased behavior — but the levels across which bias operates are varied. Our new preprint borrows formal modeling approaches from perceptual science to find out where age-valence interactions happen in perceptual processing🧵

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Abhay Alaukik @aalaukik.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Shoutout to my bud Saurabh for this work! Really cool stuff if you're interested in how LLMs monitor reality

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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I recommend checking out Abhay's (@aalaukik.bsky.social) poster at Computational Psych today (2:45) or Saturday morning (8-9). He's making great progress connecting different measures (e.g., implicit, explicit, behavioroid) with their theorized generative processes. #SPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social

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Abhay Alaukik @aalaukik.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

(Mic check 1-2-3) I'm on the job market🚨 I’m a social psychologist building computational models to study social cognition, attitudes, polarization, and how people update beliefs. Evidence accumulation models, Hierarchical Bayes, Agent-based models, NLP, etc. Interested in formal theorizing!

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Abhay Alaukik @aalaukik.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Out now in Social Cognition! We present the "Tug-of-War" (computational) model of attitude associations. It posits a specific mechanism behind behavior on implicit cognition tasks (IAT here; working to implement it to other tasks). We believe it enhances theory and psychometrics🙌

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Abhay Alaukik @aalaukik.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📢Check out our project on some structural reasons why widespread economic issues don't result in coherent and effective collective action to address these issues. Amazing work led by @egarciaferres.bsky.social !

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Eva A. García Ferrés @egarciaferres.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

🚨 New pub alert 🚨 Just out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social 's Political Psychology, with @jorislammers.bsky.social, Laura Van Berkel & Matt Baldwin. We look at how the typical association between conservatism and system justification changes as the result of temporal comparisons. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

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Eva A. García Ferrés @egarciaferres.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Today in the social area brownbag we heard from @aalaukik.bsky.social on his work on the tug-of-war model of attitude associations and its application to the IAT. Super cool work on how we can apply mathematical modeling to study social psychological processes! Check out pre-print link below 👇

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Abhay Alaukik @aalaukik.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

First first-author paper submitted; preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We (@colinsmithpsych.bsky.social and @peterkvam.bsky.social ) give a tutorial on a mathematical model of attitudes associations, the Tug-of-war model (TOW), as applied to IAT data (N > 10,000). TOW quantifies associations as (1/13)

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