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Chris Crandall

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Social psychologist. Boatbuilder and user.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The contest brought students ages 14 to 17 together from across America to answer the question: What if your high-school gym teacher walked headfirst into a pole and was then asked to throw an Olympics with a budget of exactly $6 and three weeks’ notice?
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Are the Patriot Games Great? No. Are They Fun to Watch?
Also no.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Student evaluations.
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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
As real estate tycoon Trump favored competitive bidding. As president, not so much. The results are predictably shoddy. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/2132...
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Donald Trump, the No-Bid President
The trouble with competitive bidding is that it gets in the way of corruption. Our president knows how to solve that.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Solid account of how media create conflict to make their stories “interesting” in a way that misrepresents its subject. Surprise over Algeria’s World Cup welcome shows how media misunderstand Kansas and Lawrence kansasreflector.com/2026/07/24/s...
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Surprise over Algeria's World Cup welcome shows how media misunderstand Kansas and Lawrence • Kansas Reflector
Some media types frequently saw — if not manufactured — something curious as Lawrence happily hosted Algeria for the World Cup
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If would be best if hostile comments about terror management theory (e.g., the reply-disallowed post by Maddie Ouranía @maddiequestions.bsky.social) were based not on a blog describing a paper, but on the paper itself. Findings were heterogeneous. Effects modest. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is a worthwhile read. Will the lessons have staying power this time?
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Melvin Manis, professor of psychology at the Univ. of Michigan, died yesterday in Chicago after 3 hours in hospice. Mel was known as scholar social judgment and was the first editor of the Attitudes and Social Cognition Section of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (starting in 1979).
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Nine years ago at the Dick Nisbett festschrift. I can hardly express what an honor it was (and is) to be part of the Nisbett legacy. To those who say social psychology has no legacy before 2017, I say “Feh, you cannot know what you’re talking about. This group is loaded with counter-evidence.”
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The extraordinary scientist “will often seem a man [sic] searching at random, trying experiments just to see what will happen, looking for an effect whose nature he cannot quite guess (p. 87).” Kuhn, T. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions, 2nd Ed. #Metascience #Openscience
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics! Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper. More soon!
Title page of our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception,” with Lauren Davenport (Stanford) and Hunter Rendleman (UC Berkeley), dated April 14, 2026.

Abstract: What makes someone Black in American society today? From Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity to Joe Biden’s claim that hesitant Black voters “ain’t Black,” American politics frequently brings questions of racial authenticity and belonging to the surface. Yet political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life. Using a conjoint experiment with a racially diverse sample that includes Black, white, and mixed race Black-white respondents, we evaluate how ascribed and acquired traits influence perceptions of blackness. The results show that inherited characteristics—particularly parentage and skin tone, which are the strongest determinants of racial classification—play a central role, while sociopolitical cues such as partisanship, neighborhood context, and spousal race also influence racial classification. Using a continuous measure, we also show that respondents make graded assessments of blackness rather than purely binary classifications, with some individuals perceived as more Black than others. Black respondents are more likely than white respondents to classify a broader set of profiles as Black, consistent with a more inclusive understanding of racial membership, yet they also place greater emphasis on shared political identity. These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New work and events... 🔸 Workshop on the politics and finances of open science reform 🔸 Symposium: “Who critiques the critique? Toward a reflexive metascience” 🔸 Preprint encourages establishing phenomena before testing theories 🔸 Systematic review of questionable research practices
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Critical Metascience Roundup
Update #3
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
📣SPSP Members📣 Check out the Action Alert from @cossa.bsky.social below to learn how you can advocate for protecting the SBE Directorate at NSF. (More action items to come from SPSP and our partner organizations soon!) #WhySocialScience #SaveSBE
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This post is part of a longer thread and we really wanted to make sure it got attention from our community. Many thank you's to Paige Amormino (@amormino.bsky.social) for putting together this action guide to help scholars advocate for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences!
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Shauna Bowes-Flores @shaunambowes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thrilled to serve as a Guest Editor for the Political Ideology and Religion collection for Scientific Reports! This Collection welcomes research examining the psychological determinants of political ideology and religion. Please submit by 12/17/26 and reshare! www.nature.com/collections/...
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Political ideology and religion
This Collection welcomes original research articles examining the psychological determinants of political ideology and religion.
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It feels a little weird to share a collection of social media posts as a post on a social media platform, but we had a ton of fun making this recap with some of our favorite #SPSP2026 posts! Check it out below and thank you again for sharing your experience with us! wakelet.com/wake/xIGZ7RG...
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Psychology at the Australian National University jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level A Salary package: $89,313 - $112,103 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Fixed term (up to 24 months)  The Position The Postdoctoral Fellow will work with ...
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
That’s all, folks! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the SPSP 2026 Annual Convention. You made #SPSP2026 unforgettable. Safe travels home!
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The 2026 Presidential Symposium at #SPSP2026 will feature Eran Halperin on doing research amid atrocity and Rebecca Covarrubias witness and resistance in higher education. 🧪
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It's happening! #SPSP2026 virtual preconferences kick off today, covering topics from misinformation science to existential psychology to open science reform. Check out the agenda here: ow.ly/ry8A50YkpUy Are you joining us? Share what you're attending! 👇
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Here's a 🧵 connecting a number of Mark Rubin's contributions on p-hacking and statistical inference as connected to one's philosophy of science. Under differing regimes, p-hacking and preregistration can have large or small or no consequence for scientific inferences.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
GASP, the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology is sponsoring a mentoring lunch with a TERRIFIC group of mentors at the SPSP Meeting on Friday, Feb 27. Take a look here: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB...
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GASP Mentorship Event at SPSP 2026 Annual Convention
GASP Mentorship Event at SPSP 2026 Annual Convention Founded in 2001, GASP is the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology, an affinity group and affiliate of SPSP.  GASP events and member...
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Progress Bar reviews"Why Federal Funding of Science" and begins a look at the question of how to improve decisions on how to distribute it. Watch this space! open.substack.com/pub/kristine... #metascience
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Doing experiments
evolving decision-making in an era of uncertainty
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 10/01/2026
I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”
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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Working on a principled way to describe the sample size, N, in #science papers. Will be attempting to prove Holmes' theorem over the next few years. Feedback welcome 🙏 #stats
Holmes’ theorem:

N is not "large" if

1. p>.05

2. p<.05 and the Result is Displeasing
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
'Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage' Now 'In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by @altmetric.com' bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Across a range of recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, the question of how crowds behave in confined public space is an important concern. Classical theoretical assumptions are that human ...
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The full #SPSP2026 schedule is live! Explore research presentations, networking events for all career stages, and professional development sessions. Start planning your Chicago experience today: ow.ly/IBJI50XT9zS
Attendees engaging and networking at the SPSP 2026 Annual Convention in Chicago, February 26-28.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The 2026 Presidential Symposium at #SPSP2026 will feature Eran Halperin on doing research amid atrocity and Rebecca Covarrubias witness and resistance in higher education. 🧪
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Come #SPSP2026 in Chicago! Over 2,275 have registered for the main meeting (a bit up from the previous year); more than 2,000 for preconferences. It's the largest convention of social and personality psychologists in the world, teeming with new research & ideas. spsp.org/events/annua...
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Annual Convention | SPSP
Attended by researchers, educators, and students from around the world, this event is a highlight in the scientific field of personality and social psychology.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
A worthwhile review of a less-than-credible statistic to “detect” biased reporting of results. There’s no shortcuts for these difficult analyses.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
MAGA discovers the effects of cuts on science. 🧪
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Simone Schnall, Ph.D. @simoneschnall.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVfO...
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Why people form parasocial relationships – Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2025
YouTube video by Cambridge Dictionary
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
It’s not a panacea. It’s not even an improvement. en.ara.cat/science-tech... #metascience
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Please consider participating in or sharing the recruitment advertisement for our new study, which is focused on understanding body image in bisexual women. The link is in the alt text.
This is a recruitment advertisement for a focus group-based study on bisexual women’s body image. You must be 18 years old or older to take part, and you must identify as a bisexual woman. The qualtrics link to participate is: https://qualtricsxmxld4bc9v2.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1BafhqW6GMhsUVE
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Wow!
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Big Book of R @bigbookofr.com · 16/10/2025
An Introduction To Forensic Metascience by James Heathers #RStats bigbookofr.com/chapters/field%20spe…
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
More Feyerabend, being sensibly anarchic about the unproven “rules of good science” being forced upon us.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I’ve been reading Jeremy Bentham on the Panopticon—the circular prison where authorities can see what all the prisoners are doing (the prisoners cannot tell when they’re being monitored). The point of openness is —> surveillance, a hallmark of distrust. It is **designed** to be demotivating.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Paul Feyerabend, Against Method. Prescriptions about how science MUST be done? Simply a bad, authoritarian idea. And based on the history of science, not good for scientific progress. #metasci
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I know that #JamesDobson has died, and people have feelings, including ill will. But I want to point you toward Sojourners magazine, which is an excellent antidote to the authoritarian approach to narrow, disapproving Christianity. sojo.net/articles/sor...
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Sorry, James Dobson. We Can't Spank Our Kids to Heaven
We have never been able to punish people into abiding by the law.
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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I have some good news, and some bad news.
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Shai Davidai has pissed a lot of people off, but he’s also been a very productive and interesting social psychologist. It really does seem he’s been pushed out of Columbia for showing up and speaking, which is a reasonable expectation for a professor. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...
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Why I’m Leaving Columbia
When antisemitism became institutional, radical professors fanned the flames and colleagues stayed silent, I had no choice but to walk away. But I won’t stop fighting.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I know Chicago winter is a huge departure from our usual SPSP locations, but Chicago is worth it!!! There’s so much good food here! Come hang out!
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 19/06/2025
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
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The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Reporting critical-effect-size values can. . . underscore how the distinction between a significant & nonsignificant result is not determined solely by the presence/absence of a true effect but also by sample size and complexity of the analysis." #metascience journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The Benefits of Reporting Critical-Effect-Size Values - Ambra Perugini, Filippo Gambarota, Enrico Toffalini, Daniël Lakens, Massimiliano Pastore, Livio Finos, , Core Team Psicostat, Core Team Psicosta...
Critical-effect-size values represent the smallest detectable effect that can reach statistical significance given a specific sample size, alpha level, and test...
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Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Perspectives on Psych Science Editor has published a provocative editorial. The journal \site has erased the previous editor from history, jumping the editor prior to him. I realize his departure was controversial, but the erasure isn't very transparent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science - Arturo E. Hernandez, 2025
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