Reposted by Eric HehmanAndreas Bjerre-Nielsen @andbjn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Our large-scale study of phone bans just came out in Science. We randomized phone-free classrooms for 16,000+ students across 10 institutions in Odisha, India. Students deposited phones in a box at the start of each class, for a full semester. 35935 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanKatie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas... 592154710 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanJuliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We have some exciting news for the European social cognition community: We're planning to bring ESCON back in 2027! Please pencil in August 16–18, 2027, in Hamburg, Germany! (1/3) 1144 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanRoland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🚨 New #openaccess Paper 🚨 Imhoff, R., & Heidrich, V. (2027). Reevaluating the empirical support for a lens-based account: dissecting comparative fit and reconstructive category guessing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 128, 105021. doi.org/10.1016/j.je... @jexpsocpsych.bsky.socialdoi.orgRedirecting 143 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanChris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Optimism isn't just for humans: Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter #socsciresearch #socialpsych New work by Erica Cartmill and colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 073 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanDr. Adam Stein @astein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A recent series of papers suggested that nuclear power plants are responsible for more than 100 thousand cancers. Using their method, every landmark we tested causes cancer 2131 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanErin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... 9491305 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanRuth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Religious celibacy driven by marriage and wealth inheritance across cultures. brideprice=monks, dowry=nuns. New paper by Gabriel Saffa, Sara Serbaji and yours truly www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comReligious celibacy is linked to marriage and wealth transmission practices across different world religions - Nature CommunicationsLifelong religious celibacy has been linked to sibling competition over parental wealth. Here, the authors show that celibacy is linked to marriage patterns, and its prevalence among men and women is ... 1189 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵 19260 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanRoope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 27/09/2026Did you know humans around the world have made string figures (cat's cradles)? And even stranger, the exact same figures to surprising degrees of complexity. In the thread below, we try to unravel this mystery: 0267 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanKyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The classic Racial Dot Map inspired me and a whole generation of mapmakers. Today, I'm publishing a modern take on this map, built with the geospatial tools I've been developing over the past decade. Interact with the map here: walker-data.com/maps/census-... 1186 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanAmanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Since our paper on the Changing How I Live Life (CHILL) Study is now out in Psychological Science (doi.org/10.1177/0956...), here's a LONG overdue post on the intervention work we've been doing the past few years! Have you ever wanted to change one of your personality traits? 25322 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanBenedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026📊 New resource: ISAAC, an open corpus for studying social group attitudes 💬 527M+ Reddit posts (2007–2023) 🧠 Covers race, sexuality, age, ability, and skin tone 🗺️ Validated against Gallup and Google Trends 🔍 No-code or Python/SQL: isaac.psychology.illinois.edu 📖 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2609.27059 42011 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanHans Alves @hansalves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Nominations are open for the 2026 ISCON Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Study of Social Cognition! The award recognizes outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions by an early-career scientist. Deadline: November 1, 2026 www.socialcognition.net/early-career...socialcognition.netEarly Career Award | HomeHome 002 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanISCON @iscon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2025 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 2025. Deadline Nov 1. Full info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...socialcognition.netBest Paper Award | Home 022 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!> 512335 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanBenedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🚀 Project Implicit’s critical work continues! Our website remains fully operational 24/7, collecting data and launching new studies. We are finalizing a new organizational structure to carry our research and educational mission forward. Thank you to our global community. ➡️ implicit.harvard.edu 02215 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread. 55526 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Extremely impressive field experiment by @nmalhotra.bsky.social et al. had few effects on election attitudes among conservatives in TX despite being "exposed to an average of 20 online videos, 18.5 cable TV videos, 23.9 display ads, 3 text messages, and 3 postcards" www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 010733 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanMichael Slepian @slepian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Dear social psychologists, I am writing to YOU because I know the B-school community is already aware of this job. The Management Division of Columbia Business School is hiring! This is an open area search (open to all fields) Due Oct 1 apply.interfolio.com/189697 Not sure? See the screenshot! 053 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanVincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin... 1642199 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanMichel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.com 614168 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139 816957 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026some remnant of your spit will be preserved forever! 110 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Paper found capuchins poke their fingers into each others' eye sockets, a knuckle deep, and sit there for minutes pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 000 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 31/08/2026An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138datacolada.org[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About ProcrastinationA new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr… 723999 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanDanica Dillion @danicajdillion.bsky.social · 21/08/2026When did a work of art last move you? Across 6 studies, we find we’re drawn to art that reveals the artist’s mind—their intentions, emotions, experience, and agency. This desire for "revealed mind" helps explain aversion to AI art and cultural appropriation. New paper! 🧵 177 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026One more week for this position at McGill, due Sept 5 020 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanAnna Weinberg @annaweinberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026📣 *Two* tenure-track Assistant Prof jobs in @mcgillpsych.bsky.social! 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🧩 Child Clinical Psychology Great colleagues/department, strong interdisciplinary ties (MUHC, The Neuro), in a city worth moving for. Apply within 40 days—please spread the word! Links in thread: 12120 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.thelancet.comEvaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysisUSAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a... 5435181808 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Can either make links blinded for peer review? Did look but couldn't figure that out easily 150 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Maybe interesting to folks who want to learn what actual experiences of discrimination are like Details: from daily diaries, more eventually. Lightly edited for readability, a small geo jitter added so it isn't revealing Please let me know if anything broken! (i did break it a little) 010 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I have a website for general interest I guess: prejudicemap.org It shows avgs of different types of prejudice in different places Ive added a new feature toggling people's reports of discrimination, and where, and a button letting people report their own mcgillpsy.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...prejudicemap.orgPrejudice Map 1125 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026question for this group of lca/lpa skeptics, is there a published critique of this approach? Or like good uses/bad uses? I understand the gist, but getting papers to review that have a lot of this and something to cite would be useful, but haven't found anything 340 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci > 1028197 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action Our new paper (N=6,132, across 63 countries) suggests that focusing on subtle terminology in climate messaging is not an effective use of resources. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @kimdoell.bsky.social 511040 0
Reposted by Eric Hehmanjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126187997 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... 05347 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanBenedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Are the mental contents underlying implicit evaluations accessible to conscious introspection? Prior studies show high predictive accuracy, leading to a growing consensus that people can introspectively access their implicit biases. New paper out in JPSP! 🧵🧵🧵 13210 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanTed Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026New meta by @peterhaehner.bsky.social et al (I'm a little middle author) on individual differences in personality change across the lifespan (229 studies, N = 230k) 10.1037/bul0000525 Cool finding (imo): For all Big Five, variance in change is greatest in youth, declining through young adulthood! 35625 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanSuraiya Allidina @suraiyaallidina.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Excited to share that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Psychology department at the University of Winnipeg on July 1! Thrilled to be starting my lab among such a welcoming group of colleagues 4221 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanKatya Kredl @katyakredl.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Bill 96 is a language law that passed in 2022, enforcing French as the official language of Québec. In my latest article, I explore the implications of this law and argue that it threatens the survival of Indigenous languages, culture and political structures in Québec. doi.org/10.24908/jcr...doi.org Québec’s Bill 96: A Case Study of Indigenous Cultural and Political Dispossession | Journal of Critical Race Inquiry 042 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026this is a picture of swedish fish gummies i found in the US with "edible confetti that glow under a blacklight" 110 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanKristof Dhont @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Our review on #speciesism is now out in Nature Reviews Psychology. rdcu.be/foTDx We synthesise research on how people think about animals, morally rank species, and justify animal exploitation and consumption. A pleasure to work on this with @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social @springernature.com 13917 0
Reposted by Eric HehmanLora Park @lorapark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The International Society for Self & Identity seeks nominations for its 2026 Outstanding Early Career Award due 6/30/26. Committee members (Erin Cooley, Chair; Sarah Gaither, Lora Park) will review applicants, winner will be announced mid-late July 2026. More details: www.issiweb.org/announcements/ 121 0
Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Jon haidt, steven pinker, and cialdini are three psych folks who appear to be attending peter thiels secret meeting 062 0
