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Daqing Liu

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Lecturer in social psychology @YorkStJohn, researching moral emotions and moral character

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Deliberating before taking a stance on a political issue can improve how others view your character, but only if they disagree with you When people share the same views, deliberation tends to have little effect on how their character is judged by their allies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm thrilled that our long-term, multi-disciplinary, multi-lab collaboration on empathy has finally come to fruition. A big kudos to team leaders Mark Davis and Sara Konrath for shepherding this project along as we try to chart a course for empathy research moving forward.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Empathy: Toward a Common Lexicon of Empathy-Related Constructs - Mark H. Davis, Sara Konrath, Fritz Breithaupt, C. Daryl Cameron, Jean Decety, Frans B. M. de Waal, Nancy Eisenberg, Judith A. Hall, Sara D. Hodges, Suzanne Keen, Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Heidi L. Maibom, Stephanie D. Preston, Jacquie D. Vorauer, Jamil Zaki, 2026
Almost since the term “empathy” was coined, there has been scholarly disagreement about its meaning. Today it can best be viewed as an umbrella term encompassin...
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Oded Ritov @oded-ritov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Do chimpanzees value their friendships enough to pass on juicy pineapple? In our new paper, out now at Evolution and Human Behavior, we find that they do! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshot of the paper header on ScienceDirect. Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 47, Issue 6, November 2026, article 106948. Title: "Chimpanzees steal less from their friends and expect them to do the same." Authors: Oded Ritov, Christoph J. Völter, Liran Samuni, Avi Benozio, Dacher Keltner, Jan M. Engelmann, Laura S. Lewis, Esther Herrmann.
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...
the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please share! We're looking for a social psychologist who is interested in applying the approach to the mathematical modelling of epidemic spread.
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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The paper is open access at Nature Human Behaviour. It's time to retire the old surveys! 📣 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Our first speaker this week is Kasper Otten (WODC/Erasmus University Rotterdam): The ​co-occurrence of ingroup and outgroup prosociality across 121 societies Friday, September 18 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am NYT / 21 Beijing Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
Abstract: ​In an increasingly interconnected world, prosociality across group boundaries becomes ever more important. Yet, a common premise in the behavioral and social sciences is that people are prosocial mainly toward their ingroup and not outgroups. So far, evidence for this premise comes mostly from studies in which people must choose between ingroup and outgroup prosociality, thereby precluding positive associations between the two types of prosociality. We study situations in which people make separate decisions regarding the ingroup and outgroup, allowing us to examine how ingroup and outgroup prosociality are related. Across six large-scale and cross-societal datasets spanning 743,402 individuals in 121 societies, we find a robust positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality. This relationship holds across societies, different group categorizations, and a diverse range of prosociality measures, including prisoner’s dilemmas, public good dilemmas, dictator games, and survey items on trust and tolerance. Although people are somewhat more prosocial toward their ingroup than the outgroup, those who are prosocial toward the ingroup also tend to be prosocial toward the outgroup. The results offer an optimistic message for prosociality across group boundaries. When people are not made to choose between the ingroup and outgroup, they are generally prosocial toward both.
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now out at EJSP: We explored cultural & individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern across student samples from 41 cultural groups (n >6500). doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
More folks should read this post from @dingdingpeng.the100.ci which shows how easily we can find related but distinct "positive" and "negative" valences of the same construct due to systematic measurement errors or confounding constructs. www.the100.ci/2023/06/13/d...
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Disentangling the Dark and Bright Side of Constructs with a Bright and Dark Side
This blog post resulted from a draft that was supposed to become a proper article at some point. Michael Dufner and Tailcalled both worked on the draft and contributed important ideas. But, as so ofte...
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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026
Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2
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Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New paper with Yanna Krupnikov out in Political Communication! 🎉 We know moral-emotional content ("moral outrage") spreads fast on social media. But does that mean people actually want to see it? We tested whether people select this content when given the choice - turns out, not really.
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Rethinking Assumptions About Moral Content Selection: Moral-Emotional Content May Be Less Appealing Than Assumed
Recent work has shown that moral-emotional content spreads rapidly on social media platforms such as X (Twitter). These patterns have led to concerns that social media facilitates the spread of mor...
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How can AI & LLMs improve how science works? FORRT is delighted to host the AI in Metascience online conference. Please join us! 🗓️ 28–30 Sep 2026 · online · free Talks, workshops & hackathons — all career stages welcome. 👉 Submit by 31 Jul: forrt.org/ai-metascience #Metascience #OpenScience
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FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference | FORRT - Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training
Call for submissions — FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, 28–30 September 2026, online. Deadline 31 July 2026.
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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
PATHOGENS vs PREDATORS: How do these major evolutionary pressures shape the way a non-human great ape think? Get some cues 👉 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... New research paper (!!!) from my time at Kyoto U w/ I Adachi, AJJ MacIntosh, N Kawai & @fieryangelsfell.bsky.social
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Dissecting disgust and fear in chimpanzees: From facilitation to disruption of cognitive processes
Natural sciences; Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology
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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We find that a key to seeing someone as reasonable is to believe an issue is harder. When issues are harder, there are more ways that a good-faith, competent person can disagree. Seeing someone as reasonable predicts sociability over hostility.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/05/2026
New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...
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Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions
Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What determines the morality of harming another creature—eg a farm animal, or a foetus? In the West, this judgment relies more on sentience than on agency, and research by @bxjaeger.bsky.social& Bosten finds it generalizes across six cultures: buff.ly/4intBok HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social
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Nicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Can gratitude interventions make the world happier? We tested 6 gratitude practices across 34 countries with 10,696 participants to find out — and the answer is more interesting than a simple yes 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A multinational megastudy of the effects of gratitude practices on subjective well-being | PNAS
Scholars have observed people from a variety of cultures using a variety of gratitude-related practices to change their emotions, outlooks, and soc...
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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
1/ We've been measuring intellectual humility wrong. Most scales ask "are you intellectually humble?" but the people least humble are the most miscalibrated about it. They overclaim. The #humilityparadox. Out today in Behavior Research Methods. Here's what we did instead. 🧵
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New Open Access book edited by Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social and Wolfgang Wagner on identity and culture. Many great chapter by great folks. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Culture, Identity, and Essentialism
This open access book approaches topics of culture, identity, and essentialism through an anthropological and psychological lens.
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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨 ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts. internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/
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Become a Member – International Society for Moral Psychology
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Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Applications are now open for a PhD on collaborative problem-solving with @nicolacutting.bsky.social and myself. The deadline is soon (31st March) so get in touch with questions. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at York St John University: Academic Associate in Psychology
Part time fixed term Location: YorkSalary: £34,610 to £39,906 per annum (£17,305 to £19,953 pro rata)Introduction to YSJ universityYork St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there...
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026
Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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Daqing Liu @liudaqing.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Social psychology folk: if you teach undergraduates emotion in a social psychology module, what do you include in your key reading? I think the emotion chapter in the 6th Handbook of Social Psychology has good coverage but would like more recommendations!
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Ruth Lee @ruthjlee.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Join us in York! 12-month full-time *development-focused* psychology lectureship in our very friendly York St John team. Quant research methods too. Deadline 24th February. Please share: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL260/l...
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app
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RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is a belated post about our paper in @poqjournal.bsky.social. We analyzed 100 survey experiments fielded by TESS (tessexperiments.org), using only information from the proposals to identify intended hypotheses. Here are some of the things we learned:
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An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments
Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Psychology Jobs Three assistant professor positions in health, clinical, or social psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. Closing date: 30 Jan 2026 BSky Contacts: @timwildschut.bsky.social & @denisdrieghe.bsky.social #PsychJobs #SocialPsyc #ClinPsyc #HealthPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky
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Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturers in Health/Clinical (mental health)/Social Psychology x 3
The School of Psychology, University of Southampton, is seeking to appoint three permanent lecturers in health, clinical or social psychology to grow our research and contribute to delivery of our und...
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/12/2025
Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fig. 3. Scatter plots of the synthetic and empirical estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Showing N = 30,135 item-pair correlations, N = 257 scale reliabilities, and N = 1,568 scale-pair correlations for (top) the pretrained SBERT model and (bottom) the fine-tuned SurveyBot3000 model. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.Fig. 4. Prediction error of the synthetic estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Our prediction model allowed the error term to vary freely according to the predictor, the synthetic estimate. The thin-plate splines show that some synthetic estimates were predictably more accurate.
Fig. 5. Accuracy by domain. Accuracy differed across domains. SurveyBot3000 accuracy (colored) was always higher than SBERT accuracy (gray). Results were largely consistent whether accuracy of items was tested (left, circle) within domains or (right, cross) across domains.Fig. 1. Multistep training procedure for the SurveyBot3000, which produces synthetic estimates of interitem correlations. (a) Pretraining base model (SBERT). (b) Fine-tuning SurveyBot3000. (c) Validation. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 11/12/2025
Hey #rstats and #stats people, does anyone know of any references that explain the hazards of trying to run or interpret models with all combinations of many predictors? (i.e., including multiple 2-way and 3-way interactions)
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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Motivated reasoning is a well-understood phenomenon - or is it? In a new paper just published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social we discuss three known unknowns. doi.org/10.1525/coll... Here is a 🧵
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Known Unknowns in Motivated Reasoning: A Closer Look at Three Open Questions
Motivated reasoning denotes the phenomenon that individuals are more likely to arrive at conclusions that they want to arrive at. Properly understanding this phenomenon requires at least three things:...
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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE. Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Deadline: Jan 23 www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
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Daqing Liu @liudaqing.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It's been a fun conference! Thank you to all disgust nerds for making this happen @iast.fr
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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄 Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Social psych friends, please help me out with a class discussion by responding to the following (and sharing): What do you see as the biggest challenge for social and personality psychology in the immediate future? What should we as a field be doing better than we are now?
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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Training initiative FORRT has released a platform for those who wish to discover and publicize computer and tabletop games about open research and publishing! Linked through this landing page: forrt.org/games/
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Open Research Games Portal
Integrating open and reproducible science into higher education
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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Fanny Lalot @fannylalot.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📽️ We have an official video for the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) summer school 2025! Not only does it show my face as a still (why, oh why??), it also features my best take on #socialpsychology yet... youtu.be/JDcGJJuyRto?...
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Social Psychology Summer School at Kent
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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵
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Daqing Liu @liudaqing.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A great, intuitive way to demonstrate hypothesis testing. Might use it in my class.
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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'! 🗓️ Dec 4 & 5 📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr 💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...
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Cillian McHugh @cillianmchugh.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
And Published!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... The Moral Dilution effect. Including non-diagnostic (irrelevant) information leads to less extreme evaluations of moral character.
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The Moral Dilution Effect: Irrelevant Information Influences Judgments of Moral Character
It is reasonable to expect that when making a judgment, we only consider the relevant (or diagnostic) information and that nonrelevant (nondiagnostic) information should not, and thus does not, influ....
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Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Kudos to the four editors and scores of authors for bringing the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition to the public and open access! The other chapters are likely to be my reading project this summer ... Here's my own contribution, in any case. the-hsp.com doi.org/10.70400/ZUT...
Changing Practices and Priorities in Social Psychological Research Methods and Reporting
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Prof Aleksandra Cichocka @alekscichocka.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Platforms are calibrated to capture attention by amplifying moralized and emotional content. This can have benefits, such as raising awareness of injustices by propagating expressions of outrage," explains @stefanleach.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-05...
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Examining the relationship between moral outrage on social media and activism
A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science examines how expressions of moral outrage on social media are linked to online activism, specifically petition-signing behavior.
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Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🧵New paper out in Cognition Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)? @danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module. 50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com! In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory. Some key take-aways:
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A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating - Nature Reviews Psychology
Impression formation occurs when a perceiver infers another person’s traits, goals and preferences and forms an attitude towards that person. In this Perspective, Amodio describes the unique and inter...
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Very keen to work with potential applicants to come work me at Kent on things related to moral psychology :)
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Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Out now and open access at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! How do people's trajectories in well-being tend to differ? 🧵 (with Robin Wollast, Chloe Bracegirdle, Olivia Spiegler, Chris Sibley, Éric Lacourse, and @sengupta.bsky.social) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
How do attitudes become moralized? We find that moral conviction spreads between connected attitudes over time. + Those with highly connected belief systems (ideologues) have highly moralized belief systems! Come see us at the moral psych pre-con poster session @spspnews.bsky.social to learn more😃
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Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies? Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵 w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
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