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Margaux Wienk

@margauxwienk.bsky.social
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🇳🇱 | Singapore-based | Research Scientist @ A*STAR CATOS | PhD from Columbia | Social Cognition and Well-being in Online and Offline Environments

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Really like this paper! Combines simulations of theoretical models and empirical tests of those models using multiple methods! If you are interested in belief systems, check this out!
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Lukas Rudolph @lukrudolph.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Out @thejop.bsky.social: measuring shocks like weather or immigrant exposure has vast researcher degrees of freedom. We (@phanxi.bsky.social) show: equally plausible measures diverge + yield spurious results. So, investigate the full set. For us, a null for climate opinion www.doi.org/10.1086/735706
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/02/2026
You need to bring in the same toolkit as in studies that try to establish causality without randomization. I know it sounds unfair, but I don’t make the rules. These situations are instances of post-treatment bias, if you want to read up on it as a psychologist:
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Causal inference for psychologists who think that causal inference is not for them
Correlation does not imply causation and psychologists' causal inference training often focuses on the conclusion that therefore experiments are needed—without much consideration for the causal infer...
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Margaux Wienk @margauxwienk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
So happy that this paper is out! Led by my fabulous friend @ashleykrause.bsky.social :)
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This new paper offers practical solutions for pluralistic ignorance (when people assume their opinon is unpopular when many others share it): -in loose cultures, share accurate information -in tight ones, lowering the costs of speaking up can spark social change. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Amy Adamczyk @amyadamczyk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I’m grateful to contribute a public-facing article to ASA's Contexts Magazine on how national contexts shape attitudes about abortion. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @scholars.org @johnjaycjphd.bsky.social #PublicSociology #ComparativeResearch #ReproductivePolitics #ASA
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How Country Context Shapes Personal Opinions About Abortion - Amy Adamczyk, 2025
Amy Adamczyk on variation in global abortion attitudes.
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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

Changing Norms Following the 2024
U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux

Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall

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Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups,
both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S.
election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 20/01/2026
Looking for data that the government is pulling down? We may have it backed up for you. Check our portal: portal.datarescueproject.org Know of data being taken down or worried about a data source? Let us know: baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/r7V1c44...
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Data Rescue Project Portal
Links to public data archived through combined efforts and coordinated by the Data Rescue Project.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Meta-analysis finds that social norms messaging (telling people what others do or think they should do) has no effect on improving health behaviors once publication bias is accounted for. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries - Nature Human Behaviour
Social norms approaches are widely applied in health promotion. This pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs using social norms messaging in developed countries aimed to evaluate th...
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Just published in Behavior Research Methods: The individual-level precision of implicit measures w/ @ianhussey.mmmdata.io 🧵👇 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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The individual-level precision of implicit measures - Behavior Research Methods
Implicit measures are used extensively in psychological science. One fundamental goal of these measures is to provide information diagnostic of an individual’s attitudes or beliefs. After 25 years of ...
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Awesome preprint on model checking for VAR Models. Would love to see more "model checking" tutorial papers for various models, including a showcase what happens if the assumptions you impose on your data are not met in the data. 🧪 #psychscisky osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Björn E. Hommel @bjoernhommel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now. "Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less
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Jana Berkessel @janaberkessel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you, like me, love hiking, you know rugged terrain *does* something to you 🥾😰 In a new paper led by @tsudaka.bsky.social, we asked: Is rugged terrain linked not only to how your knees feel but also how you think about authority? (1/n) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Rugged terrain and rigid hierarchy
Human societies differ markedly in their endorsement of hierarchical authority, ranging from strict obedience to powerful leaders and militaries to mo…
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