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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Co-organized this year with Aliah Zewail and @joshcjackson.bsky.social. Email us if you have any questions.

Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are now accepting submissions for poster and data blitz presentations, and we’d love to see your work! Abstracts are due October 8th, 2026 and can be submitted here: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2027-p...

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2027 Preconference Submission Portal

Use this submission form for all preconference submissions. Select your preconference first as this may change submission fields. The submission guide can be found here . You may submit to multi...

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our incredible speaker lineup includes Peter Richerson, Ivuoma Onyeador, Ryan Boyd, Friedrich Götz, Leander Heldring, and Thomas Talhelm. @ryanboyd.io @thomastalhelm.bsky.social

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Historical Psychology Preconference is coming to Philly for #SPSP2027 ! Please join us on February 11th, 2027 for this year’s theme: How the Events of Yesterday Shaped the Minds of Today. @spspnews.bsky.social

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Mary Katz @marykatz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who gets to claim a religious exemption? In the eyes of Americans, the answer depends heavily on political ideology, not just the belief itself. My first first-author paper is out in @spspnews.bsky.social’s Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! New paper 🧵1/10

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Jessie Sun @jessiesun.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New paper on virtue trade-offs in everyday life, led by my PhD student, Qilin Zhang! A growing literature emphasizes trade-offs between competing moral principles (e.g., kindness vs. honesty), but are such trade-offs ubiquitous in everyday life? 1/5

Screenshot of abstract from PDF of an article titled "Virtue-Trade-Offs in Everyday Life".

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc in 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲! This project will focus on psychological change in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular interest in Islamic history. Topical themes include religiosity, creativity, morality, and institutions. 1/n

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Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com · 29/07/2026

🚨 PNAS paper: "Indirect reciprocity undermines indirect reciprocity destabilizing large-scale cooperation" w/ Eric Schnell How do we achieve global cooperation on climate or conflict reduction? The problem isn't selfishness as much as it is cooperation itself - at a smaller scale. 1/

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Understanding these principles as metamorality is key to decoding real-world moral conflicts at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup levels.

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We argue that there isn't just one way to resolve moral conflicts. Multiple metamoral principles evolve culturally, and we identify four such systems: utilitarianism, honor, divinity, and self-interest.

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New paper out today in Social and Personality Psychology Compass! What happens when our moral values come into conflict? Our new paper explores "metamorality": the second-order principles we use to navigate conflicting moral choices. W/ Jesse Graham

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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Exciting opportunity to work on historical psychology!

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Start Date: Fall 2026 (flexible) Location: UMass Amherst (in person) Deadline: rolling (until the position is filled) To apply, please email me your CV and one representative/related paper. Feel free to pass this along to anyone who might be a good fit. n/n

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

interested in candidates with a PhD/ABD in social psych, cognitive science, digital humanities, quantitative history, computational sciences, etc. skills in NLP/text analysis, R, and Python are important. experience with open-source LLMs would be valued. Arabic/Persian would be a plus. 2/n

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Merrick R. Osborne @merrickosborne.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Such fun! Chatting about my research and journey was an absolute blast. Thank you @cornellilr.bsky.social for the piece!

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 17/03/2026

Conventional wisdom suggests that modernization makes cultures more homogenous, but what if the resources of technology and wealth that modernization offers allow people to more fully express their cultural preferences? In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/eBIU50Yvm1A

Variation in values between countries in the World Values Survey has grown from 1981–2017.

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

🏆 @simine.com, psychologist at @psychunimelb.bsky.social / @unimelb.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) is a leading voice in the reform movement in psychology - and is now being honored with the €150K Individual Award. Huge congratulations! 🎉

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

LLMs overemphasize moral concerns common in Western societies and underestimate values more prominent elsewhere. These distortions likely stem from cultural biases in training data and carry societal implications and risks www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

We're excited about the upcoming Computational Psychology preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social this Thursday. See our action-packed full day agenda below! Featuring 3 keynote talk themes with related early-career speakers, data blitz session, panel discussion. Don't miss it! #SPSP

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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

postdoc opportunity! would be a good fit for an intergroup person with NLP chops interested in the role of historical narratives bonus, Edinburgh is a phenomenal city to live in with wonderful, walkable quality of life elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Post-Doctoral Research Associate

The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences are seeking a full time, fixed term Post-Doctoral Research Associate. This post is available from 1st of Septemb...

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 09/12/2025

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

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Representational Momentum Transcends Motion

Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Important work!!

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thanks to our coauthors, Amir Sepehri and Reihane Boghrati. I'd also like to thank the editorial team of Psych Science (especially the STAR editors). See the editorial below: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Results of our experiments corroborated our computational analyses. To test alternative mechanisms for this effect, we examined two accounts: stereotyping and fluency. We found evidence for both to varying degrees. Stereotyping and processing disfluency reduced engagement.

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

In Study 2, to complement our computational findings, we ran a social-psych experiment among English-speaking US adults, and a direct replication(N=916). We wanted to use an accent that is clearly "non-standard" but not widely recognizable by US adults. We chose Persian accent!

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

In Study 1, we analyzed 5,367 TED Talks using computational methods--voice recognition, natural language processing, and vision models. We examined the relationship between speakers’ accents and engagement (likes, views). After controls, accent was linked to less engagement.

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New paper alert! "Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science! This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project). Short THREAD on the results:

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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Come work with me on cognitive diversity, development & dynamics in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! Graduate student applications are due a week from today. cognitiveconstructionlab.com

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Veronica Yan @veronicayan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

It's one of my favorite times of the year! And I'm so so proud of my SLAM Lab grads who did a fantastic job presenting the cool projects they've each been working on.! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social FYI @stephanyrea.bsky.social is on the job market.

Stephanie Noel Johnstone presents on her work examining drawing and transfer

Connie Fralick presents on her work examining consequences of student endorsement of the learning styles myth

Alexis Richmond presents her work on motivational apprehension of frequent quizzes in courses

Stephany Rea presents the first study of her dissertation on pretesting

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 14/11/2025

Come and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution "Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics" www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr... More details here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Do people remember where things are relative to their body (e.g. my left side) or relative to the environment (the North/uphill side)? The answer is both at once, according to my new paper now out in Psychological Science! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Samani and Baumard map out trends in Romantic love in Persian literature from 10th century to 20th century CE. They find an increasing emphasis on romantic love over time, particularly during the Safavid era. This may reveal a link w economic development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Fan and Baumard reveal new evidence of rising individualism over history, which suggests that wealth rather than Protestantism contributed to individualism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

And last but not least, Obshonka and colleagues find that Roman rule explains puzzling variation in modern well-being differences across Germany Ancient Roman investment in infrastructure may explain why Southwestern Germans are so happy and healthy today www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

McClain and Kenny dig into the history of collectivism in Japan, conducting a pre-registered analysis of self-reported collectivism and tightness in the Japanese social survey and linking responses to historical subsistence patterns across Japan www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

@joannaschug.bsky.social leads a paper on gendered racial stereotypes. They show that the civil rights movement coincided with a rise in language about black men, but not black women www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

@mohammadatari.bsky.social and I begin with an editorial reflecting on the origins, current trends, and future of historical psych The future requires strong causal identification and theorizing about how institutions can cement or change historical trends www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

iconic scene from Grey's Anatomy. Meredith Grey in scrub telling Derek "so pick me, choose me, love me"

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more! Brief 🧵

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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the faculty at @umassamherst.bsky.social next year as an assistant professor in Psychological & Brain Sciences! 🥳

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.

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