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Shree Vallabha

@shreevallabha.bsky.social
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PhD @ Michigan State University | social, moral, political psychology Website: shreevallabha.wixsite.com/shree-val…

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character | PLOS One
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Moral conformity in a digital world: Human and nonhuman agents as a source of social pressure for judgments of moral character
Could judgments about others’ moral character be changed under group pressure produced by human and virtual agents? In Study 1 (N = 103), participants first judged targets’ moral character privately…
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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
(PDF) Essential moral self remains unchallenged: Successful replication of Strohminger and Nichols (2014) with extensions comparing morality to ideology and religion www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
What predicts religious disbelief? Is it primarily about thinking deeply on religion & finding claims incredible? Not really. Authors find it's mostly about a lack of credible religious examples (parents not attending worship, being good religious role models). In other words, mostly socialization.
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New Preprint! We find that close and distant future generations get less moral concern than even the most neglected human and non-human groups today. This is noted for boundless and zero-sum moral trade-offs. 🔗https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c9p8f_v1 #FutureGenerations#MoralPsychology#Psychology
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/03/2025
Nice article about fertility technology — really appreciate the framing that isn’t “something gotta give” but rather “society loses out if women can’t have it all.” Featuring Kleven’s child penalties in a very pretty plot! worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil...
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Jim AC Everett @jimaceverett.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
And this personal experience has also blended into research, and with Brian Earp and colleagues, we actually have a new pre-print on this exact topic on how we judge people who lose weight by both typical and "artificial" means www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Even with Diet and Exercise, Ozempic Use Reduces Perceived Effort and Praiseworthiness of Resulting Weight Loss
PDF | The injectable medication Ozempic (semaglutide) has demonstrated unprecedented effectiveness in promoting significant weight loss. However, its... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Imagine a person who acts one way online (by email, on social media) but a different way in person. Which of the two is more revealing of their true self? Our new paper: This seemingly simple question shows something about how people see certain environments as ‘natural’ osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Jordan Moon @jordanmoon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New paper out in SPPS w/ @jaimiekrems.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1177/1948... People who oppose abortion typically suggest that their position is motivated by concern for the unborn. But is there more going on?
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨 Excited to share work in collaboration with Sarah Seraj, Andreas Weyland, @ryanboyd.io , @radamihalcea.bsky.social, @ashwinia.bsky.social, and Jamie Pennebaker out now in Scientific Reports! 🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Analysis of social media language reveals the psychological interaction of three successive upheavals
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zhpinkman.bsky.social @zhpinkman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
How do LLMs shape writing? Our research shows they make language more uniform, reducing diversity and altering how personal traits appear in text. These shifts have big implications for identity, culture, and fairness. #LLMs #NLProc arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266
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Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hey all - I’ll be giving a talk this year at SPSP that’s part of a symposium exploring novel work on conspiratorial beliefs. Would be great for anyone attending to come see me, alongside some other remarkable researchers!
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Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Re-upping this once more before the conference. I’ll be presenting some work on the relationships between conspiracy mentality, counterfactuals, and free will/det beliefs on Saturday at SPSP! Come by, listen, say hello! Also, I’m on the market, looking for post-docs - keep me in mind!
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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Super duper cool work on moralization by my superstar labmate @abbycassario.bsky.social 😍. Check it out at @spspnews.bsky.social !
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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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Jonathan Doriscar @jonds7.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Join us for our SPSP symposium! We present research on responses to personal, blatant, systemic, and historical racial prejudice. Featuring 3 in-person talks & a recorded session from Keith on Whova. #SPSP2025
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Bill Chopik @chops310.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Friends tend to agree if you're ready or not for a long-term, committed relationship. Friends are important for forming/maintaining relationships, so that can be either good OR horrible for you/your relationship. Congrats Hyewon Yang on her first first-author paper! doi.org/10.1177/0265...
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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Currently putting together SRCD SECC Conversation Hour "Building Your Career: Postdoc and Academic Job Market Insights" to take place during the conference. Who has been on the postdoc and/or job market **this** year and can talk about their experiences and will be at the SRCD conference?
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Latest from @mjbsp.bsky.social et al. With a lovely title that tells us the effect, meaning I don't need to write about their findings here! (folks, I'm sure that also helps people cite your work!) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
1/ Our lab's new paper #SPPS, w/ PhD student Hanna Puffer Using nationally representative data 2004-2020, asked: generalized prejudice (GP) remained invariant or evolved in US? Answer: Evolved. Answer: And it has become more politically affiliated. #PrejudiceResearch #AcademicSky
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Nour Kteily @nourkteily.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
New open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined | Annual Reviews
A key debate in the psychology of ideology is whether leftists and rightists are psychologically similar or different. A long-standing view holds that left-wing and right-wing people are meaningfully ...
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Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Check out my recently published commentary where my collaborators and I discuss how those tapped to do DEI work is disproportionately placed on individuals with minoritized identities. We also briefly discuss how to improve this. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The unequal burden of DEI bans | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Cambridge Core
The unequal burden of DEI bans - Volume 17 Issue 4
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
The problems w/ two-wave cross-lagged models are becoming widely known. Some proposed a "triangulation method" (2nd screenshot) to identify spurious effects in such designs We show that this test doesn't work in plausible situations. It shouldn't be used. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Abstract: The cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) is an analytic technique used to examine the reciprocal causal effects of two or more variables assessed on two or more occasions. Although widely used, the CLPM has been criticized for relying on implausible assumptions, the violation of which can often lead to biased estimates of causal effects. Recently, a triangulation method has been proposed to identify spurious effects in simple CLPM analyses
(e.g., Sorjonen & Melin, 2024b). We use simulations and a discussion of the formulas underlying regression coefficients to show that this method does not provide a valid indicator of spuriousness. This method identifies true causal effects as spurious in realistic situations and should not be used to diagnose whether a causal effect estimated from the CLPM is spurious or not. There are clear reasons to doubt causal estimates from the CLPM, but the results of the triangulation method do not add information about whether such estimates are spurious.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 17/10/2024
I’ve said it before (as have others) and I’ll say it again, there’s no such thing as a non-causal mediation analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sean Bogart @seanbogart.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
I’ve got a lot of new followers, so I wanted to introduce myself a bit! I’m a 5th year doctoral candidate, looking for post-docs. I am primarily an identity researcher, with a focus on how political identity affects misinformation belief, exacerbates polarization, and impacts DEI pushback.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Registered Report: Cognitive Ability, But Not Cognitive Reflection Predicts Expressing Greater Political Animosity and Favouritism: osf.io/sdx3v
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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Super awesome work by Abby and co. on how being smarter doesn't necessarily attenuate our tendencies to dislike those we perceive to be ideologically different bsky.app/profile/abby...
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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
🚨🚨 NEW PAPER🚨🚨: From me and my awesome TBS lab/FAU team! Just accepted at BJSP. We find that cognitive ability, but not cognitive reflection is associated with MORE animosity towards ideologically discordant groups and MORE favoritism towards ideologically concordant groups. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Political Psychology startpack expanded from 50 to 150 follows go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx
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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
We find that when tested in an ecologically valid setting the effect of threat on ideology is consistently weak, and often non-significant. Moreover, threats sometimes shift people towards liberalism and the effect sizes of liberal and conservative shifts are similar. 3/n
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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Across many possible specifications, the big picture remains the same: sometimes threats can push people towards conservatism, but sometimes they push people towards liberalism, and other times there's no effect on ideology. And effects tend to be very, very small. 6/n
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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
In light of our findings, we urge researchers to consider alternative theory regarding the etiology of political conservatism. 7/7
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Shree Vallabha @shreevallabha.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Check out the extremely cool and comprehensive work on threat and ideology by my very talented lab sister @abbycassario.bsky.social
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Abby Cassario @abbycassario.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Theory predicts that threat experiences shift people towards conservatism and that this is particularly true for those with certain personalities. In our paper forthcoming at SPPS, we find limited support for these predictions in the ~real world~ 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
Here's a paper that explains the difference between standard errors and standard deviations: bmj.com/content/331/... Here's our paper, which shows that experts (doctors, professors, data scientists) mix them up: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability | PNAS
Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential uncertainty (i.e., the precision of statistical estimates) compare...
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
A bi-directional effect between beauty and prosociality: Participants expected attractive avatars to behave more prosocially and rated those who behaved prosocially as more attractive. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
It has been a challenge to identify predictors of moralization. This new study finds that perceived polarization prospectively predicts attitude moralization during the 2020 US Presidential election psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... #psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehSci Polisky
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
I worry that the difficulty in telling what is real and what is just ChatGPT’d will further bias people towards scholars they already know, making it more difficult for new or less prolific scholars to have their deserved impact.
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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
We (w/ Josh Jackson) are very excited to announce the Special Issue “Historical Psychology” to be published at CRESP. Send your papers our way! Deadline: 9/1/24
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
A nice companion with this recent paper of mine with @shreevallabha.bsky.social that focused on within-person political animosity (which includes 🇺🇸 and 🇳🇱 data) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Comparing within and between-person predictors of affective polarization in Spain collective economic threats and political and national identities predicted affective polarization. Exploratory analyses found some left-right differences too storage.googleapis.com/jnl-up-j-irs...
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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Just came across this interesting paper: Does the addition of lower tier publications to a CV help or hurt the perceived strength of academic psychologists? Answer: Helps! psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-...
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Jennifer Wolak @jwolak.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
just out with Carey Stapleton at Public Opinion Quarterly: doi.org/10.1093/poq/... Those with high political self-confidence express more partisan animus and greater support for out-party discrimination. High levels of personal self-esteem, however, predict an intolerance of out-party hostility.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 02/03/2024
Do you think that learning more about causal inference is not worth it because you're running experiments anyway, or because you're interested in predictive questions? In that case, I've written a paper just for you, out now in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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 inference frameworks used elsewhere. This leaves researchers ill-equipped to solve inferential problems that they encounter in their work, leading to mistaken conclusions and incoherent statistical analyses. For a more systematic approach to causal inference, this article provides brief introductions to the potential outcomes framework—the “lingua franca” of causal inference—and to directed acyclic graphs, a graphical notation that makes it easier to systematically reason about complex causal situations. I then discuss two issues that may be of interest to researchers in social and personality psychology who think that formalized causal inference is of little relevance to their work. First, posttreatment bias:...DAG illustrating posttreatment bias which can be induced in randomized experiments whenever researchers condition on posttreatment variablesFigure illustrating various reasons why demonstrations of incremental validity may be unimpressive: established predictors are omitted, measurement error is ignored, only little predictive utility is gained
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #polisky #Sociology #metasci New paper, w recommendations and alternatives, re power analysis. By @rogerthegs.bsky.social et al. Open accces @ PSPR journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
New paper by @shreevallabha.bsky.social & co: Blaming current groups for their ancestors atrocities (historical blame) is something that happens AND is not well accounted for by existing psychological models of blame 🔒 psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... 🔐 osf.io/j3vp9
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
As part of a large collaboration of social psychologists and sociologists, we tried to understand belief system structure across Europe osf.io/9r84f
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 26/01/2024
'Factors that amplify and attenuate egocentric mentalizing', a new Review by Andrew R. Todd & Diana I. Tamir  Web: go.nature.com/3vOvdPk PDF: rdcu.be/dw1cp #psychology #psychscisky
Accounts of egocentric mentalizing
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