Prior research has cast doubt on the validity of implicit measures, finding small correlations amongst indirect measures of racial bias. However, these measures vary systematically on key procedural aspects. 🧵👇 Open thread below:

Social Cognition@socog-guilford.bsky.social · 5d ago

🚨 New issue alert! 🚨 The august 2026 issue of social cognition is out now! Follow along to learn more about the research featured in this issue! You can access the issue here: guilfordjournals.com/toc/soco/cur... #SocialPsychology #CognitivePsychology #Psychsky #SocialCognition

Welcome Eva A. García Ferrés (@egarciaferres.bsky.social) as the inaugural Social Media Coordinator for Social Cognition (@socog-guilford.bsky.social)! Eva, a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, will share and highlight the innovative scholarship of our authors! Follow us for more!

Late announcement (busy summer...) but I'm delighted to share that I've joined Dr. Nicholas Coles (@nicholascoles.bsky.social) as a postdoc at UF🎉 Looking forward to spending this year modeling and answering pressing questions in big-team science, politics, and collective intelligences!

🚨New preprint🚨: Attitude measures like the IAT reveal biased behavior — but the levels across which bias operates are varied. Our new preprint borrows formal modeling approaches from perceptual science to find out where age-valence interactions happen in perceptual processing🧵

Shoutout to my bud Saurabh for this work! Really cool stuff if you're interested in how LLMs monitor reality

Saurabh@saurabhr.bsky.social · last mo.

Can an AI tell its own words from yours? This is "reality monitoring." In humans, failing at it is linked to hallucinations and delusions. In this work we investigated reality monitoring in 6 LLMs of different sizes in collaboration with @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social.

I recommend checking out Abhay's (@aalaukik.bsky.social) poster at Computational Psych today (2:45) or Saturday morning (8-9). He's making great progress connecting different measures (e.g., implicit, explicit, behavioroid) with their theorized generative processes. #SPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social

(Mic check 1-2-3) I'm on the job market🚨 I’m a social psychologist building computational models to study social cognition, attitudes, polarization, and how people update beliefs. Evidence accumulation models, Hierarchical Bayes, Agent-based models, NLP, etc. Interested in formal theorizing!

Out now in Social Cognition! We present the "Tug-of-War" (computational) model of attitude associations. It posits a specific mechanism behind behavior on implicit cognition tasks (IAT here; working to implement it to other tasks). We believe it enhances theory and psychometrics🙌

Abhay Alaukik@aalaukik.bsky.social · 2y ago

First first-author paper submitted; preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We (@colinsmithpsych.bsky.social and @peterkvam.bsky.social ) give a tutorial on a mathematical model of attitudes associations, the Tug-of-war model (TOW), as applied to IAT data (N > 10,000). TOW quantifies associations as (1/13)

📢Check out our project on some structural reasons why widespread economic issues don't result in coherent and effective collective action to address these issues. Amazing work led by @egarciaferres.bsky.social !

Eva A. García Ferrés@egarciaferres.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT! Why is there no coherent labor movement in the U.S., despite widespread outrage at economic inequality? One answer is that structural/systemic factors (such as Right-to-Work legislation) impede collective organizing. #Polipsy #socialpsychology #sociology #polisky

🚨 New pub alert 🚨 Just out in @polpsyispp.bsky.social 's Political Psychology, with @jorislammers.bsky.social, Laura Van Berkel & Matt Baldwin. We look at how the typical association between conservatism and system justification changes as the result of temporal comparisons. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Today in the social area brownbag we heard from @aalaukik.bsky.social on his work on the tug-of-war model of attitude associations and its application to the IAT. Super cool work on how we can apply mathematical modeling to study social psychological processes! Check out pre-print link below 👇

First first-author paper submitted; preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We (@colinsmithpsych.bsky.social and @peterkvam.bsky.social ) give a tutorial on a mathematical model of attitudes associations, the Tug-of-war model (TOW), as applied to IAT data (N > 10,000). TOW quantifies associations as (1/13)