Chris Crandall
@chriscrandall.bsky.social
Social psychologist. Boatbuilder and user.
As real estate tycoon Trump favored competitive bidding. As president, not so much. The results are predictably shoddy. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/2132...
Donald Trump, the No-Bid President
The trouble with competitive bidding is that it gets in the way of corruption. Our president knows how to solve that.
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Solid account of how media create conflict to make their stories “interesting” in a way that misrepresents its subject. Surprise over Algeria’s World Cup welcome shows how media misunderstand Kansas and Lawrence kansasreflector.com/2026/07/24/s...
Surprise over Algeria's World Cup welcome shows how media misunderstand Kansas and Lawrence • Kansas Reflector
Some media types frequently saw — if not manufactured — something curious as Lawrence happily hosted Algeria for the World Cup
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If would be best if hostile comments about terror management theory (e.g., the reply-disallowed post by Maddie Ouranía @maddiequestions.bsky.social) were based not on a blog describing a paper, but on the paper itself. Findings were heterogeneous. Effects modest. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
APA PsycNet
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This is a worthwhile read. Will the lessons have staying power this time?
Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · last mo.What is interesting about psychology is that they did the whole replication crisis one time before in the 1970s. It is so similar to the 2010 one, you would not be able to tell if a paper on the replication crisis was published in 1972 or 2012. See rips-irsp.com/articles/10....
Melvin Manis, professor of psychology at the Univ. of Michigan, died yesterday in Chicago after 3 hours in hospice. Mel was known as scholar social judgment and was the first editor of the Attitudes and Social Cognition Section of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (starting in 1979).
Nine years ago at the Dick Nisbett festschrift. I can hardly express what an honor it was (and is) to be part of the Nisbett legacy. To those who say social psychology has no legacy before 2017, I say “Feh, you cannot know what you’re talking about. This group is loaded with counter-evidence.”
The extraordinary scientist “will often seem a man [sic] searching at random, trying experiments just to see what will happen, looking for an effect whose nature he cannot quite guess (p. 87).” Kuhn, T. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions, 2nd Ed. #Metascience #Openscience
Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics! Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper. More soon!
New work and events... 🔸 Workshop on the politics and finances of open science reform 🔸 Symposium: “Who critiques the critique? Toward a reflexive metascience” 🔸 Preprint encourages establishing phenomena before testing theories 🔸 Systematic review of questionable research practices
Critical Metascience Roundup
Update #3
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The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.
📣SPSP Members📣 Check out the Action Alert from @cossa.bsky.social below to learn how you can advocate for protecting the SBE Directorate at NSF. (More action items to come from SPSP and our partner organizations soon!) #WhySocialScience #SaveSBE
Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA)@cossa.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨URGENT ACTION ALERT🚨 Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate! Write to your House Representative and Senators TODAY to share your concerns and urge them to act ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente... #WhySocialScience #SaveSBE
This post is part of a longer thread and we really wanted to make sure it got attention from our community. Many thank you's to Paige Amormino (@amormino.bsky.social) for putting together this action guide to help scholars advocate for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences!
Society for Personality and Social Psychology@spspnews.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe encourage SPSP members to check out an excellent guide prepared by Paige Amormino (@amormino.bsky.social), which offers practical action steps that members can take to speak up for personality and social psychology research: ow.ly/zYBl50YEuVM
Thrilled to serve as a Guest Editor for the Political Ideology and Religion collection for Scientific Reports! This Collection welcomes research examining the psychological determinants of political ideology and religion. Please submit by 12/17/26 and reshare! www.nature.com/collections/...
Political ideology and religion
This Collection welcomes original research articles examining the psychological determinants of political ideology and religion.
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It feels a little weird to share a collection of social media posts as a post on a social media platform, but we had a ton of fun making this recap with some of our favorite #SPSP2026 posts! Check it out below and thank you again for sharing your experience with us! wakelet.com/wake/xIGZ7RG...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Psychology at the Australian National University jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level A Salary package: $89,313 - $112,103 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Fixed term (up to 24 months) The Position The Postdoctoral Fellow will work with ...
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That’s all, folks! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the SPSP 2026 Annual Convention. You made #SPSP2026 unforgettable. Safe travels home!
The 2026 Presidential Symposium at #SPSP2026 will feature Eran Halperin on doing research amid atrocity and Rebecca Covarrubias witness and resistance in higher education. 🧪
It's happening! #SPSP2026 virtual preconferences kick off today, covering topics from misinformation science to existential psychology to open science reform. Check out the agenda here: https://ow.ly/ry8A50YkpUy Are you joining us? Share what you're attending! 👇
Here's a 🧵 connecting a number of Mark Rubin's contributions on p-hacking and statistical inference as connected to one's philosophy of science. Under differing regimes, p-hacking and preregistration can have large or small or no consequence for scientific inferences.
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew preprint from me argues that p-hacking inflates Type I error rates in some philosophies of significance testing but not in others. osf.io/preprints/ps...
![p-hacking occurs when researchers conduct multiple significance tests (e.g., p1;H0,1 and p2;H0,2) and then selectively report tests that yield desirable (usually significant) results (e.g., p2 ≤ 0.05;H0,2) without correcting for multiple testing (e.g., 0.05/2 = 0.025). In the present article, I consider p-hacking in the context of two philosophies of significance testing — the error statistical approach and the formal inference approach. I argue that although p-hacking inflates Type I error rates in the error statistical approach, it does not inflate them in the formal inference approach. Specifically, in the error statistical approach, the “actual” familywise error rate (e.g., 1 − [1 − 0.05]2 = 0.098 for two tests) is relevant because it covers both the selectively reported and unreported tests in the “actual” test procedure (i.e., p1;H0,1 and p2;H0,2). In this approach, Type I error rate inflation occurs because the “actual” error rate (0.098) is higher than the nominal error rate (0.05). In contrast, in the formal inference approach, the “actual” familywise error rate is irrelevant because (a) the researcher does not report a statistical inference about the corresponding intersection null hypothesis (i.e., H0,1 ∩ H0,2), and (b) the “actual” familywise error rate does not license inferences about the reported individual hypotheses (i.e., H0,2). Instead, in the formal inference approach, only the nominal error rate is relevant, and a comparison with the “actual” error rate is inappropriate. Implications for conceptualizing, demonstrating, and reducing p-hacking are discussed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4jb3re5tvklsvhuc3lkerj5q/bafkreicrzsdr5cdpzppnqo5gnpltdhx7x45ix7pxhedheghluqofaxshvy)
GASP, the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology is sponsoring a mentoring lunch with a TERRIFIC group of mentors at the SPSP Meeting on Friday, Feb 27. Take a look here: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB...
GASP Mentorship Event at SPSP 2026 Annual Convention
GASP Mentorship Event at SPSP 2026 Annual Convention Founded in 2001, GASP is the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology, an affinity group and affiliate of SPSP. GASP events and member...
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Progress Bar reviews"Why Federal Funding of Science" and begins a look at the question of how to improve decisions on how to distribute it. Watch this space! open.substack.com/pub/kristine... #metascience
Doing experiments
evolving decision-making in an era of uncertainty
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I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
'Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage' Now 'In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by @altmetric.com' bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Across a range of recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, the question of how crowds behave in confined public space is an important concern. Classical theoretical assumptions are that human ...
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The full #SPSP2026 schedule is live! Explore research presentations, networking events for all career stages, and professional development sessions. Start planning your Chicago experience today: https://ow.ly/IBJI50XT9zS
The 2026 Presidential Symposium at #SPSP2026 will feature Eran Halperin on doing research amid atrocity and Rebecca Covarrubias witness and resistance in higher education. 🧪
Come #SPSP2026 in Chicago! Over 2,275 have registered for the main meeting (a bit up from the previous year); more than 2,000 for preconferences. It's the largest convention of social and personality psychologists in the world, teeming with new research & ideas. spsp.org/events/annua...
Annual Convention | SPSP
Attended by researchers, educators, and students from around the world, this event is a highlight in the scientific field of personality and social psychology.
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A worthwhile review of a less-than-credible statistic to “detect” biased reporting of results. There’s no shortcuts for these difficult analyses.
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew paper by Jolynn Pek and colleagues criticizes the z-curve approach of detecting selection bias.
