Are you attending hashtag #SPSP2026 in Chicago? Come check out our talks and posters (info in flyer attached)! I am also recruiting grad students and postdocs the next cycle, so please feel free to get in touch early on!!

It’s time yall! I’m excited to co-organize a symposium with @freemanjb.bsky.social at @spspnews.bsky.social this week!! Come by Friday morning (8am, room 450B) to see some amazing talks by phenomenal researchers! @xallysie.bsky.social @chujunlin.bsky.social @whatsinertia.bsky.social #SPSP2026

The computational psych preconference is back @spspnews.bsky.social for a full day! This year's lineup: 👉theory-driven modeling: Hyowon Gweon 👉data-driven discovery: @clemensstachl.bsky.social 👉application: me 👉 panel: @steveread.bsky.social Sandra Matz, @markthornton.bsky.social Wil Cunningham

🚨New preprint with my stellar student Junsong A Small-World Mind Theory of social cognition doi.org/10.31234/osf... Big network, close connection🤯 It explains why low-dimensional findings dominate & high-dimensional evidence emerges Naturalistic designs matter to understanding the complex mind

🚨New Theory of Emotion!! 🚨 Draft of first book chapters out for a new book by Ralph Adolphs👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... Let Ralph know if you have any comments - thank you!! 🧠🤯 Email: radolphs@caltech.edu

First paper from my lab out @commspsychol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00275-w Latent factor models are popular for mental representation of people, e.g. warmth & competence But we show in naturalistic contexts, more complex representations are needed: high-dimensional networks

Check out our new work with @xallysie.bsky.social, @erichehman.bsky.social, and my student Ruoying on a tutorial for Representational Similarity Analysis! Thanks for the fun collaboration!!

Eric Hehman@erichehman.bsky.social · last yr.

We had a new tutorial on representational similarity analysis come out recently. Led by @xallysie.bsky.social with Ruoying Zheng and @chujunlin.bsky.social This technique lets you compare patterns across diff types of measures (eg correlate correlation matrices), super flexible

Check out our new TiCS paper! Thanks @freemanjb.bsky.social for the fun collaboration!! Investigating social impressions in a high-dimensional space could provide valuable insights beyond the compressed dimensions!

Jon Freeman@freemanjb.bsky.social · last yr.

In a TiCS paper, @chujunlin.bsky.social & I propose a high-dimensional model of social impressions. Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift. shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)

🥳Excited to share that I am joining Columbia July 2025 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls REPOST🙏 We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods! App👉shorturl.at/5UVPl More👉shorturl.at/q18GM

We have a new paper on interpreting regional attitudes out in JPSP, led by Jennifer Suliteanu @jensulite.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/pspa... This is her first paper 🫶 Few comments

🚨A four-year making @naturehumbehav.bsky.social with @UmitKeles @markthornton.bsky.social @Ralph Adolphs Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎 face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences - Nature Human Behaviour

In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Lin et al. show that trait impressions of faces are correlated with and causally influence mental state inferences from the same faces.

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My department, Psychology at UC San Diego, just posted an assistant professor position focused on computational approaches to understanding behavior. Open area search, and more information can be found here: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04049

Assistant Professor - Computational Mechanisms of Behavior (Department of Psychology)

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Excited to announce that the Computational Psychology Preconference is happening again (Feb 20, Denver)! #SPSP2025 Data blitz submission opens on Sep 5th! We will have exciting keynote speakers & panel guests! Hang tight for announcement soon! More details at SPSP website spsp.org/events/annua...

🚨New preprint with @markthornton.bsky.social on whether & how people update trait impressions of others dynamically based on naturalistic videos! Using various computational methods, we identified the importance of voice, visual, and semantic info, and the influence of perceivers' characteristics!

Mark Thornton@markthornton.bsky.social · 2y ago

New preprint from @chujunlin.bsky.social & me! "Bottom-up and top-down information determinants of naturalistic trait impression updating" osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky 🧪

🚨Come join us at the Inside the Grant Panel #SPSP2024! One of my lab's very first projects on🌟understanding the rich representation of stereotypes using naturalistic storytelling🌟has made it to the finalists! This is an exciting project with my visiting student Yilin Wang!

Society for Personality and Social Psychology@spspnews.bsky.social · 3y ago

☎️Last Call☎️ Today is the final day to apply for Inside the Grant Panel, a live small grant competition taking place during #SPSP2024. The winner will receive The winner will receive $3K for their research, with $1K each for two runners-up. Apply here: ow.ly/C5T250QfF2K

🌟Are you interested in learning computational methods? Are you curious how to apply them to psychology?🌟 🚨I am sharing my workshops & codes on these topics: rb.gy/o6u6lm Currently up: processing text & visual stimuli. More coming soon!🚨 And see you at SPSP Comp Psyc Preconference: rb.gy/5onabi

Are you interested in how people think about each other? Join my lab to advance this knowledge using naturalistic designs, computational methods, and any other exciting approaches that you can think of ! PhD application deadline: Dec 6th. See shorturl.at/CU125 More about my lab: shorturl.at/pxGVW

We're excited to be able to announce the keynote lineup for the #SPSP2024 computational preconference! Fiery Cushman (@fierycushman.bsky.social) will speak on computational models; Michael Muthukrishna (LSE) on data-driven discovery; & Aida Davani (Google Research) on bias in big data!

Society for Personality and Social Psychology@spspnews.bsky.social · 3y ago

📢#SPSP2024 Update📢 The preconference submission deadline has been extended to October 25 at 11:59 PM PT. Check the links below for more details and to complete your submission! More info: ow.ly/XXbX50PXM17 Precon Submission Form: ow.ly/z6NY50PXM18