🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Opposition leader Péter Magyar WINS the election for prime minister of Hungary, defeating Putin and Trump’s ally Viktor Orbán. 🇭🇺
David Amodio
@davidamodio.bsky.social
Social Psychology Prof at University of Amsterdam. Prejudice & social cognition using experimental, computational, neuro, & AI approaches.
New preprint! w/Tessa Charlesworth & @williambrady.bsky.social: The Psychology of Algorithmic Bias We introduce a psychology-centered framework to specify mechanisms through which human behavior interacts dynamically with AI systems to produce algorithmic bias. osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rxu37_v1
Attending the #SPSP2026 Social Cognition Preconference? I'll see you there! I'll be giving the talk for the Best Paper Award today at 3:45, representing my coauthors on this paper:
Very grateful that our paper was awarded ISCON’s Best 2024 Paper in Social Cognition!! Huge thanks to the fantastic team: Ben Stillerman, @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social , @leorhackel.bsky.social , Damaris Hagen, Nils Jostmann, and @davidamodio.bsky.social 🎊💐
ISCON is pleased to announce the winner of best 2024 paper in social cognition award, which is: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Paper was led by @davidschultner.bsky.social, w Ben Stillerman, Bjorn Lindstrom, @leorhackel.bsky.social, Damaris Hagen, Nils Jostmann, and @davidamodio.bsky.social 1/4
Wow, we're thrilled by this award! So proud of the team: @davidschultner.bsky.social, Ben Stillerman, @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, @leorhackel.bsky.social, Damaris Hagen & Nils Jostmann Thanks to @erichehman.bsky.social and the ISCON committee! For a thread on our paper: bsky.app/profile/davi...
ISCON is pleased to announce the winner of best 2024 paper in social cognition award, which is: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Paper was led by @davidschultner.bsky.social, w Ben Stillerman, Bjorn Lindstrom, @leorhackel.bsky.social, Damaris Hagen, Nils Jostmann, and @davidamodio.bsky.social 1/4
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
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So, is "When Prophesy Fails"—the foundation of cognitive dissonance theory—debunked? Unclear. The article making this claim is... odd. It describes Festinger and Schachter as leftwing radicals, critiques the political slant of their funding, generally refers to their work as failed... 1/n
Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist. Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)
Wow. And this is the kind of study that will likely lose funding in our current moment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
I had a fantastic time at the Computational Social Cognition Summer School at U of Birmingham! What an amazing resource & opportunity for students. Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #CSC2025 www.compsoccog.com
A huge part of the Republican playbook is to break otherwise beneficial social services and then point to their brokenness as evidence that those things are bad actually so they can justify privatizing or abolishing it. They are very good at doing this because they do it across all sectors.
I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy
RIP Ozzy ✌️ Ozzy was my first real concert when I was 14. My ears are still ringing.
Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at the age of 76
Stephen Colbert is a national treasure! My career peak was when he devoted a whole segment to our paper on scarcity & race perception on The Colbert Report (!) And of course he nailed it. Sadly it's not on youtube anymore, but it's on AppleTV (Season 10, Episode 119, on June 16, 2014).
I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly. Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent. You can sign up at the link below! www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
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btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.
🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉 Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social and Jas Cloutier! @apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
🌟 Jim Sidanius has been added to the SPSP Heritage Wall! His social dominance theory revolutionized how we study intergroup relations & inequality. A brilliant theorist, master teacher, and mentor who shaped our field over 44 years. Learn more about his work and legacy: ow.ly/pj7A50WnLfB
Congratulations @page-gould.bsky.social!
She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award! Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.
“If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” needs to be added to high school civics curriculums.
Seeking WV scientists! My dad (a non-scientist who works with scientists) is leading a FABBS delegation to discuss NIH funding with Senator Capito in August and needs to build the delegation. Please reach out and I’ll put you in touch with him! CC @standupforscience.bsky.social
NIH BREAKING NEWS NIH BREAKING NEWS Hearing from multiple sources that an email went out late yesterday afternoon Effective immediately: Please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please pull back all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated.
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🎉 New face database just dropped! The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods. Thread 🧵👇
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
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