New paper in @nature.com with @lukebeehewitt.bsky.social, @isaiasghezae.bsky.social, & @robbwiller.bsky.social: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 experiments, we find a strong correspondence (r=.85) between predicted and observed effects. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵

Feeling incredibly honored to be named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science!!! I am grateful to so many mentors, collaborators, colleagues, friends, and teachers for their support along the way❣️

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 5mo ago

⭐️ Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐️ www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

I'm at SPSP and will be presenting at the Computational Psychology Preconference today at 4:25pm! The title of the talk is "The Digital Authoritarian: Authoritarian Tendencies are Linked to Digital Records of Behavior Collected via Smarpthones." Hope to see you there! @spspnews.bsky.social

William J. Brady@williambrady.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're excited about the upcoming Computational Psychology preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social this Thursday. See our action-packed full day agenda below! Featuring 3 keynote talk themes with related early-career speakers, data blitz session, panel discussion. Don't miss it! #SPSP

We're excited about the upcoming Computational Psychology preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social this Thursday. See our action-packed full day agenda below! Featuring 3 keynote talk themes with related early-career speakers, data blitz session, panel discussion. Don't miss it! #SPSP

This looks 🔥🔥🔥 "we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to industry in the form of prior funding, collaboration, or employment. However, the majority of these ties go undisclosed in the published research."

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry? New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com. Thread tomorrow. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

My department at Imperial College London is hiring! We're looking for scholars who study "inclusivity," broadly defined. Applicants can be from any research area including OB, social psychology, sociology, and entrepreneurship. Deadline Sept 15. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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www.psypost.org/trump-suppor... Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...

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"Platforms are calibrated to capture attention by amplifying moralized and emotional content. This can have benefits, such as raising awareness of injustices by propagating expressions of outrage," explains @stefanleach.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-05...

Examining the relationship between moral outrage on social media and activism

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science examines how expressions of moral outrage on social media are linked to online activism, specifically petition-signing behavior.

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Now out in JPSP (open access paper): "Lifestyle Polarization on a College Campus: Do Liberals and Conservatives Behave Differently in Everyday Life?" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... w/ @dianamejordan.bsky.social, Sam Gosling, and Gabriella Harari

🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣 Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵 🗓 Application review begins April 30 Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)

🚨New Preprint (wish it were less timely)🚨 We map everyday behavioral patterns of authoritarians using smartphone data, providing an updated portrait of authoritarianism in the digital age. w/ Timo Koch, @clemensstachl.bsky.social, @dracek.bsky.social, Ramona Schoedel, et al osf.io/preprints/ps...

This summer, UCL Computer Science and Imperial College Business School will host the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) – London from June 16–25, 2025! Please apply! The summer school is free, and I'll be giving a talk! For details and application info: lnkd.in/ezurESRd

Chris Bail@chrisbail.bsky.social · last yr.

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

Sanaz Talaifar: smart phone passive sensing study: Liberals have less fun than conservatives (they are on social media lot...). Also, people vastly overestimate daily routine differences among lib vs conservatives #spsp2025 #comppsych