LLMs don't have emotions. New correspondence in Nature Human Behavior link - rdcu.be/fBIbp

One of the biggest insights from my research over the past few years: Groups (not just the individuals within them, but groups as distributed entities) do a remarkable range of things to manage emotion. See new paper in American Psychologist with Yajun Cao psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

New paper out in @nathumbehav.nature.com led by Kyle Lafollette & Doroteja Rubez. Challenging the mechanism for the implicit association test (IAT) rdcu.be/fdKtb

Challenging the mechanism for the implicit association test

Nature Human Behaviour - Using racing diffusion models to analyse 115,601 implicit association tests across 39 topics, LaFollette et al. found that response caution explained more variance in...

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We scrolls about 100 meters a day of social media content, much of it highly emotional. In a new paper led by Jonas Schöne (JPSP) we show that people tend to remember stronger emotional expressions, which leads them to estimate feeds as more emotional. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning. Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

New paper in Nature Human Behavior (led by Matan Rubin), where we manipulated the perceived identity of a real-time empathic response to be or AI. We observed a drop in perceived empathy when label was AI, and this effect was mainly driven by emotion. rdcu.be/et9ad

Comparing the value of perceived human versus AI-generated empathy

Nature Human Behaviour - AI mimics empathy well, but does its empathy feel different? The authors show human empathy has unique value: human-attributed responses are rated as more empathic than...

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The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy. Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...

Can you predict whether people are happy or sad by the way they walk? If we could, that would be pretty fun. Anyway, this paper claims you can predict both valence (positive negative) and arousal (calm and excited) from footsteps. But, can you? See thread🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04190

Can learning from past peace processes help promote peace in ongoing conflict? Check out our new paper (with Michal Reifen-Tagar, Noa Omri, and Eran Halperin @picr-lab.bsky.social ) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1/

Does daily use of ChatGPT reduce loneliness? I was very excited to see that OpenAI just published its first paper on GPT use and well-being with an experimental design. The outcome is quite disappointing . 🧵 www.media.mit.edu/publications...

🚨New job alert! My lab is hiring a lab manager. Perfect position for a graduating senior who is interested in full-time research before applying to graduate school. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #MLSky Apply here: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

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Can emotion regulation interventions spread from treated to non-treated people in a group? We examine this question in a paper published in @naturecomms.bsky.social, led by Michael Pinus and Yajun Cao. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotions - Nature Communications

Here the authors show that an emotion regulation intervention for reducing negative intergroup emotions in conflicts can decrease negative emotions not only in treated participants but also in nontrea...

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The best examples of emotional contagion is infants starting to cry when they hear another person crying (knowing nothing about the context). But could it simply be an aversion to noise? And is contagion stronger for neg emotions than for pos emotions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging

Contagious crying in infants has been considered an early marker of their sensitivity to others’ emotions, a form of emotional contagion, and an early basis for empathy. However, it remains unclear w...

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Very cool paper on using ML to predict habit formation.

Joe Simons@joesimons.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm a couple of years late to the party on this one, but a very interesting article on using digital behaviour data to investigate habit formation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #SocialPsych #Psych #PsychSky #ComputationalSocialScience #CSS

My lab and I are looking to take an applied class on Graph Machine Learning, similar to this Stanford class: web.stanford.edu/class/cs224w/. Any suggestions?

People's misrepresentation of collective political beliefs as more extreme than they actually are is an issue associated with various polarization-related outcomes (including acrophily). It seems that disclosing this bias doesn't fully solve the problem. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disclosing sample bias fails to fully correct judgments of partisan extremity

How do we infer the beliefs of an entire group (e.g., Democrats) after being exposed to the beliefs of only a handful of group members? What if we kno…

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Come join our multi-country study on social preferences for political extremes!!

@federicozimmerman.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Call for Collaborators 🚨 Join our multi-country study on social preferences for political extremes funded by @templetonfdn.bsky.social 🌍 We’re examining why people prefer extreme ingroups across multiple countries 🧠 Contribute to our project on political polarization! Details below👇

When asked to describe street food in the US and why it's so bad compared to other countries, I like to point out that I live in a place where Goldfish crackers are considered a legitimate salad topping.

When we present our work on attraction to extremity, people often ask whether this is a new phenomenon. We found this great paper from 1968 showing that people assign more sincerity, competence, trustworthiness, and likability to extremes on their own side. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper! Led by Elena Kozakevitch-Arbel, with Simone Shamay-Tsoory, we used multi-dimensional reinforcement learning approach to examine whether people are sensitive to different dimensions of social scenarios during empathic interactions www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧵

Adaptive empathic response selection is sensitive to multiple dimensions of social interaction - Communications Psychology

When providing emotional support and deciding on an empathic reaction, responders were sensitive to changes in the person requiring empathy, the emotional state of that person, and the cause of their ...

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First paper from our lab on LLMs and emotional support (led by @joannazli): Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios. Short thread of the results 1/7   osf.io/preprints/ps... #Psychology #AcademicSky #SocialPsyc

“Should I be a caring man or a dominant man?” Postdoc at the University of Geneva with Vincenzo Iacoviello and Clara Kulich #SocialPsyc #Psychology #PhDSky #PsychJobs

Post-doc position in Social Psychology, University of Geneva

Deadline: 30 April, 2024 • At the University of Geneva, we have an open position for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. The successful candidate is expected to conduct their research within the social ...

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🚨new paper🚨Stereotypically, women are seen as more emotional than men. How is this translated into judgments of emotionality? In a paper by Megan Gorges we show that stereotypes turn into judgements when people aggregate multiple emotional expressions. #psychsciski #socialpsyc osf.io/preprints/os...

New work in press at PSPB! With Aashna Poddar, Adina Williams, and Andrei Cimpian We found intersectional male-centric and White-centric biases based on a list of 4,000+ first names in large-scale (English) text using word embeddings Results overview ⬇️ osf.io/preprints/os...

Our paper explains how social identity shapes information processing and contributes to the belief and spread of #misinformation We argue that understanding the interplay between social identity and accuracy is crucial in addressing misinformation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are looking for a new colleague - please share 👇 Full #professorship in general #psychology at TU Dresden It's a great psych department with fantastic resources and colleagues. Get in touch w/ questions @dgps.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @s4sn.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/11075

New paper with Lameese Eldesouky and Kate Ellis on loneliness. Using EMA, we show that when people feel more lonely, they are less likely to share their emotions, compared to when they feel less lonely (within individual), revealing a vicious cycle. #PsychSciSky authors.elsevier.com/c/1iUtFheKdy...

Super excited to present the first empirical paper in a new line of work that focuses on the spread of psychological interventions. This one is about the spread of emotion regulation interventions to reduce negative emotions in intergroup conflicts. > osf.io/km6r4

Job alert! Come and work with my brilliant colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social 🌟 We're hiring two Assistant Professors in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science - closing date is a leap-year special = 29.2.24 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEX240/a... #Psychology #BehaviouralScience

📢Come join the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University📢 Our lab has an open Research Coordinator position! We invite applicants from psychology, poli sci, sociology, econ, data science, et al. Position begins in Spring or Summer of 2024. Please share to all who may be interested!