✨How does political orientation related to trust in AI? ✨ Previous research was mixed - we show: it depends on an ideological match! (e.g., Think an AI is liberal? Conservatives trust less, liberals more). Maybe not surprising, but important to keep in mind when trying to explain trust in AI! 🤖

Tobias Wingen@wingentobias.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Hi, I am ConsBot, the conservative AI chatbot." Would you trust this bot? As #AI becomes politicized, we found strong "ideological fit effects": people trust bots & follow advice when the AI aligns with their political camp: Preprint w. @marlephie.bsky.social et al: osf.io/preprints/ps...

"Hi, I am ConsBot, the conservative AI chatbot." Would you trust this bot? As #AI becomes politicized, we found strong "ideological fit effects": people trust bots & follow advice when the AI aligns with their political camp: Preprint w. @marlephie.bsky.social et al: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! It's truly an honor that I get to work with and support so many amazing women* in different capacities. #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience2026 #WIS2026 #IDWGS #FrauenInDerWissenschaft

Does trust in science drive intentions for health-related behaviour? Across four studies employing an experimental manipulation of trust in science, no evidence emerged to support a causal link between the two. @wingentobias.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

No evidence for causal effects of trust in science on intentions for health-related behavior - Communications Psychology

Does trust in science drive intentions for health-related behaviour? Across four studies employing an experimental manipulation of trust in science, no evidence emerged to support a causal link betwee...

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Just released my short course on Bayesian Data Analysis using JASP. Hope you find it useful! 📚Materials, scripts, data and links: doi.org/10.17605/OSF... 📺 Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #StatsEd #Bayes #OpenScience #Statistics #Teaching @rosenetwork.bsky.social

Bayesian Data Analysis with JASP: Course for the EAM - YouTube

Short course to cover Bayesian Data Analysis. Starts at the foundations of probability and statistical inference, how Bayesian inference is built and how it ...

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Ein toller Beitrag der FernUni über unser neues Projekt HaGenAI . In dem Projekt untersuchen wir, ob KI unsere Forschungsergebnisse vorhersagen kann 🤔 . Vielen Dank für den Beitrag!

FernUniversität in Hagen@fernunihagen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🔮 Ein psychologisches Team um @wingentobias.bsky.social​ möchte heraufinden, wie treffsicher KI-Modelle wissenschaftliche Studienergebnisse prognostizieren können. Das Projekt bezieht die Studierenden aktiv mit ein und macht seine Ergebnisse fortlaufend sichtbar. Mehr Infos: https://bit.ly/4nyfgC3

Das Lehrgebiet Behavioral Economics und Interkulturelle Psychologie startet mit einem spannenden Projekt: Kann KI die Ergebnisse von Studien vorhersagen? 🤖📊 Studis machen direkt mit, indem sie ihre Arbeiten einbinden. 🤝Ergebnisse werden im schon im laufenden Prozess sichtbar gemacht #openscience. 👇

Tobias Wingen@wingentobias.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to unveil our new project & Shiny App: HaGenAI! 🎉 We test if AI can predict study results in behavioral econ: ~50 novel studies where LLMs give forecasts before data collection. 📊 Results are shared live and open here: 02mfnt-tobias-wingen.shinyapps.io/HaGenAI/ @fernunihagen.bsky.social

Excited to unveil our new project & Shiny App: HaGenAI! 🎉 We test if AI can predict study results in behavioral econ: ~50 novel studies where LLMs give forecasts before data collection. 📊 Results are shared live and open here: 02mfnt-tobias-wingen.shinyapps.io/HaGenAI/ @fernunihagen.bsky.social

Trust in science predicted protection intentions 😷 during the pandemic. But does this mean trust in science CAUSED protection intentions? 🤔 Yesterday at #FGSP2025, I presented our experimental work on this and got great feedback 🙌. If you are curious, here is our preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social 😊

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #publishers #retractions

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

In my talks about replication crisis (not reproducibility) I always used as attention-catcher that we cannot afford this roughly 50% replicability in human sciences since someone like Trump could use this to discredit everything and push their agenda. I hate that this prediction came true.

This is what you get for asking “yes but what’s the mechanism” one too many times 💋

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · last yr.

Can't wait for all the clownish oral microbiome transfer "trials" to start appearing alongside all the clownish fecal matter transfer "trials". ~ Kissing passes depression to newlywed spouses because microbiome, lolz.

Perspectives on Psychological Science returns—reimagined. More voices. Broader reach. Rigor with respect. Read the relaunch editorial. #PsychScience #OpenScience #EditorInChief @psychscience.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/QWMMC...

A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science - Arturo E. Hernandez, 2025

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Recent research shows that AI can durably reduce belief in conspiracies. But does this work b/c the AI is good at producing evidence, or b/c ppl really trust AI? In a new working paper, we show that the effect persists even if the person thinks they're talking to a human: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

🚨 CAN ARTISTIC ACTIVISM RESOLVE THE ACTIVIST DILEMMA? 🚨 Art is often employed as creative and attention-grabbing form of protest, but can it help alleviate negative effects of disruptiveness? Our findings now out in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (doi.org/10.1037/aca0...). 🧵1/4

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 We used interpretable machine learning on data from 55 countries (N = 4,635) to identify the most important individual- and nation-level factors predicting climate beliefs, policy support, and behaviors. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s441... Led by @todorova.bsky.social

Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors

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The "motherhood penalty" has shown greater discrimination against moms vs dads in the workplace. New work by @chrispetsko.bsky.social Rebecca Ponce de Leon & Ashleigh Rosette now instead shows a parenthood boost effect for moms & dads! BUT White parents may have a higher boost than Black parents.

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ALT: two cartoon dogs are standing next to each other in a room

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👉 Science communication in psychology Our dear colleague and Jun. prof. @marlephie.bsky.social phie.bsky.social is co-speaker of the interest group “PsyComm” - together with @hendriks.bsky.social. We wish you & the group every success! leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/deta... #scicom #psychology

Das ist ein Skandal erster Güte, kommt aber bei uns in den Nachrichten kaum vor: Die US-Regierung versucht, Harvard zu zerstören, die vielleicht beste Universität der Welt. Es ist wirklich unglaublich. Schauen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)

Breaking News: Friedrich Merz failed to win enough support from lawmakers in the first round of voting to become Germany’s next leader. No modern German chancellor has ever failed to secure the job on a first ballot in Parliament.

Friedrich Merz Fails in First Round of Voting to Become Germany’s Next Leader

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🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Causal inference people, please help Ruben before he goes to the hardware store and maybe even accidentally drowns himself. Has anybody actually made a video illustrating the pipe metaphor for the flow of causality?

Ruben C. Arslan@ruben.the100.ci · last yr.

Surely, someone has taken the DAG pipe metaphor to real life and youtubed a video of blocking pipe junctions called confounder/mediator/collider to show what happens to the influences?

Had a really good time in Hagen - great people, great talks, great walks! Thanks for the invite! ☺️

Tobias Wingen@wingentobias.bsky.social · last yr.

It was great having Marlene Altenmüller (@marlephie.bsky.social) at our faculty colloquium today at FernUni Hagen ☺️. Thanks for the great and inspiring talk!

Based on the grouchy replies, I’m beginning to think we need a crash course in how industry influences science for the #openscience folks. Some highlights.

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · last yr.

Has anyone done a deep dive on why #openscience social scientists are all in on an obscure merchants of doubt style toxicology journal? www.tandfonline.com/journals/teb...

It was great having Marlene Altenmüller (@marlephie.bsky.social) at our faculty colloquium today at FernUni Hagen ☺️. Thanks for the great and inspiring talk!