Submissions are OPEN for the 2026 APS Annual Convention in Barcelona, Spain! #APS26BCN Submit your research by 5 December www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...
Clara Pretus
@clarapretus.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Director of socialbrainlab.com | Previously NYU & Consultant at the UN Office of Counter Terrorism | Researching extremism & misinformation | clarapretus.com
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
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🚨📄 Now accepted at Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! Why do some people turn to extreme views after being excluded? Most studies focus on personal rejection, but what happens when it’s your group that’s rejected? We conducted a study with over 1,200 UK residents.👇
How do we work out what the best course of action is when facing multiple choices? We can adopt three perspectives—pragmatic, hedonic or moral—argue @clarapretus.bsky.social and @jayvanbavel.bsky.social, and our preferences may look very different depending on the one we take: buff.ly/t6o8N8f
Jay and I wrote about our latest publication on how the brain processes moral evaluations compared to pragmatic and hedonic ones for Psyche Magazine. @jayvanbavel.bsky.social psyche.co/ideas/there-...
There are three lenses through which to weigh any decision | Psyche Ideas
Whether an act seems ‘good’ depends on how you look at it. Brain research reveals what happens when the lens changes
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Un estudio del equipo de la neurocientífica @clarapretus.bsky.social sugiere que la desinformación cumple una función social, y que compartirla nos reafirma como miembros de un grupo. Mira:
La neurociencia de la desinformación
¿Cómo decide nuestro cerebro si compartimos o no desinformación? Una investigación reciente relacionada con los circuitos neuronales sugiere que la desinformación cumple una función social, y que compartirla nos reafirma como miembros de un grupo.
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En mi nuevo artículo en @es.theconversation.com explico cómo escaneamos el cerebro de un grupo de simpatizantes de extrema derecha para ver qué ocurría cuando decidían si compartir o no desinformación partidista. theconversation.com/la-neurocien...
La neurociencia de la desinformación
¿Cómo decide nuestro cerebro si compartimos o no desinformación? Una investigación reciente relacionada con los circuitos neuronales sugiere que la desinformación cumple una función social, y que comp...
theconversation.com
🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology
Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence
In a new set of studies, we experimentally increase will to fight and justification of violence with short AI-generated messages. 👇🏼
Social Brain Lab Barcelona@sbl-barcelona.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 New Preprint: Social media influence campaigns often use AI to spread polarizing messages at scale. But can LLMs such as ChatGTP fuel extremist attitudes? We tested this in two studies with US Democrats and Republicans (N= 917). 🧵👇
In a new set of studies, we experimentally increase will to fight and justification of violence with short AI-generated messages. 👇🏼
Social Brain Lab Barcelona@sbl-barcelona.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 New Preprint: Social media influence campaigns often use AI to spread polarizing messages at scale. But can LLMs such as ChatGTP fuel extremist attitudes? We tested this in two studies with US Democrats and Republicans (N= 917). 🧵👇
I am excited to announce that we are launching a new CENTER FOR CONFLICT & COOPERATION @ NYU @newyorkuniversity.bsky.social See our vision and research team here: www.centerconflictcooperation.com Sign up for our newsletter here: jayvanbavellab.substack.com Please spread the word or reach out!
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.
Rob Mok@robmok.bsky.social · 2y agoPLEASE SHARE: apply to my postdoc in Osaka. Comp cogneuro of learning, control, & concept representation. fMRI, cognitive models & deep nets. Initial deadline Oct 18. The deadline will be extended once so don't worry if u need more time. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #compneurosky
Interested in group discrimination? We developed a new interactive task to study the effects of personal and group discrimination. RateME is opely available on our Lab's Github and can be implemented on Qualtrics or as an fMRI task. Check out our new study & try it out yourself! ✨️
Social Brain Lab Barcelona@sbl-barcelona.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨OUT NOW: Why does it hurt when your group is rejected—even if the rejection isn’t about you? We developed an openly available task RateME to explore how the brain processes group rejection and how it compares to personal rejection. Here’s what we found. 🧵👇
Interested in group discrimination? We developed a new interactive task to study the effects of personal and group discrimination. RateME is opely available on our Lab's Github and can be implemented on Qualtrics or as an fMRI task. Check out our new study & try it out yourself! ✨️
Social Brain Lab Barcelona@sbl-barcelona.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨OUT NOW: Why does it hurt when your group is rejected—even if the rejection isn’t about you? We developed an openly available task RateME to explore how the brain processes group rejection and how it compares to personal rejection. Here’s what we found. 🧵👇
New study finds that crowdsourced fact-checking (e.g. community notes) were viewed as significantly more trustworthy than basic misinformation flags by individuals across the political spectrum. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #MisinfoResearch
Community notes increase trust in fact-checking on social media
Abstract. Community-based fact-checking is a promising approach to fact-check social media content at scale. However, an understanding of whether users tru
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If you’re a social media user who’s expressed anything other than condemnation for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, counterterrorism authorities might consider you an “extremist.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/post-luigi...
Read the NYPD’s Mangione report the media won't publish
Post-Luigi, the "extremist" threat is you
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Self-reported sharing intentions of low-quality news in surveys are predictive of actual sharing of low-quality news on X, finds @arechar.bsky.social @mmosleh.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf...
The exodus from X/Twitter has finally started, but maybe Twitter should have died a long time ago? Our new research published today shows how political abuse on X is a global, widespread, and cross-partisan phenomenon. Out now in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Key results🧵
Scholars argue whether rightists or extremists are more prone to conspiracies. A new analysis across 77 samples (and 18 countries) concludes "there is no single functional form" of the ideology-conspiracy relationship. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #socialpsych #psychscisky #polisky
Political hope, anyone? When are leaders go fascist, previous supporters of those leaders actually go less fascist. See our registered-report longitudinal study, led by @shirahebelsela.bsky.social, Lee Aldar, and @taloharel.bsky.social, with Boaz Hameiri and Eran Halperin, here: tinyurl.com/3py5n6vb
"conspiracy theory beliefs that are more “fringe,” held by smaller groups of homogenous people, are likely to be more strongly correlated with (support for) violence than beliefs in more popular theories." misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-...
The relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs and political violence | HKS Misinformation Review
Recent instances of political violence have prompted concerns over the relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs and violence. Here, we examine the relationships between beliefs in various conspi...
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu
The introduction of Community Notes on X did not reduce engagement with misinformation posts on X, with Community Notes possibly being too slow to reduce engagement in the early stages of viral diffusion, finds Chuai et al. doi.org/10.1145/3686...
Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how? Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)
Our paper on emotional contagion in a collective ritual is now officially out in the American Journal of Human Biology. Using wearable GPS and electrodermal activity monitors, we track the spread of emotional arousal in the context of a religious procession. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Can we reduce polarization with empathy? Just published a new (replication) study with @mrooduijn.bsky.social and Matthijs Gillissen showing that different components of empathy have quite different effects [1/5] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Empathic Concern and Perspective-Taking Have Opposite Effects on Affective Polarization | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core
Empathic Concern and Perspective-Taking Have Opposite Effects on Affective Polarization
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Social identity complexity is positively related to universal cooperation (& negatively related to parochialism) Diverse identities allow people to assess situations from different perspectives, reducing bias & enhancing intergroup understanding + communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames
As society evolves, individuals increasingly cooperate with both in-group members and out-group strangers, despite risks such as betrayal. Social iden…
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〝Issue One recently hosted a panel discussion to dig deeper into the issues covered in our most recent report: "Flooding the Gap: How Big Tech’s Failures Empowered Foreign Adversaries and Undermined the 2024 U.S. Election."〞 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_T... #FIMI #infops #tech #platforms #elections
Flooding the Gap: How social media companies empowered foreign adversaries in this election cycle
YouTube video by Issue One
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Issue One@issueonereform.bsky.social · 2y agoAfter Jan. 6, Big Tech promised reform. By 2024, it backtracked, leaving our democracy vulnerable to foreign interference. What went wrong? Read our new report to find out: issueone.org/press/new-re...
