Meet Austin who is joining my lab and Brooke, joining Ted’s lab! They are both fantastic scholars, so keep an eye out for them!

MSU Psychology@msupsychology.bsky.social · 3h ago

Please join us in welcoming two incoming graduate students to the social-personality research area: Brooke Cote and Austin Zeng! We’re thrilled to have you join us! 💚🤍 Learn more about Brooke and Austin here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

New meta by @peterhaehner.bsky.social et al (I'm a little middle author) on individual differences in personality change across the lifespan (229 studies, N = 230k) 10.1037/bul0000525 Cool finding (imo): For all Big Five, variance in change is greatest in youth, declining through young adulthood!

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

Congratulations to Dr. Meltem Yucel on being elected as a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology! psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social @moralmindslab.bsky.social

Within-participants designs need 2-8x fewer participants than between-participants designs for the same level of precision. Ch 9 of Experimentology argues for making within your default. 🧵 experimentology.io

Read my interview with @vox.com about #Gossip with our neighbors. The funny part is that I gossiped about this piece *with* my neighbors too 👂

MSU Psychology@msupsychology.bsky.social · 4w ago

What are some best practices for gossiping with neighbors? @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social and other researchers talked with Vox about how to ensure neighbor relationships stay productive, what to do when things go awry, and more. www.vox.com/advice/49400...

Yesterday I gave a talk at the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) General Meeting in Strasbourg, France! 🇫🇷 Many thanks to the organizers and all the attendees—I can't believe the room was so full that people were sitting on the floor! @easp2026.bsky.social

If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

Hello, fellow Fellows! I'm delighted to share that I've been elected as a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). 🎉

Honored to be featured by my middle/high school in an event celebrating Koç School's alumnae in science and engineering! Proud to be featured alongside a bunch of smart women! 🤩

Overall, these results suggest that when examining how the public responds to questions about the morality of same-sex relationships, Americans give similar answers to questions about the morality of “homosexuality” and “homosexual behavior.” 8/

New analysis from @pewresearch.org that I wrote up with my colleague William Miner on how question wording affects polling on the morality of homosexuality is now out! www.pewresearch.org?p=301100 A 🧵 1/

How question wording affects polling on the morality of homosexuality

A new survey experiment reveals Americans largely don't distinguish between the morality of "homosexuality" and "homosexual behavior," though some subgroups may.

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Where did this year's #psychjobs market end up? Thanks to an unusually high number late postings, not as bad as it was looking earlier in the year. Still, this is the smallest number of jobs posted since 2012, representing a 26% decline from last year (~2/3rds the size of the covid drop in 2020).

Mark Thornton@markthornton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Another ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.

First graduation as faculty ✅ This concludes my first year on the tenure track 🙌 🥂

Wrapped up the last exam of the semester. Exhausted but full of gratitude for our students 🙏🥰

at a job interview "whats your biggest weakness?" "understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics" "could you give an me an example?" "yes i could"

Enjoyed the linked post by Alex Imas: "If the model is right, the durable jobs of the future won’t be about monitoring AI systems or prompt engineering. ... . The durable jobs will be in the relational sector, where the human element is the product itself." aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-...

What will be scarce?

The economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work

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Stefan Schubert@stefanschubert.bsky.social · 4mo ago

AI propaganda has so far not been as effective as people feared a few years ago www.update.news/p/ai-economi...

Today I used "6-7" in my intro class with this exact gif. They laughed, and then there was an awkward pause. Therefore I feel secure in saying that I think I killed the meme (you're welcome).

a man in a bow tie is standing in a park with the number 6 and 7 on his shirt

ALT: a man in a bow tie is standing in a park with the number 6 and 7 on his shirt

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Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨 ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts. internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/

Honored to have been included in this exciting lineup. @dcameron.bsky.social did a fantastic job putting together such an exciting conference. I'm learning something new with each and every talk!

Daryl Cameron@dcameron.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today's the Moral Fragmentations conference! Details below. If you're in town, come to the Innovation Hub, and if you're online, register for the Zoom live webinar. Come join the conversation through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making, it will be fun. moralconsortium.psu.edu/events/moral...

UURAF was a HUGE success!! Congrats team 💕

Moral Minds Lab@moralmindslab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congrats to Avery, Emily, and Kennedy for presenting their project at MSU’s University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF)!

Congrats to Avery, Emily, and Kennedy for presenting their project at MSU’s University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF)!

Folks in State College! If you're around this Saturday, I encourage you to check out the reception that the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is hosting at Webster's Bookstore, one of our independent bookshops. This is the opening, informal meet-and-greet with several of the invited speakers.

Our new paper is out in Child Development! We’re the first to use the looking-while-listening paradigm to examine emotion word comprehension in early childhood. Work with my fantastic grad student @chenhanqi.bsky.social 🙌 Read more: academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

The emergence of emotion word comprehension in toddlerhood: Evidence from a looking-while-listening paradigm

Abstract. At what age do children acquire emotion words? Research shows gradual acquisition from ages 3 to 5, with mixed findings for age 2. However, most

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Affective Cognition Lab@affcoglab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're excited to share our latest publication led by our lab's grad student, Hanqi Chen!! 🥳 This study examines the emergence of emotion word comprehension in toddlers using a looking-while-listening paradigm. 🔗 Check out the full paper here: academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

Many thanks to @bostonu.bsky.social for having me today at the Developmental Science Colloquium. I loved getting to meet and chat with you all! P.S. I finally *met* @levelsof.bsky.social!!

Massive and important positive news... #NSF #GRFP awards are out. 2,599 awards! + 1,440 Honorable Mentions. A significant boost from last year. Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)! & many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible. www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

First, Two-thirds of all recorded episodes of democracies turned autocracies occurred in the last 30 years, from 1994 to 2023: 64 episodes of backsliding in 54 countries. (Nord & Lindberg, 2025) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped?

Using the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset version 15, we offer six main findings about contemporary trends of regime transformations. First, the average level of liberal democracy continues ...

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🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨 ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts. internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/

Discover How Children Think with the Moral Minds Lab!