Big takeaways: 1️⃣ Moralization is emotional, not rational — changing harm perceptions alone won't do it. 2️⃣ Moralized attitudes can shift, but need sustained, cumulative information. 3️⃣ Moral conviction is acquired more easily than it's lost. Full paper: tinyurl.com/cutbothways 8/8

Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...

Showing that LLMs are capable of producing human-like data does not imply that LLMs will make online studies untenable. Platforms like @joinprolific.bsky.social already employ authenticity checks that will improve as needed. Threatening online studies, definitely yes. Ending them, most likely no.

Nature research paper: Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics https://go.nature.com/40PT3pT

Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics - Nature

Children who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new contexts, highlighting a need to reconsider how maths is taught in school.

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

It’s difficult to express how I feel about David Lynch and what he’s done. Our wedding tables were named after Blue Velvet. He co-wrote what probably is my favorite song, Mysteries of Love. Twin Peaks is home. He’s gone but he will always stay.

New paper (with Andras Molnar)! Does competition increase dishonesty? Do competitive incentives (being compensated based on how well you perform relative to others) make people more likely to cheat? Many before us addressed this question... So why another study? 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Competition increases the magnitude of dishonest reporting even when controlling for reward uncertainty - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Competition increases the magnitude of dishonest reporting even when controlling for reward uncertainty

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New paper: We combine evidence from a survey (correlational), bank spending data, and online experiments to show that job loss increases risk taking. Joint work with @abbysussman.bsky.social, Carlos Vazquez-Hernandez, Daniel O'Leary, and Jennifer Trueblood

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Job loss increases financial risk-taking. People who lost their jobs during the pandemic were more likely to gamble and purchase more lottery tickets, on average, than people who had not lost their jobs. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Exciting developments at JCR! As of January 1st, JCR will consider two additional formats, registered reports and brief commentaries. Details here: consumerresearcher.com/more-options...

More Options for Authors: Expanding the Paper Formats Considered at JCR - Journal of Consumer Research

As of January 1, 2025, the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) will consider submissions in two additional formats: Registered Reports

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I’m looking for responses to replications that attributed failure to stimuli becoming invalid with time (e.g., Shafir and Cheek 2024 JDM on choose/reject effects), or to stimulus selection more generally. Discussions also welcome (e.g., @olegurminsky.bsky.social and Dietvorst 2024 JCR). Pointers?

I'm excited to join this great team as Associate Editor. Look forward to helping @simine.com realize her vision for the journal and for the field!

simine vazire@simine.com · 3y ago

I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/2024-editorial-board We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!

Interested in a PhD in consumer behavior? Come to hear what we can offer at our Virtual Open House days (November 23, 6pm CET or November 27, 10am CET). We're a diverse, research-oriented group that is committed to open science. Here's all the info: www.erim.eur.nl/doctoral-pro...

Vegan menu items were less likely to be chosen when they were explicitly labeled as "vegan" sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to @simine.com who will be the new editor-in-chief at Psych Science! Kudos to her and to the APS publication committee for an excellent choice -- an excellent editor who will be great for the journal and the field of psychology! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...