Honored to see our UML paper featured by the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. The article highlights how unsupervised machine learning can help social scientists uncover hidden structure in beliefs and attitudes. www.ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2026/ne...

New Tools for Studying Bias and Belief: Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University

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Thanks for hosting me! It was wonderful chatting with such a great group of folks!

Larisa Heiphetz Solomon@drlarisa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thank you to @jonds7.bsky.social for sharing work on how people respond to transgressions, particularly in the context of policing, with my moral psych class this morning! More info here: jedoriscar.wixsite.com/jonathandori....

🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...

As part of an effort to celebrate scholars who apply their research in service of social change, SPSP is highlighting the late Dr. Samuel Sommers - who served as an expert in several cases on different aspects of the criminal justice system. Learn more: https://ow.ly/wr7V50Y9sKA

New work led by @jonds7.bsky.social on responses to police brutality (justification and outrage), with analyses of YouTube video comments and a behavioral experiment. Very grateful to have gotten to work on this with the team! 🙏

Jonathan Doriscar@jonds7.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New preprint out 📄 “Why Reform Stalls: Justifications of Force Are Linked to Lower Outrage and Reform Support.” Why do some cases of police violence spark reform while others fade? We look at how people explain them—through justification or outrage. osf.io/preprints/ps...

These young people are, in their own way, teaching seminars on identity every time they post. And it reminds me that the best social science takes what folks already sense about the world and treats it with the theoretical and empirical seriousness it deserves. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ-1vvq...

Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋@jinxungoh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

New preprint out 📄 “Why Reform Stalls: Justifications of Force Are Linked to Lower Outrage and Reform Support.” Why do some cases of police violence spark reform while others fade? We look at how people explain them—through justification or outrage. osf.io/preprints/ps...

✨New preprint! Why do people express outrage online? In 4 studies we develop a taxonomy of online outrage motives, test what motives people report, what they infer for in- vs. out-partisans, and how motive inferences shape downstream intergroup consequences. Led by @felix-chenwei.bsky.social 🧵👇

Thrilled to share that my first first-authored publication is officially out (soon to be in press at Social Cognition)! 🚀 "From Data to Discovery: Unsupervised Machine Learning in Social Cognition" 📄 OSF preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Despite all the upheavals, some bright spots! Yesterday, @shreevallabha.bsky.social successfully defended her dissertation; approved with no revisions! 🎉 Dr. Vallabha’s dissertation work is the most comprehensive study of moral humility to date 👀

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏

I would like to share that the family requests donations be made to the Innocence Project (innocenceproject.org/donate/) or the American Civil Liberties Union (action.aclu.org/give/now) in lieu of flowers. 💖💐

I’m giving a talk at the Society for Affective Science on Friday—my first time attending. If you’re around, come say “hi”! @affectscience.bsky.social

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

Join us for our SPSP symposium! We present research on responses to personal, blatant, systemic, and historical racial prejudice. Featuring 3 in-person talks & a recorded session from Keith on Whova. #SPSP2025

Excited to share my first ever publication recently accepted at JPSP! This work was led by the wonderful @shreevallabha.bsky.social, see her thread below, to get a brief summary of this paper. Thanks to both Shree and @mjbsp.bsky.social for teaching me so much during this project!

Shree Vallabha@shreevallabha.bsky.social · 3y ago

Happy to share my first first-author paper recently accepted at JPSP! osf.io/j3vp9 We ask: Do people blame current groups for the atrocities committed by their ancestors? If yes, when/why? We address these using repeated measures surveys and conjoint experiments.1/