If you're a psychologist working with text data in R, this package is for you.

Journal of Open Source Software@joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Just published in JOSS: 'embedplyr: Tools for Working With Text Embeddings' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08262

This project wouldn’t have come together without the amazing team -- Tomer Zipori and @louisteitelbaum.bsky.social for the heavy lifting and computational analysis, @lewan.bsky.social for his insight, and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social whose vision made this possible. Truly grateful for this!

Sander van der Linden@profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access 👇Thread! Buckle up www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!

Our article "Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs" has now been published open access in JESP! @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… 🧵👇

Mikey Biddlestone@mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Check out our new pre-print!🚨 “Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs” 1/9 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New conceptual review + tutorial on text embeddings out in #APA_Journals w/ @almogsi. Beginner-friendly, but experts will find spicy new takes as well. Tag a colleague who’s still counting words... #RStats #tidyverse #quanteda 1/

Word embeddings are still the right tool for studying words.

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · last yr.

Blind people show similar associations between adjectives (e.g. cold) and colours (e.g. blue) as sighted people; word embedding models trained on corpora of written and spoken language learn these associations from indirect co-occurrences. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I talked about ideology, curation bubbles, (mis)information, and, of course, transaction costs with Mike Munger on The Answer Is Transaction Costs: taitc.buzzsprout.com/2186249/epis...

Curation Bubbles, Verification, and the Splintering of Ideology - The Answer Is Transaction Costs

What happens when we no longer consume scarce information through trusted, verified institutions, but instead through an abundance of unbundled content without context or curation? John Green, rising ...

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(1/9) Excited to share my recent work on "Alignment reduces LM's conceptual diversity" with @tomerullman.bsky.social and @jennhu.bsky.social, to appear at #NAACL2025! 🐟 We want models that match our values...but could this hurt their diversity of thought? Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2411.04427

How politicians communicate shapes online discourse in ways we might overlook. Our new paper shows that their choice between a fact-based (evidence-driven) and a belief-based (sincerity-driven) honesty creates a "contagion" effect, influencing how users engage and respond. ⬇️(1/8)

This week I finished teaching my mixed models #stats course @ BGU university! You can find all the updated #rstats and #lme4 related materials here: github.com/mattansb/Hierarchical-Linear-Models-foR-Psychologists

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Extremely happy to share that "Curation Bubbles" is online (open access!) at @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our paper is finally out!

Fintan Smith (Mac Gabhann)@fintan-smith.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hyper partisan content thrives on social media, increasing affective polarisation and poisoning political discourse. Our new paper @lewan.bsky.social, @almogsi.bsky.social, Dawn Holford, just out in @commspsychol.bsky.social, finds that inoculation interventions may help us tackle the problem. 🧵

🔊 New paper just accepted in JPSP 🥳 In "Inference from social evaluation", we explore how people use social evaluations, such as judgments of blame or praise, to figure out what happened. 📜 osf.io/preprints/ps... 📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor... 1/6