Attending #EASP2026 in Strasbourg? 🇫🇷 Don't miss our symposium tomorrow: Processes Guiding Automatic, Spontaneous Person Perception! We're challenging old assumptions about how first impressions form, linger, and change.
Mayan Navon-Shapira
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Social psychology postdoc @uclouvain stereotyping\prejudice, attitudes, intergroup relations. Mother, Firstgen, Israeli
I will give a talk at EASP General Meeting 2026 on Processes Guiding Automatic, Spontaneous Person Perception. Hoping for a great turnout! - via #Whova event app
Our review is organized around a recent framework of demand effects proposed by P. Lush and I, which identifies three stages in the production of demand artifacts: hypothesis formation, motivation, and control strategy. doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Sixty Years After Orne’s American Psychologist Article: A Conceptual Framework for Subjective Experiences Elicited by Demand Characteristics - Olivier Corneille, Peter Lush, 2023
Study participants form beliefs based on cues present in a testing situation (demand characteristics). These beliefs can alter study outcomes (demand effects). ...
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Thrilled to share this new preprint, co-authored with @peterlush.bsky.social and Chloé Fournier Bernard! We offer a broad and structured discussion of leading methods developed in the past >60 years to tackle demand artifacts in psychological research and beyond. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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In this new research, we found that truth beliefs can be successfully conditioned: Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures. This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Looking for some new reading!? 📖
🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social: Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case? 👉 Read the full paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...
In this research, we found that individuating information dominates social group information when forming impressions about members of newly learned social groups. This dominance was observed both on self-reports *and* more automatic measures *despite* conditions favoring group-level impressions.
🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social: Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case? 👉 Read the full paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...
🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social: Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case? 👉 Read the full paper authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...
-- Call for Papers -- Special issue on "Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications" in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
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"Progress in theorising means treating our theories as works in progress in need of continuous improvement, and this sometimes also means having to kill one’s darlings." Martijn van Zomeren and @ayseuskul.bsky.social introduce the ERSP special issue on theorizing in social psychology. #SocialPsyc
Introduction to the ERSP special issue on “Reflections on social-psychological theorizing and the state of our field”
Published in European Review of Social Psychology (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2025)
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Nice 🧵 about a brand new paper in our journal! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Do you sometimes feel torn when making decisions, like whether to eat unhealthy food or recycle? This is called felt ambivalence: a psychological discomfort from having mixed feelings about something. Check out our new work to know how people resolve such conflicts: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧠💥 1/10
Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics? Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study! Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
New article on the potential contribution of experimental demand artifacts to evaluative conditioning effects now published OA in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem
Attitude research has long been concerned with the potential influence of demand characteristics in evaluative conditioning effects. Here, we argue that this concern remains justified and cannot be r...
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Demand Characteristics "Demand artifacts need not be seen only as a vexing problem. Precisely because they are so conceptually and methodologically challenging, they represent an opportunity for methodological and theoretical development." #SocialPsyc
New article on the potential contribution of experimental demand artifacts to evaluative conditioning effects now published OA in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
As the fall semester begins, I'd like to send a call to anyone who would like to get involved in our Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. We're a dedicated network of morality and ethics researchers focused on breaking outside siloes to work together on big questions. moralconsortium.psu.edu 1/n
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Welcome to the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making A collaborative hub dedicated to unraveling the intricate threads of ethical choices. As a multidisciplinary alliance of scholars, thinkers, and prac...
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This project could not have happened without the incredible collaboration of Profs. Carmel Sofer, Bat-Sheva Hadad & @talmoran.bsky.social, former lab members Adi Langer & Hadas Wardi, and especially the amazing post-docs @mayanna.bsky.social & @maayantrzewik.bsky.social who co-led the project. 🙌
The new Teach@Tuebingen fellowship call is open. For 1/2 or 1 year you can do research & teach here. Decent salary & benefits. If you are interested in joint numerical cognition research with our lab, feel free to contact me as a host professor. Deadline June 20th. uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
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That the The Handbook of Social Psychology is open-access and free-&-accessible to everyone might change the way I teach Social at every level. Organize content around these entries and add supplemental ones as needed. #SocialPsychology #AcademicSky openpublishing.princeton.edu/projects/the...
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Is anyone putting together a symposium for #SESP2025 in 🇵🇹 Lisbon? I would like to go, but the symposium-only format is proving difficult. Looking to present grant-funded research on occupational moral roles, which also fits stereotypes, social categories, etc.
Dr. Alison Bianchi is guest editor for a special issue of Social Sciences: "Group Processes Using Quantitative Research Methods." See attached for details--submissions are due on October 31st, 2025.
Job - Alert 🌿 ✨ Professorin/Professor (w/m/d) - W2-Professur für Sozialpsychologie Deadline: 2025-05-22 Location: Germany, Würzburg, Bayern www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=7494 #hiring #THWS #Socialpsychology #socialscience #Psychology #professor
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Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025. Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice. 1/2
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Today we published a Correspondence and Author reply related to on an article we published last year, 'Self-reports are better measurement instruments than implicit measures' Correspondence: go.nature.com/4brCRzX Author reply: go.nature.com/3DilAN0
Self-reports are better measurement instruments than implicit measures - Nature Reviews Psychology
Implicit measures are widely used because they are assumed to be superior to self-reports. In this Perspective, Corneille and Gawronski challenge this view and argue that claims about disadvantages of...
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Analysis of 666,623 respondents over 17 years (2007–2023) finds the "American = White" effect is getting weaker Open access: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪
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New paper in @PsychScience examining the effects of individuation vs. group information on evaluations of novel individuals, as measured with direct vs. indirect measures of evaluation. Preprint 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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🚨New paper alert!🚨 Does repeated rehearsal of attitude expression increase its automaticity? -- Evidence are mixed! 'The Effect of Practice on Automatic Evaluation: A Registered Replication', recently accepted to JESP @AnatShechter @Yoav Bar-Anan & myself. 👉 osf.io/preprints/ps...
The Effect of Practice on Automatic Evaluation: A Registered Replication: http://osf.io/pucr2/