Philanthrotainers—people who shamelessly monetize charitable actions—evoke outrage. But that outrage is bigger than the supposed moral transgression would normally arouse, argues @mbialek82.bsky.social. Why is that? They expose what we’d rather keep concealed: buff.ly/KfUjJfT

Thanks for sharing! Happy to write a discussion piece on philanthropy of MrBeast style and its unfair criticism

Florian Cova@floriancova.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2/#365papers: Białek, M. (2026). Breaking the fourth wall of philanthropy. JME Practical Bioethics, 2(1). jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

We approve of prosocial liars, who give people false but positive feedback, even when they only lie prosocially to those they deem as vulnerable to negative feedback. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

In two studies (N = 886), we examined how individuals judge and select feedback providers for those who either handle criticism well or poorly after performing a low-quality task. Prosocial liars who...

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Both kids are gone so naturally, I'm making the most of my precious free time.

After 2 years its finally out! See for yourself whether songs in a foriegn vs native language are perceived as better or not? That was my experience, but it seems not a very popular one.

This sounds fascinating. I noticed very early on in my life in Poland that I was particularly interested in the lyrics of songs - something that barely happens to me with English ones. "Tata Kazika" was the very first one. Not the easiest choice. 🤣

New paper in JPSP with dream team Erik Løhre, S. Prasad Chandrashekar, & Thorvald Hærem! Registered report replication + extension: desire for status is linked to greater overconfidence. Many thanks to Erik for initiating the idea and project! psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ps… OA: osf.io/fyx9c_v1

Cognitive fatigue is assumed to affect moral judgment, but what about physical fatigue? Research with athletes and firefighters by Stefanczyk et al suggests it is unaffected: buff.ly/34KazhT via coauthor @mbialek82.bsky.social

Research by Milczarski et al into a potential foreign language effect on risk aversion suggests (a) there is no foreign language effect and (b) verbal probability expressions (“likely” v “70% chance”) eliminate risk aversion (!) buff.ly/N8Cvlhj via coauthor @mbialek82.bsky.social

For those keeping track of replication rates across fields: experimental asset market research is looking at a cool 21.4% replication rate. From @chrhuber.bsky.social & @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social & Michael Kirchler www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... #metasky #metascisky

Good morning, Bluesky Friends! 🗽💙 🌊

I feel a bit like this about open science. The reforms will likely lead to positive outcomes, even if we overestimate their ability to solve our problems (e.g., replication crisis) The open science movement got us to THINK about what we're doing. That's a positive spin-off if nothing else.

Santa awarded my for Christmas with an acceptance at #Cognition. In the paper, we report that groups are mor eutilitarain becuase they focus on consequences more, but just as much as solo deciders on norms and are similarly acion averse. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Moral-Dilemma Judgments by Individuals and Groups: Are Many Heads Really More Utilitarian than One?

PDF | Moral dilemmas often involve a conflict between action-options that maximize outcomes for the greater good (utilitarianism) and inaction-options... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

researchgate.net

Do we cooperate because of institutions, or do institutions exist because we cooperate? In this @pnas.org paper led by @jliep.bsky.social, with @lfitouchi.bsky.social & N. Baumard, we develop a mathematical model that answers this question. 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Do I know anyone who is in or from Bangladesh? I have a couple of cultural questions. It's for science!

Another paper challenges #dualProcessTheory about #ethics: doi.org/10.1111/cogs... - no effect of reflection test prime - reflection tests about #math didn't predict utilitarian responses - reflection tests about #logic predicted more utilitarian AND more deontological responses

SERVICE UPDATE We normally don't ask you to "share like and subscribe" but please distribute this. You are now able to delete the link after it embeds on your post so you can get those precious extra characters, and we will catch your post mentioning research. #AcademicSky #Medsky #HigherEd

Thinking about #ReverseVampires, here's what we can conclude: 1. They love sunshine. 2. They enjoy garlic. 3. Really good at crossing moving water. 4. Especially good at reflecting in mirrors. My CONCLUSION: The Reverse Vampires are just Italians. (📷: Jaak Nilson)

Methods and stats hive mind: I am aware of the Thomas et al. (2014) critique of relative weights analysis but vaguely recall another more recent paper taking a critical look at RWA. Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?

Report to amplify, please read. #UkrainianView

@halyapuff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Russians torture Mayor of Dniprorudne Yevhen Matveyev to death khpg.org/en/1608814183

I hope to never end up here at any stage of my academic career

katie@focusfronting.bsky.social · 2y ago

this is a real and actual slide from one of my professor's powerpoints

Behind the first door of the 100% CI advent calendar is a new blog post! In which I hand out unsolicited writing advice -- with a focus on writing about technical topics in an accessible manner, but most of it is fairly general: www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...

Writing about technical topics in an accessible manner

A wise man – I’m quite sure it was Brian Wansink – once pointed out that it is impossible to both read and write a lot. So, maybe reading a post about how to write just steals time from the more urgen...

the100.ci

Here is your reminder that one of the most cited papers published in the Journal of Management reports apparently fabricated results that the journal knows to be statistically impossible. It is the same paper that the journal gave an award to and refuses to correct or retract.

These two papers, taken together, really cause a rethinking of behavioral economies. Rather than having anomalous risk preferences; it looks like people have complexity aversion to "hard" decisions, especially on valuation, which drives behavioral anomalies. Herbert Simon ftw.

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk. They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings. Lead article in the latest AER issue: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

Never fun to receive a grant rejection. But it's helpful to get useful feedback. All I need to improve is: - The quality of the applicant - My research vision - The research environment

New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎 ➡️ osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 1/10

Looking for a paper that compares effectiveness of psychological interventions vs structural changes (incentives/legal solutions) in behavior change. Need for manuscript revision. Anyone familiar with it? Please Repost (aka reskeet?) for visibility

Proud to share: my former PhD student Rafał Muda received the 2023 Prime Minister's Award for Best Doctoral Thesis. www.gov.pl/web/premier/...