Attending @easp2026.bsky.social ? Come check out the presentations by lab members! #EASP2026

#AcademicSky #SocialPsychology peers, know of a URL for good video demonstration of Sherif's autokinetic effect?

What is the German word for feeling extremely proud of your students for doing a truly incredible job at a conference while being astoundingly dumbfounded by how nearly everyone is acting normal when the world in general (and my little shred of it in particular) is experiencing extreme insanity?

Attending the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting in Chicago this week? Check out some of our lab's work, with the generous help of NotebookLM in visualization! Sounds interesting? Check the comments for the full breakdown! #SPSP2026 #socialpsyc

I will be hiring a full-time pre-doctoral Research Professional to work with me at Chicago Booth. Know someone interested in studying conversation and connection? Please help spread the word! More details, including application instructions, are here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

hello friends! does anyone know of open data of an RL task (single- mult-armed bandit tasks) that also list (a variable) ITI per trial in humans? #computationalcognitivescience #computationalpsychiatry

Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum @erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:

Things that were not on my bingo card for this year: Being subject to a scam attempt by a person impersonating the president of one of my professional societies. But here we go.

1/ Breaking down the "Trilingual Gender Stereotypes Database" (TGSD)—a new, validated resource for understanding how gender stereotypes work across English, Hebrew, and Arabic. #SocialPsych #Stereotypes #PsychSciSky

Anyone?

Niv Reggev ניב רגב نيڤ ريچيڤ@nivreggev.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Anyone else struggling with @cos.io ‘s OSF providing “429 Too Many Requests” error after accessing 2-3 pages on OSF?

Anyone else struggling with @cos.io ‘s OSF providing “429 Too Many Requests” error after accessing 2-3 pages on OSF?

My department is hiring in multiple areas! Come be our colleague at the Department of Psychology at Ben-Gurion University! Feel free to ask me anything about the positions! See full details in the ad. המחלקה שלנו מתרחבת! בואו להיות קולגות שלנו במחלקה לפסיכולוגיה באוניברסיטת בן- גוריון!

Things I was not trained for 🤷‍♂️

New work ledby the amazing @AvivMokady ! Aviv asked whether our expectation-confirmation framework applies to information seeking in the context of the self. Briefly, he found that Ps in our settings preferred self-violating info! #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #self

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1/ 📢 New #Preprint Alert! With Gideon Anholt and @nivreggev.bsky.social, we asked whether people value self-verifying more than self-enhancing information. Unexpectedly, we found a 3rd motivation that emerged in the context of a non-human evaluator! www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Excited to share this new article of my PhD student Edith Rapo on the association between depression and seeking feedback from others about oneself, depending on the anticipated feedback's valence and congruence with the self-perception. Open Acces in BRAT 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Better to keep a negative self-perception than ask for feedback? - How depressive symptoms are associated with the desire for social feedback

We investigated whether depressive symptom severity is associated with incongruence between how people perceive themselves (self-perception) and how t…

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Breaking a hiatus to post this. A group of Israeli Social Psychologists, myself included, wrote a letter to speak out clearly against the Israeli government’s decisions and the resulting devastation in Gaza. docs.google.com/document/d/1... In hopes of peace and safety for all, and soon

A Letter by Israeli Social Psychologists

Dear friends of the Social Psychology community, After October 7, a group of Israeli social psychologists, including many of us, wrote a letter expressing our deep shock at the massacre, abuse, rape,...

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We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation

Job Offer from August 11, 2025

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You know you did something right when your graduate student’s mentees get him this as an end-of-year token of appreciation

👋 Good evening, folks! We want to celebrate your latest achievements across our social media channels. Do you have a new project, article, or professional update you're excited about? DM us here or email a link to press@spsp.org, and we'd love to share your news!

🔎 New preprint out: Preventing and eliminating bots and participant fraud in online surveys: Two case studies from international LGBTQ+ social research. 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #socialpsyc Eager for thoughts on our unique approach to tackling significant participant fraud (43%!) in the LEVEL UP! survey 🧵⬇️

Are you at #SIPS2025 in Budapest? We have PCI Psych stickers and (a limited number of) free PCI Psych t-shirts! You can fill out this form if you are here and interested in getting a tshirt: forms.gle/qYtUqohfZVBx... (Stickers are plentiful, get yours at the registration desk!)

🎉 New face database just dropped! The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods. Thread 🧵👇

Explanations for sample size deviation I never thought of: We were unable to reach the pre-planned fMRI sample size due to an Iranian missile taking the fMRI facility out-of-service. #Escapism #ThisNeedsToEndNow

The best things in life are free. That includes the 6th edition of The Social Psychology Handbook. Where are my social science nerds at? #sociology #psychology #socialpsychology openpublishing.princeton.edu/projects/the...

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Two-year postdoc in political psychology at the University of Cologne, Germany Enquiries: @jorislammers.bsky.social Further info: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... #SocialPsyc #PoliPsyc #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Application open for postdoc positions in the social sciences/psychology in the COFUND programme Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship at the University of Münster!! 🥳 Please share with potential applicants (must have PhD & been away from Germany/international) 🙌🏼 www.uni-muenster.de/COFUND-MDC/a...

Uncertainty, not mental content, drives dorsomedial prefrontal engagement during inferences about others www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Today’s yield: -Paper accepted at a top-tier journal -Paper rejected from a top-tier journal -Commentary draft finalized -Talk successfully delivered (first time on the specific topic) -Maybe helped in convincing someone on social media. Hard to decide which one I value more 🫣

Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!

Got 4 cycles of laundry and 2 reviews done on a single weekend. I guess I’m willing to do a lot for a little #escapism