I did a thing. spsp.org/news/charact... @spspnews.bsky.social

Excited to welcome three new members to the lab: postdoc Kirstan Brodie (@kirstanbrodie.bsky.social) and graduate students Morgan Peace (@morganpeace.bsky.social) and Finneaz Moner (@finneazmoner.bsky.social)! You can learn more about them here: www.svmlab.org/people

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Antoine Vernet@antoinevernet.com · 2mo ago

Found a cool result I checked my code Now I have correct code

Found a cool result I checked my code Now I have correct code

FIVE academic jobs currently open in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, across a variety of areas; see links below. Please come and join us! It's an outstanding department with excellent people. tinyurl.com/4p6tp2j3 tinyurl.com/yxm565xs tinyurl.com/2u8m77z8 tinyurl.com/3wu9hnb5

Finally out--first paper from my own shop: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Finding = How traits hang together in your own personality predicts how you see them hanging together in others (🇸🇬 + 🇺🇸 samples, preregistered). Here's more to come!

Dan Oh (DongWon) | 오동원@ohdanieldw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Now in press at SPPS. Ruled out perceiver effects, stereotypical trait structure, assumed similarity; tested generalizability; and added longitudinal data. Kudos to coauthors @finneazmoner.bsky.social, Natasha Tan, and others. First paper as PI! Latest preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be joining @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Psychology as an assistant professor in Fall 2026 🐻💙🐻💛 Deep thanks to my students and colleagues at NUS for four formative years, and to the advisors, family, and friends who've supported me throughout.

That’s a wrap! #spsp2026

MAP Lab 🔍🧩🤼‍♂️👁‍🗨@ohlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last day!

Thanks for having me! #spsp2026 Advances in Cultural Psychology Preconference

Thomas Talhelm@thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks to everyone who helped make the culture pre-conference a “successful failure!” We didn’t make the main pre-conference time, but we had a packed house and a great time. #SPSP2026

Honored to be one of the finalists! My project for this award focuses on emotion overgeneralization in trustworthiness judgments, examining cross-cultural patterns in social perception. 🌏

Elena Brandt@elena-brandt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉 Today, we’ve announced the 25 finalists (+5 special awardees) of the Besample Dissertation Grant! This new wave of Ph.D. researchers is treating cross-cultural research as the default, not an exception. Meet this incredible group here 👉 besample.app/dissertation...

Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2

Come and join us this Wednesday for the official launch of the centre!

Miguel Escobar Varela@miguelev.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Straits Times did a nice piece on our centre (@cssh-nus.bsky.social), which will be officially launched this coming Wednesday, with @mmvty.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. Looking forward! www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pa...

The Straits Times did a nice piece on our centre (@cssh-nus.bsky.social), which will be officially launched this coming Wednesday, with @mmvty.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. Looking forward! www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pa...

Predicting public opinion, preserving historical texts: New NUS centre marries humanities with AI

A new NUS centre is combining AI with humanities to predict public opinion, preserve historical texts, and tackle complex social issues. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Last day!

Today (Saturday, Feb 28) 2pm in E271 #spsp2026

finneaz@finneazmoner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Super excited to chair my first symposium with @dongwonoh.bsky.social at @spspnews.bsky.social this Saturday (2pm-3:10pm, E271)! We have talks from Abhinanda Dash, Ming Huang Teo, Bastian Weitz, and me. If you are in the Windy City and curious about social hierarchies, join us! #SPSP2026 🌬️ 🌬️ 🌬️

Super excited to chair my first symposium with @dongwonoh.bsky.social at @spspnews.bsky.social this Saturday (2pm-3:10pm, E271)! We have talks from Abhinanda Dash, Ming Huang Teo, Bastian Weitz, and me. If you are in the Windy City and curious about social hierarchies, join us! #SPSP2026 🌬️ 🌬️ 🌬️

Thanks to everyone who helped make the culture pre-conference a “successful failure!” We didn’t make the main pre-conference time, but we had a packed house and a great time. #SPSP2026

*Correction: DongWon’s cultural psych preconfeference talk is on Wednesday, Feb 25 (not Tues, Feb 24)!

MAP Lab 🔍🧩🤼‍♂️👁‍🗨@ohlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hello Chicago! Oh Lab @ohlab.bsky.social at #SPSP2026 hailing from Singapore--8 presentations and 7 speakers across posters, talks, and a symposium. Come say hi! 👋

Hello Chicago! Oh Lab @ohlab.bsky.social at #SPSP2026 hailing from Singapore--8 presentations and 7 speakers across posters, talks, and a symposium. Come say hi! 👋

Now in press at SPPS. Ruled out perceiver effects, stereotypical trait structure, assumed similarity; tested generalizability; and added longitudinal data. Kudos to coauthors @finneazmoner.bsky.social, Natasha Tan, and others. First paper as PI! Latest preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Dan Oh (DongWon) | 오동원@ohdanieldw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share our new research on how we project our own personality structures onto others! Our paper "Self-Other Mirroring in Personality Structure" is currently under review. Check out the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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The AI revolution has produced synthetic faces that often appear more human than photos of real people. We tested whether individual differences in human face recognition ability explain variation in....

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My new research found when trying to distinguish real faces from AI-generated ones, people with average face-recognition ability performed at chance, and while super-recognisers performed better than other participants, it was only by a slim margin. Read more 🔗 www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Now in press at SPPS. Ruled out perceiver effects, stereotypical trait structure, assumed similarity; tested generalizability; and added longitudinal data. Kudos to coauthors @finneazmoner.bsky.social, Natasha Tan, and others. First paper as PI! Latest preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Dan Oh (DongWon) | 오동원@ohdanieldw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share our new research on how we project our own personality structures onto others! Our paper "Self-Other Mirroring in Personality Structure" is currently under review. Check out the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Big congratulations to Yuqing Shi @syuqing.bsky.social, a PhD student of mine, on receiving the Besample Dissertation Grant! Really exciting work on cross-cultural face perception. Can’t wait to see where this goes. besample.app/dissertation...

Thank you for the birthday wishes, everyone. Confucius said 40 is when all doubts fade. I still have plenty, but I trust myself enough to keep going anyway (:

Share your thoughts who is an Ai and who is wiser here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Can you pass the #WisdomTuringTest?

On Wisdom Podcast: The Wisdom Turing Test (Episode 66)

Thank you for participating in the Wisdom Turing Test. Please answer the two questions below. To listen again to the responses, you can review the episode here: https://onwisdompodcast.fireside.fm/6...

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Igor Grossmann, PhD@igi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Ever heard of the #Wisdom #TuringTest? I thought of creating one for the new #OnWisdom #postcast episode. This is a special episode & I want your help. Tune in: onwisdompodcast.fireside.fm/66

My colleague Falk Lieder and I are hiring a new post-doc at UCLA to join the #WiseJudgementConsortium. The ad is here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10650

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

📊 Key finding: Participants over-attributed AI generation, labeling nearly 60% of all images as synthetic—even though only half were. This "AI attribution bias" leads to: ✅ Higher accuracy detecting synthetic images ❌ Lower accuracy recognizing authentic images (5/)