New work by Sam Klein in Psych Review! We describe theor. and method. challenges of testing models of person perception & introduce a model for measuring the distinct impacts of multiple cues. faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2024/10/KleinSherman2025psychreview.pdf#socialpsyc
An extremely cool idea of using GPTs to generate items for measuring novel or short-form versions of constructs psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...
It is incredibly hard to estimate the effects of laws on mental health, but this is a well-designed effort in an excellent journal. The findings, that anti-trans law lead to worse mental health and suicide attempts, should be taken seriously. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was my journal club "favorite paper of the summer"
This new paper with @jackiemchen.bsky.social and @nicolelofaro.bsky.social shows that legislative change (e.g. restricting abortion rights) influences intergroup attitudes (e.g., attitudes toward women). Meaningful work with two of my favorite collaborators 💜 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This research tested whether institutional change impacts policy support and attitudes toward the social groups impacted by policy change. Study 1 demonstrated ...
Final reminder: please get your applications in for this social cognition award!
New paper w/ Roy Levy These 2 path diagrams are conceptually different (regression with a latent predictor that has 3 indicators vs. a factor model with 4 indicators) but they are mathematically equivalent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... /1
Really into this idea of smallest effect sizes of interest. Here is one in social comparison domain
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This paper (w Zack Dunivin) was just accepted at Psychological Review. Presents both DiffEq and agent-based models exploring how identity signals are likely to change over time in response to pressures from potentially-hostile outgroups, with testable predictions. osf.io/preprints/ps...
