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Michael W. Kraus
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Not the German handball player or the historian. The other one. BerkeleyPsych alum and social psychologist. | he/him #psychscisky #socialpsyc
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JXjinxungoh.bsky.social

So who is going to SESP in Santa Fe?

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Authors of multi-study papers: why study 1, study 2a, and study 2b VS. study 1, study 2, and study 3? For me the latter is my preference because it doesn't introduce an extra layer of complexity and makes counting the samples straightforward but what is the advantage of studies 2a/b?

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MBmjbsp.bsky.social

Across 42 countries, objective status is associated with system justification and people system justify more when their party is in power. Authors suggest that SIT and SDI make more accurate predictions than SJT #socpsych#poliskyonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

paper title: A cross-cultural test of competing hypotheses about system justification using data from 42 nations
abstract: System justification theory (SJT) is a thriving field of research, wherein the primary questions revolve around why individuals and groups are motivated to see the systems they depend on as just, fair, and legitimate. This article seeks to answer how accurate the postulates of SJT are when compared to competing self-interest claims of social identity and social dominance theory. We addressed the ongoing debates among proponents of each theory by identifying who, when, and why individuals decide to system-justify. We used data comprised of 24,009 participants nested within 42 countries. Multilevel models largely supported the competing claims of social dominance and social identity theories over SJT. The most robust findings were: (1) greater objective socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with greater system justification; (2) the consistent positive ...
line plot of a cross-over interaction showing that people on the left and right system justify more when people who share their views are in power.
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JXjinxungoh.bsky.social

Social psych friends, what’s the ratio of your in lab vs online studies nowadays? I’m debating how many computers (for running participants) to buy for my lab. Even for subject pool, most students seem to prefer online studies…?

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JCjessicacalarco.bsky.social

This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today. Let me explain... 🧵 1/

The University of Chicago just received $100 million from an anonymous donor. Donations of that size fundamentally shift an institution’s programming and priorities, and we know that donors exert influence on campus policy. So this is—as one of my colleagues put it—basically dark money, it should be illegal to stay anonymous when exerting this much influence on an institution that’s publicly supported through tax exemptions, federal grants, non-profit status, etc.
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BDdevezer.bsky.social

In my view, study design (along with theory) is *the* ultimate preregistration. It always tells the story as it is. We just need some counterfactual thinking. Why is the study designed this way? Is this an appropriate design if this is the desired inference? Is this a good test of the theory?

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JHjessicahullman.bsky.social

My comments on this retraction are here: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/24/w...

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I've been quiet about this publicly out of respect for my colleague who was going through a legal process, but now that she has spoken on the record, I am sharing it here.

Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech
Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech

Maura Finkelstein was terminated from Muhlenberg College following a pressure campaign that seized on an anti-Zionist Instagram repost.

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Michael W. Kraus
@mwkraus.bsky.social
Not the German handball player or the historian. The other one. BerkeleyPsych alum and social psychologist. | he/him #psychscisky #socialpsyc
2.3k followers653 following263 posts