Out now in the Journal of Health Psychology: (1) How does social distancing differ between college student and older, non-student samples? (2) What predicts changes in social distancing over time? This was lab-wide work led by Soyeon Choi and @WNMerrell. doi.org/10.1177/135910…

Public health officials have offered guidance on criteria and methods for social distancing, however, wide variation exists in the extent to which people have followed this guidance according to a new U-M Psychology study. news.umich.edu/keep-your-dist…

Cool paper alert 😎! Consider a conversation between a French and an English speaker. What is the simplest way for the English speaker to translate a word “apple" for the French speaker? Well, simply bring an apple to the French speaker :) (1/6)

Wonder about the psychological effects of vaccines? Using an innovative design to infer causality, Soyeon Choi shows that getting a COVID vaccine affected judgments about *other* people, not only judgments about the self. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New in the psychology of vaccines: does getting a COVID shot give you a sense of lowered risk to both self and others, extending to the unvaccinated? Soyeon Choi @WNMerrell and josh ackerman U-M Psychology Research Center for Group Dynamics coauthor: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/…

Have you ever hidden the fact that you were sick from people around you? If so, you're not alone. Now out in Psych Science (Association for Psychological Science) we (Soyeon Choi & UM Evo Social Psych Lab) examined when and why people conceal infectious disease. doi.org/10.1177/095679…

Across a series of studies published in Psychological Science involving healthy and sick adults, 75% of participants said they had either hidden an infectious illness from others at least once or might do so in the future Wilson Merrell Soyeon Choi UM Evo Social Psych Lab psychologicalscience.org/news/2024-janu…

How do we evaluate people who display emotionally mismatched responses to contexts? Fascinating work by @KaelynSabree UM Evo Social Psych Lab examines this! #EPatSPSP2024 #SPSP2024

Looking for experience working in an evolutionary psych lab or an intergroup relations lab? Why not both? Arnold Ho and I are hiring a joint lab manager to begin later this summer here at U-M. Apply by March 25th. Questions welcome. Details: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/246…

My paper with @MalAdapts, josh ackerman, and @gaby__goldstein is out today in Political Psychology! My favorite part was the sampling method for this one! Take a look: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/po…

Just accepted---NEW friendship work from Jessica D. Ayers, me, + Athena Aktipis! Some are loyal (but tight-lipped). Some gossip (but are shifty). How do people make tradeoffs wrt friend preferences?And what traits are luxuries vs. necessities? Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

I'm honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award! Our group will develop a unified theory and new algorithms with provable guarantees for learning with frozen pretrained models, also known as foundation models. Huge thanks to NSF and my amazing collaborators and students! 🥳

Many belated cheers to Soyeon Choi who successfully defended her dissertation and will be graduating with her PhD soon! An amazing person and scholar. She is off to postdoc with Nick Buttrick this fall. Congratulations!

Now out at PSPB: we (Nadia Vossoughi, @NourKteily, & Arnold Ho) examined predictors + intergroup implications of Asian-White multiracial solidarity with their respective parent groups. A🧵on some main findings: doi.org/10.1177/014616…

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Could generative agents powered by LLMs transform social science by accurately simulating human social behaviors at scale? We tested this possibility with virtual humans facing disease threats in "Infected Smallville." 🧵