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The Many Smiles Collaboration is done! There's already been a bit of buzz. But nobody has yet asked me about the *name*! Why “Many Smiles”? I’ve never told anybody—but I named this psychology experiment after my favorite album: SMiLE by The Beach Boys! 🤣 🧵

Check out our publication in Social Psychological and Personality Science! Can studies about violent video games and aggression be biased by demand characteristics? With two experiments, we show that demand characteristics can lead habitual gamers to respond less aggressively

We're excited to report that our 2024 conference schedule is now on our website! Check out the amazing line up of presenters and Big Team Science groups. bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

So many fantastic topics at 2024 Big Team Science Conference 2024! We will present our protocol for study the representativeness of BTS samples, a follow-up this (doi.org/10.1038/s41562…) Please join us at UTC 2024-10-09 10:30-10:55. we need your input!

You can weather any storm when you have great colleagues like Erin, me, and the other folks in the department. Also, think about all the deep thinking time you get when you lose electricity and the roads are flooded. No classes, no email, and NO meetings 😁

And so it begins! Two great days of #BigTeamScience 2024 Big Team Science Conference Psychological Science Accelerator ManyBabies Opening remarks by Nicholas Coles, PhD

Also many talks from members of the Psychological Science Accelerator: recipient of the 2022 Einstein Foundation Institutional Award! Very refreshing to see all this work come together 🙂

Psst - hey! You! #Spatial #navigation researcher! We're launching a new Big Team Science initiative: ManySpaces! Want to get involved! Learn more at my talk today at the BigTeamScience Conference! On Zoom @ 1:30pm ET. Register for free for the link! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

6th Annual Florida social psych (& friends) pumpkin carving contest - will the faculty lose for the sixth year in a row? Stay tuned!!

Word Learning by Michael C. Frank: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

How can we reduce partisan animosity? A massive new study Science Magazine tests 25 interventions (N = 32,059) and finds some key lessons: 1) Highlight positive intergroup contact 2) Emphasize common identities and shared norms science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨 New MegaStudy out in NHB 🚨 Do honesty oaths work in curbing dishonesty? Led my brilliant colleague, Janis Zickfeld, we tested 21 honesty oaths in an online megastudy with 21,506 participants who played an incentivized tax evasion game online.

My wife agreed to let me pick out one book for the baby's nursery

Do you like building great tools for behavioral measurement? We are seeking a Research Scientist to act as the tasks lead and engineering manager for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE: levante-network.org.

This was me, as I emerged from a day of setting up a new lab in a University of Florida building with no functioning AC, on a NSF project that hasn't paid me in 11 months, at a university whose controversial new presidential hire is now controversially unhired? 🤣 🫠🖥️