New w/Single boy, Andy Guess, & Jason Reifler: How self-selection & exposure to incivility fuel online comment toxicity dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/comment… -Real-world FB comment toxicity >> toxicity of comments on same articles in nat rep sample -Random exposure to toxicity → further toxicity

[new preprint:] happy to share our latest work that experimentally looks at how "A simple self-reflection intervention boosts the detection of targeted advertising". link: psyarxiv.com/ea28z Summary below (thread).

In the daily hassle of grad school, it can be easy to lose sight of what a privilege it is to be in academia. I will never forget the moment I realized for the first time there exists a job where I get paid, in part, to just think about stuff I find interesting.

New in Behavioural Public Policy journal , by Julian Christensen and @donmoyn : Motivated reasoning and policy information: politicians are more resistant to debiasing interventions than the general public cup.org/3m1MHOs

Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the long run pnas.org/content/117/44… analyses the individuals moves of 125 years (= 24,000 games) of tournament chess, using a chess engine to identify move quality.

New paper Collabra: Psychology with @hardsci, Reza Rejaie, & Maureen Zalewski (not on twitter), in which we examine how well we can predict mental health from the accounts people follow on Twitter.🧵with highlights (1/8) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

When I had just started my job at NYU Center for Neural Science NYU Psychology in 2013, I pitched a project to incoming graduate students. It was a wild new direction for me: using board games to understand how people think ahead. 7.5 years later, we have a preprint. psyarxiv.com/rhq5j/ 1/

I am really pleased to see our paper w/Toni van der Meer and Rens Vliegenthart on the affinity between disinformation and hate speech out open access in IC&S. Key finding: the stronger false information deviates from the truth, the more likely it contains incivility. See: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How do climate change skeptics engage with opposing views? Understanding mechanisms of social identity and cognitive dissonance in an online forum - Fresh draft with Jonathan Bright 🇺🇦 out on arxiv.org/abs/2102.06516 ! ✨

🤓📣 Now out in Psychological Review (APA Journals ): "A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events" with Noah Goodman, David Lagnado & Joshua Tenenbaum. 📰: psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-52… 🗞️pre-print: psyarxiv.com/7zj94/ 📎: github.com/cicl-stanford/…

Now out in JEP:G. "Inference from Explanation" by Lara Kirfel w Thomas Icard & myself. 📰psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-13… 📜psyarxiv.com/x5mqc Also, I'm excited to announce that Lara will be joining the CiCL as a postdoc 🥳🎈🌴 I'm looking forward to many more projects together!

New paper in Association for Psychological Science led by Christos Bechlivanidis, with Marc Bühner, David Lagnado, Teresa McCormack & Christoph Hoerl: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… We showed that adults' perceived temporal order of events involves active interpretation informed by causal assumptions

'The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction', a Review by @UlliEcker, @STWorg, John Cook, @PhilippMSchmid, Lisa Fazio, Nadia Brashier, Dr. Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou, @ekvraga & @commscholar nature.com/articles/s4415…

In this tweet, Nature Reviews Psychology from Springer Nature Limited describes a Journal Club by Li Qian Tay from @uwapsych describing a paper by @dingding_peng on methods for causal analysis describing graphical methods developed by Judea Pearl.

There is concern that many ills in Western societies are caused by misinformation. Some researchers argue that misinformation is merely a symptom, not a cause. This is a false dichotomy. Li Qian Tay @ulliecker @STWorg nature.com/articles/s4427…

Grüning and colleagues review digital interventions for promoting prosocial online behaviour and provide insights and tips for collaborations between academic researchers and practitioners. David J. Grüning Matthew Katsaros Folco Panizza philipp lorenz-spreen nature.com/articles/s4427…

🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/

Welcome to check our recent preprint "A Tutorial on Causal Discovery in Psychological Research" osf.io/preprints/osf/… via Center for Open Science Li Qian Tay