Excited to share that our paper on the effects of the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter movement was just published at PNAS (bit.ly/3Dz7suB)! See the thread below for a summary of the findings:

Check out this new paper from our lab just out in PNAS. It sheds important light on the impact of the #BlackLivesMatter movement: finding that protests, even including violence, increased support for BLM’s policy goals but didn’t reduce prejudice.

Important findings from aChord study tonight at Channel 2 news. 98 percent of Palestinians oppose violence, but Jews believe that almost half of Palestinians support violence. These biases in meta perceptions are part of what amplifies hostility. facebook.com/10000379315659…

Check out this new paper led by Shira Ran at PICR Lab - Prof. Eran Halperin showing how political ideology shapes mother’s motivation for child’s empathy within the context of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. A fascinating demonstration of how conflicts transmitted and amplified across generations.

🚨 To (belatedly) celebrate its second birthday, we are giving away two signed (!) copies of Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛'s wonderful book 'Statistical Rethinking'! To enter, retweet this and follow me and CRC Press Data Science, Stats, and Math Books by end of May 21, 2022 #RStats

Is there chemistry in social chemistry? When we click with someone and immediately become close friends? Thrilled to share our new Science Advances paper, “There is chemistry in social chemistry”: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Together with Kobi Snitz and Noam Sobel, Weizmann Institute

Day 1 of our field experiment workshop with Prof. Donald Green is in the books! We can not wait for day 2&3

If you're still using Mendely, now is the time to switch!! Go Zotero!

🧵Check out these new articles published by our amazing lab members in the last few weeks: (1/11)

🚨 New pre-proof of our (Eran Halperin and Boaz Hameiri ) paper in Current Opinion of Psychology is now available at doi.org/10.1016/j.cops… (1/n)

🧵What are, in fact, emotions and moods? In a new work (psyarxiv.com/42yh6), @EmanuelAviv and I identify three computations that emotional states represent /1

Amit will present our work at SPSP. Check it out!!

החלטת נתניהו לפטר את שר הבטחון יואב גלנט היא מעשה של טירוף, המעידה על העדר מוחלט של שיקול-דעת. אין תקדים בתולדות ישראל לשר בטחון שפוטר בגלל שהתריע, כמתחייב מתפקידו, על סכנה ביטחונית. נתניהו נחוש לדרדר את ישראל לתהום. כל יום בו מכהן נתניהו בתפקידו מסכן את ישראל ועתידה.

🌀🚨New Paper!🚨🌀 Phi, Fei, Fo, Fum! We present a new (!) effect size פ (Fei) for χ² test of goodness-of-fit, and how it fits into the family of related effect sizes! Now out MDPI! w/ Indrajeet Patil (इंद्रजीत पाटील) @RemPsyc Brenton Wiernik 🏳️‍🌈 Daniel 🕹️ (easystats) 1/

🎓 Excited to share our latest paper on the impact of psychological distance on reasoning in aptitude tests! Analyzing 41k+ examinees, we found that relatable, psychologically-close details can boost performance, especially for low scorers. Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4153…

Check out our🚨new paper🚨 (Navon & Bar-Anan, 2023), examining whether, inherently, automatic judgments are more sensitive to group information, relative to deliberate judgments Journal of Experimental Social Psychology …w-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.bgu.ac.il/science/articl…

Super excited to present the first empirical paper (led by Michael Pinus ) in a new line of work on the spread of psychological interventions. This one is about the spread of emotion regulation interventions to reduce negative emotions in conflicts. > osf.io/km6r4

Thanks Amit!! I was truly honored to work with such an amazing team!

אוהדי הפועל יצאו ביוזמה המבורכת ביותר שיש, של חלוקת החולצה של הירש במתנה לככל האדומים. החולצה תחולק בדרבי הירושלמי וכן במשחקי גביע המדינה בכדורסל. כדי שכל אדום ואדומה יוכלו לקבל חולצה, הם זקוקים לתמיכתם. לתרומה בפייבוקס > payboxapp.page.link/ja8XjyFaiJJSnS…

We published “Motivation Research Using Labeling Functions” dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…, presenting a way to investigate motivation of developers in real activity, on millions of cases over years. EASE 2025 HUJI CSE #EASE24 #motivation