New preprint!🚨

Why do people express moral outrage online, but remain friendly in person? In a new preprint with Jay Van Bavel, PhD Tessa West we argue that moral expressions are highly malleable and shaped by social norms. (1/3)

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📢New Preprint!📢
@JayVanBavel, Kareena del Rosario and I go inside the 'Funhouse Mirror Factory' of Social Media to explain how SM is distorting our perception of social norms-- by making moderate opinions practically invisible and over-representing the most extreme voices.

We have updated our pre-print on using GPT for text analysis.

Our most exciting new finding: GPT-4 Turbo (the updated GPT-4 model released this January) is even better than the prior version of GPT-4 at detecting psychological constructs in text:

Had a blast at SAS sharing my findings with Tessa West on awkward encounters. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat! #AffectScience2024

Looking forward to presenting at SAS this Sunday 3/1 3:15pm! I’ll be sharing findings from a pilot study on socially awkward encounters with Tessa West hope to see you there! #AffectScience2024

#SPSP2024 Steve Rathje says GPT is much better at coding emotions (and other psych constructs) than LIWC or NRC!

And it works well across languages!

It was also able to detect moral foundations in Reddit conversations, but not as effective as a fine-tuned BERT classifier.

Have you ever had a moment at work that was downright awkward? Tessa West and I would love to hear about it! If you're willing to share your thoughts on your own awkward moments, please fill out this quick, anonymous survey lnkd.in/eynsUD-h

Key findings from #SPSP2024 : awkward encounters are spontaneous, sticky in memory, left unresolved, and result in significant perceptual differences such that participants feel worse about the interaction and their performance than they think their partners do Tessa West

Excited to present the findings from my pilot study with Tessa West on socially awkward encounters at SPSP! Stop by the emotions preconference on 2/8 to learn more about what differentiates perceptions of awkward encounters from those of similar processes.

Go Blue!! Greatest university in the world

Maybe we’ll be in the next Marvel movie Jenna Landy

My favorite costume at our psychology department #Halloween party: Data Colada

Super excited to announce my first (and first first-author) paper in Social and Personality Psychology Compass this week, where we looked at similarity in partners' stress about the COVID-19 pandemic and associations with relationship quality WHIRLab compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Graduated from U-M Psychology with my friends today! I am thankful for an amazing 4 years at UMich and look forward to starting my PhD at NYU Psychology soon

It was an honor to meet President Santa J. Ono on his inaugural day! Go blue!

A wonderful foundation to help raise money for brain cancer research.

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And last but not least, Annika From presenting her research on discrimination and the cortisol awakening response in Black interracial and same-race couples! #SPSP2023

I had an awesome experience presenting my thesis results (with Esra Ascigil Robin Edelstein) at #SPSP2023 !! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to chat

Lots of great posters from the research assistants from the Robin Edelstein and WHIRLab! #SPSP2023