Social cognitionist. Studies counterfactuals, regret, nostalgia, meaning, conspiracy theories, memory, free will, momentum. Cackles loudly at amusing things.
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We're searching at Ohio University this year for a Tenure-Track Quantitative Psychologist position at the Assistant Professor level! Please consider applying and/or letting others know about this opportunity! ohiouniversityjobs.com/posti…
Daniel Pink and I had an opportunity to discuss “Functions of Human Regret” on NPR-LA (89.3 FM Pasadena). Most notable was how the live callers expressed how they were able to use their regrets as catalysts for future change. Link: open.spotify.com/episode/6Ye…
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Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (amazon.com/Learning-Imagine-…) is coming out Nov. 14!
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.
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A common view in behavioral science is that people cannot introspect directly on the mental processes underlying their choices. Here, in a new preprint, we provide evidence that they can.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2z…
Work with @carlsonr_ , @hedykober, and @mollycrockett
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Analytic thinking is related to lower belief in conspiracies. So can analytic thinking decrease belief in conspiracy theories? We don’t really know, as the one set of studies in support of this does not seem to replicate.
With @petrovicbm & @v_gligoric
doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.…
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New paper with @TaniaLombrozo! Why do people only wonder “why?” about certain observations? Why do people only find certain explanations satisfying? We propose the “picky with a purpose” hypothesis. Thread below, paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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First paper with my awesome postdoc advisor @lkfazio using person-centered approaches to understand conspiracy theorists! Takeaway: conspiracy theorists appear to be motivated by intuition and rationality but lack truth discernment abilities routledgeopenresearch.org/ar…
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🚨Out in PoPS🚨
Can crowds help identify misinfo at scale? In this review we show seemingly contradictory findings in the lit are simply due to different analytic approaches. In all data, crowd is highly correlated w experts!
Crowd ratings=useful signals
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/…
How to mitigate misinformation | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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New working paper: “Individual differences in overconfidence: A new measurement approach”
Are some ppl generally more overconfident than others? We (@GordPennycook) validated a novel measure that suggests reliable individual differences in overconfidence
psyarxiv.com/ugb3s/
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My social psych lab has moved to UCLA, + we're looking for driven graduate student applicants!
More on the *NEW* UCLA Social Minds Lab👇
Please RT + share with your students!
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1/The Psychology Department at Ohio University is recruiting this fall for TWO tenure-track assistant professor positions, and we are strongly encouraging persons with SOCIAL and/or COGNITIVE research programs to apply.
2/ Assistant Professor of Psychology (Quantitative) Tenure Track ohiouniversityjobs.com/posti…
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Diversity Science) Tenure Track ohiouniversityjobs.com/posti…