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DATE: July 22, 2026 at 01:58PM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: Seeking Empathy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Source: Association for Psychological Science

Artificial intelligence was initially imagined as a tool for efficiency. It could search, calculate, and write faster than humans, automating the tedious parts of work. But people are increasingly turning to AI for something more intimate: a shoulder to lean on. Recent surveys suggest that nearly a quarter of American adults and 13% of adolescents have used AI for socioemotional support or mental health advice. But can a machine provide empathy?

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DATE: July 7, 2026 at 03:54AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: What Do Human Thinking and AI Have to Offer Each Other?

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Source: Association for Psychological Science

The Association for Psychological Science has released a special issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science on the intersection of psychology and AI. Public debates often frame AI as a rival to human intelligence—something that will eventually outperform and perhaps replace humans. The authors in this journal issue largely reject that framing, however, envisioning complementary intelligences and intellectual partnerships that deepen...

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New large scale registered replication project probing Construal-Level Theory.
It shows the typical pattern: Hundreds of published studies (with positive effects), but virtually no replication attempts. Metaanalytic bias correction suggests true effect close to zero.

The preregistered replication:

* N = 11,775 from 27 countries and regions; 99.995% power for g = 0.23
* direct and paradigmatic replications

Results (positive effects are consistent with hypotheses):

* temporal, d = 0.08, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.003, 0.16] (effect in original study: d = 0.92);
* spatial, d = 0.04, 95% CI = [−0.03, 0.11] (effect in original study: d = 0.55);
* social, d = −0.27, 95% CI = [−0.34, −0.19]; and
* likelihood, d = 0.03, 95% CI = [−0.05, 0.11].

"These findings provide limited evidence for the predictions of the theory and present a critical challenge for CLT.“

OA paper: Calderon et al:: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459251401177

#PsychScience #Replication #OpenScience https://getmona.app/rich_text/593518390090

📄 "To Be FAIR: Theory Specification Needs an Update"

New paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916251401850

Semantic versioning of theories? Citable theory objects that are reproducible and published independently of classical papers?

Van Lissa et al. (2025) argue that psychological theories need clearer and more systematic specification. The paper adapts the #FAIRprinciples (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) – well known from open data – to the way theories are defined, documented, and communicated.

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#OpenScience #Theory #PsychScience #MetaScience

Six postdoctoral positions to work in six different collaborative projects related to psychology, cognition, and neuroscience at the @[email protected] Granada! #PsychScience

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Adopted and donor-conceived children were way less likely to confound nature and nurture than traditionally-conceived kids (ages 4 to 8).

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 And this difference wasn’t explained by differences in parents.

📄 Here's the free preprint (otherwise paywalled in Developmental Psychology): https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3e8rj

#parenting #psychScience #childDevelopment #genetics #Adoption #IVF #donorConception #essentialism #xPhi #philMind #philSci

Don't believe people underrate discussing divisive topics with people who disagree?

A paper in #PsychScience has you covered:

🔓 http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/userfiles/brownbags/marketing/files/WaldKardasEpley.pdf

🔒 https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241230005

Kudos to #KatyMilkman for reminding us to ask people for action plans. ;)

For baseball fans: research suggests complaining to umps gets you more favorable calls.

"After being excessively criticized, home-plate umpires (N = 110 adults, employed in the United States) were less likely to call strikes to batters from the complaining team and more prone to call strikes to batters on the opposing team."

@psychology
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976241227411

#Psychology #Research #PsychScience #MLB #Baseball #Umpries

The "you are not immune to false information" effect:

"Results indicated participants were able to detect outliers. Nevertheless, participants’ estimates were still biased in the direction of the outlier, even when they were most certain that they detected invalid information. ... These findings suggest that individuals may incorporate invalid information they meant to ignore when forming beliefs."

@psychology

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241231571

#Psychology #Research #PsychScience #FalseBelief

Interesting new study in Psych Science:

"inhibitory control predicted a shared or general psychopathology dimension, but not ADHD-specific, anxiety-specific, or irritability-specific dimensions. Inhibitory control also showed a significant, selective association with global efficiency in a frontoparietal control network delineated during resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging."

@psychology

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241231574

#Psychology #Research #PsychScience #ADHD #InhibitoryControl

Heute nicht Kaffee, sondern Chai Latte mit Balklava beim Zeichnen von #psychoSophComic Skizzen!

Today it isn't coffee but chai latte and baklava while drawing some #psychosoph sketches!

#psychmasto #psychScience #neuroMasto #neuroscience #scicomm #wisskomm #comic

Randi Martin will begin her term as #APS President-Elect in June 2023, and will be joined by new APS Board Members-at-Large Teresa Bajo and Lila Davachi, as they begin their three-year terms. #psychscience

Thanks to the Association for Psychological Science for interviewing me for the Jan/Feb issue of the #Observer on #PsychScience and #AI. 👶🤖 Check out my interview here! https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/careers-up-close-moira-dillon

@s_michelmann @ptoncompmemlab

Oh yes and this should get tags.

#Memory
#MemoryResearch
#ContinuousMemories
#PsychScience
#PtonCompMemLab (I guess?)

Sorry, I'm interested because I'm hoping such research will lead to better information about the treatment of PTSD and cPTSD but I'm more of an end user than someone knowledgeable on the subject so I'm probably missing loads.

So cool seeing everyone migrating over or at least giving this prehistoric animal app a try.

Someone should really start a #psychology, #psychscience, or #psychmethods server so we can all reconnect (and I can leech knowledge from all of you lol). Honestly, I would do it but I don’t know where to start and $$$