#socialpsych — Public Fediverse posts

Please share! Summer school on the psychology of #misinformation to be held in Granada, September 2026. Come join us! #socialpsych #psyscisky

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“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, 1984

#manipulation #persuasion #validation #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini #book

“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, 1984

#manipulation #persuasion #validation #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini #book

"Subjective validation, sometimes called personal validation effect, is a cognitive bias by which people will consider a statement or another piece of information to be correct if it has any personal meaning or significance to them. People whose opinion is affected by subjective validation will perceive two unrelated events (i.e., a coincidence) to be related because their personal beliefs demand that they be related."

CC-BY-SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_validation 🧶

#manipulation #persuasion #validation #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini

“There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news. The simple association with it is enough to stimulate our dislike.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, in his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion", 1984

#manipulation #persuasion #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini

a few notes on a Linda Rising's talk

"Realize up front that this is hard".

Cognitive dissonance: contradictory "evidence" causes severe cognitive discomfort.

* We are not rational decision-makers
* but we are good at explaining after-the-fact why we made a decision – a pattern called rationalization.

Two thirds of people will not consider an idea until "somebody they know pretty well, is doing it, is happy with it, talks about it […] so maybe i might think about it".
To convince,
* you must address: "What's in it for me?" – requires empathy;
* you can use the values of your opponent. (Loyalty or fairness?)

A pattern of personal touch: walk a mile in the other's shoes
Another pattern: "Give it a try"
Another pattern: listen
Another pattern: ask for something personal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrCD1wmK9oM via @matthew

#conversations #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #morality #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #rationalization #values #influence #LindaRising #morals #principles

I never tried online #gaming but know lots of people who did. An interesting article about changes in the online social culture over time and the ability to make online friends.

#socialpsych

https://slate.com/culture/2024/12/video-games-world-warcraft-multiplayer-call-duty-halo.html

Trump's violence-based immigrant fear-mongering "they're eating the cats" and "they are stone cold murderers" indicates he hasn't read Vecchione et al. 2011: "universalism values underlie perceptions that immigration has positive consequences and group security values underlie perceptions that it has negative consequences. Personal security makes no unique, additional contribution". Thus, I predict he'll lose the key #SocialPsych nerd demographic. https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02079.x

Does instructor-led #dialogue improve learning or #criticalThinking?

A new (and free) paper indicates that dialogue classes' essays scored higher in "critical reasoning", but didn't seem to do better on tests of argument evaluation or objection.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101617

#logic #edu #teaching #assessment #socialPsych #cogSci

Neither #AI-concerned nor AI-skeptical groups substantially updated their views about AI risk.

…despite “8 weeks (…median: 31 hours) reading background materials, developing forecasts, and engaging in online discussion and video calls” (N = 22).

Another report from the #Forecasting Research Institute finding that sustained, collaborative education and reasoning barely impacted forecasts: https://forecastingresearch.org/news/ai-adversarial-collaboration

#tech #geopolitics #expertise #superforecasters #socialPsych #epistemology

Isaac Davis presented "Inferring the Internal Structure of Social Collectives".

Isaac, Yarrow Dunham, and Julian Jara-Ettinger designed social vignettes to test their computational model of how people infer social structure (e.g., hierarchies) from a domain-general statistical learning mechanism and domain-specific social knowledge.

They think 2 experiments "support our account".

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t5hpb

#SPP2023 #socialPsych #PhilMind #cogSci #politics #ComputationalModeling #xPhi

Two 3-yr #postdoc positions w/ @ProfEricJohnson & @elkeweber @TUBerlin using #behavioralscience to design effective #policy addressing #climatechange
Full Details:
EJ. Johnson https://tinyurl.com/bdzz9e7s
E. Weber https://tinyurl.com/5n78k56h
#SJDM #NeuroEconomics #ACR #socialpsych #bsp

"Small, variable, and consistent with alternative explanations"

Meta-analysis finds tentative evidence that intergroup contact is associated with less perceived injustice, collective action, and support for reparative policies.

🔏 APA! https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000404

#Science
#Psychology
#SocialPsychology
#socialpsych
#IntergroupContact

📣 Time is running out 📣 We’re recruiting a full time research associate (quantitative social science) to work with us @SOEBristol from 1st March 2023 on the ESRC funded Shared Spaces Project. Application deadline 8th January 2023. #PhDchat #ECRjobs #socialscience #socialpsych #quantitativemethods https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=297837&jobTitle=Research%20Associate%20-%20ESRC%20Shared%20Spaces%20Project

3/3 - As a suboptimal research practice, operationalisation biases can according to Reddy "lead to false-positive findings".

In our experience this bias can also lead to false negative findings, especially when multidimensional constructs are not specified as such.

Divergent effects cancel each other out.

#metascience
#SocialPsych
#socialpsychology

Pleased to see that the issue of operationalisation bias is finally being brought into the light:

"the practice of operationalizing a construct selectively, through the exclusive employment of one or very few variables"

https://psyarxiv.com/prqyt/

It's an issue that led us to challenge a highly cited meta-analysis in Psych Bull that made erroneous claims about procrastination not being associated with perfectionism.

1/3 a🧵

#metascience
#procrastination
#psychology
#perfectionism
#socialpsych

Time for an #introduction! I’m Shelley- a #socialpsychology #socialpsych Professor working in #Bristol in the UK. I’m interested in research on #peace, #conflict, #education, #socialcohesion and #communityrelations. From #NorthernIreland, big fan of #dogs and enjoy watching #Irishrugby. Currently learning #Spanish in my spare time and new to following #macros.

📣 Job alert- We’re recruiting a full time research associate (quantitative social science) to work with us the University of Bristol’s School of Education from 1st March 2023 on the ESRC funded Shared Spaces Project. Application deadline 8th January 2023.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=297837&jobTitle=Research%20Associate%20-%20ESRC%20Shared%20Spaces%20Project

#socialpsych
#socialpsychology
#socialscience
#quantitative
#postdoc
#PhDchat

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

"Women, the intellectually humble, and liberals write more persuasive political arguments"

This is one of those papers where the title says it all!

Let me tell you about it...1/n

#preprint 👉 https://osf.io/wq7dp/

#psychology #socialpsych #polisci #research #politicalpsych #openscience #persuasion

@politicalscience @socialpsych

Other interests are #blerd #houseofthedragon #mcu #wakanda #wakandaforever #singing #mountains #arts #culture #STEAM #undergraduateresearch #mentoring #changemanagement #orgpsych #orgdev #socialpsych #psychology #researchcompliance #researchintegrity #documentaries

Hi Fediscience!

#introduction I'm Jeff Lees, an #academic and Associate Research Scholar (fancy post-doc) at #princeton.

My background is organizational behavior and #socialpsych, and I research the causes and consequences of misperceptions across politics and business. I'm also a big #Rstats users/fan!

I live outside Clemson, South Carolina (I work remotely), and my hobbies include #ttrpg, #music, and playing with my toddler 😄