Technology allows us to look at psychological processes at the collective level. Going up!

Cool idea to measure the extent to which people switch their emotion regulation strategies.

⚠️New paper at Nature Human Behaviour⚠️

Can posed smiles make people feel happier?

In a global adversarial collaboration, we found overwhelming support for this controversial hypothesis.

But we couldnt resolve one thing: concerns about a popular pen-in-mouth smiling task.

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One of the best paper I've seen about the association between social media use and mental health. The authors took advantage of the facebook rollout in colleges (early 2000) showing that the rollout led to reduction in mental health.

Loneliness is one of the biggest problems in the US. It's caused by the way cities are designed, by the size of houses relative to public spaces, by cultural norms of eating in front of a computer and over work, by the feeling that digital media can provide an alternative.

Hello, everyone! I am actively recruiting Asian American participants for an interview study. More details are below. If you could please share this with people whom you think may be interested, I would greatly appreciate it! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Have you examined the effect of intergroup contact on affective polarization, or dislike toward political others?

If so, Z.T. You and Elizabeth Page-Gould: Black Lives Matter are seeking data for a meta-analysis.

Submit data here: utorontopsych.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3e…

I am looking for PhD students this year!

If you are interested in working on misinformation/polarization particularly in the global south, apply to work with me!

Rutgers iSchool is well ranked & has a great set of faculty working on similar problems.

DM/email me with questions

Are you interested in applying deep learning (DL) models to the decoding of mental states (e.g., anger or joy) from brain activity?

In our new Trends in Cognitive Sciences review, Russ Poldrack, hazyresearch, and I discuss the interpretation of mental state decoding with DL models.

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Please share widely! Great opportunity for a paid internship, targeting students from under-represented groups 🌵

📉New blog!📈. On forecasting with autoregressive bayesian structural timeseries with PyMC Developers. The idea was just to show how to run a model fit and predict step for increasingly complex AR models.
Thanks too to Juan Camilo Orduz for a neat plotting trick!
nathanielf.github.io/post/bayesian_…

Fascinating meta-analysis of studies of loss aversion by Brown, Imai, Vieider, & Colin Camerer osf.io/preprints/meta… Looks like 2 is not a bad rule of thumb after all. Wide ranging tests in the paper on estimates from 607 studies - examining study quality, publication bias etc.,

Want to come to MIT and do a postdoc working with me and Adam Berinsky (as well as our extended network of collaborators like Gordon Pennycook)? Check out this NSF solicitation and drop us a line!