The first NLP + historical psychology paper from YES Lab UCSB. Great work Amber !

Classic cultural dilemma! 😅 Big fight between spouse and parents. Whose side do you take? European Americans = 91% spouse. Asian Americans = 77% spouse.

The Historical Psychology preconference at Society for Personality and Social Psychology is back! See you in Denver! (and send us your abstracts) Stay tuned for the (amazing) lineup of speakers! w/ Joshua Conrad Jackson & Ashwini Ashokkumar

Are people more moral than they think? As a 'registered report' high-powered extended replication (N=3,220), I am happy to share that our paper on the moral forecasting error, led by my talented PhD student Simen Bø, has been published in JESP. Conclusion: Mostly successful ✅

The Gender Precon to SPSP is accepting blitz talk and poster submissions! All are welcome to apply, including students and first-time submitters. w/ Sa-kiera (you can call me Kiera) TJ Hudson 🏳️‍🌈 and twitterless Adriana Germano APPLY 📊📈📉 The portal opens tomorrow: spsp.org/events/annual-…

A new paper suggests that telling members of marginalized groups that the future will be equitable changes how they remember the past. In particular, it reduces their tendency to remember the past as being unfair (e.g. sexist, racist). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My first solo-authored journal article! I argue that to move affective science forward, this requires more than solely moving data collection to the real-world: we need to measure 'messier' aspects of affect that our measures and theory normally leave out. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

#SPSP2025 Social Cognition Precon is accepting poster submission (2/20, 8am-12pm in person)! Our awesome invited speakers include: Régine Débrosse, Jon Jachimowicz, Sohad Murrar, Curtis Phills, Kenneth Tan, Heidi Vuletich, and Keynote Elizabeth Page-Gould! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-pre…

🎯 Job Alert! Wise Judgment Consortium (wiseminds.uwaterloo.ca) is hiring a #PostDoc University of Waterloo to study wisdom | judgment across cultures using NLP! 🧠✨🕒Start: Winter '25 #Canada Think you’ve got what it takes? 🚀Apply now: [email protected] 🔍 Check the deets below! 📸👇

People often point to the low death rate from hunter-gatherer intergroup violence as evidence that it's not important. This is wrong. Think of predation in animals--even a low death rate can have profound selective consequences.

🚨 NOW OPEN 🚨 Submit your research to the SPSP Culture Pre-Conference! Accepting data blitz talks and poster, open to grad students, post docs, and non-tenured profs. Submit before 10/17 11:59pm Pacific. spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-pre… Society for Personality and Social Psychology

In this workshop, I’ll talk about new computational approaches and methods in cultural psychology.