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Allison Eden
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Comm Prof|Michigan State|Entertainment media|Well-being|Morality|CommNeuro

Psychology 25%
Art 15%

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Postdoc Opportunity at Northwestern University! Check this out. Apply by Jan 16, 2026👉comap@northwestern.edu

Super helpful! Will be using this in my class next semester as our introduction to the topic! <3
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

I was going to send you this - Kevin Kryston has a few papers on this type of normative influence, but this one is closest to what you are looking for.

Very excited about this project introducing an integrative character-based network framework predicting success of novels and films. Idea and analysis credit to @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, with big thanks for including me, @fhopp.bsky.social @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Anna Wolfe. More info here:
Enjoying Stranger Things during the holiday season? Have you thought about why some stories are more successful than others? Our new preprint investigates this question by studying the character networks in the narratives:

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Enjoying Stranger Things during the holiday season? Have you thought about why some stories are more successful than others? Our new preprint investigates this question by studying the character networks in the narratives:

osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io

Our university library negotiated some fees, grants paid for others, and having Dutch co-authors helped for some more. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to pub there either.

This is one of my favorite papers, love seeing it appear like magic on my bkuesky feed
Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan!

There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.

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Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :)

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media, ...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
Out now in Scientific Reports! Despite high correlations, ChatGPT models failed to replicate human moral judgments. We propose tests beyond correlation to compare LLM data and human data.

With @mattgrizz.bsky.social @andyluttrell.bsky.social @chasmonge.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement
www.nature.com

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📣 Digital Research Community!

The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.

Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media
Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com
🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Very happy to update the {traktok} #rstats readme. After 1.5 years, you can finally search TikTok again without access to the Research API. It's slow and a bit clunky, but it works! Thanks, @michaelgoodier.bsky.social for the crucial hint!
Excellent job inviting these technologies into our campuses to work closely with vulnerable young people, university administrators and edtech people.

BRAVO.

apnews.com/article/open...
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social!

Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!*

*not necessarily a selling point, just a fact
Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social!

I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social

Great discussion with @saramgrady.bsky.social on the value of studying entertainment!
Ep 110! The wonderful @saramgrady.bsky.social shares her perspective on the function of entertainment and why it's worth studying carefully.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0oxX...
Web: opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/valu...

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Ep 110! The wonderful @saramgrady.bsky.social shares her perspective on the function of entertainment and why it's worth studying carefully.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0oxX...
Web: opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/valu...

Thanks Richard!! (I say I want our research covered but wait for my coauthor to post when it happens… let’s not examine those preferences too closely! 😂)

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NPR @npr.org · Oct 27
Social media can push us to the dark side, with negative content. A new study finds watching inspiring videos for just 3 minutes a day is on par with meditation for boosting mood and reducing stress. n.pr/4quxZB8
Got 3 minutes? This habit may help boost hope and reduce stress
Social media can push us to the dark side, with negative content. A new study finds watching inspiring videos for just 3 minutes a day is on par with meditation for boosting mood and reducing stress.
n.pr

Congratulations!!!!

Excited to see this out! Great work <3
All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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SIPS community members worked through the years to develop many resources that help to improve psychological sciences. We gathered them all, so you can find everything you need in one place.

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SIPS Products
If you have a project that started or developed at SIPS, or have updates on listed products, we would love to hear about it! Please email sips@improvingpsych.org to have it added to this list or up…
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Join us for RCGD's public seminar series on the Science of Social Relationships. Don't miss @Jaimiekrems.bsky.social Monday to speak on the science and study of FRIENDSHIP: buff.ly/92KtRNS
I am recruiting PhD students this year!

Our research group is holding an info session in a few weeks - details are at blog.communitydata.science/prospective-... , including a sign-up link.
Prospective PhD Student Q&A – September 26th
Thinking about applying to graduate school? Wonder what it’s like to pursue a PhD or M.S.? Interested in understanding relationships between technology and society? Curious about how to do research…
blog.communitydata.science

Maybe more common in US ? Many schools with big communication programs have them - Purdue, MSU, Indiana off the top of my head.