Lorraine Hope
@lorrainehope.bsky.social
Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at University of Portsmouth, UK. Special interest in memory performance and memory elicitation techniques. Views own.
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Will do a brief thread with highlights:
“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds [i.e., Psychology and Artificial Intelligence].
What could possibly go wrong?
Quite a lot.”
2/🧵
“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds [i.e., Psychology and Artificial Intelligence].
What could possibly go wrong?
Quite a lot.”
2/🧵
January 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Will do a brief thread with highlights:
“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds [i.e., Psychology and Artificial Intelligence].
What could possibly go wrong?
Quite a lot.”
2/🧵
“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds [i.e., Psychology and Artificial Intelligence].
What could possibly go wrong?
Quite a lot.”
2/🧵
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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The latest QRP (although it goes well beyond ‘questionable’ and straight into the realm of junk data fraud IMHO): LLM-hacking
Good luck drawing reliable conclusions from the answers that Qualtrics' AI model provides to your survey questions... bsky.app/profile/joac...
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
December 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The latest QRP (although it goes well beyond ‘questionable’ and straight into the realm of junk data fraud IMHO): LLM-hacking
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Good luck drawing reliable conclusions from the answers that Qualtrics' AI model provides to your survey questions... bsky.app/profile/joac...
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Good luck drawing reliable conclusions from the answers that Qualtrics' AI model provides to your survey questions... bsky.app/profile/joac...
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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Delighted to that my grant proposal with Anita Eerland, Verbs and Eyewitness Testimony: A Multilab Registered Replication Report, has been funded by @NWO (Dutch Research Council) through OpenScience.nl. Excited to get started on the project I describe here.
rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
Memory, Misinformation, and the Need to Replicate
Suppose you and a friend witness a car crash.
rolfzwaan.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Delighted to that my grant proposal with Anita Eerland, Verbs and Eyewitness Testimony: A Multilab Registered Replication Report, has been funded by @NWO (Dutch Research Council) through OpenScience.nl. Excited to get started on the project I describe here.
rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
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🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨
We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait
The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...
We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait
The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...
December 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨
We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait
The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...
We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait
The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...
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Erasmus+ an accessible and well-supported programme.
UK to re-join Erasmus+ – here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme
Erasmus+ an accessible and well-supported programme.
tcnv.link
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Erasmus+ an accessible and well-supported programme.
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"an ever-widening gap between those who do the work and those who administer it. And an even larger gap exists between those tasked with most of the teaching and those who do most of the budgeting."
www.aaup.org/underclass-s...
#Highered #PhDchat #research #teaching #academicsky
www.aaup.org/underclass-s...
#Highered #PhDchat #research #teaching #academicsky
The Underclass Is in Session
What do we see when we view the structure of academic labor as it is, not as we wish it to be?
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December 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"an ever-widening gap between those who do the work and those who administer it. And an even larger gap exists between those tasked with most of the teaching and those who do most of the budgeting."
www.aaup.org/underclass-s...
#Highered #PhDchat #research #teaching #academicsky
www.aaup.org/underclass-s...
#Highered #PhDchat #research #teaching #academicsky
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We know the drivers of research waste in academia are
⚠️Pressure to maximize papers and PhD students
⚠️Endless demands on time due to poor management
⚠️Stakeholders don't insist on robust quality systems to underpin mission critical work
Solutions that don't address these are pointless.
⚠️Pressure to maximize papers and PhD students
⚠️Endless demands on time due to poor management
⚠️Stakeholders don't insist on robust quality systems to underpin mission critical work
Solutions that don't address these are pointless.
September 30, 2024 at 8:45 AM
We know the drivers of research waste in academia are
⚠️Pressure to maximize papers and PhD students
⚠️Endless demands on time due to poor management
⚠️Stakeholders don't insist on robust quality systems to underpin mission critical work
Solutions that don't address these are pointless.
⚠️Pressure to maximize papers and PhD students
⚠️Endless demands on time due to poor management
⚠️Stakeholders don't insist on robust quality systems to underpin mission critical work
Solutions that don't address these are pointless.
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“Berg's point is that AI doesn't merely automate tasks — it automates the very processes through which people develop their skills.”
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Berg's point is that AI doesn't merely automate tasks — it automates the very processes through which people develop their skills.”
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Absolutely this…there are still many predators evading their comeuppance, including in my own field.
There is so much to be disappointed about in this story--from the institutional response to Miles Hewstone himself. We still have a lot of work to do to make academic environments inclusive spaces where everyone can thrive, and where harassers are held accountable.
This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Absolutely this…there are still many predators evading their comeuppance, including in my own field.
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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This seems bad on like 15 different fronts
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This seems bad on like 15 different fronts
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New paper by @emilyspearing.bsky.social et al. out now in the Journal of Environmental Psychology
Black Summer Arson: Examining the Impact of Climate Misinformation and Corrections on Reasoning
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
Black Summer Arson: Examining the Impact of Climate Misinformation and Corrections on Reasoning
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New paper by @emilyspearing.bsky.social et al. out now in the Journal of Environmental Psychology
Black Summer Arson: Examining the Impact of Climate Misinformation and Corrections on Reasoning
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
Black Summer Arson: Examining the Impact of Climate Misinformation and Corrections on Reasoning
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot.”
NEW paper! 💭🖥️
“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”
— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”
— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot.”
A spot in hell? @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A spot in hell? @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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The anthropomorphic language that the AI industry uses to talk about its tech is a large part of the reason why people do not understand how it actually works.
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The anthropomorphic language that the AI industry uses to talk about its tech is a large part of the reason why people do not understand how it actually works.