Do people lie to benefit the in-group and harm the out-group?

In a new paper, we found that people lied 9% more to help in-group members than out-group members! This is evidence of coalitional dishonesty

Democrats & Republicans both lied anonymously to double in-group members earnings (N=5,230)

Hi All! A reminder that we're looking for our next colleague to join us in a tenure-track teaching position in the Psychology Department at UBC! See the job ad below. We'd love to hear from you!

#sotl #educationalleadership #teachinginhighered #SoTLcommunity #psychologyjobs #highered #academicjobs

This Peter Baker joint does catalog Trump's lies and censorship, but headline and text tie themselves in journo-cliched linguistic knots to avoid that direct judgment. He's not "underscoring a tendency." He's not an "echo" of an "authoritarian playbook." He is a dictator.

Come be our colleague! Tenure track position with a focus on educational leadership!

Join our department! We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Tenure-track), located at UBC's Vancouver campus, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Apply by Oct 1, 2025. Learn more & apply: psych.ubc.ca/jobs. Please share!

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering.
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Paper w/ @tcarpenter.bsky.social & @alexgoedderz.bsky.social at PSPB!🚨 The standard IAT is only 5 min long. We found that making the IAT longer by taking it multiple times greatly improves predictive validity. 🧵below, with practical advice about how to run IATs!

LINK: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Robustness analysis is going to be a big part of the future of how we think about evidence synthesis and rigor - exciting new journal where you can turn your blog posts of other ways the analyses could have been done into papers! Excited to see some submissions come in!

📢 I'm offering a 1-hour seminar, "Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide," through the Zur Institute. It's just $25, and you get a CE credit! If you're interested, I'd love to see you there -- or feel free to share.

Register: www.zurinstitute.com/webinars/und...

#SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth

Some good news: I've been awarded the Killam Teaching Prize (shorturl.at/plp3Q) and, with the incomparable Dr. Kayli Johnson, received an H5P Award (shorturl.at/3FBT3) for our interactive video on how to make interactive videos. I am honoured to be in the company of such inspiring colleagues!

Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...

via @dgoldwert.bsky.social

In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc

✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning

We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.

In a new paper we analyzed 43,932 randomized news headlines and found causal evidence in support of the out-group animosity hypothesis:

Negativity about out-groups boosted engagement by 14.1%, compared to just 1.6% for negativity about in-groups.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hi all. I'm relatively new to Bluesky. I could use some old fashioned help like a #FollowFriday! (Please!)

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The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women.

To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased.

Linking resources below, please share:

Anyone else in Vancouver feel the earthquake?

Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the inaugural Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference! If you are going to #SPSP2025 you don’t want to miss this!!