In a new paper with Michael Arntz, we show that larger gifts, monetary gifts, and gifts given in a purely professional relationship are more likely to be perceived as bribes: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Selection effects and long-term group processes are often ignored in psychology and we also provide some methodological recommendations. We have other papers that try to take self-selection seriously in studies of cheating. But the idea can be extended to other topics.

Some commonly proposed interventions might not work in a real-world organization context because of the processes described in the paper.

In a new short conceptual/review paper with @petrhoudek.bsky.social, we describe how groups or organizations can become corrupt due to selection and sorting effects, socialisation, institutional capture, and norm entrenchment: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ltb3,rU~O...

Our new paper on self-selection effects in dishonesty with @petrhoudek.bsky.social, @marekhudik.bsky.social, and Nicolas Say is out now: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMN67tbfH...

> That does not mean that fluency research is all false. In the paper from the previous post, we for example replicated the association between pronounceability and judgment of novelty. In another paper of mine, more difficult-to-pronounce pseudowords were liked less: bahniks.com/files/disflu... >

> In our paper, we found that an effect of pronounceability on judgment of harmfulness replicates only with the stimuli used in the original study, but not with newly created stimuli (a blog post about this study: bahniks.com/if-its-easy-... ):
bahniks.com/files/fluenc... >

> A famous effect of font legibility on deliberate processing failed to replicate in Many Labs 2: >

There were so many labels at some point, that I even created a flowchart to help to decide which one to choose.