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Collabra: Psychology
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An open access, open science psychology journal from @ucpress.bsky.social, and the official journal of @improvingpsych.org (SIPS). Editor-in-Chief: @donvanraven.bsky.social

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Two new studies use Christmas - a religious event characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environments - to examine the role of environment in shaping people’s implicit biases doi.org/10.1525/coll...
The Complex Ring of Jingle Bells: The Association Between Christmas and Implicit Bias Towards Racial, Religious, and Sexual Minorities
Every year, billions of people celebrate Christmas all over the world – a religious event that is characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic envi...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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This study empirically examines the reasoning capabilities of LLMs, suggesting potential roles and limitations of algorithmic tools in social science, providing new evidence for data-driven academic practices
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Automating Social Science: LLMs vs. Human Experts in Variable Relationship Identification
Empirical research in social psychology centers on formulating testable hypotheses about variable relationships. However, the ability of human researchers to synthesize vast datasets and model intrica...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Anybody knowledgeable in measurement (especially in adaptations for Mexican culture) and/or prosopagnosia that would be willing to serve as a reviewer for @collabrapsychology.bsky.social ? At the point where decliners are mostly recommending people who have already declined😅
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New in cognitive psychology, from @drsatrevik.bsky.social, Thea Granerud, Mona Nijhof, and @ams79.bsky.social: Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation
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Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation
It has been suggested that stress management techniques may reduce acute stress for police officers and thus lead to more optimal performance in critical situations. In a preregistered between-subject...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Divergent Effects of Inversion on Facilitation and Interference in Holistic Face Processing
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Divergent Effects of Inversion on Facilitation and Interference in Holistic Face Processing
The face inversion effect—where face recognition performance declines dramatically for inverted faces—has long been central to understanding face perception. While some studies argue that upright and ...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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New in Methodology and Research Practice: What Predicts Within-Variance After Correcting for Measurement Error? A Re-Analysis on Podsakoff et al. (2019) doi.org/10.1525/coll...
What Predicts Within-Variance After Correcting for Measurement Error? A Re-Analysis on Podsakoff et al. (2019)
Podsakoff et al. (2019) investigated the average percentage within-variance (PWV) in intraindividual studies in applied psychology and explored study characteristics that predict it. The PWV shows a p...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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New in Personality Psychology: Interpersonal Problem Profiles of Antagonistic Traits and the Comparisons With Big Five Traits
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Interpersonal Problem Profiles of Antagonistic Traits and the Comparisons With Big Five Traits
This study examines the interpersonal problem profiles associated with Antagonistic Triad (AT) traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—as well as four elemental AT factors: Antagonism, Em...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Victim-survivors of sexual violence were rated as less likable than individuals who had experienced other forms of trauma, regardless of rater gender or sexual violence history
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Sexual Violence Victim-Survivors Are Seen as Less Likable, Regardless of Observer Gender or Sexual Victimization History
Dozens of studies have found that men and individuals without a history of sexual violence tend to endorse more rape myths, including being more likely to blame sexual violence victim-survivors and se...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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The Consequences of Optional Stopping on the Research Literature
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The Consequences of Optional Stopping on the Research Literature
Optional stopping is the practice of repeatedly analyzing data during the data collection process with the intention of terminating collection once statistical significance is observed. While there ar...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Children’s Cognitive Reflection Skills Predict Their Conceptual Learning
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Children’s Cognitive Reflection Skills Predict Their Conceptual Learning
The developmental Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT-D) measures children’s ability to override immediate reactions for more considered responses, a skill crucial for learning non-intuitive concepts, part...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Hypothetical Judgment and Real-Life Decision-Making in Sacrificial Dilemmas: A Replication of “of Mice, Men and Trolleys”
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Hypothetical Judgment and Real-Life Decision-Making in Sacrificial Dilemmas: A Replication of “of Mice, Men and Trolleys”
Do people respond similarly to hypothetical moral dilemmas as they do to real-life dilemma situations? Bostyn et al. (2018) explored this question by confronting one group of participants with a real ...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): "Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?" A #CREP project with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000
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Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Expert Consensus Messaging as a Lever Against Vaccination Misinformation
The spread of misinformation about vaccines can slow down collective efforts to respond to life-threatening diseases, and thus severely damage public health. Strategies for counteracting misinformatio...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?

a #CREP project
with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000

is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social
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#OpenScience #Metascience
Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?
The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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A new CRC-associated publication led by @helenahartmann.com gives insights into what it means to use feminist approaches in one's research 🤔💁‍♀️

Guess what - you might already be using some of them without knowing! 😱

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September 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Who Reaches Out to Old Friends and What Do They Say? doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Who Reaches Out to Old Friends and What Do They Say?
Social relationships, such as friendships, promote well-being. Yet research shows that most people have lost touch with a friend that they care about (i.e., have an “old friend”) and that they are rel...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Do Indirect Measures Predict Affect-Specific Automatic Behavior —Moderated by Cognitive Control Resources? An Investigation Into the Domains of Disgust, Speech Anxiety, and Liking vs. Disliking of a Minority Group doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Do Indirect Measures Predict Affect-Specific Automatic Behavior —Moderated by Cognitive Control Resources? An Investigation Into the Domains of Disgust, Speech Anxiety, and Liking vs. Disliking of a M...
With three studies, we scrutinized the domain specificity of indirect measures in predicting behavior. We compared indirect and direct measures of disgust (Study 1, N = 121), speech anxiety (Study 2, ...
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August 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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New in Clinical Psychology: Measuring Depression and Anxiety With 4 Items? Adaptation of the PHQ-4 to Increase Its Sensitivity to Subclinical Variability. From @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Measuring Depression and Anxiety With 4 Items? Adaptation of the PHQ-4 to Increase Its Sensitivity to Subclinical Variability
The PHQ-4 is an ultra-brief (4 items) screening questionnaire for depression and anxiety. In this brief report, we test the benefits of adding one additional response option (“Once or twice”, in betwe...
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August 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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New in Methodology and Research Practice: Validity of a One-Stop Automatic Algorithm for Counting Clusters and Shifts in the Semantic Fluency Task doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Validity of a One-Stop Automatic Algorithm for Counting Clusters and Shifts in the Semantic Fluency Task
We introduce PROXIS, a computational algorithm for the Semantic Fluency Task (SFT), which automatically counts clusters and shifts. We compared its output relative to human coders and to another clust...
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August 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Machiavellianism scales often miss key facets across affect, behavior, cognition, and desire. Our new paper in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social introduces the M4 scale, built with Ant Colony Optimization to capture Mach more comprehensively. It is freely available here: doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Assessing the ABCDs of Machiavellianism: Development and Validation of the M4 Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization
Machiavellianism (Mach) is a personality trait characterized by cold rationality, cynicism, duplicity, and the strategic and egotistical pursuit of goals. Despite recent advances in the measurement of...
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August 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Assessing the ABCDs of Machiavellianism: Development and Validation of the M4 Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization, from @mp-grosz.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Assessing the ABCDs of Machiavellianism: Development and Validation of the M4 Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization
Machiavellianism (Mach) is a personality trait characterized by cold rationality, cynicism, duplicity, and the strategic and egotistical pursuit of goals. Despite recent advances in the measurement of...
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August 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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New in developmental psychology: How Language Background Influences the Relationship Between Morphological Awareness and Literacy Skills in Monolingual and Bilingual Schoolchildren doi.org/10.1525/coll...
How Language Background Influences the Relationship Between Morphological Awareness and Literacy Skills in Monolingual and Bilingual Schoolchildren
We investigated differences in morphological awareness and literacy skills between monolingual and bilingual schoolchildren, and whether relationships between morphological awareness and literacy skil...
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August 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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New in Social Psychology: Authenticity Affordances as Social and Health-Related Cues: Associations With Self-Esteem, from @antoniofreitasphd.bsky.social and Ashley Araiza doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Authenticity Affordances as Social and Health-Related Cues: Associations With Self-Esteem
Behaving authentically can be considered a privilege of the powerful, because acting in accordance with one’s subjectively true nature can entail overcoming situational constraints and expecting other...
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August 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Simply observing how another socially relevant person responds to a stimulus is sufficient to create stimulus-response episodes which can later be retrieved from memory to guide one’s own actions - regardless of whether the observed person is trustworthy. doi.org/10.1525/coll...
No Matter of Trust: Retrieval of Observationally Acquired Stimulus-response Bindings Occurs in Interactions With Both Trustworthy and Untrustworthy Partners
Recent findings show that simply observing how another person responds to a stimulus is sufficient to create stimulus-response (SR) episodes, which can later be retrieved from memory to guide one’s ow...
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August 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM