We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here
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guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...

McGill psych is hosting a panel for under rep minority folks possibly interested in attending grad school on Oct 20.

Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/246051...

cool paper extracting spatial distance from Turkish youtube videos, concludes people walk closer to their ingroup (on sidewalks etc), non religious men avoid religious women

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We had a new tutorial on representational similarity analysis come out recently. Led by @xallysie.bsky.social with Ruoying Zheng and @chujunlin.bsky.social

This technique lets you compare patterns across diff types of measures (eg correlate correlation matrices), super flexible

Appreciate your thoughts! Do find this confusing, ok going with capitalized

Every regional bias paper talks about dangers of ecological fallacy, that relationships can be different at different levels of analysis. Here wanted to actually test to what extent this was a concern.

Can we interpret regional bias the same as individual-level? What is their relationship?

We have a new paper on interpreting regional attitudes out in JPSP, led by Jennifer Suliteanu @jensulite.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
This is her first paper 🫶

Few comments

Call for 2025 Regional Cultural Difference Conference submissions, in Vancouver from July 8-11

Details here: www.geo-psych.com
Call open until Jan 6th, 2025
We are aiming for 50-60 participants with wide array of backgrounds, at all career stages, interested in regional cultural differences. 1/n

Paper led by Chloe Bracegirdle wins the SPSSI Gordon Allport award this year. A nice paper breaking down nuances between the intergroup contact effect and socialization effects: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Finally, person memory offering the training i need.

With SESP approaching, please remember:

How to evaluate theories. An impressive framework for deciding what is a better/worse (more or less useful) theory. Loved this paper

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Great new paper: govt policy causes perceptions of support for that policy, personal endorsement of attitude. Experimental and quasi longitudinal (roe vs wade) data. Little murkier about when exactly people endorse vs. reject

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Went to a neat exhibit on him, one of his ideas was to put poor people on boat-cities for high density low income housing... which surely wouldn't have gone badly in practice

Becca Neel will be presenting this paper at SPSP in a broader symposium on formal models if starting to think about your schedule!

We reviewed field and found 32 theoretically causal factors psych knows how to measure
Over 18 studies or so, using regularization, built a parsimonious model of prejudice, resulting in above models
Regularly explain ~45-60% of the variance in individuals' prej across a bunch of diff groups