Olivier Corneille
@ocorneille.bsky.social
Prof at UCLouvain
Evaluative learning | Demand artifacts | Methods
Evaluative learning | Demand artifacts | Methods
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Olivier Corneille
@ocorneille.bsky.social
· Jan 18
Self-report measures outperform implicit tools in assessing thoughts and feelings, new psychology paper argues
Self-reports outperform implicit measures, according to a new review, offering greater reliability, predictive validity, and flexibility. The paper challenges beliefs about implicit tools’ robustness,...
www.psypost.org
This recent blog post provides a very accurate and useful summary of Bertram and I's recent Nature Reviews Psychology article on the value of self-reports relative to "implicit measures" (as we defined them in the original article):
www.psypost.org/self-report-...
www.psypost.org/self-report-...
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In a large, preregistered study (see preprint), we compared InteroMap to emBODY. Overall, InteroMap demonstrated superior construct validity and usability
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) InteroMap: A Novel Tool to Map the Phenomenology of Bodily Sensations
PDF | Interoception, the processing of internal bodily states, contributes to human behaviour through multiple cognitive and affective processes,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
www.researchgate.net
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In a large, preregistered study (see preprint), we compared InteroMap to emBODY. Overall, InteroMap demonstrated superior construct validity and usability
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇
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New publication. Congrats to the whole team, and especially @paulbertin.bsky.social who led this effort. Thanks also to the editor (Nicolas Sommet) and reviewers, who desserve credit for improving our paper.
Shout-out to the best possible team of co-authors: Elisa Tognon, @kenzonera.bsky.social, @rritabajraktari.bsky.social, Vincent Yzerbyt, @olivierklein.bsky.social, and Klein Pit (who originally started this project).
OA here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
OA here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs
Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the im...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
New publication. Congrats to the whole team, and especially @paulbertin.bsky.social who led this effort. Thanks also to the editor (Nicolas Sommet) and reviewers, who desserve credit for improving our paper.
In this new research, we found that truth beliefs can be successfully conditioned:
Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures.
This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures.
This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
In this new research, we found that truth beliefs can be successfully conditioned:
Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures.
This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures.
This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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This overturns familiar assumptions of perceivers as “cognitive misers” and calls for rethinking how we conceptualize automatic evaluations.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This overturns familiar assumptions of perceivers as “cognitive misers” and calls for rethinking how we conceptualize automatic evaluations.
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Even with skin tone as a group marker and explicit instructions to form group-based impressions, people relied more on the actual characteristics of the individual they encountered.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Even with skin tone as a group marker and explicit instructions to form group-based impressions, people relied more on the actual characteristics of the individual they encountered.
In this research, we found that individuating information dominates social group information when forming impressions about members of newly learned social groups. This dominance was observed both on self-reports *and* more automatic measures *despite* conditions favoring group-level impressions.
🚨 New paper alert, at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social:
Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case?
👉 Read the full paper
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...
Classic person perception models argue that group information (e.g., group valence) dominates impression formation, especially in less-than-optimal conditions. But is this really the case?
👉 Read the full paper
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m66p51f8w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In this research, we found that individuating information dominates social group information when forming impressions about members of newly learned social groups. This dominance was observed both on self-reports *and* more automatic measures *despite* conditions favoring group-level impressions.
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“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
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Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!
The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle
Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!
Remarkable thread by Micah Allen here 👇🏼
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
www.medrxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Remarkable thread by Micah Allen here 👇🏼
New article on the potential contribution of experimental demand artifacts to evaluative conditioning effects now published OA in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem
Attitude research has long been concerned with the potential influence of demand characteristics in evaluative conditioning effects. Here, we argue that this concern remains justified and cannot be r...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New article on the potential contribution of experimental demand artifacts to evaluative conditioning effects now published OA in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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It is amazing that most organizations (businesses, media, NGOs, political parties) that worried about the threat of the far right for decades have spent no time or energy to thinking how to operate in a far right world. They just continue to do the same and are surprised by a different outcome.
August 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It is amazing that most organizations (businesses, media, NGOs, political parties) that worried about the threat of the far right for decades have spent no time or energy to thinking how to operate in a far right world. They just continue to do the same and are surprised by a different outcome.
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New 📰
Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans
Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects
In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans
Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects
In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics
Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in experimental psychology. Yet, little is known about the direction, magnitude, and consistency of their effects. We conducted a three-...
doi.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New 📰
Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans
Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects
In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans
Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects
In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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Very pleased to be featured in the August Editorial for Nature Mental Health! The stomach’s turn: elucidating the gut–brain axis www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The stomach’s turn: elucidating the gut–brain axis - Nature Mental Health
Philosophers and scientists have debated for centuries about how cognition and emotions are produced and the causal roles the body and brain serve. The advent of more sophisticated models of gut–brain...
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Very pleased to be featured in the August Editorial for Nature Mental Health! The stomach’s turn: elucidating the gut–brain axis www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS.
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏
Check out the full ms👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏
Check out the full ms👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus
www.cambridge.org
July 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS.
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏
Check out the full ms👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏
Check out the full ms👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I find it amusing that ChatGPT can write predictive processing theories that are about as plausible as many published versions. I guess they really are that predictable…
July 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I find it amusing that ChatGPT can write predictive processing theories that are about as plausible as many published versions. I guess they really are that predictable…
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After more than 7 years working on it, I’ve just submitted the manuscript for Discovering Statistics using R second edition. Tonnes more work on website/package and so on, but getting to this stage is monumental psychologically. It’s the book I feared I’d never finish.
July 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
After more than 7 years working on it, I’ve just submitted the manuscript for Discovering Statistics using R second edition. Tonnes more work on website/package and so on, but getting to this stage is monumental psychologically. It’s the book I feared I’d never finish.
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New research shows that simply changing how a reaction vessel is positioned on a magnetic stirrer can significantly change a reaction's speed and product quality, influencing the reproducibility of results. #ChemSky #ScienceSky #EduSky
Position of flask on magnetic stirrers can drastically affect reproducibility of experiments
Comprehensive examination reveals improper siting of reaction vessels can affect catalyst formation, alter nanoparticle formation and change yields
www.chemistryworld.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New research shows that simply changing how a reaction vessel is positioned on a magnetic stirrer can significantly change a reaction's speed and product quality, influencing the reproducibility of results. #ChemSky #ScienceSky #EduSky
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From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science
https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01
https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01
Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
go.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science
https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01
https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01
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We may all have thought trade and import tariffs gaf drifted out of the spotlight, but it’s definitely back on the radar.
A good time to check out @timharford’s Seven truths about trade—still true, even under 50% tariffs for the EU:
buff.ly/6IBO0fH
A good time to check out @timharford’s Seven truths about trade—still true, even under 50% tariffs for the EU:
buff.ly/6IBO0fH
May 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We may all have thought trade and import tariffs gaf drifted out of the spotlight, but it’s definitely back on the radar.
A good time to check out @timharford’s Seven truths about trade—still true, even under 50% tariffs for the EU:
buff.ly/6IBO0fH
A good time to check out @timharford’s Seven truths about trade—still true, even under 50% tariffs for the EU:
buff.ly/6IBO0fH
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Economic pressure is a major threat to press freedom.
@rsf.org is clear: "The economic indicator on the RSF World Press Freedom Index now stands at an unprecedented, critical low"
The global state of #pressfreedom is classified as a 'difficult'. For the first time #WPFD2025
rsf.org/en/rsf-world...
@rsf.org is clear: "The economic indicator on the RSF World Press Freedom Index now stands at an unprecedented, critical low"
The global state of #pressfreedom is classified as a 'difficult'. For the first time #WPFD2025
rsf.org/en/rsf-world...
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025: economic fragility a leading threat to press freedom
Although physical attacks against journalists are the most visible violations of press freedom, economic pressure is also a major, more insidious problem. The economic indicator on the RSF World Press...
rsf.org
May 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Economic pressure is a major threat to press freedom.
@rsf.org is clear: "The economic indicator on the RSF World Press Freedom Index now stands at an unprecedented, critical low"
The global state of #pressfreedom is classified as a 'difficult'. For the first time #WPFD2025
rsf.org/en/rsf-world...
@rsf.org is clear: "The economic indicator on the RSF World Press Freedom Index now stands at an unprecedented, critical low"
The global state of #pressfreedom is classified as a 'difficult'. For the first time #WPFD2025
rsf.org/en/rsf-world...
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We also recruited “observers” who were matched with the original “actor” participants, shown their choices, and asked to predict the actors’ choice process. Actors were more accurate than observers, suggesting that their accuracy came from some kind of first-person introspection.
April 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We also recruited “observers” who were matched with the original “actor” participants, shown their choices, and asked to predict the actors’ choice process. Actors were more accurate than observers, suggesting that their accuracy came from some kind of first-person introspection.
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Are we “strangers to ourselves”? Classic theories say people have limited insight into how they decide. Our new paper at @natcomms.nature.com challenges this view. With @rcarl.bsky.social sky.social, @hedykober.bsky.social y.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Introspective access to value-based multi-attribute choice processes - Nature Communications
People routinely choose between multi-attribute options, such as which movie to watch. Here, the authors show people often have accurate insight into their choices, challenging the notion that people ...
www.nature.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Are we “strangers to ourselves”? Classic theories say people have limited insight into how they decide. Our new paper at @natcomms.nature.com challenges this view. With @rcarl.bsky.social sky.social, @hedykober.bsky.social y.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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My paper on concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology across 2 crises is now in press at the International Review of Social Psychology. After revisions it was 17500 words, so it is split in 2 parts: osf.io/dtvs7_v2 and osf.io/g6kja_v1
OSF
osf.io
April 14, 2025 at 5:26 AM
My paper on concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology across 2 crises is now in press at the International Review of Social Psychology. After revisions it was 17500 words, so it is split in 2 parts: osf.io/dtvs7_v2 and osf.io/g6kja_v1
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Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
1/n
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
1/n
April 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
1/n
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
1/n