Assistant Professor @ Tilburg University 🇳🇱
❤️🧠Moral Psychology & Altruism
🌚🌝First impressions & Social biases
🔬📊Meta-science
Bastian Jaeger
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1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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If you compare people's life satisfaction to their retrospective judgments, it suggests that happiness is not declining. Instead, our expectations are changing with aggregate improvements so our relative satisfaction is rescaled for current circumstances
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New post is live! 40 years of race science arguments about brain size & the racial IQ gap, nobody bothered to write down the math or do anything beyond gawk at correlations. I did, walking through the data & formalizing it with the Lande equation. It fares worse than you could even imagine.
Why do humans punish? Our new paper, with @manvir.bsky.social, is out in Psychological Science!
With experiments in a small-scale society (Mentawai) & the US, we test whether punitive cognition evolved to deter wrongdoing or restore fairness.
link: tinyurl.com/msrmu7cc
pdf: tinyurl.com/mvprz8fb
We revisit the famous Easterlin paradox by considering that life evaluation scales refer to a changing context, hence they are regularly reinterpreted…
Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief!
The SIPS Publications Committee encourages editors with innovative ideas about how Collabra: Psychology can best accomplish its mission to apply.
@keithpayne.bsky.social, @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social, Heidi Vuletich and I are co-editing a new Social Cognition special issue titled "10 Years of Bias of Crowds – Reflections and Future Directions". Deadline for letters of intent is July 15th.
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Ian Hussey
What determines the morality of harming another creature—eg a farm animal, or a foetus?
In the West, this judgment relies more on sentience than on agency, and research by @bxjaeger.bsky.social& Bosten finds it generalizes across six cultures:
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HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social
