Amit Goldenberg
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Assistant professor | @HarvardHBS | @D3Harvard | @PsychHarvard . I study emotions, collectives, technology and their interaction.
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First paper from our lab on LLMs and emotional support (led by
@joannazli
): Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios.
Short thread of the results ⬇️
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The beauty of long term effects. Reducing Facebook notifications led to less frequent use immediately after the experiment, but to more frequent use after a year.
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One of the biggest challenges to labs that use a lot of code AND try to promote
#OpenScience
is how to organize and manage lab-wide code. In the past year my lab and I have worked on designing infrastructure to solve some of the main issues and survived to tell. 🧵1
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Harvard requires visiting graduate students to show a proof they have $50k in their bank account before applying for their visa. This can't be their parents money (which is already crazy) but an account under their name.
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I spent almost a decade (!) thinking about how emotions spread and amplify between people and groups. My lab and I recently started to work on a few complimentary projects: how collective emotions can be regulated. Here is a first chapter in this domain.
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What drives political segregation? Previous work points to homophily - our tendency to affiliate with similar others. In a new paper
@NatureHumBehav
we argue that given equal distance, people also prefer to affiliate with others who are more extreme.🧵 1/4
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Emotions are rarely communicated by a single expression. In a new paper
@NatureHumBehav
we ask: How do we aggregate emotional expressions over time? We show that memory of stronger expressions leads people to overweigh these expressions and overestimate emotional sequences.
Goldenberg et al. show that we tend to overestimate the average intensity of a sequence of emotional expressions, due to better memory for stronger expressions.
@Amit_Goldenb
@JonasP_Schoene
#emotions
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First single-authored paper out now in Perspectives! Everything you need to know about what makes groups emotional. Turns out that group emotionality is a complicated interplay between emotional interactions, perceptual processes, and social infrastructure.
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We often feel sad, angry or anxious without knowing why. In this exciting paper - led by Yael Millgram, David Bailey &
@mk_nock
- we examined what are the consequences of lack of information about the source of our emotions to emotion regulation.🧵1
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Its hard to read personal statements of low SES students and see what they have to overcome to even apply to graduate school. It also emphasizes my feeling that if I was born in the US, there is a 0% change I would have been where I am today. Sad reality in this country.
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This was a special week. The *first* two papers written by students I work with were published. Two years in and papers are starting to bloom, a new small lab community is emerging, a true pleasure and pride.
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NEW PAPER led by 👑
@LafolletteKyle
👑 is the most ambitious project I’ve been part of! We used equation detection algorithms to improve comp models of learning and found a simple novel model that was better at predicting 8 of 9 datasets! Read story👇👇
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Every time I review a paper, I spend at least 10 minutes thinking about the right way to end this free labor exploitation that we are stuck with. Clearly collective action/ boycott is the right way to go, but how can we do this without hurting people who start their careers?
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When people seek negative information online it negatively impacts their mood, which in turn increases the chance that they will seek more negative information online.
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I am looking for a lab manual for inspiration on defining clear rules regarding authorship and responsibilities. If anyone has a good manual they can share - it would be great.
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New paper in TiCS in which James Gross and I review the fast growing literature of digital emotion contagion. Bottom line 1: We have to think of digital emotion as mediated by digital media companies.
Bottom line 2: Its really hard to prove that contagion actually exists.
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A new preprint with Mac Abruzzo,
@RobbWiller
,
@eranh75_eran
& James Gross in which we explore political acrophily (love of extremes), which is the tendency to prefer social ties that are more extreme than one’s own view, compared to moderate. 1/7
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Could not be more happy to get the news that my adviser, James Gross, received the APS mentor award. I aspire to be like James in any aspect of my identity as a mentor: attentive, thoughtful, caring. He is all of these things and more.
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Super excited to present the first empirical paper (led by
@Michael_Pinus
) in a new line of work on the spread of psychological interventions. This one is about the spread of emotion regulation interventions to reduce negative emotions in conflicts. >
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My daughter: you flew all the way to San Francisco to get a plate?!?
Congratulations to James Gross for winning the
@PsychScience
Mentor Award & Amit Goldenberg (
@Amit_Goldenb
) for winning the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions! Both are exceptional and it’s wonderful to see their work recognized in this way.
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I am working on a speaker series on computational social science at HBS and looking for recommendations for young (post-doc/assistant professors) who do interesting work in this space. Please recommend, retweet or DM.
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Social Identity Theory (largely European) and Norm Psychology (US) are two theoretical frameworks that seem to be operating in parallel worlds. This great philosophy paper by
@kati_kish
tries to bridge these two frameworks in a really interesting way.
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How do we aggregate emotional information that unfolds over time, for example when a friend is telling us an emotional story? In a new paper we show that people tend to evaluate sequences of emotion expressions as more emotional than they actually are.1/7
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JOB ALERT! I am looking for a part time RA. My hope is to find someone who is passionate about understanding social interactions, technology and emotions, who has strong computational skills and a desire to do a phd. Please DM, apply or spread the word!
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One thing that is very hard to portray to students who spend time in
#AcademicTwitter
is how hard it is to publish papers in top journal. In a feed which mostly celebrates amazing achievements, its very hard to realize the noisiness of this process and how much luck is involved.
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 I am looking for a postdoc to work on questions related to technology & emotions at
@D3Harvard
,
@HarvardHBS
.
An ideal candidate:
1. Phd in Psych/CS/OB/engin.
2. Proficient in Comp. Soc. Sci., esp. NLP!
Please share and DM for questions!
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I highly recommend this great piece by
@PaulaNiedenthal
on how ancestral diversity impact emotions, including one my favorite findings: the association between historical heterogeneity and degree of smiling.
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Why post pre-prints? Because papers that may be hard to publish (for one reason or another) can have a life of their own and be loved by the community. For example, our Collective Emotions paper already has 700 downloads! The revolution is on its way!
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How do emotions on Twitter to correlate with the actual collective emotion in a specific group? Two recent papers (link in comments) by the amazing
@dgarcia_eu
and
@maxp_e
provide some impressive evidence that they do (links in comments).
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨 with
@profcikara
,
@eeweisz
,
@LafolletteKyle
, Zi Huang.
Imagine a crowd expressing emotion. Does increasing the proportion of faces racialized as Black in the crowd changes the probability that the crowd will be evaluated as emotional? 1/4
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How do people rapidly estimate crowds’ emotions? Are such estimations accurate or systematically biased? In a paper with
@eeweisz
, Tim Sweeny,
@profcikara
and James Gross, we show that people tend to overestimate the average emotions expressed by crowds.
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👓 NEW PAPER👓 ACROPHILY ON TWITTER: users (especially conservatives) are more likely to affiliate with others of their own political group who have *more extreme views* compared to moderate views (taking available users into account).
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What preceded that attack? Here is a short, balanced, review for beginners or people who just want the broad strokes.
The West Bank and Gaza are two separated Palestinian entities. On the Palestinian side, Hamas controls the West-Bank, PLO is in the West-Bank.
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Spent a few days at Princeton to learn from other researchers (psych, CS, sociology, engineering) who are interested in collective behavior. Could not be more inspired by all the amazing research on this topic. Check out these researchers and their work.
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The scope of social media research is expanding from focusing on content production and sharing to how ppl perceive and integrate their feeds. Check out this comment
@RobbWiller
and I wrote to an excellent paper by
@william__brady
et al.
@NatureHumBehav
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Out in
@PsychScience
led by Yael Millgram and
@mk_nock
: Using EMA, we examined how knowledge about what made people emotional in their daily lives impacted their desire, ability, and success in emotion regulation. A really exciting research space in ER.
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How do organisms, groups, organizations, cities change when the grow. If you are interested in collective psychology, I can't recommend this book enough. This is one of the best nonfiction books I've read in a long time.
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Academics who are interested in transitioning out of academia:
@D3Harvard
,
@HarvardHBS
new inst which leads cutting edge research in a variety of domains, is looking for data scientists. This is a fantastic place to kick off a nonacademic career and work with people like...me :)
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The mturk reddit forum called me classy and made my week!
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New preprint - digital emotion contagion, in which James Gross and I review the growing literature of emotion contagion on digital media and try to address a few important questions:
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So encouraged by Israelis' fight agains the end of democracy.
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The more time I spend in academia, the more I see the importance of encouraging students to compare alternative options. There are so many cool jobs, with companies or organizations that are trying to do good, that it's an absolute waste not see what's out there.
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Was just introduced to this cool paper on how political homophily extends to to unrelated domains. Participants falsely concluded that politically like-minded others were better at categorizing shapes and thus chose to get their advice on a sorting task.
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How do you know that someone is using LaTex? They will tell you.
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People evaluate moderate political views more negatively compared to political extreme. Another proof for the increased understanding of acrophily - the tendency to affiliate with more extremes, compared to more moderates
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I am launching an international mega uber study to develop interventions to convince my partner to go watch John Wick 4 with me (she has not watched 1-3).
Labs are welcome to offer interventions of various kinds. Please submit your applications in the comments below.
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Collective psychology emerges from individual interactions. Collective processes are self-organizing, they adapt to changes in the environment, and their states are modified as a result of tipping points. Join us to the
@SPSPnews
collective psych precon (virtual) to learn more!
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Crazy piece of data from this great paper (Brown &
@RyanDEnos
): The most extreme isolation is found among Dem living in urban areas, with the most isolated 10% of Dem in the US expected to have 93% or more of encounters in their environment with other Dem"
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Can we divert some of academia outrage towards papers who put citations that don't say what the author claim they say? Probably like 25% of all references.
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The plot thickens. It seems that prolific participants re-registered as men because they know there is a shortage, but when running the study they actually report their true gender. Our of 150 participants, there are 91 mismatches between their prolific gender and survey gender.
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A beautiful paper by Rime and Paez that reviews empirical evidence to Durkheim's theories of social gatherings. Gatherings are an essential part of human functioning. Their relative absence from modern life has detrimental consequences to well-being.
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Super excited to have our new preconference about collective psychology accepted to SPSP (with
@dgarcia_eu
,
@alinicoman
,
@ThaliaWheatley
,
@joshua_a_becker
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New paper with Lameese Eldesouky and Kate Ellis on loneliness. Using EMA, we show that when people feel more lonely, they are less likely to share their emotions, compared to when they feel less lonely (within individual), revealing a vicious cycle.
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I am the last person in the world to disagree with less meetings, but this has been making the rounds so:
1. This is based on a study done with 14 people.
2. participants did *meditation* during the breaks
3. The argue that beta activity = stress.
This is not good science.
Back-to-back meetings drain our brains. We need downtime in between to recover.
New research: even 10-minute breaks between meetings are enough to reduce stress, improve focus, and boost engagement.
Instead of defaulting to 30/60min meetings, we should schedule 20/50min blocks.
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This is where research on emotions in groups should go: trying to evaluate how emotional processes unfold at the collective level.
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Beyond emotion similarity: a new paper with
@zakijam
,
@dgarcia_eu
, Halperin, Gross, Kong & Golarai (JEP:G) in which we explore the role of motivation on emotional influence (or contagion) using a combination of lab studies and analysis of Twitter data.
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It's that time of year when I'm reminded of the worst graduation picture in the history of pictures. No I will not purchase this one, thank you.
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Stanford University Tweeting about my research!
"The best way to regulate your emotions is to start with the selection of your environment," PhD candidate Amit Goldenberg says. "If you don’t want to be angry today ... avoid angry people."
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Super excited for this year's emotion preconference at
@SPSPnews
(organized by
@bonniemle
,
@BrettQFord
and me) with an absolutely amazing lineup. Submit a blitz or poster:
@ka_lindquist
,
@wendybmendes
,
@BatjaMesquita
,
@EliseKalo
,
@JASilvers
,
@LyleUngar
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Can emotion regulation interventions (cognitive reappraisal) designed to reduce negative emotions spread from treated participants to other people in the group? Come to my talk to learn more!
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Something I just can't shake
In English, 🦃 is spelled exactly like the country🇹🇷.
In Hebrew,🦃 is also spelled exactly like a country, but a different one - INDIA! 🇮🇳. .
🤯🤯🤯
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Currently reviewing a paper for and getting paid for it! I obviously don't do it for the money (god is my witness that I review too many papers for free) but it just feels nice. Well done
@KunstJonas
for getting the ball rolling.
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Twitter scientists: I am looking for papers that compare effect sizes of online versus lab studies. Any recommendations?
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One of the biggest challenges in implementing succesful psychological interventions in intergroup conflict is that unlike our paid participants, group members often don't want to change even if we believe they should. 👇
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When it comes to news online "If it bleeds it leads". But is negativity equally common in libs and cons news outlets' tweets? and does it spread equally well? New paper by
@ABellovary
,
@_NYoun9_
and myself finds similar results across political groups
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Very cool work that integrates collective psychology and social identity theory.
New article in PSPR argues that “we” and “us” represent collective agency and identity respectively just as “I” and “me” represent personal agency and identity.
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I rarely post anything other than science, and was hoping to leave this platform anyway, but these are crazy days that require a nuanced perspective that is rarely seen online (with exceptions). I'll try to do that in the next few days. Stay tuned.
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I am really excited about the upcoming emotion preconference at
@SPSPnews
, and especially the wonderful panel on emotions and political polarization. Come check it out even if you plan to spend most of the day at other precons.
@luiza_a_santos
@MortezDehghani
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A demonstration for democracy and against Bibi in Israel - keeping social distance.
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One common misconception of emotions is as just natural and automatic responses to the world. But emotions are also tools that we often use to signal, communicate and influence. Also: perceiving emotions as tools does not contradict the idea that they are genuine.
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Our kitchen was filled with water because of a broken dishwasher. While I was frantically trying to deal with the situation, someone found a very original way to take all of her friends on a tour around the house. ❤️
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I am a big fan of the Stanford Psychology Podcast and of
@EricNeumannPsy
work as an interviewer (how he can do this and a phd is beyond me). Being interviewed here and talking about some of our recent work was really special.
NEW EPISODE! ⭐️
@EricNeumannPsy
chats with
@Amit_Goldenb
about collective emotions, group conflict, social media, people's attraction to morally extreme individuals, and his unique journey into science as a former journalist and book author.
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People's certainty about their beliefs (politics, science) exceeds their accuracy. This great paper by
@donandrewmoore
shows that this tendency (called overpercision) is driven by not being able to properly evaluate all the ways that one could be wrong.
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I completely agree. Boycotting academics is cutting off the life supply for democracy and hurting those who are doing the most to undermine the government and terminate the war. Weaker academic institutions = less democracy. This just makes this terrible government stronger.
I strongly support a ceasefire and a return of the hostages. I also support disclosure and am open to divestment.
But I absolutely don’t support calls from protestors to have universities cut off relationships with Israeli academics.
I don’t think any academics in any country
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How can emotions be detected and changed on social media? Come to my methods talk at
#AffectScience2023
(whether you are a novice or expert) to learn more and get some cools ideas!
@affectScience
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Paper with
@eeweisz
(co first author),
@profcikara
, Tim Sweeny and James Gross. Now in press in PS.
How do people go about reading a room or taking the temperature of a crowd?
They attend to faces exhibiting strong emotions.
As a result, they interpret the crowd’s emotional response as more extreme than it actually is
@Amit_Goldenb
@profcikara
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If you ever asked yourself what is the significance of the distinct emotions debate, you should read this. A multi-billion industry that is based on the assumption that emotional expressions are universal
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Trick or treating in Cambridge. We get to a big house with a guy sitting outside with a bunch of candy. Thriller is playing in the background.
Guy: take a much as you like, we have plenty
Me: Nice house!
Guy: Thanks! It's not mine, I was just hired to do this.
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I got this paper from my advisor when I started grad school. 7 (!) years later, I still think its extremely helpful for finding one's academic path. Best recommendation: don't make any choices about projects in the first 90 days of being in a lab.
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What?
I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon &
@MatanSamina
w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement ().
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Reading students' personal statements I am always wondering if this weird necessity in psychology to somehow connect your current interest to some personal anecdote in a reality-tv-like manner is true for other fields as well.
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What type of political content spreads further on social media? There are currently 3 very related ideas. First, negative effect. The first finding (as far as I know) was by Alvarez and
@dgarcia_eu
looking at the 15M movement. 1/
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I was reminded of this paper by Rui Fan (check out his work) trying to understand temporal dynamics of emotions before and after people provide specific emotional labels in their tweets. Check out the dynamics pre and post labeling for pos and neg.
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When CS are collaborating with Psych to do AI-Psych research, the results is almost always better than when they are doing it solo. One great example is recent work by
@sharma_ashish_2
on using AI mental health support using reframing . Check it out!
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James is the best mentor a person could ask. Always present, always supportive, always thoughtful, always wants what's best for his students.
For our inaugural 2022 Mentorship Award in Affective Science, please join us in congratulating Lisa Feldman Barrett (
@LFeldmanBarrett
) & James Gross of
@StanfordPsych
for their outstanding mentorship contributions in affective science!
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Living in Cambridge (someone yells on the phone outside my window): "I have no PI, my lab sucks, and I feel like I am sitting here ruining my career."
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After listening to "The power of us" I declare
@jayvanbavel
and
@dominicpacker_
as the official ambassadors of the social identity approach in the American continent. Lets hope that this fantastic effort will reduce the divide between European and American group researchers!
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This project, which is part of PSA-covid and led by the amazing Ke Wang, was my first interaction with
@PsySciAcc
. It is inspiring to interact with so many people who just care about how to contribute their skills to make science better. I absolutely love this initiative.
Can a brief reappraisal intervention affect emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic?
A Registered Report protocol by Wang et al. and the Psychological Science Accelerator team will address this question across 55 countries.
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Bold claim: NLP is the most important method introduced to social psych in decades (yes including fmri). It would become a more crucial part of any paper in the future and would help us to understand human behavior more than any other method. Great paper to start with.
Excited to see this paper out in Perspectives
@PsychScience
. We discuss how studying language can advance psychological science. Kudos to
@josh_c_jackson
for leading the charge!
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Our first attempt to examine the associt between loneliness and emotion regulation.
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Coming back from SPSP, I was reflecting on the fact that we are an advice-driven community that loves to give and get advice. Many of the sessions at the conference were advice sessions, and many of the meetings people have are justified by getting advice about something. >>
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I refuse to get recognition for my reviews on Publons because I think that I should get PAID, and feel that its a cheap way to alleviate my outrage for this unreasonable process.
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The scientist behind the science:
@wendybmendes
talks about times when not following others' advice and listening to her own intuition worked out
@SPSPnews
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The best elevator pitch I've heard in my life.
I had to teach my Introduction to Psychology class today to 300+ students from my cell phone while I was trapped in my apartment building elevator with my two young kids.
This has to go down as my most surreal and stressful teaching experience.
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I really enjoyed this piece by
@MohammadAtari90
that integrates two trends in social psych in the last decade: thinking of psych processes at the collective level (which has deeply influenced my thinking) and thinking of psych in historical perspectives.
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!FANTASTIC PAPER ALERT! this great paper shows that people are attracted to others who express more coherent political views. It represents a growing interest in trying to capture people's attraction towards extreme views! Check out our SPSP symposium on the topic.
🚨New paper🚨
Just published in
@ScienceAdvances
. Massive effort from the Neuro Lab
@UTDiTella
+
@TEDxperiments
initiative. Led by
@FedeZimmerman
and in collaboration w/
@garbulsky
,
@danariely
,
@mariuchu
.
Check it out here:
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Estimation: 99.9% of all pop science books contain the term "prefrontal cortex" regardless of their topic.
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