Can emotion regulation interventions spread from treated to non-treated people in a group? We examine this question in a paper published in @NatureComms, led by @Michael_Pinus & @Yajun_Cao.

🚨New WP!🚨 Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes. Co-authors: @JonasP_Schoene @JEichstaedt @AadeshSalecha @slyubomirsky 🧵👇

📢POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Nour Kteily and I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement. We seek research excellence relevant to navigating conflict constructively. Application deadline: Nov. 17. Salary: ~$80k. https://t.co/BJWQtPojVu

New study: Research shows liberals have worse mental health than conservatives. But what if you ask about "mood" to avoid possible conservative stigma around "mental health" issues? A: "When respondents were asked to assess their mood, the gap between liberals and conservatives

New review: We synthesized the fast-growing literature on empathic AI. Consistent finding: AI-generated emotional support is rated higher than human responses, but people's knowledge of the source dramatically shapes their perceptions. W/ @_desmond_ong @Amit_Goldenb @AnatPerry

We are hiring this year! Three positions-- Social, Quantitative, and Clinical. https://t.co/2S6emejcUR https://t.co/gqLDqewTBS https://t.co/EF17FFIcBW

📢JOB POSTING: Senior Director for the Center for Enlightened Disagreement (CED).📢 Nour Kteily and I are seeking a strategic leader to help us build the Center (see ensuing post for information about CED). Target salary range: $125,000-$155,000. 1/2 https://t.co/ZVuUxzSyNk

Israel approves building settlements in E1, which will break the West Bank into two parts. another dagger in a Palestinian state goes under the radar.

We are hiring! The Stanford Psychology Department is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus in affective science. Our ad, including application link, can be found here: https://t.co/LOrKyeOk33

Now officially out: "Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models" https://t.co/5wXHLbnAlM (by Hu, Sosa, & me)

Exciting work by Jonas!

🚨 Out in JPSP! 🚨 Ever found that your social media feed feels more emotionally intense than it really is? We show how the aggregation of emotional intensity across posts leads to overestimation of emotional intensity on social media. 📄 https://t.co/CHcXuEBZeO @APA_Journals

We scrolls about 100 meters a day of social media content, much of it highly emotional. In a new paper led by @JonasP_Schoene (JPSP)we show that people tend to remember stronger emotional expressions, which leads them to estimate feeds as more emotional. https://t.co/sAekLKFvWX

🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning. Led by the wonderful @LafolletteKyle with an amazing team @janniyuval @RoeySchurr and @DEMelnikoff https://t.co/5mTmzf6XnC

Dear researchers on AI-empathy, We (@AnatPerry, @minzlicht, and @_desmond_ong) are writing a short review of current research on AI and empathy. We know your published work but are also looking for preprints or submitted papers that we may have missed. Share in comments!

New paper in Nature Human Behavior (led by @MatanRubin1), where we manipulated the perceived identity of a real-time empathic response to be or AI. We observed a drop in perceived empathy when label was AI, and this effect was mainly driven by emotion. https://t.co/N2zxTUk8W5

When are LLMs-as-judge reliable? That's a big question for frontier labs and it's a big question for computational social science. Excited to share our findings (led by @aakriti1kumar!) on how to address this question for any subjective task & specifically for empathic comms

🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆 There are two open positions: 1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition. 2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety. https://t.co/Fe3PfbTkns

The rise of @jordanbpeterson & similar influencers among men doesn't stem from their advice & guidance. Those are pretty basic. It's the demand that signifies the crisis men are facing, and society's failings. I talk with @RichardvReeves of @aibm_org https://t.co/tkSqzyR5Yt 🧵

✨Deadline approaching, June 1st!✨ Apply if you want to investigate brain orchestration in visual (free!) exploration. You will learn a bunch of cool cog neuro techniques, and get to work with a great team of scientists within and beyond the lab. https://t.co/9rvKLaEuAC

I'll be giving a talk at the 2025 APS Annual Convention in Washington on the power and limits of AI emotional support, including a story from my glory days as a bellboy (now apparently termed "bellhop"). If you're around and would like to meet, let me know. #APS @PsychScience