M.J. Crockett @mollycrockett Twitter profile

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M.J. Crockett

2 months

Now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science: Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality, with @joodykeem & @yeonsoon_shin

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M.J. Crockett

@mollycrockett

3 years

It's Friday, and the sun is shining, and I received the news this morning that my promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure @YalePsychology has been approved 😊 Endless gratitude to my mentors, colleagues and the brilliant students & postdocs who have made our work possible!!!

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This is an elegant paper with an important conclusion: "a deluge of papers does not lead to turnover of central ideas in a field, but rather to ossification of canon." In other words: we should really slow the fuck down

Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science | PNAS

In many academic fields, the number of papers published each year has increased significantly over time. Policy measures aim to increase the quanti...

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5 months

Now out in @nature : Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lmesseri and edited by the supremely talented @meharpist Link: Open version: 🧵

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Exciting changes ahead: next summer I'll be joining Princeton's Department of Psychology & the University Center for Human Values! I'm so grateful to be back on campus for one last year with my friends at Yale, whom I'll miss dearly ❤️

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🚨Registered Report🚨 now out in @NatureHumBehav : Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis A massive international team effort w/37 coauthors - this thread shares our findings & acknowledges those who made the work possible

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Anyone tempted to think AI Surrogates can replace human participants in experiments needs to read this devastating empirical critique by @ang3linawang & colleagues

Large language models cannot replace human participants because...

Large language models (LLMs) are increasing in capability and popularity, propelling their application in new domains -- including as replacements for human participants in computational social...

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4 years

A couple of my students found out I'd be spending Thanksgiving alone. This morning, they delivered this basket of treats and a sweet note. I'm crying with gratitude 😭❤️🙏

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4 years

Extremely honored to receive this & floored by all the kind congratulations - gosh, I miss seeing everyone! Deeply grateful for my wonderful mentors, collaborators, colleagues, & especially my lab members who have been so resilient, resourceful & brave this year. Rest well, all!

Yale Psychology

@YalePsychology

4 years

Molly Crockett to receive a 2021 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of social psychology. @mollycrockett

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6 years

I am loving this new preprint culture. Reading preprints transports me back to my undergrad days, before I knew which journals were “important”, and decided what to read based on pure interest. I do appreciate evaluating new work without bias & baggage of where it’s published!

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Types of Target Article Responses, a 🧵: 1. Your Theory is Wrong: Evidence From My Work 2. Your Theory is Right: Evidence From My Work 3. Your Theory is Actually Just My Theory, Published In 1985

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5 years

Hey @nytimes I made a cheat sheet for you! Existential questions: what is the meaning of life? Does free will exist? Are we alone in the universe? Not an existential question: should I follow the law?

NYT Politics

@nytpolitics

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Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena

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Academic writing: high effort maybe you'll get feedback in a year feedback will probably be bad blind review = you never know who hates your work sass frowned upon Tweeting: low effort instant feedback feedback mostly "like", "share" you can see who your fans are sass welcomed

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3 months

A great way to produce more while understanding less.

Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research

Nature - The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they...

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@mollycrockett

4 years

PSA: retweeting Trump's tweets, even if you are criticizing them, tells the newsfeed algorithm that these tweets draw eyeballs (=$$). This will amplify his disinformation. If you want to comment, take a screenshot, don't retweet.

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Now out in @nature : Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lisamesseri and edited by the supremely talented @meharpist 🧵

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@mollycrockett

4 years

So, how’s everyone doing at this fine hour of 78 o’clock on Tuesday Nov 3rd?

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@mollycrockett

3 years

I’ve long been a fan of Registered Reports, but only recently got to experience the process first-hand. It was even better than I expected. Some (probably unoriginal) thoughts below

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@mollycrockett

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🚨Registered Report🚨 now out in @NatureHumBehav : Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis A massive international team effort w/37 coauthors - this thread shares our findings & acknowledges those who made the work possible

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@mollycrockett

5 years

We’re hiring a postdoc to study the cognitive science of narratives! Position is for up to three years, to begin Fall 2019 or Spring/Summer 2020 (start date flexible). Full details in link, more info below. Please RT!

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Biden & Harris (2020)

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Biden & Harris (in press)

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Cannot overemphasize how valuable it has been to include open-ended questions at the end of studies, esp for early stage research. Qual responses have in some cases dramatically shifted direction of our projects, & it's minimal effort to include 👇👇👇

Lindsay Alley

@l_j_alley

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I'm a grad student in Quantitative Psychology. I believe in the utility of good psychological measurement and quantitative methods. I also believe that most psychological studies would benefit from at least one chill qualitative element. Here's why, with anecdote: 1/8

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@mollycrockett

6 months

My lab is recruiting a full-time research specialist to begin summer/fall 2024. More information here: Please share!

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@mollycrockett

3 years

Omg

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@NickyWoolf

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who made this

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this is basically like running a new t test after each additional datapoint collected, but on a massive scale with life or death consequences

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@mollycrockett

6 years

Thrilled to share our new paper in @NatureHumBehav , led by my brilliant PhD student @JenSiegel1 w/ @RobbRutledge @chmathys : “Beliefs about bad people are volatile” & comment by Todorov

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7 years

If moral outrage is a fire, is the internet like gasoline? New in @NatureHumBehav : Moral Outrage in the Digital Age

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@mollycrockett

5 years

Wish there was a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy equivalent for psychology+neuroscience

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@mollycrockett

4 years

New paper in @PNASNews : “Model-free decision-making is prioritized when learning to avoid harming others”, with @thepsychologist @MKFlugge @AbdurahmanAyat

Model-free decision making is prioritized when learning to avoid harming others | PNAS

Moral behavior requires learning how our actions help or harm others. Theoretical accounts of learning propose a key division between “model-free” ...

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@mollycrockett

4 years

Biden & Harris (in press)

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@mollycrockett

3 years

An unexpectedly delightful hack for sustaining connection with loved ones remotely: look at old photo albums together over video chat. I spent 2+ hours doing this with my mom last night and it was just wonderful.

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@mollycrockett

5 years

New paper out in @NatureComms : Exposure to violence affects the development of moral impressions and trust behavior. Led by the brilliant @JzSiegel with our collaborators Arielle Baskin-Sommers and Suzanne Estrada

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@mollycrockett

6 years

New lab paper in @NatureHumBehav ! Uncertainty about the impact of social decisions increases prosocial behaviour

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@mollycrockett

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Amazing to live in a world so technologically advanced that I can instantly communicate with my lab from halfway across the world, and yet, APA PsycNET

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@mollycrockett

3 years

Thoughtful, nuanced discussion of our new paper on amplification of online outrage expressions:

Social media really is making us more morally outraged

Scientists from Yale University found that social media platforms like Twitter amplify our collective moral outrage.

www.popsci.com

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@mollycrockett

5 years

Reading an in-press paper making same point another paper made in 1979. Now wondering which decades-old papers already made the arguments I'm currently writing. Will we ever have AI to help us avoid these situations? Clearly there is too much literature for us humans to digest!

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@mollycrockett

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Science Tweeps! Three days before this week’s lab meeting we found ourselves with no agenda. You very kindly offered suggestions for how to fill the time – many thanks! From these, we came up with something new I’m excited to share. Friends, I present to you: LabFoo!

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@mollycrockett

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Science tweeps! What are your favorite discussion topics for lab meeting time that don’t require advance planning or a formal presentation?

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"Social media" and "mental health" and "teenagers in the US" are not monoliths and it's not helpful to discuss them as if they are. Those who understand this are less likely to contribute to online discourse, because social media affordances discourage nuanced discussion.

Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

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There's been a lot of debate about the role of social media in increased negative mental health outcomes among teenagers in the U.S. I'm curious where the silent majority falls on this question. Social media is _____ for increasing mental health problems in the U.S.

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3 years

My timeline just now. My goodness do we all need a good long break 😭

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4 years

a dozen chocolate peanut butter cups is an acceptable breakfast today, yes?

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New paper out @NatureHumBehav showing how algorithmic amplification inflates beliefs about outrage online. It's a shame @Twitter is effectively shutting down this kind of research...

William J. Brady

@william__brady

1 year

Glad to see this paper finally out in print! (🔓in thread below) w/ @mollycrockett @killianmcl1 @MariaGendronPhD et al. Many thanks to reviewers and check out the News and Views about it 🙏 @Amit_Goldenb @RobbWiller

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@mollycrockett

3 years

Huge congrats to the @SPSPnews award winners, and could not be more proud of @william__brady (SAGE Emerging Scholar) & @JimACEverett (SAGE Early Career Trajectory)!!! 🥳🎉🍾🙌

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@mollycrockett

11 months

The University Center for Human Values at Princeton is hiring this year - Open Rank, Open Area with a focus on Ethics in Society: - Please share!

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@mollycrockett

4 years

Friendly reminder that outrage-retweeting vaccine misinformation contributes to the spread of misinformation.

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@mollycrockett

6 years

Hey @ElsevierConnect , you made a 37% profit margin in 2017, largely off free labor from academics. Surely you could use some of those profits to make your submission interface function adequately?

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@mollycrockett

4 years

Two things that are deeply satisfying for the same reason: turning a pile of ingredients into a delicious meal, and turning a pile of ideas into a convincing argument. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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@mollycrockett

4 years

Excuse me, what is the return policy for this 2020? Have we passed the date for a full refund?

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@mollycrockett

3 years

Congratulations to @JimACEverett and @AbrahamYule for their recognition as APS Rising Stars! So proud of you both!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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@mollycrockett

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I'm going to be doing some pushups now to honor RBG and prepare for all the signs I'll be holding up in the coming months

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@mollycrockett

5 years

Elizabeth Warren thoroughly comments and debugs all her code, and posts it online with a helpful user guide

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@mollycrockett

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Editorial covering our work: “All members of the scientific community must view AI use not as inevitable for any particular task, nor as a panacea, but rather as a choice with risks and benefits that must be carefully weighed.” 2/

Why scientists trust AI too much — and what to do about it

Nature - Some researchers see superhuman qualities in artificial intelligence. All scientists need to be alert to the risks this creates.

www.nature.com

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@mollycrockett

4 years

So happy to be back to just one orange creature keeping me up at night

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@mollycrockett

2 years

The Crockett Lab anticipates an open full-time Lab Manager position starting Summer/Fall 2022. An official ad is coming soon. More info here: Please share!

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@mollycrockett

2 years

Join us for an interdisciplinary exploration of moral narratives, starting next week! Talks are open to all. Thanks to @templeton_fdn for support.

Judy Kim ⁷

@joodykeem

2 years

Another reminder that our moral narratives workshop (cc @mollycrockett ) is starting in a week (Sept 27th Tues, 11am-noon EST)! Please share & we look forward to seeing a lot of you there! Sign up here to receive reminders + Zoom links:

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New preprint on "motivated misremembering": selfish decisions are more generous in hindsight led by the brilliant Ryan Carlson, w/collaborators @MichelAMarechal , Bastiaan Oud & Ernst Fehr!

Motivated misremembering of selfish decisions

People often prioritize their own interests, but also like to see themselves as moral. How do individuals resolve this tension? One way to both pursue personal gain and preserve a moral self-image is...

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@mollycrockett

5 years

Later, while writing a grant application… Funder: How will you maximize the impact of this work? Me: By not submitting this work to APA journals

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@mollycrockett

6 years

Bravo to these courageous young scientists.

Sasha Brietzke

@sbrietz

6 years

I stand in righteous fury beside fellow women in science in filing a lawsuit against Dartmouth. We want our voices to be heard. We demand to be taken seriously. We demand change. Thread (1/10) #metooSTEM #MeToo

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100% this. Patronizing, belittling reviews are yet another driver of inequality in science. Many reviewers seem unaware of their impact on students, esp. 1st-gen, minorities and women who struggle with feelings they don’t belong in science and take belittling reviews as proof.

Linda Beaumont

@Beaumontlj

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I was so incensed by a recent review of my student’s work, I wrote this: Peer reviewers need a code of conduct too

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@mollycrockett

6 years

Now out in Emotion with @dyudkin and @annayahprosser : Actions speak louder than outcomes in judgments of prosocial behavior ($; preprint here: )

Actions Speak Louder than Outcomes in Judgments of Prosocial Behavior

Recently proposed models of moral cognition suggest that people’s judgments of harmful acts are influenced by their consideration both of those acts’ consequences (“outcome value”), and of the...

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@mollycrockett

3 years

We are looking to hire a full time research technician to work on digital outrage & how it relates to disinformation, online harassment, polarization & more. Great stepping stone to grad school for students w/STEM degrees. Details here: Please share!

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@mollycrockett

3 years

New preprint: The relational logic of moral inference w/ @JimACEverett @maureen_gill & @JzSiegel An integrative review of how we make inferences about the moral character of others.

The relational logic of moral inference

How do we make inferences about the moral character of others? Here we review recent work on the cognitive mechanisms of moral inference and impression updating. We show that moral inference follows...

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@mollycrockett

6 years

New lab paper out in JESP! The costs of being consequentialist: social inference from instrumental harm and impartial beneficence led by the brilliant @JimACEverett with @nsfaber and @juliansavulescu

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@mollycrockett

3 years

So excited to share our paper, now published in @ScienceAdvances : How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks

William J. Brady

@william__brady

3 years

Very happy to see this in print, with some new analyses and discussion added. Thanks to reviewers/editors! w/ @mollycrockett @killianmcl1 @tuanars123

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6 years

cleanliness of house = f(nearness of grant deadline)

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@mollycrockett

5 years

Hands down the best part of being a PI is seeing your students blossom into independent scientists. So proud of @JimACEverett for receiving the @SPSPnews Wegner Award and starting his own lab at @UniKent in April!!

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@mollycrockett

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Scientists! @JimACEverett & I are testing effectiveness of different messages for COVID. How to think about minimum effect size needed to "make a difference" in preventing spread? Small effects might still make a big difference at scale. Power analysis just got very real.

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@mollycrockett

5 years

Excited to share this episode of @HiddenBrain , featuring @william__brady 's work on moral contagion in online social networks w/ @jayvanbavel , and my thoughts on how social media design affects moral outrage expression.

Hidden Brain

@HiddenBrain

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Turn on the news or look at Twitter, and it's likely you'll be bombarded by anger and vitriol. This week: how outrage is hijacking our conversations, our communities, and our minds.

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@mollycrockett

10 years

Choose your own adventure? http://t.co/BexGSc0jVD

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@mollycrockett

3 years

👇👇👇 Watching these stories as a teenager taught me that if you want to be a successful woman, you must be perfect in every way. Or you will be destroyed.

Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser.bsky.social 🟣

@emilylhauser

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I'm glad people are talking about the viciousness that Monica Lewinsky, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, & Lindsay Lohan faced. Please understand that they're the tip of the iceberg, & every girl & woman alive at the time saw, & learned a lot about who has power & who has worth.

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Missing #GameOfThrones ? Check out this piece @JimACEverett and I wrote about the moral psychology of GoT!

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@mollycrockett

3 years

We face a collective action problem here because current incentives do not reward #slowscience . This seems key:

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@mollycrockett

5 years

All journals should adopt this policy

Marina Picciotto

@MarinaP63

5 years

Submit a PDF in any journal format for first submission to @JNeuroscience @SfNJournals

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@mollycrockett

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Now out in @PNASNews , our letter on the limitations of using machine learning to predict scientific replicability. Thanks @random_walker & @sayashk for this excellent summary.

Arvind Narayanan

@random_walker

1 year

A PNAS paper claimed to use ML to predict whether a study will replicate. We found that it is deeply flawed. The whole idea is misguided and risks many harmful effects. w/ @mollycrockett @baixuechunzi @sayashk @lmesseri Blog Letter

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100% this. So grateful for my philosopher collaborators.

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@mollycrockett

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Peter Dayan is looking for postdocs! Speaking from personal experience, working with him is the best career choice you will ever make. Apply here: Please share!

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@mollycrockett

3 years

I needed this today

Derek Thompson

@DKThomp

3 years

"Cheese, by far, was shown to be the most protective food against age-related cognitive problems, even late into life" (via @bpmehlman )

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Our 2nd year PhD cohort of social area students gave their end-of-the-year presentations today. It was awesome to hear about their inspiring research, but that wasn’t the best part of the afternoon by a long shot.

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Can we do more of this for talk intros, please? Our default of “I’m pleased to introduce our speaker, who has published in XXX eminent journals and won YYY awards” seems so barren in comparison to what we heard today.

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@mollycrockett

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Alright, March 366th 2020, let’s do this

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@mollycrockett

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Highly recommend this primer on model-based and model-free learning & decision-making by @nicoled1001 & @yael_niv for teaching. We covered it in class yesterday and it really helped clarify the concepts and bring together the literature for students!

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Journal TOC email: new papers now online! Me: this one looks like a must-read [clicks link] APA PsychNet: Check your access! [clicks link] APA PsychNet: Nope!

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Many are excited about Facebook $$ for disinfo/polarization research. It's great they're investing in this. But I'm not sure what they are offering is worth risking public trust in our research. @natematias has smart thoughts about this - worth a read

Why We Need Industry-Independent Research on Tech & Society

When research is funded by companies that people no longer trust, we have a problem.

citizensandtech.org

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@mollycrockett

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I play with shock machines! #girlswithtoys http://t.co/O7FPL5Mwj8 http://t.co/8gM3IJXhIN

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@mollycrockett

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Important piece about the struggle to publish deep, rigorous, technically difficult, innovative work. Our current system makes it so hard for ECRs to do the kind of work that moves science forward. How can we reimagine peer review & the job market to prioritize #slowscience ?

Eshin Jolly

@Eshjolly

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3/3 So I wanted to take the opportunity to share a bit about the journey rather than the science. If that sounds at all interesting to you, I've written that up as post here:

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Freshly baked bread for our inaugural lab retreat thanks to baker extraordinaire @VladChituc !

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@mollycrockett

4 years

So excited to share this new work, led by the brilliant @_julia_marshall in collaboration with @dyudkin . In two pre-registered studies we show that young children have a taste for retribution but also value the social benefits that punishment can bring

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@mollycrockett

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"The deluge of new papers may deprive reviewers and readers the cognitive slack required to fully recognize and understand novel ideas." 🙋definitely no cognitive slack whatsoever left over here (really sorry for all the late reviews...)

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@mollycrockett

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So @JZSiegel just submitted her dissertation, and I am seriously weepy. I’m incredibly grateful she put her career in my hands, and could not be more proud of what she’s accomplished. My lab would not be what it is without her. THREAD/

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@mollycrockett

3 years

"dimwitted approximations of our once-productive selves": feeling this so hard right now.

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@mollycrockett

11 months

On a search committee? Check out this *incredible* resource from @UMichADVANCE for recruiting to improve diversity:

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M.J. Crockett

@mollycrockett

4 years

Moral psychology + relationship science! It's been a dream working with @briandavidearp , Margaret Clark, @killianmcl1 & @jtmonrad on this project. Lots more in the pipeline on this line of work, stay tuned...

Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.

@briandavidearp

4 years

Could not be more excited or proud 2 share this pre-print, "How Social Relationships Shape Moral Judgment," a collaboration w @killianmcl1 @jtmonrad @mollycrockett & M. Clark @yale , inspired by @kurtjgray @chelseaschein @paulbloomatyale @tage_rai et al. 1/

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@mollycrockett

6 years

New lab paper now out in @PsychScience (open access, open data, open materials, and preregistered!!): Concern for Others Leads to Vicarious Optimism … Super proud of lead author @AnKappes ! Thanks to collaborators @nsfaber @juliansavulescu !

Concern for Others Leads to Vicarious Optimism - Andreas Kappes, Nadira S. Faber, Guy Kahane,...

An optimistic learning bias leads people to update their beliefs in response to better-than-expected good news but neglect worse-than-expected bad news. Because...

journals.sagepub.com

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@mollycrockett

5 years

How to model the quality of conversations: coolest talk I've seen in a while by @etemp17 @lukejchang @ThaliaWheatley at #spsp2019 . Gorgeous work!

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@mollycrockett

5 years

Their introductions painted thoughtful portraits of these students’ kindness, quirks, friendships and mutual support of one another. They showed the beautiful humans behind the research. Also there were (inexplicably) many pictures of adorable baby goats.

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@mollycrockett

5 years

HUGE congratulations to @JzSiegel for passing her doctoral viva today with flying colors!! Special thanks to her examiners @utafrith and @brain_apps . Could not be more proud!! See thread below if you'd like to learn more about her dissertation work👇

M.J. Crockett

@mollycrockett

5 years

So how, exactly, do people infer moral character in others? This work forms the core of Jen’s thesis. Across 8 studies, she shows that people predict others' moral decisions by simulating their utility function and updating beliefs via Bayesian inference.

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@mollycrockett

6 years

"Behind the paper": some backstory on our recent @NatureHumBehav paper on moral inference with @JzSiegel @RobbRutledge @chmathys

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M.J. Crockett

@mollycrockett

1 year

Types of Target Article Responses, 2/ 4. Here Is My Theory, Only Tangentially Related to Your Theory 5. Something Something Popper 6. I Agree With You, And Wild Speculation

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@mollycrockett

8 years

This election is a test of the limits of cognitive dissonance. I wish Festinger were still alive to see it.

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@mollycrockett

4 years

because of coronavirus in the space of less than a week I have gone from Online to Extremely Online

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@mollycrockett

6 years

New lab paper now out in @PsychScience (open access, open data, open materials, and preregistered!!): Concern for Others Leads to Vicarious Optimism Super proud of lead author @AnKappes !

Concern for Others Leads to Vicarious Optimism - Andreas Kappes, Nadira S. Faber, Guy Kahane,...

An optimistic learning bias leads people to update their beliefs in response to better-than-expected good news but neglect worse-than-expected bad news. Because...

journals.sagepub.com

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M.J. Crockett

@mollycrockett

6 years

Many thanks @peez & @tamler for inviting me on @verybadwizards to talk about digital outrage (listen to the end for our thoughts on #ParklandSchoolShooting )

Very Bad Wizards

@verybadwizards

6 years

New episode now up! Special guest @mollycrockett joins us to talk about moral outrage in the age of social media. Plus, @tamler and @peez on what happens when trolleyology meets evolutionary psychology.

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