Social psych prof, Uni of Amsterdam. Behavior, influence, communication, politics, climate crisis, meta-science. Born at 344ppm https://t.co/GXZL9vPoQz 🔬 c.brick@uva.nl
May 5, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
3 years of work and worth it, our new paper: Districting that minimizes partisan bias in @HSScomms
Would political scientists please share like @JasonReifler? I'm not connected to many and I'm really keen on making elections more fair.
Full text: psyarxiv.com/qfczy
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My older brother @aarbrk is still a mythical figure to me. In childhood he was smarter and better at everything, and now ... I am better at ping pong? Anyway, after dressing up as a capacitor he became a computer scientist and it's such a pleasure to write a paper together.
Jan 14, 2021 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
📣📣 A very fun and rewarding project is coming out. It's being cited already and Perspectives has a backlog, so here's the skinny.
Our theory paper is about the pervasive tendency to assume that psychological concepts are real and discovered.
psyarxiv.com/eqma4/
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Humans effortlessly categorize. Some concepts have referents in the real world (a tree), and some do not (justice). What about a 'face'?
Because most psych theories are verbal and informal, psych science is particularly vulnerable to how people think about and label categories.
