Roger Giner-Sorolla

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Social psychology Professor at University of Kent in England. Moral emotions, collective apologies, scientific reporting reform, ironic enjoyment, and more.

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Some initial thoughts on the UK elections. 1. It confirms once again that when a center-right party veers to the hard right to weaken the far right, it ends up doing the opposite. After purging moderates and going full-on wingnuts and fever swamp, the Tories got decimated by Reform, not Labour. 🧵

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Our new paper in Communications Psychology with Aife Hopkins-Doyle, Jocely Chalmers and Daniel Toribio-Florez examines #gender disparities in social and personality psychology awards from 1968 to 2021. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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these Tory election leaflets are becoming increasingly desperate I feel

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Americanists and lawyers ask, what does the Constitution say? Comparativists ask, who controls the High Court, the militia, and the clerics?

6-3 for total immunity is devastating. This isn’t a ruling for 45, this is permission for 47.

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starmer needs to be bold. this isn’t a time for incrementalism. within the first year there needs to be a program to deliver hot and cold water from the same faucet at minimum

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I get the instinct to mock “ChatGPT-5 will be PhD smart” w self-deprecating jokes abt how ppl w PhDs aren’t actually smart. But given the total contempt that AI Grifters hold for all forms of expertise, think the proper response is “fuck you, your parlor trick will have nothing like our expertise.”

Heyo, I found out where they grow blue checks

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Yes, if you don’t like the choice between Trump and Biden, think of it as picking between Stephen Miller and Pete Buttigieg, Steve Bannon and Deb Haaland, Michael Flynn and Lina M. Khan, Alex Jones and Jessica Rosenworcel, or Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Both sides are not “the same”

Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

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Love The Matrix

In our field of research, we're lucky to get a film every decade that's spot on. With students and lab visitors, we were lucky to see Inside Out 2 this weekend. With four or five well-chosen secondary emotions, and relatable themes of achievement and fitting in, the adolescent version hits harder!

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Everyone needs an editor

In 2008 my PhD. student from Brazil, Valeschka Guerra, was denied a visa to attend SPSP. I posted a short angry note in place of her poster, but I applaud these scholars at our small group meeting doing more to raise awareness in a much worse environment.

Mr. Starmer, if the need arose, would you willingly use the Windsor family atomics to blast a hole in the Shield Wall?

The current state of the UK general election.

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The first Polish language encyclopaedia (published 1746) included definitions such as: "Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is." The phrase is still used in Poland to humorously say that there’s no point in discussing obvious things.

Was just discussing non-apology apologies with a colleague today, and the Vatican obliges with a classic example. "Sorry if you were offended!" www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Vatican issues apology over Pope Francis’s ‘homophobic’ slurwww.theguardian.com Statement says pontiff apologises ‘to those who felt offended by the term reported by others’

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Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily? Join a union. https://t.co/yiq1jamHIT

Oh wait, now I get it. I'm a member of the *University* Senate. That's why Zippia keeps sending me these statistics about how much senators make in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Now, off to dip the hem of my toga in murex ...

What voice should OpenAI use now that ScarJo’s is off-limits? Wrong answers only.

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Ok I'm a million years late to the party, but I finally found my way to bluesky! ✋ Hi! I'm Michèle, a meta-scientist interested in statistical errors & improving overall robustness of psychological science. 🙏 If anyone has tips to build up my network here, please let me know!

The Contributed track in PNAS is not only odious in principle, but now has demonstrably undermined the journal's scientific integrity on an issue with incalculable consequences. End it now!

So if I understand correctly, a Facebook-funded study brought together Facebook employees and with academics funded by Facebook to use data provided by Facebook to show the Facebook didn't affect the election, and then via PNAS's contributed track chose their own reviewer—also funded by Facebook.

The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment | Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceswww.pnas.org We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users...

Can anyone point me to a good article in any social science that more systematically analyzes the observation (in one or several settings) that protest movements tend to be generally reviled in their own time, but praised when no longer active and their aims are achieved?

Love the goal enumeration system in football (soccer). Maybe future generations will view it as we view Yan Tan Tethera, etc. www.quora.com/Are-there-ni...

Are there nicknames for the number of goals scored other than the hat trick?www.quora.com Answer (1 of 26): Yes, there are several nicknames for specific numbers of goals scored in various sports, in addition to the well-known "hat trick." Here are a few examples: 1. Hat Trick: Scoring th...

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🧵ok brace for what may be a longish thread! @lifewinning.com really has hit the bottom-line point. It's bananas. And/but, let me explain a little of how we got here, because that also matters right now: American Jews have not been able to agree on what "being Jewish" means for decades. 1/

imagine being a nation state terrified of college students in another country

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Come do a postdoc with me in beautiful Canterbury, England and do cool stuff about the moral psychology of trust in AI 🤖 jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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The MEDMED ("Medieval Medicine") community has had a tradition of celebrating #SantJordiDay in the Catalan way: sharing a flower & a book. This year, I'm sharing this poppy from a 16thC model book, & the recently digitized copies of Trota of Salerno's book. #MedievalSky #histmed

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BLACKTHORNE: This is really more of a comment... MARIKO: The Anjin does not have a question.