Background Pandemics, such as COVID-19, are dangerous and socially disruptive. Though
no one is immune to COVID-19, older persons often bear the brunt of its consequences. This …

This article questions the widespread use of experimental social psychology to understand
real-world group disparities. Standard experimental practice is to design studies in which …

Using survey data on school classes in four European countries, we study how the social
relations and identities of adolescents develop depending on the degree to which ethnic …

We investigated a novel cognitive-ecological account for misbeliefs about the relationship
between food healthiness and tastiness. We propose that different frequencies of healthy …

Valence and arousal are core dimensions of emotion, but the relation between them has
eluded scientific consensus. The emotional-ambiguity hypothesis is the first new model of …

Geographic information science (GIScience) offers survey researchers a plethora of rapidly
evolving research strategies and tools for data acquisition and analysis. However, the …

Both early social psychologists and the modern, interdisciplinary scientific community have
advocated for diverse team science. We echo this call and describe three common pitfalls of …

We investigate how the complexity of the social environment (more vs. less groups)
influences attitude formation. We hypothesize that facing a larger number of groups renders …

Contingency assessment is a major module of adaptive cognition and a prominent topic of
ecological rationality. Virtually all influential theories assume that contingency estimates …

In psychology, causal inference—both the transport from lab estimates to the real world and
estimation on the basis of observational data—is often pursued in a casual manner …