Amanda Rotella

👩🏻‍🔬 Researcher - Science of social incentives 👀
🔭 Cooperation & Competition; Inequality; Morality; Cultural Change
🍃 Evolutionary & Ecological approaches

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟

Does moral licensing really exist?? 👀(doing a good thing, then a less good thing)

➡️ Many failed replications. Why?
➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test—to uncover when & why it happens

🧵👇

@NorthumbriaPsych #SocialPsych

[UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT! @UCUNUbranch]

@UCUNUbranch SAY...

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

@ThomasTalhelm Yeah, I've had this too! I've also had pushback about power for another null study I had published, when my sample was over 3x the size of the orginal paper, and had more than enough power to address the replication questions! just not enough power for additional questions...ugh

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

44 citations on my paper from 2020 - 'Failure to replicate moral licensing and moral cleansing in an online experiment'.

So, they can be cited!

It also led me to develop stronger theory & methods addressing bigger quesions in the field. Null results are incredibly valuble!

[ᴅʀ ᴍɪʀᴄᴇᴀ ᴢʟᴏᴛᴇᴀɴᴜ 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu]

"Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them"

"only 30% of respondents with null results had attempted to publish them"

"69% didn’t think null results would be accepted for publication"
https://t.co/OOqsTAnv7u

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

Rational ≠ Reasonable. Across five studies we find that people deliberately switch standards of “good judgment” depending on the task. in press in Open Mind🔗 https://t.co/Aqsn20tLwF

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

Methods in Health and Social Care: https://t.co/EQkcHUxvIV

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

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Northumbria is hiring ⭐Vice Chancellor Fellows⭐

🧠Psychology
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🔬Methods in Health & Social Care

- Assistant Profs, with 3 years for research focus
- then transition to regular role

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[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

Sports, Exercise & Rehabilitation: https://t.co/BnxWUDQsEv

[wendy berry mendes @wendybmendes]

Five years ago, @DanTGilbert and Susan Fiske contacted me and @EliJFinkel to join them as editors for the HSP 6th ed. Dan envisioned a completely free, open access edition and I doubted it was possible. Today, Dan proved me wrong, and I present the HSP 6th ed.

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

If you design a study to test a prediction, you need to be able to falsify it. In frequentist statistics this is achieved through an equivalence test. You can't have an informative test if you can't prove yourself wrong. Learn about equivalence testing.

https://t.co/pwFRiNn8M8

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[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

@ThomasTalhelm Thanks! It was an interesting project

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟

Does moral licensing really exist?? 👀(doing a good thing, then a less good thing)

➡️ Many failed replications. Why?
➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test—to uncover when & why it happens

🧵👇

@NorthumbriaPsych #SocialPsych

[Daniel Sznycer @dsznycer]

Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study https://t.co/u3SZkUlbkg

Happy to be part of this large-scale project led by the great Lasse Laustsen https://t.co/irntKYpeDo

[Steven Heine @StevenHeine4]

A reminder that not all replications are equal. Online replications can't always be expected to replicate findings that are contingent upon in-person cues.

[Jan Zilinsky @janzilinsky]

Fascinating results:

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

@Professologue Thanks so much!

[Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil]

Very cool

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

I found this troubling when setting up my experimental studies. I can't say I am urprised.

[Sam Pratt @sampratt99]

Lots of famous findings about human behavior are built on the results of economic games - tasks where participants allocate resources or make choices with different payoffs. A new study finds that up to 70% of participants don't understand the instructions of these games.

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

8/8

Huge thanks to my co-authors Jisoo Jung, Chris Chinn, and Pat Barclay, to everyone who shared their data, and reviewers for helping make the paper stronger!! 💪🏻

Questions or comments? I’d love to hear them! 🧠💬

#OpenScience #MoralPsychology #MetaAnalysis #SocialPsych

[Amanda Rotella @AMRotella]

7/
🌟This paper reframes moral licensing as a social effect—not a purely internal one based on self-regulation.

🌟And it shows how experimental methods can shape the effects we (dis)cover.

Check out preprint: https://t.co/Q8lYElxwCT