nicolas fay

Collective Behaviour | Cultural Evolution | Social Learning | Language Evolution | Interpersonal Communication | Decision-Making | @UWApsych

[nicolas fay @Nicolas_Fay]

6/ Overall, our results suggest that truth retains a competitive edge in the marketplace of ideas, at least outside the distortions of social media algorithms and bot amplification.

[nicolas fay @Nicolas_Fay]

🚨 New paper out in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology! @APA_Journals

We test whether true or false messages are more persuasive and more likely to spread. Across 4 experiments (N=4,607), truth consistently wins.

📄 Fay et al. (2025): https://t.co/D6Vh2Hdsj9

[nicolas fay @Nicolas_Fay]

5/ When participants weren’t constrained, they tended to default to writing truthful messages. But when asked to maximize attention, truth was sometimes sacrificed—though this didn’t boost sharing.

[nicolas fay @Nicolas_Fay]

@fusaroli Please be sure to come to Perth next time!!! 🙏🏻

[nicolas fay @Nicolas_Fay]

Delighted to see our new #PLOSONE paper come out, led by @HowePiers: Self-certification: A novel method for increasing sharing discernment on social media https://t.co/k68kQGIxdw
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[Kobi Hackenburg @KobiHackenburg]

🚨New today in @PNASNews ‼️w/ @helenmargetts:

In a pre-registered experiment (n=8,587), we find little evidence that 1:1 personalization — aka microtargeting — enhances the persuasive influence of political messages generated by GPT-4. 

https://t.co/Cfq8rcqKt6

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[Lewis Mitchell @lewis_math]

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TWO (2) positions in data science/stochastic modelling/stats at @UniofAdelaide (Level B/C) -- we're super excited to be growing our team at the Adelaide Data Science Centre @UofA_SET! Happy to discuss with anyone; DMs open.

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New in Social Psychology: person-related misinformation can be effectively discounted following a clear retraction, from @amymickelberg, Bradley Walker, @UlliEcker, @HowePiers, @AndyPerfors & @Nicolas_Fay https://t.co/iV7ptNLWfp

[Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil]

New essay: I argue that misinformation is often better viewed as a symptom of deep societal problems rather than their cause. When that’s true, interventions like debunking and censorship are unlikely to help – and might make things worse. (1/15)
https://t.co/l6Ki6eVzUM

[Bodo Winter @BodoWinter]

New preprint of our chapter "Defining iconicity for the cognitive sciences": https://t.co/8Afh9k5Kzx

This is for the the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language.... was a blast to write with @greg_woodin @MarcusPerlman!

[Cyril C. Grueter @ccgrueter]

Article in PsyPost on our study looking at women's preferences for risk taking men
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@DavidCoall @Nicolas_Fay @uwanews @UWAresearch @HCA_Goodman https://t.co/4ApjW20s85

[Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto]

New paper out with @JStubbersfield

"Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments"

https://t.co/Ugrjz5NEje

[Karen Emmorey now on Bluesky @kemmorey1]

"10 things you should know about sign languages" is now published in the current issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science - still Open Access. https://t.co/tnutV73dHk

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Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.

PUP: https://t.co/0NJQ4Ho3MX

AMZN: https://t.co/kq19pgtDcQ