LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.
Social psychologist and assistant professor @ Lafayette College
Studying the psychology of indulging in guilty pleasures and other ambivalent experiences
sites.lafayette.edu/togansl/
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.The merits of undergraduate student samples Comment by Jennifer M. Talarico go.nature.com/48U6Pg4
- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.New paper alert! "Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science! This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project). Short THREAD on the results:
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.Want to help with autism research? The Social Experiences of Loneliness of Autistic Adults (SELA) Project at the AJ Drexel Autism Institute is forming a Community Council of autistic adults (ages 18–35) to help guide a 5-year study on loneliness and social connection. Info in flyer and alt-text.
- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.Some @theguardian.com coverage! Women use exclamation marks 3x more than men—not from extra joy, but to avoid sounding unfriendly 😬 Online, neutrality reads as hostility, so warmth is outsourced to punctuation!! BUT it boosts likability and can hurt credibility www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.New research finds that conservatives tended to endorse moral absolutism, whereas liberals tend to endorse moral relativism. Moral absolutists are more likely to support banning practices they deem immoral psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.It is often assumed that conformity is higher in collectivist cultures. In our new study that just came out in JCCP, we show that emotional conformity is actually higher in individualistic cultures, replicating earlier findings across 28 nations journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.Do you sometimes feel torn when making decisions, like whether to eat unhealthy food or recycle? This is called felt ambivalence: a psychological discomfort from having mixed feelings about something. Check out our new work to know how people resolve such conflicts: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧠💥 1/10
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.Should you text or meet face-to-face to have a conversation? Our research shows greater benefits when talking in-person. If it is necessary to text, have more intimate conversation when possible. New paper lead by @cmleckfor.bsky.social is out in @josoperrel.bsky.social now: doi.org/10.1177/0265...
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social Highlights ⬇
- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.New paper out from the Self & Motivation Lab on Safety and Threat in the Environment Perceptions (STEP). The STEP scale assesses people's overall, gut-level impressions of any given space and uniquely predicts engagement, interest, & desire to recruit others journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.(please share widely!) With the start of August quickly approaching, I wanted to announce that the usual slack for fellow people on the Psych Academic Job Market for the coming cycle has been activated. If you are interested, feel free to fill out this form to join! forms.gle/2DBgs8S1fktS...
- For folks course prepping, I wanted to give a quick plug for my recent pub in PSPB on the psychology of guilty pleasures. The research is a great example of discrete emotion theory and self-conscious emotions, but would also work well for discussing self-presentation, dissonance, and norms.
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.The June 2025 special issue of Social Cognition -- Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1 -- was guest edited by Jimmy Calanchini, Juliane Degner, and Colin Smith, with support from Bertram Gawronski. The introduction is linked here: doi.org/10.1521/soco....
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com! In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory. Some key take-aways:
- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- “Facilitating faculty well-being with baked goods” counts as departmental service, right? 🧐
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- Reposted by LaCount JJ Togans, Ph.D.Excited to share a new paper in Current Directions on the theme of merging in close relationships, with @emmamcgorray.bsky.social, @erinhughes.bsky.social , and @abdoe.bsky.social! In the paper, we discuss merging in the domains of selves, goals, processing, and reality. tinyurl.com/ynbedzys (1/4)
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- Tomorrow afternoon at #MPA2025, I’ll be giving a talk on my recent research examining the social consequences of (un)successfully sharing guilty pleasures with close others. If you’re attending MPA, I hope to see you there!
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