Jordan Wylie
🍋 • asst prof @Cornell | morality • rules • curiosity | tennis fanatic • wy-lab.com •🍋
- Reposted by Jordan WylieEarly-bird registration for our Moral Psychology pre-conference at SPSP ends Jan 22! Register here: spsp.org/events/annua... Don't miss this incredible lineup of speakers (plus some terrific data blitz talks and posters) and networking with this fantastic community! See you in Chicago next month!
- Reposted by Jordan WyliePOSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell @cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185 @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jordan Wylienew paper!!
- Reposted by Jordan WylieWe're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
- Only one day left to apply for the Moral Psychology Preconference at SPSP! We have an outstanding line-up of invited speakers, will have blitz contributed talks, a best poster award, and more. Don’t miss it!
- Only 9 days left to submit!! Come join us in Chicago in Feb!
- 🚨Excited to announce the full-day Moral Psychology pre-conference at #SPSP2026! We sold out last year, and with this year’s incredible speaker lineup, we expect the same. Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p... There’s a best poster award!
- Reposted by Jordan WylieVery excited to share that my first paper, with Peter Mende-Siedlecki and @leorhackel.bsky.social, is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com! ☺️ Can getting more rewards make you feel more skilled, even if your performance doesn't change? www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliecheck out our october newsletter featuring @kirstanbrodie.bsky.social 🎃 open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
- Reposted by Jordan WylieIn their recent book, Brownstein, Madva, and Kelly argue that people don’t necessarily join causes because they think they’re going to win in the short term … yet their decision to participate during a seemingly hopeless period creates the conditions for ultimate victory www.vox.com/politics/463...
- Reposted by Jordan WylieWe propose that the everyday psychology of rules and 3rd party punishment is at the core of authoritarianism Our view posits no new constructs, is ideology-agnostic, & considers relevant only interactions w the state See our new working paper "Authoritarianism in Action" osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Jordan WylieWe are hiring - come work with us! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
- Reposted by Jordan WylieSo excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in @commspsychol.nature.com 🎉 In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions. www.nature.com/articles/s44... (1/4)
- Looking for a postdoc? Apply for Cornell’s Klarman Fellowship with me! I’m interested in rules, rule-breakers, and curiosity, broadly construed. Link for more info here: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... (3 years, $80K/yr; Oct 15th deadline) Email me directly if you’re interested!
- Reposted by Jordan Wylie@anagantman.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully gotten back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition
- Share your revenge stories with us!!
- @anagantman.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully gotten back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition
- Reposted by Jordan Wylie🚨Out in PNAS🚨 with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire. Our computational cognitive model explains why! Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7 News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu 🧵
- Reposted by Jordan Wylie@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social, and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully got back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition
- Reposted by Jordan WylieI'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold! psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...
- Reposted by Jordan Wylie🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca RTs appreciated 💫
- Reposted by Jordan Wylie🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola
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- Reposted by Jordan WylieThe idea that pursuing moral excellence leads to the most authentic life contains an annoying conflict—how can we be authentic if constrained by morals? Research by @jowylie.bsky.social et al finds pursuing aesthetic excellence has the edge in finding one’s true self: buff.ly/OJczpSc
- We are starting to plan next year’s SPSP Morality Preconference—tell us who you want to hear from!!!
- Moral Psych community: @jowylie.bsky.social & I will be organizing the pre-con at SPSP again! This past year was sold-out and we expect next year to be even bigger! Who do you YOU want to hear from next year? Recommend a speaker with this quick form: tinyurl.com/moralpsychrecs
- Reposted by Jordan WylieWhy do scientists still struggle to answer basic questions about the safety of digital tech from AI to social media, even as families point to rising evidence of individual harm with concern & grief? @orbenamy.bsky.social & I have a new article in @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Jordan Wylieneed a break from doom scrolling? check out this month's feature @raziasahi.bsky.social 🤩 open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
- Reposted by Jordan WylieThank you all so much for having me!! It was a joy to share more about my research in psychology and law. If you want to learn more about legal judgment & decision making, intriguing Supreme Court cases and what “objectively reasonable” actually means to people, listen to this episode!
- New ep! What comes to mind when you hear the term “objectively reasonable”? @spruill.bsky.social shares her research on how legal standards in criminal justice aren't as neutral as they may seem and how lived experience influence jurors' priors links in 🧵 @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jordan WylieWomen are seen as more moral, research by @jowylie.bsky.social et al finds—people mentally picture “a morally good person” as a woman, tend to ascribe morally good traits more to women than to men, and stereotype behaviours associated with moral goodness as feminine: buff.ly/Wbe1Udk
- Reposted by Jordan WylieDecades of scholarship on gender have shown that women are judged to be more caring and more communal than men--a core component of moral goodness. We used multiple methods (N= 5,376) to test a basic claim: People think that women are morally superior to men. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Are women morally wonderful? Excited by this paper, with @jowylie.bsky.social, @anagantman.bsky.social, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social, Peter Mende-Siedlecki, and Heleni Singer. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Jordan WylieAre women morally wonderful? Excited by this paper, with @jowylie.bsky.social, @anagantman.bsky.social, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social, Peter Mende-Siedlecki, and Heleni Singer. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Jordan WylieWe (@stysyropoulos.bsky.social, @jowylie.bsky.social, Gordon Kraft-Todd, @nathanliang.bsky.social, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social) found striking self-serving asymmetries in how people judge others’ public virtue and how they expect their own to be judged. Check it out below!
- 🚨New preprint!🚨 Why do people keep signaling virtue in public despite the social costs? We think our public virtue looks principled—but others’ looks like reputation management. Self-serving bias strikes again! Link: shorturl.at/2Sfeh
- Reposted by Jordan WylieIn the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of new work on the philosophy & cog sci of norms. If you want to get up to speed on it, check out this newly revised SEP entry on the Psychology of Normative Cognition by @dryan149.bsky.social, Stephen Setman & me. plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...
- We're just a few days away from this year's Morality Preconference!! Don't miss it! #SPSP2025
- Very excited to share the #SPSP2025 Moral Psychology pre-conference will be taking place on Feb 20th in Denver Poster submissions are open - Deadline is Oct 17 spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-p... co-organised with @jowylie.bsky.social & @diegoreinero.bsky.social
- I’m hiring a lab manager to start July 2025! Submit CV and cover letter as soon as possible as review will begin immediately. Link to the job ad is here: tinyurl.com/22ye3wsv Please share with any undergrads or mentees who might be interested!
- Reposted by Jordan WylieNational Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jordan WylieApparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
- Reposted by Jordan Wylie🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to julia_marshall1@brown.edu by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliebeen thinking a lot in my lab about what it means to use the state to go after your enemies (for no reason at all). the beginnings of that thinking are in our paper on what makes state punishment unique (now in press at EJSP) #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky osf.io/preprints/ps...
- there are so many rules to follow! only some of them the state enforces; in our new preprint "the psychology of state punishment" @jowylie.bsky.social connie chiu, nicolette dakin, wil cunningham & i argue state punishment is unique 🧵 #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliethere are so many rules to follow! only some of them the state enforces; in our new preprint "the psychology of state punishment" @jowylie.bsky.social connie chiu, nicolette dakin, wil cunningham & i argue state punishment is unique 🧵 #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Check out our new working paper!
- what counts as breaking a rule? you might think this q is easy, but people actually integrate signals from morality, legality, punishability, and normativity to figure it out, new preprint w/ @jowylie.bsky.social & dries bostyn osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliewhat counts as breaking a rule? you might think this q is easy, but people actually integrate signals from morality, legality, punishability, and normativity to figure it out, new preprint w/ @jowylie.bsky.social & dries bostyn osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliebeen seeing lots of work lately on whether LLMs can give ethical counsel, but i am not so optimistic. it's pretty hard to know good advice when you get it! and sometimes the best moral advice transcends the prompt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/plea... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Jordan WylieFor the love of me, I just don’t understand people who get upset for getting emails after hours. The only reason you know it’s after hours is because you checked your email after hours. Just open it at 9am and pretend the other person’s message just arrived.
- Reposted by Jordan WylieThread on novel new study about “whether the race of the rule breaker affects enforcement of phantom rules”
- ever notice how only some people can break the rules and get away with it? in new preprint w/ @jowylie.bsky.social Kaitlyn Milless and John Sciarrapo, we examined whether the race of the rule breaker affects the enforcement of phantom rules osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #CogSci #socialpsyc
- Reposted by Jordan WylieMoral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
- Request for Moral Psych folks!! If you’re planning to attend the Morality Preconf @ this year’s SPSP conference & have NOT signed up yet, please DM or email me! The precon is already sold out (!!), and we are trying to gauge interest so that we can push for more space! Thank you! #MoralPsych
- Reposted by Jordan Wylienew monthly newsletter just dropped! make sure to check it out!! it features this year's selected marginalia x boston college colloquium speakers: marginaliascience.substack.com/p/newsletter... @xanni.bsky.social @rebeccazoo.bsky.social
- Blueksy! I will be recruiting a PhD student and a lab manager in the Fall of 2025. The lab will study rules and curiosity from a moral psychology lens—exploring how we judge rule-breakers, reason about rules, and what sparks our curiosity in the moral domain.
- My lab website (wy-lab.com) has additional information for prospective PhD students, Check it out! And if you have any undergrads or postbacs looking for a lab manager position, pls send them my way!
- Join us in Denver!!!
- Very excited to share the #SPSP2025 Moral Psychology pre-conference will be taking place on Feb 20th in Denver Poster submissions are open - Deadline is Oct 17 spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-p... co-organised with @jowylie.bsky.social & @diegoreinero.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jordan WylieVery excited to share the #SPSP2025 Moral Psychology pre-conference will be taking place on Feb 20th in Denver Poster submissions are open - Deadline is Oct 17 spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-p... co-organised with @jowylie.bsky.social & @diegoreinero.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliecheck out our july newsletter featuring Mookie Manalili! 🌴☀️😎 #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #AcademicSky #cogpsyc open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
- i'm really excited about this one—this paper brings the original motivation for identifying & labeling phantom rules full circle. we explore how race affects who gets punished for violating these rules (rules which often don't seem all that punishable or morally wrong!).
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliewhat are the rules for? cooperation, right? but history and increasing psych evidence tell us that rules can be used to oppress & dominate. @jowylie.bsky.social and i argue for these twin functions of official codified rules and their enforcement osf.io/preprints/ps... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
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- spring is here and so is this month's newsletter 🌞🌸🌻🌼🌺🌞! this month features @rrrianabrown.bsky.social. check it out! #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #AcademicSky #cogpsyc marginaliascience.substack.com/p/newsletter...
- Reposted by Jordan Wylie🌱 marginalia's march newsletter is out now! we share some of the incredible work we learned about at spsp 🌱 #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #AcademicSky #cogpsyc open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliediane, it’s twin peaks day
- Reposted by Jordan WylieI’m hiring a full time lab manager to start this summer! Come help found my lab at UW Madison and do some fun science! There will be beer and brats!! Info & application here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc... Share widely!
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliewhat better way to start the new year than to dive into our january newsletter??!? this month's newsletter features @fuhred.bsky.social & information about our meetup at SPSP2024! #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #AcademicSky #cogpsyc open.substack.com/pub/marginal...
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliethe marginalia science team was recently interviewed by @hitchtheory.bsky.social (tysm fahima!) for the @spspsc.bsky.social spotlight student newsletter! #psychology #socialpsyc check it out here: spsp.org/news/newslet...
- Reposted by Jordan WylieExcited to share a preprint with Lauren DiNicola, Noam Saadon-Grosman, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner! tinyurl.com/evdttde2 We revisited the functional specialization of the human hippocampal long axis with precision neuroimaging, with surprising results. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliewe're excited to announce that marginalia will be hosting a meetup at #SPSP2024, thanks to a Community Catalyst Grant! join us thursday night for a friendly, informal gathering with free food and non-alcoholic beverages RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Jordan Wyliemarginalia science has officially landed on bluesky & our December ❄️❄️❄️ newsletter is out now!! meet our featured guest editor Ricky Granderson! marginaliascience.substack.com/p/newsletter...
