Kenzo Nera
Social psychologist into conspiracy theories, jazz, and video games - not necessarily in this order of priorities.
FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology (Université libre de Bruxelles).
- Being an associate editor. =_= "It's for science and the CV".
- If anyone has tips on how to recruit reviewers (when you handle a paper on a topic you do not know), I'm very keen to read them!
- This was not an easy one to write, but here it is! 🎈🤡 Freshly published in Collabra: Psychology: the life and death of one of the coolest findings in my PhD dissertation. 🎈🤡 With the usual – and wonderful – Karen M. Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social. 1/11
- Does Being Confronted With Internal Attributions for an Ingroup’s Sufferings Foster the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories? New in social psychology, from @kenzonera.bsky.social, Karen Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
- During my PhD, I ran a series of studies showing that when exposed to an internal attribution for an ingroup’s disadvantaged situation, people reported increased sympathy with the author of a conspiratorial attribution for said situation. 2/11
- They were not more likely to endorse the conspiratorial attribution itself, but still, how cool: when someone blames your ingroup for its predicament, you connect more with people promoting conspiracy stuff! 3/11
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View full threadIt also shows that knowledge comes in many forms, and that discovering that you have been wrong for years is one of them. One unpleasant form of knowledge, but one that ultimately gives the sense of having become a better researcher. 11/11
- 👽👽👽 New paper accepted in the European Journal of Social Psychology! 👽👽👽 “Convictions or Plausibility Judgements? The Ambiguity of Self-Reported Agreement with Conspiracy Theories” It’s my first collaboration with the brilliant and most stylish Robbie Sutton, so it’s a double thrill. 1/9
- The psychological study of conspiracy theories overwhelmingly relies on agreement scales to measure belief in conspiracy theories. Yet, what these scales exactly capture remains unclear. 2/9
- Does someone who “completely agrees” with a conspiracy theory firmly believes that it is true, or do they merely express an agnostic plausibility judgement? This question has been a splinter in my brain since the very beginning of my PhD, seven years ago. 3/9
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View full threadPreprint is available at: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- New working paper about a question that’s been a splinter in my brain for years – and I know I’m not alone: can researchers draw conclusions about “belief in conspiracy theories” while our research samples consist mostly of people who reject such beliefs? 1/10 link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- The psychology of conspiracy theories is built on convenience samples of individuals who mostly reject conspiracy theories. Inference about strong conspiracy believers – who are largely absent from research samples – rests on two generalisability assumptions. 2/10
- The first, interpretation generalisability, assumes a sample’s average level of conspiracy (dis)belief does not significantly alter the theoretical interpretation of relationships. 3/10
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View full threadWith the great Robbie Sutton (University of Kent), Yasemin Uluşahin (Université libre de Bruxelles, @yaseminulusahin.bsky.social), and Magali Beylat (Université libre de Bruxelles, @magalibeylat.bsky.social)
- Unsettlingly accurate.
- Reposted by Kenzo Nera“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data
- Dear academic twitter who's into type I error control and sequential analyses (winkwink @lakens.bsky.social), I need your help: I planned a sequential analysis with three peeks (1/3, 2/3, and total n), with adjusted alpha level with pocock boundary.
- At peek 1, my interaction is smaller than the SESOI. But decomposing it shows the expected pattern, only smaller than anticipated. I decide to collect extra data despite being below SESOI. At peek 2, interaction is significant at the adjusted alpha level. Does this increase the type I error rate?
- Thanks!
- Of all the articles I've reviewed, this is one of the most impressive and creative regarding its approach to data collection and "construction". Congrats to Dr. Yun Lu!
- We're used to international comparisons involving less than 50 data points. Here's a county level analysis with > 2k data points. For each data point, the author calculated a proportion of tweets supporting conspiracy theories, and examined its relation with inequalities indicators. It's mental.🤯
- 🎉Starting September 1st, I'll be an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology (BJSP). It is a great honor! 🎉 I won't make jokes about bribery options to get your paper published through me, as I am not sure yet if I'm allowed to* and I don't want to be fired before I start. 1/2
- I'm very grateful to the chief editors Professors Shelley McKeown Jones (@shelleymckeown.bsky.social) and Sammyh Khan for asking me to fulfil the position! *allowed to joke about bribery, not allowed to take bribes. 2/2
- Reposted by Kenzo NeraI often see Ioannidis' paper 'Why most published research findings are false' on reading lists. And by all means - I found it educational when I first read it. But you might also want a summary of the criticisms on the paper, and we dive into these in our @nulliusinverba.bsky.social podcast episode.
- New episode of @nulliusinverba.bsky.social ! We (very) critically discuss the classic paper by John Ioannidis 'Why most published research findings are false'. What did he get wrong, and why is it still interesting to read the paper? nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-56...
- Lucky me - I again created the soundtrack for a video game! 🥰 It's called Wake Cup, it's a tower defense/clicker about capitalism and how coffee is important in this exploitation system. ☕ It's available for the price of a cup of coffee on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2881430/...
- You can listen to the complete soundtrack on Youtube: youtu.be/f73OPXgj4_k?... #indiegame #OST #coffee #gaming
