Professor (michaelinzlicht.com), Podcaster (www.fourbeers.com), Writer (www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com)https://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mujxpw6fck22Open science raised the bar. DEI pushed activism toward the center. Both say they're correcting bias. They collide more often that we admit. Ben Lovett traces where the two movements work colide in a guest essay on my Substack. Worth your time! https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/when-the-data-say-the-wrong-thing?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true02 Sep 2026 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujxpw6fck22https://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mug5onarmk2e📢 Save the date! The Society for the Science of Motivation is excited to announce our first-ever Motivated Cognition satellite meeting at Psychonomics 2026 in San Diego! 🗓️ Thursday, November 19th, 11am–5pm 📍 Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina 🔗 More info: ssmmotivatedcognition.my.canva.site01 Sep 2026 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mug5onarmk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mug4siftpc2nNew episode of @fourbeerspod.bsky.social We had @andymasley.bsky.social on to the show to discuss AI and the environment. We got into data centers, effective altruism and TESCREAL, and whether you should trust a researcher based on who funds them. This was a real fun one! www.fourbeers.com/133 https://www.fourbeers.com/13301 Sep 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mug4siftpc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3msdlonoqys2tNew Substack post! Another guest post from my brilliant PhD student Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello on the moralization of AI. Moralizing AI could be a reasonable position, she argues, but is it? Depends on what we know about AI and about how moralization works. She also calls my opinions dumb. Ouch! https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/is-it-wrong-to-think-ai-is-wrong?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true05 Aug 2026 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdlonoqys2thttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mraeufquzs2mI p-hacked my early work on prejudice. It never felt like cheating. I now wonder if that's because I believed the cause was good. New essay on why scholar-activism is a dangerous turn for social psychology. If justice comes first, truth is what gets sacrificed. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/my-p-hacking-felt-like-truth?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true22 Jul 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraeufquzs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mq57cfoqhc2hA decade ago, psychology went to war with itself over replication. For one year, I was the referee, moderating a Facebook group meant to keep the fights civil. Worst year of my academic life. The full story, originally paywalled, is now free: https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/the-replication-crisis-was-also-a?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true08 Jul 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq57cfoqhc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mnwv3a2msk24New guest post by my PhD student @hellovic.bsky.social. She writes about her new working paper finding that most Americans don't oppose AI. But those who do treat it as a moral issue, refusing tradeoffs and even money. Why that makes AI debates so hard. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/ai-is-a-moral-issue-now-thats-a-problem?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true10 Jun 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwv3a2msk24https://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mltkhrykks2tI have a student who is considering putting together a symposium at SPSP on the psychology gleaned from specific films. We'll be covering--what else--The Big Lebowski. Anyone else interested in putting something together?14 May 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltkhrykks2thttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mknbxwbfx227I want to defend punching down in academia. Scratch that. I want to defend punching, full stop. Up, down, sideways. The norm against critiquing junior scholars publicly comes from a good place but breaks something fundamental about how science works. New essay. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/science-doesnt-care-who-you-are?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true29 Apr 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknbxwbfx227https://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mjjw7v7yw22lMy lab posted a paper on AI opposition. Someone threatened me with a guillotine. The replies proved our findings better than the data did. New post! https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/500000-views-and-a-guillotine-threat?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true15 Apr 2026 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjw7v7yw22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3migqsjw7fc2tI've known @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and Dominic Packer for 20 years. Partly responsible for me ending up at UofT. They write one of the best psychology Substacks around. This week I'm republishing their piece on the bystander effect and why the Kitty Genovese story isn't what we thought. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/social-psychologys-favourite-murder?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true01 Apr 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3migqsjw7fc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mie75ftmis2nQualitative coding 3,183 open-ended responses by hand would take 80+ hours. With an LLM-assisted workflow, Gino Carmona-Díaz and colleagues in Colombia did it in 10. ICC = .824. Full tutorial, prompts, and code are open access. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-026-02966-631 Mar 2026 12:40 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mie75ftmis2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mhdjsbm5es2k18 months ago I wrote about the fall of stereotype threat. It's making rounds again. DominicPacker and @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished it, Mary Murphy wrote a lengthy rebuttal, and the debate is alive. I have thoughts. For now: the original essay, with one important addition. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/is-steretype-threat-just-vibes-now?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true18 Mar 2026 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdjsbm5es2khttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mhc6b62v522bWe created a new scale to measure AI sycophancy in conversations with no right answer. Three facets: Uncritical Agreement, Obsequiousness, Excitement. People hate the flattery but welcome the enthusiasm. And sycophancy correlated with perceived empathy across every study. arxiv.org/abs/2603.1544817 Mar 2026 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhc6b62v522bhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mgo44yrfzk2cCheck out @hellovic.bsky.social's new paper on the moralization of AI: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5mwre_v9. Ort check out a cool infographic of the paper.10 Mar 2026 00:23 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgo44yrfzk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mgnyvaqznc2cCheck out my student @hellovic.bsky.social's new paper: The Moralization of Artificial Intelligence With @reemayad.bsky.social, @eloisecote.bsky.social, @yoelinbar.net, and Jason Plaks [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Mar 2026 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgnyvaqznc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mgahhf7d722lWrote up my impressions of this year's SPSP conference. A 21-year analysis of the field's political drift, a tribute to Sam Sommers, AI-generated slides with zero apology, and a party I maybe shouldn't have attended. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelinzlicht/p/three-days-in-the-belly-of-social?r=2scefo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true04 Mar 2026 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgahhf7d722lhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mgafwh7e6s2rFun to read this after my post on stereotype threat was republished by @jayvanbavel.bsky.social et al. I don't agree with all that Mary wrote, but it's worth a read. One place I'll push back: if stereotype threat only really affects feelings (and not performance) would it have made the same impact? [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgafwh7e6s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mg4mq4rgwk2i1/ Calling all Psychonomics people who care about motivation. The Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) is looking for someone to organize a preconference ("Affiliate Meeting") at the 2026 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting.03 Mar 2026 01:32 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4mq4rgwk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/minzlicht.bsky.social/post/3mfnkwvf6jk2v1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social. The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-026-00402-125 Feb 2026 01:50 +0000at://did:plc:lq5uwihewfpfjpdrdi6etppd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfnkwvf6jk2v