Amanda Rotella
@AMRotella
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👩🏻🔬 Researcher - Science of social incentives 👀 🔭 Cooperation & Competition; Inequality; Morality; Cultural Change 🍃 Evolutionary & Ecological approaches
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Joined June 2014
1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing really exist?? 👀(doing a good thing, then a less good thing) ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test—to uncover when & why it happens 🧵👇 @NorthumbriaPsych #SocialPsych
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44 citations on my paper from 2020 - 'Failure to replicate moral licensing and moral cleansing in an online experiment'. So, they can be cited! It also led me to develop stronger theory & methods addressing bigger quesions in the field. Null results are incredibly valuble!
"Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them" "only 30% of respondents with null results had attempted to publish them" "69% didn’t think null results would be accepted for publication"
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Rational ≠ Reasonable. Across five studies we find that people deliberately switch standards of “good judgment” depending on the task. in press in Open Mind🔗 https://t.co/Aqsn20tLwF
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🚨Job alerts ! 🚨 Northumbria is hiring ⭐Vice Chancellor Fellows⭐ 🧠Psychology 🤾🏻♂️Sports & Exercise 🔬Methods in Health & Social Care - Assistant Profs, with 3 years for research focus - then transition to regular role ⬇️ Links Below ⬇️
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Five years ago, @DanTGilbert and Susan Fiske contacted me and @EliJFinkel to join them as editors for the HSP 6th ed. Dan envisioned a completely free, open access edition and I doubted it was possible. Today, Dan proved me wrong, and I present the HSP 6th ed.
Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the all-new 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. https://t.co/uI3xJPcXgV
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If you design a study to test a prediction, you need to be able to falsify it. In frequentist statistics this is achieved through an equivalence test. You can't have an informative test if you can't prove yourself wrong. Learn about equivalence testing. https://t.co/pwFRiNn8M8
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The HBES 2025 elections are open for all executive positions! HBES members can vote by logging in to the HBES website, and a page will appear with access to the ballot. See for details: https://t.co/KkDWe1hbLC Have your voice heard!
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Dear HBES community, The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is conducting elections for all offices. Votes will be collected until June 2, 2025. We kindly ask you to cast your vote and use...
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Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study https://t.co/u3SZkUlbkg Happy to be part of this large-scale project led by the great Lasse Laustsen https://t.co/irntKYpeDo
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A reminder that not all replications are equal. Online replications can't always be expected to replicate findings that are contingent upon in-person cues.
1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing really exist?? 👀(doing a good thing, then a less good thing) ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test—to uncover when & why it happens 🧵👇 @NorthumbriaPsych #SocialPsych
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Fascinating results:
1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing really exist?? 👀(doing a good thing, then a less good thing) ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test—to uncover when & why it happens 🧵👇 @NorthumbriaPsych #SocialPsych
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Very cool
1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing really exist?? 👀(doing a good thing, then a less good thing) ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test—to uncover when & why it happens 🧵👇 @NorthumbriaPsych #SocialPsych
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I found this troubling when setting up my experimental studies. I can't say I am urprised.
Lots of famous findings about human behavior are built on the results of economic games - tasks where participants allocate resources or make choices with different payoffs. A new study finds that up to 70% of participants don't understand the instructions of these games.
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8/8 Huge thanks to my co-authors Jisoo Jung, Chris Chinn, and Pat Barclay, to everyone who shared their data, and reviewers for helping make the paper stronger!! 💪🏻 Questions or comments? I’d love to hear them! 🧠💬 #OpenScience #MoralPsychology #MetaAnalysis #SocialPsych
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7/ 🌟This paper reframes moral licensing as a social effect—not a purely internal one based on self-regulation. 🌟And it shows how experimental methods can shape the effects we (dis)cover. Check out preprint:
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Moral licensing occurs when someone who initially behaves morally, subsequently acts less morally. We apply reputation-based theories to predict when and why it occurs. As pre-registered, we predic...
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6/ This also helps explain when we might get #MoralLicensing v #MoralConsitency ➡️ When establishing a new rep to others, we may license ➡️ When on our own, may be more morally consistent
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5/ ☠️This helps explain why many replications failed ☠️ ➡️Recent moral licensing studies were online, where reputational cues are weak or absent 💻❌ ➡️We need to be careful when moving social effects online! ⚠️Looked like the #ReplicationCrisis, but really it was methods! ⚠️
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4/ 🤯 Why? Because reputation matters ✅ ➡️ When others are watching, a moral rep can “buy” you leeway for a *slightly* less moral act (e.g., might not donate💰, but won’t got steal a 🚗)—without ruining your image Online or unobserved? Licensing vanishes.
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3/ 🌟In a meta-analysis (k = 115, N > 21,000): Moral licensing effect is much stronger when people are observed!! 👀 ➡️Not observed: essentially no effect (Hedge’s g ≈ 0) ➡️Explicitly observed: Med effect (g = 0.51) Bayesian: 9x more evidence for licensing when observed📈
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