Nazanin Kafaee
@NazaninKFP
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Psychology Ph.D. Candidate @UMich• Passionate about Relationships, Sexuality & Culture • @WesternU alum.
Joined January 2019
I’m thrilled to be co-chairing my very first symposium with @EdelsteinLab on physiological synchrony in close relationships! Join us to hear some exciting work from: @page_gould, Jennifer MacCormack, Gabriel León, and myself. Happening at #SPSP2025 Friday 1:45PM, Bluebird 3A.
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For those interested, here is a link to the final typeset power paper with @TheYiFeng: Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods. https://t.co/7YnzIbDElE
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Hi friends! Here’s a new paper with @TheYiFeng that might be the summer beach read you’re looking for. 😉 Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2025, June 6). nmax and the Quest to Restore Caution, Integrity, and Practicality to the Sample Size Planning Process. https://t.co/0zxaqe7Jro
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Attention metascience & AI enthusiasts: SSHRC is offering $140K/2yr postdoc fellowships, and I'd be happy to sponsor someone to work in my lab at UofT. If you're interested in how AI might transform scientific practice (for better or worse), apply by April 8. Let's question
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New Pub! Our paper, “Agent-Based Modeling for Psychological Research on Social Phenomena,” has been accepted for publication in American Psychologist: https://t.co/33z9axsOHR You can read the preprint here: https://t.co/hBV3gMidI0
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We’re lucky to have you in the field. So well-deserved!
Thanks to my mentors, collaborators, and students. @JoHenrich @MortezDehghani @DOyserman @JF_Schulz @JonHaidt @cam_lab_umass
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Congrats, @MohammadAtari90!
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I feel obliged to share before and after(/during) talk pics! It was truly incredible to have so many people attending our symposium!#SPSP2025
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Don't mistake solitude for loneliness. Deciding to be alone is different from being isolated. New evidence: When people think it's harmful to be by themselves, time alone is more likely to make them lonely. Isolation is unpleasant seclusion. Solitude is often a peaceful choice.
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Join us in congratulating Dr. Chopik! Dr. Bill Chopik is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. He studies how close relationships—and the people in them—change over time and across situations.
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🧿New Preprint🧿 We argue for diversifying conceptual diversity, i.e., studying topics that are not well represented in our knowledge base. Topical diversity is related to, but distinguishable from, participant and researcher diversity. Some examples:
Psychologists often draw their 'theories' from their intuitions, schooled by their personal experiences. In this new manuscript, led by @MohammadAtari90, we argue that this reliance has led to a field built around WEIRD Questions.
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I *might* have accidentally offended him by saying his voice sounds way younger than he is…!🫣🫠
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Got to fangirl a little today over this absolute gem of a human! Seeing Greg’s talk was such a treat, and getting to chat with him was even more special —he’s just as hilarious and entertaining in real life as he is on the podcast! @GregoryRHancock
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Looking forward to presenting at @SPSPnews next week! Come find me 😊 ⚖️ Flash talk at legal precon: Keep your friends close, but your rights closer: Social support and compliance with consent requests (Thurs 9a) 📢 Poster on how fear of crime shapes victim blaming (Thurs 6-7p)
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Thrilled to share our research vision on the Google Research Blog. This work reflects 4 years of passion & dedication with a brilliant team. Deepest thanks to Vinod, my inspiring manager, and Mark, my invaluable teammate, #GoogleAI #ResearchPublication
Modern ML models are used by people around the world who have a variety of perspectives that often align along socio-cultural and demographic lines. Today we describe effective ways to integrate these considerations into the ML modeling pipeline. https://t.co/9zXPt5XFgK
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Some of us have been meeting up at SPSP for the last few years. This year marks our fifth gathering. Email me or @NazaninKFP if you want to join! @MortezDehghani @siminevazire @DorsaAmir @sannnnnnnaz
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Friends agree if you're ready or not for a long-term, committed relationship. Friends are important for forming/maintaining relationships, so that can be either a good OR horrible thing for you. Congrats Hyewon Yang on her first first-author paper! https://t.co/QWt92WMw6b
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Commitment readiness – feeling ready to be in a committed relationship – is conducive to romantic relationship initiation and maintenance. Further, friends’ per...
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Procrastination is cleaning the house instead of writing, and self-control isn’t going to save you. My latest post is about why setting specific, time-bound goals actually works—and how I’ve used it to keep the mop at bay (most of the time). Check it out.
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Very excited for our new @NatureHumBehav review on “How developments in natural language processing help us in understanding human behavior” https://t.co/4nPoRpr5xw
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Nature Human Behaviour - Language reveals clues to human emotions, social behaviours, thinking styles and cultures. This Review provides a brief overview of computational methods to analyse natural...
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