Excited to announce a new open-access EMP Lab paper on empathic AI: an interdisciplinary collaboration between psychology, philosophy, & engineering on motivated empathy expression and reception with social robots. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social 1/n

I quite enjoyed answering questions about what got me interested in empathy, what surprised and interested me in a recent paper on state and trait empathy, and how I think about some of the interpersonal implications of my research. Thank you to @theloveconsortium.bsky.social for the opportunity!

Recently presented at @theloveconsortium.bsky.social's Virtual Symposium on Empathy as an Interpersonal Process with Dr. Kotiuga and Dr. Monroy. I presented on how empathy predicts perceptions of partner responsiveness across positive and negative emotional contexts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyRA...

📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Excited to have you @gregdepow.bsky.social! We hope you'll join us next week. www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events

On Nov. 18th I'll be presenting at a virtual symposium run by @theloveconsortium.bsky.social. I'll present recent work w/ @chrisoveis.bsky.social on how different dimensions of empathy relate to perceived responsiveness for the target of empathy across positive and negative emotional conversations.

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Wake up, boo. Craig Enders just dropped a bunch of new, free material and software on how to manage missing data. www.appliedmissingdata.com/ies-toolkit #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now. "Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good explanation of odds ratios. As Noah notes, ORs can often be tough to interpret. One way to improve interpretability is to present results in terms of Quantities of Interest such as probabilities (logistic) and counts (poisson/negative binomial) as argued here: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Thinking about odds ratios... An odds is a ratio of events to non-events. For example, if the event is survival, the odds of survival is the number of survivors per death. If the event is getting a disease, the odds is the number of diseased individuals per healthy individual.

Halvorson et al. (2021) should probably be required reading for folks working with binary and count data (@kevinmking.bsky.social ) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

🚨 Spread the word! We're (w/ @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aleksakaurin.bsky.social) organizing a special issue at PD:TRT focused on innovations for measuring context in ambulatory assessment studies of personality pathology. We'd love for you (yes, you) to submit a proposal (deadline Nov. 14th):

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

For our scientists. By @ellecordova.bsky.social

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

We're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

Come and work with me in beautiful Ames! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

Exciting news! I'll be working with the Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social as a fellow to develop an intervention aimed at improving the well-being of youth on social media. The intervention will train youth to engage skilfully with emotions on their feed using wise empathy.

We are HIRING! The Department of Psychology at NDSU is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology (broadly defined) to begin August, 2026. Full details here: tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn Questions can be directed to me. Please share widely!

Same energy xkcd.com/552/

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Our department is hiring! Tenure-track, OPEN RANK, social psychologist. Looking for someone loves undergrad teaching but also has or wants to build a serious research program. Good space, startup, caring department. ?s re: department/school/location? DM me. #psychscisky #socialpsyc #psychjobs

Philosophy Dept @ U of Toronto invites applications for 7 #philjobs incl Asst Prof – Metaphysics & Epistemology, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 3): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Asst Prof – Philosophy & Statistics, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 4): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... #philsci

Same energy as: If anyone in the room believes in telekinesis, please raise my hand.

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣 I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab! Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

I'm teaching a grad seminar on idiographic cognitive science this fall in which we cover: 1️⃣ Perils of relying on averages 2️⃣ ESM/EMA studies of within-individual variations 3️⃣ Modeling individual data 4️⃣ Person-specific interventions If you know of any great EMPIRICAL studies, pls let me know. (1/2)

The Stanford Psychology Department is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus in affective science. The ad, including application link, can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lELu... #psychjobs #AffectSci

If this is helpful for anyone going on the social psych tenure track job market in US, here are my Colby (in 2018) and UIC (2023) statements: osf.io/ef7s3/files/... My lab website has links to other people's materials. Of course the markets were very different back then. www.pbandjlab.com/resources

Asking the users themselves, how does social media affect their well-being? In a large-scale study we find: Social media has a negative but small effect. Other aspects s/a listening to music appear more relevant. Effects differ across users and countries. 🧵1/6 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm so jazzed to finally have this paper out with @tagerai.bsky.social in @pnas.org! It's probably my favorite paper I've worked on so far. What happens when punishment is incentivized? 🧵 t.co/y5DUUGTdT9

I’ll have more to say about this paper in a bit, but very excited about it. Helps to explain why punishment doesn’t work to improve cooperation, why people still punish anyway, and what it implies about the evolution of cooperation and criminal justice policy www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06950

Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline

We're hiring!!! Princeton Psych has an Assistant Prof search in cog neuro (joint with @princetonneuro.bsky.social). Apply apply apply! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

We extracted all publications in all psychology journals from 2015 to 2025 and looked at their citations. The modal number of citations of psychology articles is zero. Identifying errors in just a small number of highly-cited publications will have an outsized impact on scientific knowledge.

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...