Happy new year! Here’s my latest Philippine Daily Inquirer article about making New Year’s resolutions. I provided some (psychological) insights on working on our New Year’s resolutions. opinion.inquirer.net/188617/being...

What’s the one thing that you’ve done/achieved in 2025 that you are truly proud of?

It’s official: I am now part of the editorial review board of Chronic Stress (Sage Publications). journals.sagepub.com/home/css

"Our analyses highlight that the United States and other English-speaking countries are not the most individualist cultures in the world...Instead, Northwest European countries rank highest on measures of individualism." New work by @pakaliyski.bsky.social et al. dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

Today, 10 December, is the International Human Rights Day. The protection and promotion of basic human rights protects and promotes mental health. Furthermore, mental health is in itself a basic human right. This includes access to basic needs and services.

My opinion piece on strengthening the disaster mental health system in the Philippines. I argued for a public mental health approach in addressing the mental health concerns in the aftermath of mass emergencies. opinion.inquirer.net/187664/stren...

I am on sabbatical leave this year, but I find myself doing lots of work—finishing current projects, starting new ones, doing disaster mental health work, among others. Not complaining, though. I’d be extremely bored if I did nothing this year.

Significant parts of the Visayas, Philippines were ravaged by Typhoon Kalmaegi (local name Tino) yesterday. The extent of the damage is just beginning to unfold. In its aftermath, providing psychosocial support may lessen anxiety and other forms of psychological distress.

A new study suggests that going on longer walks may have more health benefits than taking the same number of steps a day over multiple short walks.

I summarised some of the guidelines that our media (and social media users like us) may use to ensure that our reports and social media posts contribute to (psychological) safety in the aftermath of a hazardous event, like an earthquake.

Does AI improve or undercut academic scholarship? A new study finds that academics who use AI increased both the quantity & quality of their academic scholarship and it appears to reduces inequality (helping junior and non-english speaking scholars the most). arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02408

This arvo’s outdoor biking was graced by a rainbow. Lovely.

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Statement of the Psychology Cluster of the Division of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas for the #WorldMentalHealthDay.

I met a lot of amazing people in social media. I got my editorial fellowship through social media. I found research collaborations through social media. Career-wise, social media did me great.

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"! You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our Manylabs Climate Study won the Cialdini Prize by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) for outstanding contribution in the field of social psychology! spsp.org/membership/a... You may access the article here: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

I will be giving a talk on providing post-disaster mental health and psychosocial support on 22 October at the CFOS AV Hall, University of the Philippines Visayas. This talk is open to the public. If you’re in the area, we hope to see you there. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BUt...

It was a good five days in Thailand.

"Crisis and Risk #Psychology in #Norway" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disa... @psychologytoday.com  #Norge #DRR #CrisisPreparedness #SystemicRisk #LocalGovernance #Governance #DisasterRisk #RiskGovernance #DisasterRiskGovernance #DisasterRiskReduction #RiskPsychology #CrisisPsychology

Roamed Thailand’s Grand Palace grounds today.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. - Carl Jung

New paper: " #PublicHealth #disinformation, #conflict, and #disease outbreaks " doi.org/10.1080/1654... #OpenAccess #HealthDiplomacy #GlobalHealthDiplomacy #Health #GlobalHealth #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth #EcoHealth #HealthDisinformation #HealthMisinformation #HealthConflict #ConflictHealth

If you’re in the Philippines, you may check the hazards in your area, for free. Visit hazardhunter.georisk.gov.ph. Check the likelihood of your house, office, or school to be exposed to ground shaking during earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and other hazards. #HazardHunterPH (1/3)

Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi (local name “Opong”) currently covering the Philippines. Stay safe, everyone! Satellite image from Windy, as of 11am, Philippine Standard Time. #OpongPH #Bualoi

Multiverse Analyses Nice consideration of five nonmutually exclusive motives for conducting multiverse analyses: 🔹️ Assessing robustness 🔹️ Examining boundary conditions 🔹️ Generating hypotheses 🔹️ Increasing transparency 🔹️ Improving a study’s methodology #MetaSci #Methodology

Purging the Philippine Government of corruption is essential for disaster risk reduction and management. If you examine things more closely, it is not the typhoon per se that kills people.

"Measuring #EcoAnxiety, or Not" www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/disa... @psychologytoday.com #ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Anthropocene #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateStress

📰Newly Published: Social support matters—but it’s not one-size-fits-all. Guilaran et al.'s study dives into how Filipinos uniquely experience received support beyond WEIRD contexts. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing

I did enjoy attending the 24-hour Global Work and Organizational Psychology Conference via Zoom (though I was not in the conference for the entire 24 hours). I thought it was impressive.

Psychologists who work on disasters should get it right: there are no “natural disasters.” Again, there is no such thing as a “natural disaster.”

Currently participating in a workshop on hazards mapping. I used to just work with hazard mappers as their psychologist. Now, I guess it’s time for me to participate in the mapping itself.

How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng.bsky.social #scisky #Science #REVIEW Open Access www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced." By @maddipow.bsky.social

I ka ʻōlelo no ke ola, i ka ʻōlelo no ka make 一語成讖 Watch your mouth. Words can bring healing and they can bring death. Be mindful of what you say into the world.

Should go without saying, but there we are... 😊 www.ru.nl/en/research/...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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/...

Designing walkable cities increases social interaction and consequently may improve social support and social integration. Increase in social support and decrease in social isolation are good for public health.

🛑 Researchers often use a pers. email for submissions so they can stay contactable ✅ What's best is to add an inst. email to your ORCID record so orgs collecting auth. iDs can use the Trust Marker assoc. w/ the inst. domain Read more: support.orcid.org

Saw this on X. Indeed, effective counsellors/therapists facilitate growth. In so many times, just “validating” (especially that which remains at this level) just reinforces behaviors and cognitions that lead to the client to remain stuck.

Fraudulent Citing "Intentionally omitting citations to articles that would raise concerns about the validity of one’s work." New work on citing decisions by @kaileylawson.bsky.social, @brettmurpsych.bsky.social, @jazpeitia.bsky.social et al.

Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!

I’m once again working with a city writing new integrated transportation & land use policy, and we’ve been discussing whether to PRIORITIZE walking, biking and transit, or achieve “BALANCE.” This is a key conversation where I sometimes give a fast and simple answer, but the truth is more complex. 1/

I heard that students need to have a 1st author paper to get into a PhD program This is not true in psychology--most students we admit at NYU & most of the students from my own lab who got into PhD programs do not have publications, let alone 1st author publications www.science.org/content/arti...

luv 2 update my Intro to Emergency Management lectures

I have been away from this app for a long time, so perhaps, I need to do some re-introduction. I am Johnrev Guilaran. I am an associate professor of psychology at the University of the Philippines Visayas. I do research mainly on social support, disaster mental health, & climate change psychology.

Saturday morning biking around the university campus. Did a good 10k.

I was rooting for Osaka, but it’s a well-deserved win for Anisimova.

“A good mentor hopes you will move on. A great mentor knows you will.” - Higgins, Ted Lasso