Overall, our findings point to a simpler explanation: Learning with others may be effective because the human mind treats live social contexts as special, even when interaction is minimal. Interactivity can help, but it may not be the central ingredient to boost learning.

Are you looking for opportunities to teach university courses in psychology? We need contract lecturers (MA or PhD in psychology required) for January 2026 at TMU To apply (by Nov. 7th) see: www.torontomu.ca/careers/sear... Please share! See the thread below for the courses that are available:

Are you looking for opportunities to teach university courses in psychology? We need contract lecturers (MA or PhD in psychology required) for January 2026 at TMU To apply (by Nov. 7th) see: www.torontomu.ca/careers/sear... Please share! See the thread below for the courses that are available:

Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

Into the afternoon now, Elisabeth Bik makes case that peer review cannot really detect fraud, because researchers don't know how to recognize it. Need professional fraud detectors. Elsevier rep in morning said they see more and more fraudulent submissions. Becoming a stress on system.

🎉 Congratulations 2025 CGDA Finalists 🎉 🍺 Brewmaster's Guild by Carlo Prospero 👑 Drag Debutante by Duncan Hecht ⚗️ Flask by Adam Wyse & Gavin Brown 🐙 Takoyaki by Ben Dyson Join us for the FallCon 38 Live Auction on August 23rd to learn who will take home the top prize!

We have a new paper on interpreting regional attitudes out in JPSP, led by Jennifer Suliteanu @jensulite.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/pspa... This is her first paper 🫶 Few comments

Are you looking for teaching experience in psychology? We are looking for contract lecturers (MA or PhD in psychology required) for September 2025 at TMU. To apply, see: torontomu.ca/careers/sear... by May 30th Please share! See the thread below for the courses that are available:

Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025. Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice. 1/2

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

A bad day for Nicolas Guéguen as he scores five retractions, including the evolutionary psychology tour de force "Bust Size and Hitchhiking". journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2...

Help needed with power analysis! We plan a study where the predicted results are as shown. What tools can I use to figure out the necessary N to find this 2 x 2 interaction? One complication is that the d values we are expecting come from between-participant studies, but ours will be entirely within

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

ISCON is excited to announce that the 2023 Best Social Cognition Paper Award goes to Hester, N., & Hehman, E. (2023). Dress is a fundamental component of person perception. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 27(4), 414-433! Congrats @neilrhester.bsky.social and @erichehman.bsky.social!

New in NHB: We systematically replicated 26 of 41 PNAS social science studies that used MTurk. The approach provides a proof-of-concept for using decision markets to select findings to replicate. Replication effect sizes were 45% of original effect sizes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A fun fact about me is that I once bought a bag of wine gums for the Queen of Denmark.

We're working on VAS slider accuracy. Did anyone collect data on this, i.e. did anyone ask participants to score a specific number on VAS (e.g. as attention check or for any other reason)? Thx (w @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @bsiepe.bsky.social)

Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring for a tenure track (Assistant Professor) position in Quantitative Psychology. hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/... Candidates can have research interests in any field, but must provide evidence of (potential for) excellence in teaching quantitative methods.

I admit that I didn't need much convincing (I still frequently think about Uri Simonsohn's words from the screenshot below) but this pre-print has further convinced me that the rate of fraud and fabrication in science is alarmingly high.

Another shoe just dropped in the ongoing Dan Ariely scandal: JMR, a top 4 marketing journal, has issued a formal “Expression of Concern” for Mazar, Amir, & Ariely (2008), the infamous Ten Commandments study 🧵

Visual Analogue Scales are often used to measure short-term changes in body dissatisfaction. But how much change (out of 101 points) represents a meaningful change? 20 points? 10? 5? In our new (open access) paper, we try to find out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They Might Be Giants come out in support of Popperian falsificationism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodW... "If it's possible to prove it wrong You're going to want to know before too long ... "Find a way to show what would happen If you were incorrect A fact is just a fantasy Unless it can be checked"

James Heathers @jamesheathers.bsky.social has started a peer review Subreddit. I kicked it off with a post about some VERY viral and VERY dodgy research on rosemary oil for hair loss. See if there's anything I've missed. I think this study may require retraction: www.reddit.com/r/PeerReview...

Apparently the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test can be used to report "how many" people did show the effect, a concrete way some folks have suggested reporting effect sizes