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...

2-year postdoc in our team, supervised by Laura Fruhen and Tirza van Noorden. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Motivation and Emotion is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief! 4-year term starting Jan 2025. Looking for someone with vision, experience in motivation/emotion research, and editorial chops. Deadline: Aug 1. Ready to shape the field? Details: [email protected]

In our new RR, we will test whether and how mental fatigue impacts dishonesty: rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere... I am already excited about the to-be-collected data. Nice work led by Mara Bialas 👏 (also with @maartenboksem.bsky.social)

ashamedly i've never tried this (from Kahneman's 1973 'Attention and Effort')

Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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New paper in JESP: "On rewarded actions and punishment-avoidant inactions: The action–valence asymmetry in face perception.” In four preregistered experiments, we show that inactions influence evaluations of faces. (1/5) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"First, the idea that a few minutes of self-control can leave you unable to resist temptation later has been thoroughly debunked. What remains is something far more mundane: fatigue."

Forthcoming at JEP: General is some more work from my dissertation. Over three experiments we test a popular model of cognitive effort aversion—the opportunity cost model, first proposed by Kurzban et al. (2013)—and find negligible support for its primary predictions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

'Since the establishment of that template, this norm of the 40-hour working week, Monday to Friday, we see that not much has changed'

I'm excited to share a new preprint: In a novel experimental paradigm, we found evidence that stress induces a computational bias during alcohol-related decision-making in favor of alcohol, but this bias was only sometimes strong enough to overcome competing considerations (e.g., taste preferences).

Since our first commissioning meeting my team and I have wanted to publish something about the tension between basic vs. applied research. And now we have. Please check out this must-read piece on the need to place greater value on applied research with concrete suggestions for how to do so 👇

New large study (n ~ 6 million) in @JAMApsych tracking mental disorder trends in Denmark showing increases in mood disorders in recent birth cohorts tinyurl.com/c5nyfd8k

📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢 Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩 ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... pls share liberally 🙏

The unfathomable richness of seeing: http://osf.io/jmg35/

Clark Hull usually gets credit for coming up with "law of less work" (or the "law of least effort") in 1943. I recently learned that the Chinese psychologist Loh-Seng Tsai published the same idea 11 years before Hull. 🧵Short history thread (1/5):

I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵

New paper from the SCAN-Unit! How does acute stress impact effortful prosocial behaviour? @elife.bsky.social Forbes et al. elifesciences.org/articles/87271 1/8

Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 t.co/ByeSMQNJdp

‚Science Advances‘ published our paper in which we asked: "Where does all the sugar go in the brain?" doi.org/10.1126/scia... Short answer and 4 main findings in 🧵 below. #funding: ERC_Research #neuroskyence

Oh, wait, Bartley and Chute said this already *in 1945*.

I sometimes try to publish in work psych journals, and this is in line with my experiences: "Unfortunately, journals in industrial, work, and organizational psychology still fail to support Open Science practices" open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

Replication of the original experiments on the “Effort Heuristic” (higher liking, and perceived higher quality and monetary value for goods that take more effort to produce) finds at best mixed results: buff.ly/3Ms53ar HT @giladfeldman.bsky.social

I think gaps in fatigue by social class are somewhat under-studied. They clearly exist: People with low SES are more tired. For example: doi.org/10.1186/1756...

Evaluating Large Language Models for Assisting Meta-Analysis: http://osf.io/dc6tz/

Generative AI is opening a new era for trolley problems aesthetics

My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!

Translating psychological verbal theories into formal testable models of differential equations: http://osf.io/kqyxa/

This just came out: Three experiments suggest that specific and difficult task goals enhance sustained attention performance. 👁️👁️ I like how these authors applied theory from work psychology to their cognitive paradigm. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Yesterday, we organized an internal "Boost Your Skills Day" at our institute. We had workshops on theory development, methods/stats, and OS. No external guests, just ~90 faculty and students learning from each other. The vibe was optimistic and warm. Can highly recommend.

Short new paper: The ebb and flow of cognitive fatigue authors.elsevier.com/a/1hwHP4sIRv... I highlight the new findings by @quining.bsky.social et al. and I reflect on the current state of fatigue science. #psychscisky #cogsci #psychology 🧵Little thread with the main points: (1/6)

No, people aren’t less able to concentrate now than they used to be. Meta Analysis from 287 samples (N = 21,291) shows scores are either the same as they ever were or (in adults) getting better. From Denise Andrzejewski, Elisabeth Zeilinger & Jakob Pietschnig www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#HiSciSky #psychsky #cogsci I am a psychologist at Radboud University. In my research, I try to understand the costs of cognitive work. Right now, I mostly try to examine the nature and causes of (mental) effort and (mental) fatigue. 🙇

Academia can be brutal. As someone with a tendency to be self-critical, I often find it hard to believe that my work could inspire others as they have inspired me. It's encouraging to read this positive commentary of our recent paper. Thanks @erikbij.bsky.social & TiCS.

Lovely commentary on our paper in cognition by @erikbij.bsky.social in TICS on the 'ebb and flow of fatigue' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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