NLP across cultures...Hou, D. X., Thapa, S., & Tay, L. (2026). Bridging cultures in the era of big data: A cross-language equivalence framework in machine-learning research with social media texts. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Psychologists clash over the safety and effects of the cry it out parenting strategy

Cross-sex and intrasexual theory of mind..."Men overestimated women's desire for sexual variety...Unexpectedly, women showed similar biases when estimating the desires of men...both men and women overestimated the sexual desired of their same sex peers." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The interdisciplinary journal "Culture and Evolution" brings all the scientific tools for studying culture and evolution to the same table…publication fees waived for papers submitted by Dec 31, 2026; registered reports and replication studies welcomed! submit.akademiai.com/cultev/index...

This is consistent with earlier psychometric work that suggests 5-7 is the best response scale options, but good to see that the finding holds up in contemporary research. Also, good to see that labeling scales whether anchored or not has little impact on findings. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

Gender differences in emotional disconnection and emotional loneliness in romantic couples: a 3-day ecological momentary assessment study www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

"daily study of psychopathy and Machiavellianism states...covariance higher between-person, compared to within-person...different pattern of fluctuations over time...qualitatively different constructs linked by antisocial" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

35,000 participants, 25 countries..."replicated gender differences in sexual attraction to preferred and non-preferred gender...gender typicality (self-rated femininity for women and masculinity for men) positively associated with attraction to preferred gender" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"people from cultures with strict social norms tend to be less skilled at coming up with funny material compared to those from more relaxed cultures" www.psypost.org/cultural-tig...  doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

Job Alert: Want to come work in a great Psychology Department? Able to teach within Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience areas? Well, we have a spot you'll love full well here in Kansas! Applications close March 1, 2026; Anticipated pay range $70,000 annually careers.k-state.edu/jobs/teachin...

"71 countries with diverse national incomes...perceived economic inequality predicts personal well-being more strongly than objective inequality" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"More extraverted and open individuals felt better and were less likely to leave their jobs when these traits were strongly demanded by their work" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Remembering Edward Deci, APS Charter Member and Fellow #Psychology

"14,532 participants across 42 societies...sex similarities and differences in the strength of social motives across adulthood and sociocultural contexts, employing generalized additive models that account for spatial autocorrelation" royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

"LinkedIn microdata...Big 5 personality traits from facial images 96,000 MBA grads...predicts school rank, job matching, compensation...individuals sort into occupations where personality valued and earn higher wages when traits align with occupational demands" www.nber.org/system/files...

Pick your relationships wisely! For both men & women, their partner's conscientiousness predicted their own future job satisfaction, income, and likelihood of promotion, even after accounting for their own conscientiousness. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"Criminals and government officials are barely hiding their schemes, and their brazenness is meant to make us feel helpless, to think that nothing can be done. That is false. We already have the legal tools to fight corruption. We just need to use them." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

"as wealthier countries increasingly prioritize individualism over collectivism, the gender gap in specifically communal values (rather than other values) widens in ways that may exacerbate gender differences in interest for care economy careers" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

"although older adults experience neural decline in some areas, they’re actually more likely...to regulate their emotions and reduce impact of negative information. They’re not losing their ability to care. They’re becoming more strategic about what they care about" geediting.com/gen-psycholo...

"traditional and integrative worldviews appear positively related to mental health, while the post-modern had contrasting results, and the modern worldview appeared to have a predominantly negative relationship to mental health" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"the size of a country’s cosmetics industry may be directly linked to how much fathers contribute to childcare and the level of economic inequality within that society" www.psypost.org/new-research...

"higher perceived stress was significantly associated with lower sexual desire or arousal...elevated stress levels may have a stronger impact on women’s sexual functioning, as engaging in reproductive behavior under higher stress may be less advantageous" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"experience sampling with adolescents...being good leads to being well...virtues like compassion, patience, and self-control might benefit their possessors" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

"study supports a putative universality of attractiveness halo effects and also contributes to a deeper understanding of subtle variations in the halo effects of men’s and women’s attractiveness in more individualistic versus more collectivistic cultures"

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long...several evolutionary psychological hypotheses have generated specific, falsifiable predictions; undergone multiple empirical tests; and been refuted" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

"I don’t buy predictions of second civil war...Americans are better than that...As nation shudders on the edge of his police state, we’re gaining stronger unity against it and taking more responsibility for the well-being of each other. In the darkness of Trump, we’re finding the light of America."

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MacLab work on sex and singlehood featured in PsyPost. www.psypost.org/one-specific...

"results provide preliminary objective evidence that regardless of what position title or rank a teacher is thought to have, their teaching effectiveness will be rated similarly" lnkd.in/gX8NqERi

"men more averse to female breadwinning in Kenya, Nigeria, Tajikistan, Libya, Russia...women more averse to female breadwinning than men in Uruguay, Brazil, Germany, Peru, Mexico...challenges widespread belief men always more traditional views than women" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"despite strong evidence physically attractive individuals receive systematic advantages in domains like hiring, pay, and legal outcomes, “lookism” attracts far less moral outrage than race- or gender-based discrimination...blind spot in how people scan outcomes for bias" doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Male and female empathy across 24 countries and 60 latitudinal degrees..."individualism/collectivism associated positively with sex differences in empathic concern" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⏰Last call! Submissions for #HBES2026 close today. If you’re planning to submit an abstract, now’s the moment airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026 See you in Rabat!

global dataset of 158 countries spanning from 2006 to 2022..."isolated efforts in addressing some aspects of gender inequality inadvertently stall efforts to address holistic gender inequality" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"findings suggest that monogamy arose repeatedly under similar socioecological conditions and cannot be fully explained by theories based primarily on Indo-European history" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

"Controlling for non-independence by default may result in one of five outcomes, including successful elimination of bias, improving precision, doing nothing, harming precision, or introducing bias...Instead of rolling a five-sided dice..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Want to come work in a great Psychology Department? Able to teach within Cognitive and/or Behavioral Neuroscience areas of expertise? Well, we have a spot you'll love full well here in Kansas! careers.k-state.edu/jobs/teachin... (Apps due by March 1, 2026)

"study evaluated feasibility, acceptability, adequacy of one-session therapist-guided chatbot intervention targeting involuntary singlehood-related distress...findings suggest chatbot-assisted intervention may hold promise in...navigating involuntary singlehood" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"how universal mate choice mechanisms—attentiveness to health, fertility, and sociality—are expressed through locally adaptive values shaped by subsistence strategies and settlement contexts" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Meta-analysis of 35 studies (25K participants) finds no difference in sexual or relationship satisfaction for people in monogamous vs. consensually non-monogamous relationships. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2025.2462988#abstract

"individuals who are prone to anxiety are more likely to support left-wing economic policies, particularly when they feel socially excluded" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

a huge victory for universities, worth billions of dollars: Trump can’t cap indirect-cost rates on NIH grants, appeals court rules www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... via @andyandy.bsky.social

"158 researchers working independently in 71 teams...used same data to answer same empirical question...teams composed of pro-immigration researchers estimated more positive impacts of immigration, while anti-immigration teams estimated more negative impacts" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#MorningReads Study mapping LGBT-affirming Christian churches across the U.S. and finds strong geographic clustering. Affirming churches more common in the NE, Midwest, & West, but undersupplied in the South—shaping LGBTQ access to religious capital & well-being. #ReligionStudies #QueerSpaces

"Oxytocin varies across the life course in a sex-specific way in a human subsistence population" www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

"microbiota may be partly involved in improving the well-being of adolescents living with dogs" www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨 We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

"generalizable small-magnitude effect of lower cognitive performance aligning with school vacation even after adjusting for socioeconomic status or ADHD diagnosis"

"People from higher GDP and more collectivistic cultures reported higher narcissism levels (particularly for admiration), with the latter effect challenging conventional views that narcissism is predominantly a product of individualistic societies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"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...