When given the choice, participants sought human empathy, despite rating AI responses as more empathetic and making them feel more heard. @jdweng.bsky.social @dcameron.bsky.social @minzlicht.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Grad student: I think this draft is ready for your read PI, after a quick skim: awesome, looking great I'll dig in now PI, after an hour: I'm moving these sections around and revamping the discussion PI, after several hours: I have made this paper into a boat and launched it into the moon

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

Our multi-ancestry GWAS of EXTernalizing conditions (ADHD, substance use...) in ~4M people reveals neurodevelopmental risk, drug-repurposing targets, and yields one of the strongest psychiatric polygenic indices yet! 🧬🎉 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Proud advisor moment. Check out my student, Emily Zohar's, new paper (her first first-authored paper) on how norms shape how effort. Yes, when we see hard workers around us, we work harder. But...when we see lazy people around us, we also work harder. Check it out! psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Are you using experience sampling/ mobile sensing or are interested in incorporating these naturalistic methods? Are you going to SPSP? Are you 0-6 years post PhD? Sign up to join the early career mentoring session at 4:30 PM on Friday 02/27! www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB...

Cool/important job alert: Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team for the area of knowledge integrity Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

Steve is having a bath. Steve doesn't want a bath.

New paper on planned missingness. Recently been liking the approach of planned missingness in a survey -> FIML to estimate constructs. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken. I think we all should: 1. Review three papers for every one that we submit. 2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives. #AcademicChatter

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Just leaving this here for no particular reason: www.bmj.com/content/375/...

Yep! I stole it from the Bear, I think - it’s a problem if the head chef is spending all their time chopping lettuce, but also, you’re not a chef if you don’t chop lettuce every now and then. This is how I keep my skills from getting rusty

This. Beyond a certain threshold, money exists primarily as power. Power to sway markets. Power to set policy. And power to get away with doing whatever the hell you want.

“The whole experience was so difficult that Nigeria has opted not to repeat it. The 2006 census was the last time that Nigeria has tried to count how many people live in the country.” davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-p...

Do conscientious people age more slowly? Check it out in our work on epigenetic aging and personality differences. 🔍🧬🕰 doi.org/10.1177/0890...

New paper out: Some people are systematically better at judging others’ intelligence. Who are the best judges? People WHO are intelligent themselves, have good emotion-perception ability, and who are high in well-being. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Stand-up comedy isn’t just about being funny. Psychologically, it’s a high-stakes mix of attention control, emotional regulation, social prediction, and public vulnerability. I looked at what research reveals about the minds drawn to the stage.

What if you find out your own brother is a thief? We asked how people respond when a close other commits a moral transgression. -> It gets people to feel both as the victim + as the perpetrator & changes what punishment they seek. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Why would women like sex less than men? It’s not evolution/biology. According to the new BLOOM model, we learn about sex as teens. And women/girls not only experience worse sex on average than men - they experience the WORST sex at the exact developmental stage when beliefs about sex are formed.

With the deluge of LLM science, it's sooner or later that we have to move to a model of evaluating scientists for promotion and funding on a finite number of papers per year.

New preprint 🥳 The city of Leipzig conducts large-scale surveys of adolescents. In 2023, the gender gap in life satisfaction has significantly widened, with girls declining more steeply than boys. What's up with that?> (work with @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social)

Years ago (god, probably 2016, a literal decade) I was brand new on the tenure track and struggling with seeing another psychologist whose work I respected have their corpus of work fail to replicate, and, on twitter, I was posting as I am wont to do (1/5)

If someone paid you $4.75 every night you slept 7+ hours, would you sleep more? And--more importantly--would that increase in sleep change your behavior in other meaningful ways? This new paper ran an experiment to find out.

Is academia a job, career, or calling? Yes, yes, and yes. The answer is not defined by the role, it is defined by the person in the role. It is perfectly acceptable to decide it is any of these for one's interests and well-being, and to live and work accordingly.

📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

This is an important paper on social class barriers among faculty in academia. First-generation college grads earn less and are placed at lower prestige institutions despite being just as productive as other faculty. Faculty from upper class backgrounds are overplaced for their research records.

Self-report scales in psychology get a lot of flak & there’s a desire for more objective, “scientific” behavioral measures. Now if you look at some of these more closely, there are hundreds of way to score them to generate some outcome variable — and many scorings are used exactly *once.*>

I've been trying to move a project on the security and privacy risks of AI agents. I had an expert say to me that one of the things they are worried about is what happens when an AI agent is used to testify against their owner. Anyways it's already happening.

I deleted all the social media apps from my phone The reason isn't because of mental well-being, but simply because they are wasting my life. The stat that did it for me is this one: the average person will spend 5 years of their life on social media. For young people it's 10 years. Yes, a decade!

Last week no living person had seen a #kakapo lay an egg. Now you can watch it on our webcam: Rakiura laid her second today (15:01 on 25/1/2025). She'll probably lay another in 3 days' time. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

Does going to college make people more liberal? Probably yes, but it’s complicated… For decades, US adults with degrees have held more left-leaning views on social issues, but not on economic ones. And, until the 2010s, grads did not *identify* as more liberal than non-grads.

Thrilled to share our new paper introducing “validity potential” versus “realised validity” as a key distinction for psychological measurement, with @davidmkaplanx.bsky.social, Alexander Gillett, @suttonprofessor.bsky.social, and @robert-m-ross.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨STOP, replication time!🚨 Does Feeling “Right” Make the Good More Good (and the Bad More Bad)? Achar & Lee found that when people experience regulatory fit, moral predispositions get amplified—moral folks act more moral, less moral folks act less moral. Big, exciting claim!

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

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With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

This Kiwi is returning to her nest! I’m excited to share that I will be joining the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland in June. After 14 years away from New Zealand (and nearly 10 years in the U.S.), I’m ready to return to a beautiful, safe, and peaceful country. 1/2

Three #kakapo nests found on Anchor Island today! Here’s Waikawa, on two eggs. #conservation #birds #parrots

Hear, hear! You wrote my favorite peer review mantra in that piece: "Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed."

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1

Broadly, ~$15/hour is what people think for one living alone, but wide variation and it rises with income and cost of living (higher among richer and in Manhattan). Ongoing work exploring how to move these perceptions and what drives people to want others to have enough. More soon!

JOB ALERT 🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Join our NIA-funded collaboration with Northwestern (@ekgraham22.bsky.social) studying social isolation, loneliness, and cognitive aging. Come work with us in beautiful Ithaca! Review of applications begins immediately: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31543

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication. For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

Very excited to share our preprint (in press at Psychological Science) titled "Associations between meat consumption and depression are small and unlikely to be causal". Have a read: lnkd.in/eM8Cd6Ss @mdkraemer.bsky.social @peterhaehner.bsky.social @wiebkeb.bsky.social @chopwood.bsky.social

Looking for user panelists to contribute to the Stage 2 of our registered report: Developing and Piloting a QUick Evaluation of Research Integrity for Evidence Synthesis in Educational Research (QUERIES-Edu). osf.io/tc5n3 If you’re interested, sign up here: forms.gle/SSmPmaCrdGvnHPdx9