Our inferences regarding the perceived relationships among others' personality traits tend to mirror the actual relationships those same traits exhibit in ourselves. osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣 So happy to share with you the results of my main PhD study, where two human predators worked together to hunt a human prey in Minecraft, and had their brains scanned simultaneously using fNIRS 🎮🧠 We find that the brains of the predators are synchronised in the prefrontal cortex during hunting! 💡

On average, parents seem to want more kids than they have, but having more kids than you wanted (~8% of parents) is linked to lower well-being. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new measure -- the ten-item Words Can Harm Scale (WCHS) -- quantifies variability in the "belief that speech can cause lasting psychological harm." Agreeableness r = .14, neuroticism r = .18. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A qualitative meta-analysis on mass murderers' manifestos --- characterizing them as bigoted and logically-flawed attempts to make meaning out of lives of rejection and other narcissistic grievances, which become unjustifiable excuses for violence. www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

Social interaction buffers the distress of intrusive thoughts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Preliminary evidence that naltrexone, unexpectedly, makes empathy less unpleasant. Interesting times for opioid theories of social connection. osf.io/preprints/ps...

An interesting set of interviews with people diagnosed with Antisocial PD, on their "experiences, needs, and expectations regarding contact with their therapist." www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

Are we talking about the same psychopathic traits? Mapping semantic similarity across psychopathy scales using large language models: https://osf.io/e2sr7

VCU's 82-78 OT victory is the largest comeback in the history of the NCAA tournament's first round. Rams trailed by 19 halfway through the second half. #LetsGoVCU

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When people guess the prevalence of lying, 11% accurately estimated it, 25% underestimated it, and 64% overestimated dishonesty by 5% or more. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Liberals don't see socially-powerful entities as victims, conservatives do. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Bonobos are not the pacifist primates many folks believe them to be, they are just as violent as chimps. However, "bonobos exhibit higher female-to-male aggression, while chimpanzees show the reverse." www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Being rejected by potential friends versus dates hurts about the same. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Negative, versus neutral, memories were recalled with more consistency over 8 weeks. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Holding a hyperventilating robot while watching The Shining increases your heart rate. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

People with (vs. w/o) U.S. military experience "demonstrated a greater willingness to “use force or violence on your own as an individual” .. and to “organize a group of people who share your beliefs to use force or violence” .. to advance a political objective." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Men over-perceive and over-recall displays of emotion, especially anger, in women. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Loneliness is a dearth of meaningful human relationships, and is better alleviated by random strangers than supportive AI. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

People recall conversations with strangers as less positive than they actually felt immediately afterwards. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

If you've ever wanted to make a scholarly argument that @jdmiller.bsky.social, @drlynam.bsky.social, and I are part of some "Woke progressive ideological" mob that is apparently ruining psychology, you can just cite this new paper. philpapers.org/rec/HALRPI-5

DDM drift rates (v) are more strongly related to efficiency than speed of evidence accumulation. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Never thought I'd get a chuckle out of a github page, but then there's: yifengedms.github.io/simPM/ @quantitude.bsky.social @yifeng.bsky.social

Listening to music together increased friends' prefrontal synchrony. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Folks with greater amounts of sadistic and machiavellian traits had less succcess in a speed dating event. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Writing is thinking. If you outsource the writing, you've outsourced the thinking.

We're heading back to the lab y'all.

Love the idiographic approach of this mixed-methods study on cardinal traits. Folks volunteered very socially-desirable ones. Curious how/if things would change if participants could be motivated to provide less presentable answers. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Did a short interview in which I gently pushed back on the notion that revenge is an addiction. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a698...

In a new paper coming out in Personality Disorders: TRT, I used factor mixture modeling to see if the basic factor structure of aggressive personality traits exhibited different configurations and correlations within latent classes of low, medium, and high aggressiveness. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to **PsychoPy Studio** This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron. Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter 🎉 🚀 blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...

My personality psych undergrads introduced me to the term 'clanker', which was a surprisingly useful term to use when talking about exploratory factor analysis and its potential pitfalls.

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...

People often use passive aggression to test their partners' commitment level. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Agreeable people showed a relatively higher preference for in-person jobs, introverted and disinhibited people had a greater preference for remote work. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Morning.

Conspiracy theorists' insistence that people should "do their own research" doesn't seem to emerge in their actual choices (i.e., they don't robustly seek out first-hand evidence instead of expert opinions). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

back to the lab y'all

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

Humans were using poisoned weapons (i.e., arrows) all the way back in the Ice Age. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reward Positivity (RewP) is an EEG event related potential that, contrary to decades of work, does not simply indicate reward receipt. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Affective inertia, the association between affect at two timepoints, was stronger overnight than it was within a given day. So if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, you likely fell asleep on it too. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

I'm preregistering the emergence of a new form of identity crisis - - - people trying to convince others that they aren't AI.

The Honesty-Humility dimension of HEXACO "is not clearly distinguishable from the Politeness aspect of Agreeableness." osf.io/preprints/ps...

Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

Oh dear. Men who valued having a large penis were also more aggressive (r > .26) and reported more support for Donald Trump (r = .39). psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

The chief obligation people have towards themselves is to protect themselves from harm. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. -Louis Kronenberger