A team of isolated crew of folks in Antarctica saw declines in individual well-being and team cohesiveness over time, which corresponded to *more* time spent in physical proximity to others --- which is nearly opposite what we see in non-isolated environments. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Really looked around LinkedIn for the first time in a while and holy cow, the amount of pro-AI posts and posts/pics explicitly made with AI (and absent any critique of doing so) tells me that it will never be the social media place for me.

Cuddy's new post claiming that power posing still has a robust evidentiary basis relied upon a literature review that "may have in part been generated by automated tools" and a result in which "the effect was in the opposite direction of the hypothesis." daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval...

It's nice to see some pushback, like this rejoinder, against the use of behavioral economics tasks to measure aggression, as they were "designed to study economic competition" and have not been validated as meaningful proxies of antagonistic and aggressive behavior. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Interesting ways that affective prediction errors are similar to and differ from other prediction errors. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

New Shiny app that helps diagnose missing data patterns and examines the implications of different handling techniques under varying conditions of missingness davidmoreau.shinyapps.io/DataPatch/.

A 2010 paper was just retracted at Experimental Brain Research for having multiple figure images that were identical to prior publications from some of the research team. Authors didn't respond to correspondence from editors. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Opposition to this term isn't some pearl-clutching attempt to 'cancel' a naughty word that offends delicate sensibilities. It's a pragmatic push to be rid of an absurd phrase that undermines the goals of a serious area of psychological science and can harm those it attempts to describe.

Me: *clicks an OSF link* OSF: gotta be safe, can you login real quick? Me: sure, login completed OSF: cool, I have completely forgotten what link you clicked, here's your Dashboard

No robust links between the big five and structural/functional coupling in the brain. Another chapter in the yet-fruitless search for the brain basis of personality. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

As someone who was initially enamored with evolutionary psych, then grew to broadly oppose it, and now have found many modern parts of it valuable again, this was such a welcome read. If I ever write a book on my scholarly area, I hope it's half this good.

If you slow down human vowels, they start sounding like whale clicks. Applying linguistic tools to whales shows us that we’re much more similar to these wonderful ocean creatures than we previously believed and that their language is much more complex and structured. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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...

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....