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

Feel-good finding about humans --- 'lower need' kids want their parents to leave *more* assets to their 'higher need' siblings than the parents actually give or that their siblings actually want for themselves. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Academic accommodations in college more than doubled between 2011 and 2024 (4% -> 10%) and is driven by students getting accommodations for mental health conditions - job market paper by @alvinchristian.bsky.social

Fruit pies should only be served cold.

Social isolation during COVID was linked to a greater likelihood of perpetrating intimate partner violence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The fear of being single, the desire to be in a relationship, and satisfaction with your relationship status represent distinct constructs with unique motivational underpinnings. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We approve of prosocial liars, who give people false but positive feedback, even when they only lie prosocially to those they deem as vulnerable to negative feedback. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Antagonistic traits are amenable to valid assessment via informant reports. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

People don't prioritize improving their moral character because they believe they are already paragons of morality and that improvement in other traits (e.g., sociability, energy level, self-control, anxiety) would be more effective at improving their lives. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A chimpanzee community reaped reproductive benefits after the males killed members of neighboring groups and took their land. Supports a clear evolutionary mechanism underlying warfare. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

In our rejoinder, we argue 1) Dark terminology isn't used responsibly as BL et al. claim, 2) the term can be replaced with a more sensible and scientific one, 3) data support our position (Stanton et al., 2025), and 4) popularity ≠ importance. @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social

Refusing to forgive, versus inaction, can make people feel empowered, principled, and courageous. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Analysis of mouse-tracking data reveals support for both dynamic competition and impulse inhibition accounts of self-control, thought inhibition is relatively rare. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Telling problem drinkers that there's no safe level of alcohol consumption helps them recognize their problem, but it also freaks them out and they dislike the message.

Mouse cursor tracking contributes to the psychological validation of the drift diffusion model: https://osf.io/74rjv

Check out this new preprint from our lab, led by @brownwt.bsky.social and the Bluesky-less Sydney Kavanaugh. We found that psychopathy, especially its antagonistic and disinhibited facets, is more linked to low self-reported levels of **positive** than negative empathy. osf.io/preprints/ps...

A truly Strong Test™ of attachment theory, longitudinally testing whether infants' early caregiver relationships explain variance in their adult attachments. Fortuitously for our field, they do (though effect sizes are much smaller than I would've imagined). psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

So that is why you don't prompt people once a day for an entire year... #OpenESM - data from openesmdata.org/datasets/001...

Such a precious gift! Thank you for this resource.

A neural signature for self-focused thinking. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here 1/n guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...

Perceptions of men seem to have become more negative over the past 50 years.

Can AI ever become conscious? It will depend on whether consciousness can only arise from the electrochemical processes inherent to biological entities. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Positive emotions are bouba and negative emotions are kiki. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

VCU is hiring two TT Assistant Profs in Psychology (Open area)! Please reach out to me if you have questions. vcujobs.com/jobs/assista...

A conceptual analysis of hundreds of participants' descriptions of humiliating experiences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Adversarial collab shows conservatives are less likely to update their beliefs based on evidence than libs. Authors could not have gone more out of their way to express that these effect sizes are small, but I find them to still be of a meaningful size. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I love this paper so goddam much. In well-researched areas, we don't need new questionnaires. We need to take stock of what we have and refine it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The importance of benchmarks and 'magnitude estimation' techniques for accurate modeling of moral judgments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Would p-curve work if you dropped a piano on it? datacolada.org/129

Nails it.

People don't just avoid those who reject others and approach those who accept others, but they also avoid and approach their friends, respectively. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Uri's response to the JASA p-curve critique: datacolada.org/129

The classic Dot Probe is trash, but this new version shows some early signs of promise as a valid behavioral measure of attentional bias to threat. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

AI recruiting AI participants to do AI-designed studies for AI-written manuscripts that are accepted to AI journals that produce AI content for AI views to make AI stats go up. They won't even notice when the academics die out. That's the dead ivory tower aliens are one day going to find.

Interesting deep dive into why and how the phrase 'women and children' as victims elicits heightened moral outrage. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Expressions of outrage may undermine White people's motivations for reparative actions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Attempts at reducing online aggression (ie, cruel Reddit comments) by increasing empathy (eg, "There is a human being on the other side who might be hurt by your words") tended to backfire. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't claim "full mediation". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. -Martin Amis

To test mediation in an experiment, it's not enough to just randomly assign participants to X. Manipulating both X and M is ideal, but if you can't, this paper shows you how to perform sensitivity analyses that quantify how much confounders fucked up your model. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Counter to plasticity claims, cortical representations of limbs remain remarkably stable after amputation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...