Is the idea that getting into a romantic relationship increases well-being a myth? A new MacLab paper says no. And I had so much to say about this work, I started a Substack: The Unromantic. Links for the paper and the Substack in replies.

Very excited to share our new manuscript accepted at JPSP: "Cultural Differences in the Personality Triad: The Interplay of Personality Traits, Situation Characteristics, and Behavioral States Around the World"

Excited to share this new preprint with Simon Breil, Katharina Utesch & Mitja Back: "Predicting More Behavior More of the Time: On the Behavioral Nature of Different Personality Trait Measures" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Read our new meta-analyses paper on the connection between stress and premenstrual symptoms. Congratulations to Celine Bencker for leading this project!

How are #stress and premenstrual symptoms connected? And are those with a #trauma history more likely to have #PMS or #PMDD? 🌩️ Our systematic review & three meta-analyses combine evidence from 66 studies to explore these questions. Excited our work is finally out! ✨ 👉 doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

I ❤️ MDPI Schaut euch mal die Editoren dieses Special Issues an. Dann schaut mal bei allen Artikeln auf die Autorenliste. Und dann sagt mir, ob euch etwas auffällt. Special Issue: "Towards Autonomous Operation of Biologics and Botanicals" www.mdpi.com/journal/proc...

Check out our preprint - the result of a really fun collaboration!

New MacLab paper. Do people partner up to save on rent? Apparently not.

Saw off two PhD students and one MRes student this morning. Happy day 🥳🍾. If you want an amazing PhD of developmental body image hit up Dr Louise Hanson; for a post doc on voices I cannot recommend Dr @jrut.bsky.social highly enough. And Joe McAdam is looking for PhD funding too 😊

Many thanks to HBES for this recognition and congratulations to Rising Stars @mohammadatari.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social @juliastern.bsky.social 💫

HBES is happy to recognize the following Rising Stars (<8 years post-PhD) for their research contributions: Mohammad Atari: mohammadatari.com Catherine Molho: catherinemolho.github.io Daniel Redhead: www.rug.nl/staff/d.j.re... Julia Stern: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Julia Stern, for her evolutionary work on personality, including its effects on well-being, mate choice, as well as the development and hormonal correlates of personality: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

New results from one of the few preregistered, placebo-controlled combined oral contraceptive RCTs. No pill effects found on preferences for masculine or symmetric faces, no menstrual cycle effects. N=340, so small effects may have gone undetected. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Self-improvement, self-acceptance, and/or methods effects? Travis Miller, @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, and I examined factors that might explain personality change intervention effects - now in print at JPSP 🥳: doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

Do you work with #hormones? 🚶‍♂️🐁 🧫 Have you ever tried to share your data or worked with datasets and encountered challenges? #NODES aims to develop a standard data format for hormones to remedy this. Participate in our Delphi study to let us know what should be considered (open until mid June). ⬇️

Join me at the University of Witten/Herdecke for research on meta scientific topics, replication work or other fun things :-) as well as teaching some IMO wonderful students short.sg/j/56902143

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join us at Psych Science! We're currently recruiting volunteers helping with reproducibility checks for conditionally accepted manuscripts. Important tasks - great team - recommended!

Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibility checkers. Please join us if you have the time and skills! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Important #NODES updates🔥 (2/2) We are now recruiting experts (human & animal researchers, clinicians etc) in the field of (psycho)neuroendocrinology that volunteer to fill our survey 📝 survey.questionstar.com/NODES-Delphi... Results will be used as a starting point to develop the data structure.

Why Should You Trust Research Published in #PsychologicalScience? Read @simine.com's Editorial, NOW online

My editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Valerie Baettig asks whether Tsimane women experience PMS. Answer: possibly slightly but not enough that they notice. Also: across the 10 women cycles were super variable hormonally. More evidence we need hormone controls in cycle studies! #ehbea #ehbea2025

Papers published in Psych Science following January 1st, 2024 are candidates for I4R to computationally reproduce, stress-test and replicate. This is an official collaboration with @psychscience.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We are looking for reproducers and replicators!

We're searching for a new colleague at Uni Bremen: *Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience*! Includes researcher positions to fill & use of labs for e.g. (f)MRI,fNIRS,EEG, eyetracking. fMRI expertise desired. Please share! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Our meta-analysis on changes in oral contraceptive use and partnered women's sexual satisfaction is now published in Hormones and Behavior. w/ @juliastern.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social, Yasaman Rafiee, @tvpollet.bsky.social, and Ben Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Together with @wiebkeb.bsky.social I investigated how personality relates to who takes on informal caregiving, and how informal care responsibilities in turn affect personality: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... On the level of nuances (items), we found some evidence for the corresponsive

In a new paper, my colleagues and I argue that it's time for relationship science to have its own credibility revolution. osf.io/preprints/os... Coauthored with @davekhera.bsky.social and @pauleastwick.bsky.social

📖New research finds no strong link between different types of narcissism and stress sensitivity—suggesting we might need to rethink the 'fragile self' theory of narcissistic traits. Read more in Social Psychological and Personality Science: ow.ly/7XbO50UPCBV

Read about the latest research published in #PsychologicalScience

➡️ #Lesetipp: Das Konzept der #Lerntypen (auditiv, visuell, etc.) scheint intuitiv. Die #Forschung zeigt aber, dass es sie gar nicht gibt und eine Ausrichtung von #Unterricht / #Lehre an diese vermeintlichen Typen sinnlos ist. Zum @de.in-mind.org -Artikel: https://buff.ly/41D0B1h?

+++ New Preprint Alert +++ Together with @ajwright.bsky.social, @mdkraemer.bsky.social, and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, I worked on two coordinated data analyses to examine event-related personality changes. CDA1: osf.io/preprints/ps... CDA2: osf.io/preprints/ps... ⬇️Details below⬇️

I signed my new employment contract today --> I am officially TENURED now! Big thanks to everyone who supported me during tenure track, this wouldn't have been possible without all the people around me. Happy to continue working in academia, stay tuned for the next projects!

More than happy to share that our manuscript investigating „Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction“ across 27 countries is now available online at Psychological Science (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)! A 🧵:

Are singles with the least lifetime involvement in romantic relationships "single at heart" and therefore with the best well-being outcomes? Our new paper in Psychological Science suggests, on average, no (N = 77,064, mainly ≥ 50 years, 27 countries). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How does providing informal care affect people's well-being? @wiebkeb.bsky.social and I used longitudinal data to examine this question across different well-being aspects, 3 countries (🇳🇱, 🇩🇪, 🇦🇺), and several moderators. See below for a thread or @psychscience.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/0956...

Excited to share our (John Rauthmann & I) new paper, accepted at JPSP: "The Landscape of Personality Psychology in The New Millennium: A Systematic Keyword Analysis of Journal Articles From 2000 to 2021" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to share this preprint on personality interventions that I've been working on the last year together with Travis Miller, @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social : osf.io/eb6p7 🥳🥳 We compared two intervention programs: self-improvement and self-acceptance in (1/7)

New work by @bjoernhommel.bsky.social and me. We fine-tuned a language model to predict correlations between survey items. In our pilot, the out-of-sample accuracy was .71 for items, .86 for reliabilities, and .89 for scale correlations. A preregistered follow-up is planned. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I want to know everyone's experiences publishing in: * MDPI journals * Hindawi journals * Frontiers journals Not stories about what you heard, please, but your literal experience. what happened to you. Editors of said journals particularly welcome. RT this. A lot.

The MacLab has a new paper first authored by Elaine Hoan on personality and relationship status. Data were 2 studies, direct replication. The top line finding is singles are less extraverted (sociability, assertiveness, and energy level) than partnered people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This Thursday we (Psych Science editors) will hold drop in online “office hours”. Time zone is ideal for Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, & Oceania. See link for details & to register (registration is required but free & open to all) Please share! member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

Now out at EJP w/ @willemsleegers.bsky.social, @juliastern.bsky.social, @larspenke.bsky.social, @alexjonesphd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0890... We tested how accurate people are at judging others' personality based on a facial photograph & whether they are aware of their own (in)accuracy. A🧵

(Part 2) New Psych Science submission guidelines for 2024: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/psychological-science-submission-guidelines-24 Extra special thanks to @tomhardwicke.bsky.social for his amazing work! Legend!

Finally! New policies for Psych Science in 2024 (part 1): Editorial 1: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/vazire-editorial Editorial 2 w/ @tomhardwicke.bsky.social : https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/hardwicke-editorial

I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/2024-editorial-board We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!

Psych Science's incoming editor Simine Vizire (@simine.com) is shaking things up The new board includes 16 editors focusing just on methods www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I am incredibly excited to be one of the incoming Associate Editors at Psychological Science. Can’t wait to work with this team of brilliant people who value scientific rigour, with the admirable @simine.com leading the way.