For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Want to know what a sample of 200+ editorial board members think about citing practices in psychology? That and much more in this AMPPS article. We had a lot of fun pulling it together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Now through 9/5: Preorder from Barnes & Noble and get a special discount on my book! B&N Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off preorders. Premium Members get an additional 10% off physical books. Use coupon code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bonded-by-... @BarnesandNoble #BNPreorder

Exciting news! I'll be working with the Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social as a fellow to develop an intervention aimed at improving the well-being of youth on social media. The intervention will train youth to engage skilfully with emotions on their feed using wise empathy.

When the quant profs and grad students in my department ask me what Brunswick's lens model is

Need to backup your Qualtrics? I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation. Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now. Hope it's helpful to others: github.com/giladfeldman...

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

All new assistant professors “enjoying” their first day: have a great one! You’ve got this!!!!!

I love reading philosophy. Most philosophers are so politically incorrect - challenging the status quo, even challenging God. Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane. -- Mike Tyson

Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵

Conspiracies emerge in the wake of high-profile events, but you can’t debunk them with evidence because little yet exists. Does this mean LLMs can’t debunk conspiracies during ongoing events? No! We show they can in a new working paper. PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I wrote about my former boss, Bill Moyers.

Posted by Nick Crain (@CrainNBA) on twitter, this is the best video I've seen capturing the size of the crowd as Scissortail Park.

JDub makes sure the whole staff gets to touch The Larry O’Brien Trophy 🏆💯

It is past time to abandon the term “dark” as a descriptor of antagonistic traits. A new viewpoint by @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

This started out as a June 6, 1944 social media post that got insanely out of hand. So I did it on our substack page instead. I'd say "enjoy", but it really ain't that kind of piece. dancarlin.substack.com/p/the-real-w...

He wants his mammon flavored with a soupçon of god.

Many of us have heard of Hofstede's cultural dimensions (e.g. the individualistic-collectivist (IC) dimension), but few have looked under the hood of how they were constructed. The data, it turns out, come from self-report surveys of IBM employees ca. 1968-72. Here's McSweeney describing the sample:

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now open-access—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

The Perspectives on Psych Science Editor has published a provocative editorial. The journal \site has erased the previous editor from history, jumping the editor prior to him. I realize his departure was controversial, but the erasure isn't very transparent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Had a chat about “debunkbot” and the research supporting it on CBS Mornings yesterday! www.cbsnews.com/video/ai-cha...

Introducing Dr Wendy Higgins and the Reading the Mammal in the Eyes Test.

New paper! AI lets us query humanity’s collective knowledge (or a subset of it) – rapidly addressing any given concern about vaccines in detail. So can information-focused LLM conversations shift vaccination intentions? In an RCT of 1,124 HPV vax-hesitant parents: yes!

Have you every found yourself wondering whether the most widely used measures of social cognitive ability measure what they are supposed to measure?

Elon Musk recently claimed that "empathy is the fundamental weakness of western civilization", pushing us towards "civilizational suicide". I recently wrote a piece in Broadview Magazine explaining why I disagree: broadview.org/elon-musk-em... #empathy #scicomm

I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.

Americans want to connect across lines of difference (race/ethnicity, class, religion, politics) but lack the opportunity. New huge research on social connection (2-year study of >6,000 Americans, national, regional, quant + qual). Happy to play a role on this project and celebrate its launch!

New paper out at @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! This is the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted into how people think about relationships: a true tour de force! We identify 5 dimensions and 3 categories that organize relationship concepts. Proud to have made a (small) contribution to it!

Rest easy, Roy Ayers.. prayers to his family 💙🕊 #ThankYou

If you're looking to do a postdoc studying research methods in the close relationships/sexuality space, you can apply to work with me or @johnsakaluk.bsky.social or both! www.uwo.ca/research/fun...

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New OA paper in Compass with @datingdecisions.bsky.social, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social, and a number of non-blue-sky students and colleagues. If you're a #dyadic #closerelationships researcher, and interested in what dyadic SEM can do for you: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How do individual differences in trait empathy manifest in everyday state experiences of empathy? In a new preprint @minzlicht.bsky.social and I address this question: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We find theoretically expected trait-state relationships✅, but also some surprises😲. We also find trait 1/2

thanks to everyone that came to my poster yesterday! i received amazing feedback, and i can't wait to follow up this line of work. #spsp2025

I included these slides in a talk recently. I think it went well? #SPSP2025 #spspcloserels

@fuhred.bsky.social deserves all the credit for this ShinyApp 👏 see our paper at doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Not going to let Nashville snow get in the way of chairing my first SPSP symposium on conspiracy belief this Saturday! Come see our talks on conspiracy belief strength, conspiracy theorists, and more!

Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers. TLDR: facts osf.io/preprints/ps...

New guest post! Excluding "careless" responses is a routine practice in many contexts. But if careless responding itself is an outcome of the variables of interest, that may actually cause trouble.

free QR generator for your conference materials! just used this and it worked great. gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#r... #spsp2025

We are excited for the @spspnews.bsky.social Close Relationships Preconference💞 on Thursday. Such a great line-up of speakers! @chops310.bsky.social @lydiaemery.bsky.social @brettmurpsych.bsky.social

Want to build a better relationship? Don't miss TLC director Sara Algoe and TLC board member Amie Gordon reminding us that a little gratitude can go a long way in helping our partners feel appreciated! #ValentinesDay www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

1/3 Tutorial on exploring ecological momentary assessment data is online at AMPPS, with: - Accessible ways to visualize data for better understanding - Models to get some first insights - Further reading boxes for more advanced topics - Reproducible pipeline you can run over your own data

Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉 #AcademicSky #Psychology @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social @chazfirestone.bsky.social @ashleylwatts.bsky.social @minuekim.bsky.social @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @markthornton.bsky.social @gemmasharpe.bsky.social

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

Our tutorial on how to use ARIADNE to make your research life easier is now finally published in AMPPS! 🤩 Read it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Check out the tool: igor-biodgps.github.io/ARIADNE/grap... Supported by IGOR (www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...) and @zpid.bsky.social ❤️

With ⏱️ spent on social media increasing each year, it's key to figure out we can engage in ways that improve well-being😁, rather than reducing it😭. In work now out in Emotion, I argue Positive Empathy can be a useful practice to achieve this end doi.org/10.1037/emo0.... No access? Check my website: