Okay, I'm about 80 pages in, and I'm ready to say that this book is a triumph. It's amazing to see decades of Paul's careful work, distilled into such an accessible text. It's uplifting, it's funny, it's empirically compelling. And, it's an epic takedown of the worst of what ev psych has to offer.

Can this thing also answer Prolific surveys? I am beginning to really worry that the MTurkification of Psych Science might be nearing an end

I'm hiring a postdoc at @cmu.edu (w/ far.ai & @dgrand.bsky.social + @gordpennycook.bsky.social)! How do LLMs shape human beliefs — and what do we do about it? AI safety meets behavioral science. Open to technical and social science backgrounds.

The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is pleased to announce its 2026 proposal cycle for interdisciplinary seed grants for morality and ethics research. Check out our call below, and visit our website (from the press release) to learn about eligibility and how to apply. @ssripennstate.bsky.social

I got 99 problems in online survey research but social desirability ain‘t (a huge) one Important paper ⬇️⬇️

Excellent article! The tone is very measured but the implications are definitely worth field-wide attention!

Super proud advisor moment: kudos to @jdweng.bsky.social for his first first-author publication! With @minzlicht.bsky.social, we inverted the empathy selection task to look at preferences to receive empathy. We can speculate on what people want from AI, but a motivational account suggests we ask 1/n

New signature added: "All emails 100% human-written."

To potential students, 10/10 would recommend working with Greg Depow!

After a provocation from Todd Kashdan I wrote up some frustrations I have with "wellbeing science", specifically the idea that it was born with life satisfaction scales. I think this belief is untrue and unhelpful. profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...

So of course I screwed up the announcement post for the new Hardcore History by not including g the art of Erich Sayers that goes with the show. So...here it is now

We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college. Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.

Excited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The economists accuse those, to whom the enunciation of their atrocious villainies communicates a thrill of horror, of being sentimentalists. It may be so: I willingly confess to having some tincture of sentimentalism in me, God be thanked!

Excited to share our new paper in Cognitive Development! We replicate that children punish for both retributive and consequentialist reasons — and, surprisingly, intergroup context doesn’t change these effects. tinyurl.com/ycyhcn5a Check in out! ✨

this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!

Recently presented at @theloveconsortium.bsky.social's Virtual Symposium on Empathy as an Interpersonal Process with Dr. Kotiuga and Dr. Monroy. I presented on how empathy predicts perceptions of partner responsiveness across positive and negative emotional contexts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyRA...

⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️ In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame. YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...

"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Check out new ShinyApp for testing measurement invariance! By Schemmerling, Kotzur, & Friehs. Out in Social Cognition guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/... (I *love* how researchers create these, and share. Great service to field. Thanks!)

Please join us for "Empathy as an Interpersonal Process," a virtual symposium with moderated discussion on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Learn more here: www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

Learn more about Dr. Jessica Maxwell's speed dating study, featuring data from 400+ participants at 16 events, in her conversation with TLC Founding Director Sara Algoe in this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjv...

Major shoutout to @andrew.heiss.phd for recreating FiveThirtyEight's p-hacking app. My teaching prep panic at discovering the broken link lasted only a few minutes of googling thanks to this beautiful replacement: stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

Our latest TLC Newsletter spotlights @jaimiekrems.bsky.social from UCLA and her work as Co-founder/Director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, the first academic hub dedicated to decoding and strengthening friendship. Learn more in our latest newsletter here: go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...

Grace Vieth shares how the unique contextual features of adult friendships make them ideal relationships for positive processes in the latest TLC Newsletter. Read her deep dive here. go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...

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...