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TAMU-San Antonio psych professor, former lawyer, empathy and interpersonal processes research, Okie
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John Sakaluk
4 days ago
The preprint is now available:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thanks to the PsyArXiv moderators for their speedy review! Freely available to any who want to read about the many ways in which the oft-cited literature on desistance spectacularly fails to support the claim of widespread desistance
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Colette Delawalla
6 days ago
I consider Dr. Foa’s exposure therapy work among the most profound achievements in clinical psychology. Her work has saved so, so many lives. She led a big life. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/h...
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Edna Foa, Who Pioneered Exposure Therapy to Treat PTSD, Dies at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/health/edna-foa-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bFA.UcJT.NkpDaLy6GuX9&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Rob Ross
8 days ago
Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”
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Samantha Joel
15 days ago
New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures
In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0342451
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Daryl Cameron
23 days ago
I'm excited to announce one of the two big Consortium on Moral Decision-Making conferences for spring 2026. In June, we're collaborating with Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics to host "AI and Social Research: Empathic AI, Metascience, and Methodology" here on campus and hybrid on Zoom.
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Julia M. Rohrer
about 1 month ago
Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>
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Whitney Ringwald
about 1 month ago
Ridiculously useful information for anyone designing EMA studies or evaluating EMA studies as a reviewer/consumer of research.
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd
about 1 month ago
My new career column in Nature is out. After reviewing hundreds of PhD applications for my lab and admissions at the UIUC, I kept seeing the same mistakes. I share 8 common application and interview mistakes and what applicants can do differently.
doi.org/10.1038/d415...
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Eight common errors I see in PhD applications and interviews, and how to avoid them
Convince a supervisor that you’re a great fit for their laboratory by preparing questions, honing your personal statement and showcasing strong team-player instincts.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-04128-8
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Tom Costello
about 2 months ago
I saw we were fighting about what AI will do to (social) science. I have some thoughts (originally written for a book on scientific inquiry) and decided to turn them into my first substack article. Co-written with Nat Rabb!
tomstello.substack.com/p/standing-o...
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Standing on the Shoulders of Termites
Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love AI (scientists)
https://tomstello.substack.com/p/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-termites
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Can this thing also answer Prolific surveys? I am beginning to really worry that the MTurkification of Psych Science might be nearing an end
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Tom Costello
about 2 months ago
I'm hiring a postdoc at
@cmu.edu
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@gordpennycook.bsky.social
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Daryl Cameron
2 months ago
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
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Consortium on Moral Decision-Making announces grant funding | Social Science Research Institute
https://ssri.psu.edu/news/consortium-moral-decision-making-announces-grant-funding
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Peter Luca Versteegen
2 months ago
I got 99 problems in online survey research but social desirability ain‘t (a huge) one Important paper ⬇️⬇️
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Excellent article! The tone is very measured but the implications are definitely worth field-wide attention!
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Daryl Cameron
3 months ago
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
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To potential students, 10/10 would recommend working with Greg Depow!
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Mark Fabian
3 months ago
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-...
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Airing my grievances with wellbeing science
We have a streetlight problem
https://profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-grievances-with-wellbeing?triedRedirect=true
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Dan Carlin
4 months ago
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
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
5 months ago
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.
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Josh Miller
5 months ago
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/...
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Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets?
Objective Partialing is a statistical procedure in which the variance shared among two or more constructs is removed, allowing researchers to examine the unique properties of the residualized, parti...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.70035
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Charles S. Peirce
5 months ago
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!
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Julia Marshall
5 months ago
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! ✨
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Motivational context does not influence children’s third-party punishment in intergroup contexts
Children punish to reciprocate harm (retributive motives) and to prevent future wrongdoing (consequentialist motives). Building on this idea, we wante…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088520142500108X
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Berna Devezer
5 months ago
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?!
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Greg Depow
5 months ago
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...
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Virtual Symposium: Empathy as an Interpersonal Process
YouTube video by The Love Consortium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyRA8yLG3jI
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Fall of Civilizations Podcast
5 months ago
⛰️🏔️ 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...
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Julia M. Rohrer
5 months ago
"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"
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Gordon Hodson
6 months ago
#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!)
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Automated Algorithmic Data Analysis for Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Invariance Assessment: A Tutorial for ACAMIA | Social Cognition
ACAMIA is a free, open-code, R-based tool that automates multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance assessment, which are crucial for social cognition research and beyond. ACAM...
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/soco.2025.43.5.473
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The Love Consortium
6 months ago
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
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David A. Sbarra
6 months ago
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
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Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3
Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3
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The Love Consortium
6 months ago
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...
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The Love Consortium Dataverse: Behind the Data
YouTube video by The Love Consortium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjvW8tsW_k&list=PLvp7LkwrN8AVZcGgLOzpzYYxGe0xwj6L-&index=4
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Samantha Joel
6 months ago
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
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Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory (recreation) – Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory
Recreation of FiveThirtyEight’s “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” with Observable JS
https://stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way
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Catherine E. de Vries
6 months ago
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...
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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
https://catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-better-why-your-rejections-will
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The Love Consortium
6 months ago
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...
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The Love Consortium
6 months ago
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...
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Samantha Joel
7 months ago
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!
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Samantha Joel
7 months ago
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/...
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Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976251370262
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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/...
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Paul Eastwick
8 months ago
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
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Greg Depow
8 months ago
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.
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋
8 months ago
When the quant profs and grad students in my department ask me what Brunswick's lens model is
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Gilad Feldman
8 months ago
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...
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GitHub - giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup: A very simple script for backing up all your data and .qsf files from Qualtrics (bug fixes)
A very simple script for backing up all your data and .qsf files from Qualtrics (bug fixes) - giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup
https://github.com/giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup/
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Tanay Katiyar
8 months ago
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
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Laura King
8 months ago
All new assistant professors “enjoying” their first day: have a great one! You’ve got this!!!!!
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Philosophy Quotes
9 months ago
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
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Micah G. Allen
9 months ago
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. 🧵
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Tom Costello
10 months ago
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:
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John Light
10 months ago
I wrote about my former boss, Bill Moyers.
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Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming
I cannot say for sure when Bill Moyers first developed such a...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/bill-moyers-saw-what-was-coming
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Albabycakes
10 months ago
Posted by Nick Crain (@CrainNBA) on twitter, this is the best video I've seen capturing the size of the crowd as Scissortail Park.
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