Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩 - We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology. www.nature.com/articles/s44... (PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social: 🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠 Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty. Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Next article of our special issue published in BRAT, examining the role of childhood maltreatment (CM): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Adults with CM history showed impaired belief updating when interacting with strangers and such deficits moderated the association of CM and PTSD symptoms.

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social: 🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠 Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty. Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Nature Psychology Review is a journal created by a commercial publisher because it is easy profit. Review articles are easy to write, get cited a lot. Slap Nature on it and you get a high IF. It should flip to a diamond open access journal. Submit your review articles elsewhere.

Great to see the next article of our special issue on belief updating out in BRAT. In this large clinical trial, the authors investigated the relative importance of expectancy violation vs fear reduction as two rationales of exposure therapy. For details, see 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Excited to share my first Stage 2 recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social: 💡Probe-based attentional retraining does not reduce worry. Pond et al. found that a classic ABM protocol did not shift threat bias or anxiety in high-worriers. ✅Read more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

Wir müssen reden ... über Überlastung! 7 von 9 planetaren Belastungsgrenzen sind überschritten. Das zeigt der neue "Planetary Health Check" (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Vorher waren es 6. Die Ozeanversauerung ist jetzt neu dazu gekommen. 🧵1/3

In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden! www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here are two easy things YOU can do: #1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same. #2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

New prologue episode of Nullius In Verba! We read Boring's paper on The Psychology of Controversy nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/prologus-6... Written in 1929, but relevant as if he based in on scientists arguing on social media for the last decade. A must read - or, you can just listen to it!

German bookstore selling a curated selection of works that were banned in US public schools and libraries. (h/t @inabeintner.bsky.social)

A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...

3 new jobs in a great project 👇

It's like an association, but more causal. This reasoning is very prevalent in psych as well (in particular when it comes to "lagged effects", aka lagged associations, and "within-person associations") which is why we wrote a paper about it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion. In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners

New letter by @minzlicht.bsky.social and I forthcoming in TiCS on whether neurometabolic costs are necessary to explain cognitive fatigue. While the origins of fatigue may turn out to be metabolic, we argue there isn’t yet sufficient evidence for such theories. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Does cognitive fatigue require metabolic explanations? @jakeembrey.bsky.social and I argue the evidence is pretty thin. Computational & motivational theories may be sufficient without invoking depleting brain glucose or accumulating neurotoxins like glutamate. New commentary, in press at TiCS

Two more weeks to apply 🚀

Fundamentally: the fact that LLMs' output is linguistic has a MASSIVE attention capture over social scientists in particular. We need to keep our wits about us when we use these models and avoid anthropomorphizing them purely because of formal similarities in language. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it! Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's - Constitution - TOP guidelines - article types - and reviewer guidelines until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New paper: Blaming the Thermometer for the Fever: Separating Misapplication from Method in Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, with @laabho.bsky.social and @jnwulff.bsky.social. We – strongly – push back on criticisms against NHST and argue for proper application. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... >

Can you use off the shelf generative LLMs (eg ChatGPT, Claude) to assess personality from brief bits of unconstrained, open-ended text? If so, how well do they do? Turns out you can, and they do amazingly well. I couldn't believe how well. Here's our pre-print on it and a 🧵

Okay, this is not mine. I saw it while scrolling on Instagram. But I basically peed my pants laughing. PhD students are just lil bebes. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

New lab paper on leisure, effort, and meaning by @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social, @gregdepow.bsky.social, and Srishti Agarwal from @amuselabs.bsky.social. Check it out!

'As AI becomes more embedded in our social fabric, we need nuanced frameworks that recognise the unique nature of human-AI relationships.' The @uehiro.ox.ac.uk's Dr Brian D Earp co-writes this article ⬇️ theconversation.com/friend-tutor...

🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky

🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky

If for no other reason, you should read our new paper on mixed methods in psychology because we managed to get limecat in there. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

We are hiring, @arc-mpib.bsky.social a postdoc for a project to investigate why citizens feel alienated from liberal democracy and how a shared sense of reality can be restored. Work with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig and me: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2084802/2025...

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

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New post: What if the best things in life… had no point at all? I wrote about bowling, mice on running wheels, the overjustification effect, and why The Dude abides while we optimize ourselves into misery. Sometimes joy needs no justification. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

My favorite part about this, is that if I submitted a report, final paper, research paper, etc. with fabricated sources I would be KICKED OUT OF MY PHD PROGRAM. But the SECRETARY OF HHS can do it without recourse.

If you work in psychology in a research area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

📢 New Research Alert! 🚨 Our meta-analysis - just published in @nathumbehav.nature.com reveals that social comparison as a behavioural change technique (SC-BCTs) can effectively change behaviour #BehaviourChange #SocialComparison #MetaAnalysis #Research Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/X

Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

You can still apply to this position until May 25. If this is a topic that sounds interesting, and you want to work in an intellectually stimulating environment, on a research question that matters, at a department with very nice colleagues, with the freedom and resources to do what we want, apply!

What if, we knew ... How much "value" is destroyed by damaging the climate (aka our life support system!)? Well we do know now: Let a new era of climate litigation begin! Thanks @ccallahan45.bsky.social @jsmankin.bsky.social Free to read online link: shorturl.at/NIXB3 via @nature.com