@rolfzwaan.bsky.social is organizing a multilab replication of Loftus & Palmer's (1974) classic study: People's memory of two cars' speed was influenced by the verb used in Q ("How fast were the cars moving when they ____"). This is exciting, & if you want to take part in it, check out Rolf's post.

Another tenure/TT open-rank position is open in Developmental Neuroscience! apply.interfolio.com/171158 Deadline is also Sept. 15

Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229 Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)

Here's a replication of an informal Big 5 result I posted yesterday (the original post is pinned on my profile page). Glad to see that @aurelienallard.bsky.social found the same result. I'd love to see more attempts like this on Big 5 or other constructs. Thanks, Aurélien, for doing this analysis!

Cool thread. Excellent reminder that bodies and personalities (and faces fwiw) are multidimensional, and that averages are poor lenses with which to examine them. Further, relationships within/between dimensions may be complex - jagged, yes, but also networked & dynamic #neuroskyence #psychscisky

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall!  The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so. I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

September 6 is, er, was Fight Procrastination Day. I meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot, I had other things to do... Better late than never, right? In any case, I hope you didn't put off any important task yesterday!

A focus app created by @hankgreen.bsky.social, was briefly the #1 free app on the Play Store! But will it actually help users with their attention? I try the app myself, and look to a recent study that examined whether blockers improve sustained attention and mental health. My takes here:

Super happy with Cogsci program assistant Chris Kent's work for our college Instagram feed. Glad I could get our Loki featured to advertise my class.

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range. QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS? What's your answer?

Happy #Caturday! Walking on this narrow wooden fence is something Tiger always does when I occasionally let her (and my other cat, Hunter) spend a bit of time at the backyard (they're under my close supervision, though). Look at her tail! She's having a good time. #cats #catsofbluesky

Want a summary of the MOST important tips on how to study effectively? This short video compiles a wealth of scientific research into one tight conversation starter. Great for the start of the school year or anytime!! Please share widely!!! youtu.be/5GcIAzbmofc

A joy of morning walks (besides enjoying podcasts & audiobooks) is to discover something new. That something new the other day was a cute fox with a bushy tail. I've never seen a fox before in Boulder & didn't expect to see one just a few minutes from my house. Walking earlier than usual paid off.

Very happy to see this grant emerge from 6 months of NCE life support, which I really did not expect to happen. Excited to do the work, and wishing similar revivification for everyone else with grants in limbo!

Our new paper, led by Andrew Burton-Jones, argues English-only science is unfair, costly and may no longer be necessary. With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there. doi.org/10.3127/ajis... #languagebarriers 1/4

Scientists may take pride in publishing in prestigious English journals, but it is equally important to consider how these findings can be shared more broadly with their peers and the general population, especially those who do not speak or read English. #languagebarriers dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺? Implications for reinforcement learning. Very interesting paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

After ~6 months of delay & uncertainty, the 2nd half of Year 1 funds for our IES grant has finally arrived! They tell us that the Year 2 funds will also be forthcoming. Not knowing what would happen for so long was excruciating, but I'm so grateful that we get to keep working on this project! (1/2)

Join #NSF program officers on Sept 4, 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET for a webinar and Q&A about: ➡ funding opportunities through the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (EDU/DRL) ➡ introduction to the NSF STEM K-12 Program Registration required: nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

The early registration deadline is coming up fast! Renew your membership and register by August 31 to secure the largest discount. Don't wait— secure your spot and stay for #psynom25 today! bit.ly/4103RSU bit.ly/4lZJxJx

Last Friday, #NSF released the NSF STEM K-12 solicitation restructuring funding opportunities for research on STEM teaching and learning, including changes that directly affect future proposals to the ECR:Core program. (1/3)

📢 New blog: When Technology Isn’t the Problem by Danielle McNamara (@ASU) explores how institutional barriers—not tech—can hinder learning research at scale. A must-read for anyone navigating IRBs, FERPA, and ethical data use. 👉 bit.ly/4ozQfrM #EdResearch #LearningAtScale

I'm teaching a grad seminar on idiographic cognitive science this fall in which we cover: 1️⃣ Perils of relying on averages 2️⃣ ESM/EMA studies of within-individual variations 3️⃣ Modeling individual data 4️⃣ Person-specific interventions If you know of any great EMPIRICAL studies, pls let me know. (1/2)

A new academic year looms. In the spirit of fostering metacognition, consider having your students complete a self-assessment of their study styles, note-taking skills, or more. This takes the work out of it for you -- students automatically get information about responses. Try it. lnkd.in/gfawUWzC

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied. 👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

A cautionary tale about fake citation counts that features Larry the cat, who amassed 132 citations on Google Scholar. Happy International Cat Day!

I love this experience-sampling study on the absolute pitch of earworms! It's a really nicely done study conducted in everyday settings. The link to this paper (open access) is provided below. It is also featured in a podcast (tinyurl.com/4ydrw5zp) by the Psychonomic Society. Congrats!

August 8 is International Cat Day, "a day to raise awareness for cats and learn about ways to help and protect them" (Wikipedia). Adopting Tiger & Hunter in 2021 was one of the best decisions I've ever made. If you have cats, do something extra special today for them. #cats #CatsofBluesky #Caturday

I'm thinking about using Mentimeter for my undergrad teaching this fall (if students use smartphones in class, why not take advantage of them?). Has anybody used it in teaching? If so, what's your experience? How about other alternatives (e.g., Kahoot!, Slido). I'd love to get some input on this.

When I teach my undergrad intro cognitive class (~200 students), I usually require students to take weekly quizzes online to promote retrieval practice & spaced learning. But, now that it's so easy to cheat, I wonder whether there're any other ways to administer review quizzes. Any ideas?

Attention Contagion in the Lecture Hall Are inattentive behaviors contagious in the classroom? If so, how do they impact students? theeffortfuleducator.com/2024/12/18/a...

🔍 Check it out! Smart course design + explainable AI predicted which STEM students might struggle—sometimes in just 1 week—using only learning data, not demographics. The goal: early, ethical, targeted support to keep students on track. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This new WaPo piece by @richardsima.bsky.social addresses a rarely studied topic in procrastination research: if/why people put off ENJOYABLE activities. It features a PNAS Nexus article by Hagen & O'Brien. I was honored to be asked to comment on their interesting findings. Check it out!

🆕 RESEARCH: Not all kids respond to early adversity the same way. We examined data from ~7,400 children for 4 years and found something notable about positive emotions & mental health outcomes... doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 🧵 #MentalHealth #ChildDevelopment #Resilience /1

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

FFS. Today I learned from a colleague that there's a Google Chrome extension (answersAI) that will automatically answer quiz/exam questions in Canvas via ChatGPT (or other LLM). I'm not sure whether lockdown browser would prevent this but it might be worth a try. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmlT...

August's Editor's Choice: Maternal education and prenatal smoking associations with adolescent executive function are substantially confounded by genetics. Lucas Perry, Nicolas Chevalier, Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... @apajournals.bsky.social 2/2

Issue 61, Volume 8 is out @ Developmental Psychology! psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... Topics Include -Multilevel Targets of Intervention -Cardiac Markers of Development -Well-Being Over Time -Maternal Depression -Early Object Play -Genetically Informed Approaches @apajournals.bsky.social 1/2

Newton's Laws of Graduation, Part 2 - The Second Law

Newton's Laws of Graduation, Part 1

European J. of Personality recently published the following trio of articles (+intro) on idiographic approaches to personality that some of you may be interested in. 1️⃣ Kuper: tinyurl.com/mpfezvsb 2️⃣ Phan: tinyurl.com/2jc86jfw 3️⃣ Modersitzki: tinyurl.com/7pf3buab Intro👇 tinyurl.com/37c7jdva 1/1

This new article on media multitasking (MM) by Drody, @effiejp.bsky.social, & Smilek is terrific. What makes it unique is that it holistically considers 5 key factors contributing to engaging in MM behaviors: cognitive architectural, dispositional, metacognitive, task valuation, & environmental. 1/2

Hi Akira, Fedica let's you save drafts, cross post and schedule up to 10 posts - all for free. If you need more information let me know. bsky.app/profile/fedi...

It took me 10 hrs over 2 days to finish packing my office & workroom for the forthcoming move to the 4th floor, where all cognitive faculty will be located. I was amazed at how much stuff I had accumulated over the years (journals, books, etc.). I'm now determined to keep my new office clutter-free!