introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live Weird Al Yankovic Smashing Pumpkins Radiohead The Go! Team Wilco Devo Future Islands LCD Soundsystem Carly Rae Jepsen Magdalena Bay Paul McCartney Cosmic Charlie (yes, I cheated a little)

New commentary (with @jdmiller.bsky.social and @davidchester.bsky.social) in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science pushing back (again) on the use of “dark” in personality research. 1/2 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

We're recruiting new RRIG grad student AND junior committee members! Join Kori Krueger, Tatum Jolink, Yoobin Park, Judith Gere, Laura Machia, Levi Baker, and Lisa Neff to plan the SPSP close relationships preconference! Applications due May 15th. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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I was STUNNED that this model ended up being the winner. No Big 5, or Big 3, or Big Anything. Relationships measures capture positivity, layered on top of item-specific content. That's it. It feels like we need to start developing new measures from square one.

Pooled results from 37 studies finds that, on average, women in relationships report higher levels of sexual satisfaction than men. https://www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/attraction-evolved/202602/are-women-less-sexually-satisfied-than-men

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted. see our comment: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

There is nothing I would like more for @spspnews.bsky.social to do than provide a searchable PDF version of the conference schedule. Sorry if I miss your talk, I cannot navigate the Whova app

Looking for more data on relationships? Did you know that The Love Consortium Dataverse is home to over 90 datasets with data from a romantic relationship. What are you looking for? dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/love #ValentinesDay2026

The most ridiculous thing in all of academia might be the two-day turnaround required for article proofs, especially when the deadline is X-mas eve.

When I ask undergrads where they saved a file…

UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557

I love when my grad students send me dorky memes

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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/...

We are accepting submissions for data blitz and poster presentations for our 🎉FULL DAY🎉 2026 SPSP Close Relationships Preconference! We encourage presenters to select both data blitz and poster options due to high volumes of submissions. Submit no later than 10/23: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

Submit your data blitz and poster presentations and join us for our FULL DAY Close Relationships Preconference!! 🥳

Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid!

Are SONA and Experimetrix (now owned by SONA) the only alternatives for managing research participant pools? I can't find any obvious competitors online.

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer.. Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years. (See Bauer 2007)

Honest question: Can anyone explain why registered reports aren't the default in psychology? Are there good reasons why publications, and the rewards that come from publishing, are tied to the obtained results rather than the ideas and methods?

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Pro tip: go see your local cover band. Although some are meh, the vast majority are really great and some are better than the originals. They are typically a blast and cheap (~$20). We all bitch about ticket prices for big acts but you often get a better show from a <$30 show.

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...

This is an absolute must read for any relationships researcher. Glad to see @datingdecisions.bsky.social, @pauleastwick.bsky.social, and @davekhera.bsky.social raising these important issues!

#psychjobs #AffectSci

Glad to see one of my favorite translational papers got attention. Great work by Impett, Park, and Muise! "Despite the popularity of Chapman’s book The 5 Love Languages, there is a paucity of empirical work on love languages"

Have you seen this, by @elijfinkel.bsky.social ? www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/23/o...

I know we all like to complain about bad reviewers and editors but I want to stop and gives thanks for the super helpful (yet challenging!) one that I just got.