🚨Episode 50 out! Join the [email protected] @renemottus.bsky.social and Lisanne de Moor as they reminisce on the past four years of the podcast-favourite episodes, honorable mentions, and lessons learned. They also discuss future plans, and introduce the teams newest addition.

New blog post on Imperfect Cognitions: Can we become more intellectually humble without any explicit training or instruction? Steven Bland explores the issue, discussed in a recent paper published in Review of Philosophy and Psychology imperfectcognitions.... #philsky

Stereotype threat: a once-dominant idea in social psychology that shaped how we think about identity and performance. But what happens when the evidence crumbles? A deep dive into the failed replications, the myths, and what it all means. Read my latest essay: open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

New research by @alleal.bsky.social et al on the reciprocal relationship between moral conviction and engaging in collection action. Looking forward to digging into this one more closely!

Now published in the current issue of EJSP: "Never again: Lessons of genocide in survivor testimonies from the Holocaust, Nanjing massacre and Rwandan genocide" and available open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!

So excited to share our new paper! We wondered whether misalignment between how youth think they are capable of acting (social, emotional, behavioral skills) and how they typically act (personality traits) matters for life outcomes. If you’re curious too, check out the preprint!

A paper with an important message in a clear title: "'Asian' Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice" Categorizing Asians as a monolithic group in the US misses important - and under-research in psych - variation among Asian subgroups journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #psyscisky

Here's the keynote from the MPRG/Consortium on Moral Decision-Making conference that I hosted last month. Taya Cohen discussed guilt proneness and use of AI. A nice segue from our AI-empathy conference this April and insightful questions from the group @ssripennstate.bsky.social bit.ly/3Vr6BpE

We have a call open for editor for Psychological Bulletin. Deadline is Monday January 13, 2025. If you know someone or you are interested see the link below. Its a great journal to be involved with. www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

The question I've got asked most frequently at conferences when I was presenting something on the perception of life events was whether there are any age differences. Using data from the SOEP-IS, we addressed this simple but interessting question. Open-access link: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Jessie Sun gave the third talk in the panel on virtues at the MPRG/Consortium on Moral Decision Making event, focusing on how people recognize opportunities for and make tradeoffs between everyday virtues. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @prcpennstate.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social bit.ly/4gmxJyk

📊New study published in Emotion sheds light on affect dynamics in depression. Analysis of 842 adults over 56 days shows negative affect becomes more 'sticky' rather than unstable. This suggests emotional predictability, not instability, may be key. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

A study by @wiebkeb.bsky.social & @mdkraemer.bsky.social shows caregiving lowers life satisfaction and raises anxiety, depression, and loneliness. #SupportCaregivers

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

Come join us in Evanston this summer!!!

Scholars like @mjcrockett.bsky.social have raised cautions about the role of tech in providing empathy. But there’s another way it can harm here. As Jessica Grose notes, just using tech as part of the job by those who do “connective labor” limits their effectiveness www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...

There are many layers here, but I want to comment on one aspect of these findings for now--the editorial board representation. Some will see this and immediately think: we need to get more POC on our boards! I understand that impulse, but encourage you to think a few steps down the game tree 1/n.

New publication! Very happy to finally to see this opus magnum by my former PhD student Sarah Kritzler in print: Link: doi.org/10.1037/pspp... Open access preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #perpsy #personalityPsychology