A special Cooperation Colloquium this week: Shuxian Jin @shuxianjin.bsky.social The cultural logic of honor in cooperation and punishment across societies Date: Friday, May 22 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

If you are an early-career researcher (PhD student, postdoc, or similar) in personality psychology, consider signing up for the EAPP Mentoring Programme: forms.gle/zH8DmY57eLQ6... Consider forwarding this call to early-career researcher who may be less likely to be aware of this programme.

I think a big problem has been a kind of confused circular logic where people (especially researchers, but not political scientists) go “Things seem bad and polarized. What is polarization? It’s a bimodal opinion distribution. Anything that produces a bimodal opinion distribution is bad!”

💫Job Alert 💫 We are hiring a Lab Manager in the ABC Lab @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social! Help support exciting developmental research with children and families ☺️ Closing Date: 18th May 2026 Full Details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Just saw that Die Zeit did a big interview with Carlson as well. Maddening. Repeat after me: you. Don’t. Platform. Fascists.

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Sebastian Hafenbrädl @shafenbraedl.bsky.social Social rewards protection theory: Why people morally derogate prosocial actors for undisclosed personal benefits Date: May 8 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Sebastian Hafenbrädl @shafenbraedl.bsky.social Social rewards protection theory: Why people morally derogate prosocial actors for undisclosed personal benefits Date: May 8 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

This looks like a paper every personality psychologist should have an opinion on. I've often defended broad factor models to cognitive scientists and economists who look at them askance because they are genuinely useful, but it's hard to argue that personality traits are common causes as modelled.

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Aron Szekely @aronszekely.bsky.social Measuring social norms with surveys Date: Friday, April 24 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Shape the future of social science as a PhD student of machine learning-informed theory construction, based on patterns in high-frequency longitudinal data! You will be part of vibrant communities like the INSIGHT Lab, Theory Methods Society, and Tilburg Experience Sampling Center tiu.nu/23721

This strikes me as a terrible idea. The US government is not trying to enhance scientific integrity, no matter how they are framing their attacks on science. Treating their concerns and efforts as legitimate undermines genuine reform efforts.

Today's Cooperation Colloquium with @saptarshi.bsky.social is coming up in a few hours

Any recommendations for a (recent-ish) workflow or tutorial for mixed-effects modelling of experience sampling data in R? Looking for something to hand to my master's student.

Hey all! Been away from BSky for a while but this Friday I am giving a talk on our latest PNAS Nexus paper on repeated games! We model situations where players, instead of acting simultaneously, act in order. We study the status of well-known equilibrium strategies when simultaneity is broken.

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Saptarshi Pal (Harvard) From simultaneous to leader-follower play in direct reciprocity Date: April 10 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Do you want to do a PhD in Judgment and Decision Making in two beautiful European locations on human-AI interaction? Well have I got news for you. @bahniks.bsky.social and I are recruiting a candidate to start around September 2026. See here: decisionlab.vse.cz/english/we-a...

This is worth a read even if you're not into evolutionary theory. Trivers' work was as obviously brilliant as his reported behaviour was awful. It forces us to consider how much space academia should give to people whose behaviour towards others is frequently hurtful.

Today on the Cooperation Colloquia:

Scientific Reports is just Frontiers for people who think their work should've been published in Nature. In my experience, their editors frequently have no clue about the research they are handling and their communication is shoddy. I no longer review for them.

We're hiring a number of PhD students in psychology and neuroscience at St Andrews. Positions are for four years. UK applicants only, unfortunately. Deadline April 13. I'm eligible as a supervisor -- do reach out if you'd like to work with me. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social @iast.fr The persistence and adaptation of social norms: Theory and field evidence Date: March 27 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 10 am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

The inimitable Amalia Bastos is accepting applications for PhD students, through @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 4-year funding is available for students with the right to work in the UK: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Awesome project, dreamy place, stellar mentor

𝗷𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡! 🎉 Are you a psychology or behavioral science student? Are you interested in doing international research? Then this is your chance! 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝟭𝟲 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗧 (𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲) Apply here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We're hiring a number of PhD students in psychology and neuroscience at St Andrews. Positions are for four years. UK applicants only, unfortunately. Deadline April 13. I'm eligible as a supervisor -- do reach out if you'd like to work with me. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Today's Cooperation Colloquium

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Manon Schweinfurth @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social Pathways to reciprocal cooperation across taxa Date: March 13 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 10 am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Cooperation Colloquium coming up in a couple hours!

If you drew an arrow ... you have a causal model. If you are calling some variables IV and others DV ... you have a causal model.

When I read a paper, I skip right to the regression tables, so clearly it's LaTeX formatting where true creativity resides.

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Taylor Kessinger (U Penn): Adaptive dynamics of reputation, social norms, and gossip Date: Feb 27 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 / 9 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

And some fun for the end:

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one. So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Yan Chen @yanchenl.bsky.social Digital public goods: Crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and user-generated content Date: February 13 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 9 ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

New blog post, inspired by the excellent recent qualitative paper by Makel and colleagues: On the reliability and reproducibility of qualitative research. I reflect on how I will incorporate realist ontologies in my own qualitative research. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/02/on-r...

There is a strange tendency in psychology in the face of shortcomings to call not for stronger evidence, but for weaker claims. Humility is a virtue, but it shouldn't become an excuse for lack of ambition.

New work by my amazing St Andrews colleague Amalia Bastos

📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis! Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients. All tips and data very welcome!

Useful thread, though I hope somebody will create a spreadsheet (or Wikipedia entry, perhaps). And then let's not forget the abusers and bullies who aren't famous enough to have received emails from Epstein.

What Do We Owe the Insufferable? When mental illness exhausts our emotional capacities www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-do-we...

First Cooperation Colloquium of the year: Caroline Graf (University of Zürich): Boosting prosocial behavior through incentives and conditional giving: Experimental evidence from 42 societies Friday, January 30 | 15:00 UCT+1 Vienna / 9:00 ET NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Highly recommend Replication Games! Key takeaways: 1. Great way to learn about other psych methods 2. Improve on stats 3. More enjoyable with others 4. Realised my own code needs improving after being on the other side of a paper (replicating) Thanks @fialalenka.bsky.social @rujoanna.bsky.social

First Cooperation Colloquium of the year: Caroline Graf (University of Zürich): Boosting prosocial behavior through incentives and conditional giving: Experimental evidence from 42 societies Friday, January 30 | 15:00 UCT+1 Vienna / 9:00 ET NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

We're excited to announce the Spring 2026 Cooperation Colloquia! With @yanchenl.bsky.social @minhuayan.bsky.social @saptarshi.bsky.social @aronszekely.bsky.social @shafenbraedl.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social @smconstantino.bsky.social and more Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

We're excited to announce the Spring 2026 Cooperation Colloquia! With @yanchenl.bsky.social @minhuayan.bsky.social @saptarshi.bsky.social @aronszekely.bsky.social @shafenbraedl.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social @smconstantino.bsky.social and more Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

I am also hiring a PhD student (4-years, home student only to join the project, starting in September 2026🌏 Please share it widely! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏 Start date: May 2026 at latest Deadline: Feb 8 Please share it widely! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

#ICSD2026 abstract submission is due TODAY Don't miss it! sites.google.com/view/icsd202...

🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨 Join our EASP pre-conference on 'Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods' on June 30, 2026. We invite flash talk submissions from researchers at all career stages. 📝 Deadline: January 5 2026 🔗 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We have extended the abstract submission deadline to January 5th, 2026!!! Enjoy your holiday season😘 sites.google.com/view/icsd202...