Proud to have signed letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality- an Inequality IPCC- to tackle the inequality emergency- G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title. If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing. I can tell you what I think of that for free. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📊 now in English @fesonline.bsky.social: Gender gap in voting behavior in Germany📊 It's about the “big picture” since 1953 & current trends 2021-2025. The gender gap keeps growing, especially among the young. -> Longer trends are continuing & partly accelerating. library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

Who did this?!

We read the (in)famous Bem Feeling the Future JPSP paper for a "spooky" Halloween lab meeting and it was fabulous!! I couldn't get over the wild methodological issue where they type of psychic power he founded depended on what random number generator Bem used 😂

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality. This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀 diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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What a cool format! 🎓 I had a great time as the opponent at Thekla Müller-Boysen’s PhD defense @au.dk. It was a strong defense and made for a fun discussion on boredom & its interpersonal consequences. Huge thanks to @stepf.bsky.social & team for the invite 🙏

Mehr #Chancengleichheit — Die soziale Mobilität im Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich gering und weiter stark gesunken. Das ist ungerecht, bremst die Wirtschaft und gefährdet die Demokratie. #Generationenvertrag Meine Kolumne bei Die Zeit: www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

Quick, which decade had the best movies, music, TV & fashion? Americans don't agree on the decade. But they often say it was a decade they experienced as a school aged kid. For example, the best fashion & music happened in their teenage years. Do you agree? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Research by @sergiopirla.bsky.social et al (N=60k across 30 countries) suggests a robust negative association between daily experiences of boredom and income; in lower income individuals, boredom is also more closely linked with sadness, worry and anxiety: buff.ly/S1ez2xo

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

New paper out in JESP with Thekla Müller-Boysen and @stepf.bsky.social We used three modified versions of the dictator game to test whether boredom impacts social preferences (N = 3500). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.

Support scholar-controlled diamond open access journals. See freejournals.org, DOAJ, the new European Diamond Capacity Hub, & the Open Journals Collective. A lot is happening in this space! open.lnu.se/index.php/me... @metaror.bsky.social en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJou... nbdt.scholasticahq.com

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting" By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap

🧵1/ 🚨 New article out! How robust is the psychology of social class? Together with Nicolas Sommet and ‪@frederiqueautin.bsky.social‬, we conducted large-scale replications of 35 hypotheses across four countries. Published in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧨 New draft dropped:🧨 "Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply. Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social). #basicincome #UBI

95% of people underestimate the carbon footprint of the top 1%. When presented with the actual figures, people increase their support for carbon taxes. Our new paper (with Laila Nockur and @stepf.bsky.social) is out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I was invited to give a talk on open and reproducible science. Sometimes, it is challenging to discuss this topic, so I created The Transparent and Open Science Game. I am sharing here all materials: osf.io/t9ngd

good news about needing to listen to people like Richard Dawkins, though! British people basically don't exist. There are only two nationalities: Chinese and Indian.

Plea to my fellow academics: CITE YOUR SOFTWARE. I'm hearing from several young scholars that they've given up on writing R packages and such because nobody cites them. Yet download stats and rep materials clearly show that they are being used. This is plagiarism, and it slows down innovation

It's finally out! Our large-scaled replication attempt of the induced compliance paradigm in the study of cognitive dissonance: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The latest infuriating thing about this to come to mind: How well did this excuse work for Aaron Swartz and Sci-Hub when they did it for free? How well has it been working for the Internet Archive so far? Why are we only supposed to consider it acceptable when someone’s profiting?

A low-carbon future? Individuals with high socioeconomic status in the UK show little willingness to change high-carbon lifestyles for climate change mitigation: http://osf.io/mh8dq/

Emphasizing similarities between Republicans and Democrats improves intergroup relations, with a greater belief that common ground can be reached and warmer feelings toward the opposition, finds Syropoulos & Leidner doi.org/10.1177/0146...

The new important Oxfam and SEI report exposes the incredible carbon footprint inequality. Feels worthwhile to share a reminder that similar #inequality exists for which people can influence the speed and nature of climate change mitigation. #EnergySky #GreenSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Preregistration is mainstream in some areas. There are low-hanging fruit opportunities to make them more discoverable and useful for readers. And, plenty of room to increase their quality and impact. Many improvements on the OSF roadmap, and collective action on quality standards is key.

How much can personality predict prosocial behavior? Using 74 traits (!) and nonlinear models to predict Social Value Orientation, we give this classic question a modern answer: 14%. Check out our new preprint: osf.io/jxdkv/

How much can personality predict prosocial behavior?: http://osf.io/jxdkv/

New paper: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. It was cool to be able to implement our 'Red Team' approach in this project. Kudos to the blue team for dealing with all the comments and criticisms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We know their game

Marketing has a huge issue. If you thought replication rates in social psychology were bad (they are), look at this.

Recent studies highlight the unpredictability of nudges. This cool new paper uses the target population (crowdsourcing!) to come up with better nudges. In a large-scale experiment (N > 4 mio) with a large bank, crowssourced nudges outperformed those generated by the bank. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Apparently ~40% of crowdsource workers use LLMs when completing surveys Relatively simple fix for text responses: Add Javascript to Qs to prevent pasting Credit to Jiabi Wang for idea + Kaushal Addanki for code below github.com/rafmbatista/...

When people ask me to use physio or neuro measures of emotion instead, I like to ask: “and what was used to validate those measures?” Self-report. They were correlated with self-report. It’s self-report all the way down.

Annual Review: How Can People Become Happier?: A Systematic Review of Pre-Registered Experiments “We also noticed that pre-registration appears to be contagious; when researchers published a pre-registered experiment on a specific topic.., others followed suit” osf.io/preprints/ps...

One thing I wish I negotiated for was a pocket of money to pay for grad application fees for students from low income backgrounds who otherwise don’t qualify for waivers, like international students. Nobody should have to go into debt to apply to grad school.

Tobias Ebert just won SPSPs Emerging Scholar award! In recent work, he found that a person’s spending reflects their own personality traits as well as the personality traits of the people around them #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-... discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

They did the thing!

Another blow to the priming literature -- failure to replicate the effect of priming analytic thinking on reduced conspiracy belief. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am 34 y.o. Belarusian living in exile in Poland. FIRST time in my life I will see a peaceful transition of power. To opposition. After democratic elections. With 73% turnout. My message to you - value and protect your democracy. You can't even imagine what a miracle you have.

American delusions

In spirit of promoting null results papers... Two-wave field experiment shows no increase in housing discrimination against immigrants - here, Turkish - in Germany after a wave of mass immigration. New research in Sociological Science (not yet on Bluesky). sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...