🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

A threat to many fields of research wanting to conduct longitudinal evaluations is participants may remember their previous answers. Retest reliability, memory accuracy, long-term effects of interventions. We instead show people don't remember what they last said. doi.org/10.31234/osf... #psych

Will AI become a confirmation bias machine? AI can be a powerful tool for truth-seeking. Yet, people might prefer to use AI to confirm their pre-existing beliefs, and features of AI systems (eg sycophancy) may make AI effective at justifying what people want to believe. osf.io/preprints/ps...

What would hurt more: Being rejected by someone who could have been a friend or someone who could have been a romantic partner? Lay beliefs and actual experiences of these situations might not match like you would think. New paper exploring this is out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My co-edited volume in the The Journal of Social Psychology with Jim Wirth celebrating the career and legacy of Kipling Williams is now live. Thanks to editors Brad Okdie and John Edlund, and the authors who contributed. Finally, thank you Kip! www.tandfonline.com/toc/vsoc20/1...

[130] Researchbox: Even easier to use than before. More transparently permanent. datacolada.org/130

Y'all. N>3,800. !!!!!!! Goodness gracious.

Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects osf.io/preprints/ps...

Really great research on schadenfreude from my Ole Miss lab mate! 🎉

I am early, but here is the fall writing worksheet for those who love to plan! If you can't tell, I feel the summer is over, and I'm already gearing up for the fall 😭😭😭 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🌐Online First Publication: Leckfor et al.’s study tested whether intimate conversation builds social connection as effectively over text as in person. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing

Should you text or meet face-to-face to have a conversation? Our research shows greater benefits when talking in-person. If it is necessary to text, have more intimate conversation when possible. New paper lead by @cmleckfor.bsky.social is out in @josoperrel.bsky.social now: doi.org/10.1177/0265...

The Love Consortium Statistics Decision Tree launched today! Think of it like a choose-your-own adventure guide to help you identify the best analyses for your specific dataset and research question. theloveconsortium.org/so/9fPWyVE6Z... #DataScience #Statistics

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

🎉 Together with @sarahlutz.bsky.social: New paper out in Computers in Human Behavior Reports! We asked: After being excluded online or offline do people cope by staying in the same space or by escaping it? 🧵: 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Not that I can focus very well right now, but I still try. So here is the summer writing goals worksheet for those who use it. docs.google.com/document/d/1... #Productivity

🚨Thrilled to share our new research note: "In the Trenches: A Hands-on Approach to Teaching Data Collection in Terrorism Studies." Co-authored w/ Dr. Sarah Carthy & based on a course that trained 400+ grad students at Leiden in open source data collection. pt.icct.nl/article/tren...

Like to play Tabletop RPGs, like D&D or Pathfinder? My PhD student is conducting a study on people's motives & experiences in these games. Feel free to share with your fellow gamers!