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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 27d

For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 28d

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/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · 28d

Instant classic!

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 28d

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/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · Sep 7

Authored by @kaileylawson.bsky.social, @jazpeitia.bsky.social, Ella Lombard, and Terrence Pope

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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · Sep 7

Want to know what a sample of 200+ editorial board members think about citing practices in psychology? That and much more in this AMPPS article. We had a lot of fun pulling it together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Paul Eastwick @pauleastwick.bsky.social · Sep 3

Now through 9/5: Preorder from Barnes & Noble and get a special discount on my book! B&N Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off preorders. Premium Members get an additional 10% off physical books. Use coupon code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bonded-by-... @BarnesandNoble #BNPreorder

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · Sep 3

Exciting news! I'll be working with the Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social as a fellow to develop an intervention aimed at improving the well-being of youth on social media. The intervention will train youth to engage skilfully with emotions on their feed using wise empathy.

Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social · Sep 3

🎉Meet our 2025 Digital Thriving Fellows! From reimagining empathy online to blending Pan-African community concepts with digital life, four bold projects share one goal: helping youth thrive in a tech-filled world. ✨ Learn more 👉 digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/fellows/

#DigitalThriving #YouthVoice

TeYRa AnDeRSOn Teyra’s project, MYA: IRL, is a youth-guided mini-series that captures the real complexities of growing up in a hyperconnected world. Co-created with teens, the series explores how digital life intersects with friendship, family, identity, and selfhood.

MiChaEL DaviS Michael’s project brings mindfulness and cyberpsychology into K–5 classrooms, developing tools that help kids build resilience, regulate emotions, and grow into mindful digital citizens.

GReGORY DePOW Greg’s project explores how young people can practice wise empathy to reshape their online experiences — engaging with others’ emotions in ways that foster joy, compassion, and authentic sharing rather than comparing.

ECY FeMi KinG Ecy’s project, Tech for Togetherness, is an interactive comic guide that blends Pan-African concepts with technology to offer youth fresh frameworks for community-centered digital thriving.

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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · Sep 3

Awesome stuff, Greg!!

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Sep 2

When the quant profs and grad students in my department ask me what Brunswick's lens model is

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Apr 28

When a grad student asks me an obscure question and I actually know the answer

(The student asked about Q Sort and I actually used it once)

Meme of Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen. A blue man with superpower floatin

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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · Aug 31

Need to backup your Qualtrics?
I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation.

Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now.

Hope it's helpful to others:
github.com/giladfeldman...

GitHub - giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup: A very simple script for backing up all your data and .qsf files from Qualtrics (bug fixes)

A very simple script for backing up all your data and .qsf files from Qualtrics (bug fixes) - giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

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Laura King @kingla.bsky.social · Aug 25

All new assistant professors “enjoying” their first day: have a great one! You’ve got this!!!!!

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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · Aug 24

Great reference

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · Jul 23

I love reading philosophy. Most philosophers are so politically incorrect - challenging the status quo, even challenging God. Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane. -- Mike Tyson

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Jul 13

Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵

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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · Jul 9

Conspiracies emerge in the wake of high-profile events, but you can’t debunk them with evidence because little yet exists. Does this mean LLMs can’t debunk conspiracies during ongoing events? No!

We show they can in a new working paper.

PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · Jun 30

I wrote about my former boss, Bill Moyers.

Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming

I cannot say for sure when Bill Moyers first developed such a...

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Albabycakes @albabycakes.bsky.social · Jun 24

Posted by Nick Crain (@CrainNBA) on twitter, this is the best video I've seen capturing the size of the crowd as Scissortail Park.

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NBA @nba.com · Jun 23

JDub makes sure the whole staff gets to touch The Larry O’Brien Trophy 🏆💯

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Jun 18

It is past time to abandon the term “dark” as a descriptor of antagonistic traits.

A new viewpoint by @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Jun 10

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

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Dan Carlin @dancarlin.bsky.social · Jun 7

This started out as a June 6, 1944 social media post that got insanely out of hand. So I did it on our substack page instead.
I'd say "enjoy", but it really ain't that kind of piece.
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The Real War Will Never Get Into the Books

The best way to avoid the next terrible war is to unflinchingly look at the reality of the last one

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · May 26

He wants his mammon flavored with a soupçon of god.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · May 21

Many of us have heard of Hofstede's cultural dimensions (e.g. the individualistic-collectivist (IC) dimension), but few have looked under the hood of how they were constructed. The data, it turns out, come from self-report surveys of IBM employees ca. 1968-72. Here's McSweeney describing the sample:

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · May 19

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. Best news? The HSP is now open-access—free to read, download, and share.

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