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Erik Bijleveld
@erikbij.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Radboud University. I post about mental effort and mental fatigue. https://www.bveld.info
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 8d
@jonasdora.bsky.social seen this?
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · Jun 25
Motivation and Emotion is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief! 4-year term starting Jan 2025. Looking for someone with vision, experience in motivation/emotion research, and editorial chops. Deadline: Aug 1. Ready to shape the field? Details: [email protected]
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · Jun 17
In our new RR, we will test whether and how mental fatigue impacts dishonesty:

rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere...

I am already excited about the to-be-collected data.

Nice work led by Mara Bialas 👏 (also with @maartenboksem.bsky.social)
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · May 7
also obviously it's 1377
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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 7
ashamedly i've never tried this (from Kahneman's 1973 'Attention and Effort')
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · May 7
I can confirm this (but I also really wanted it to happen)
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · May 5
Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Apr 29
You do not need to be Dutch to sign. If you simply care to preserve programs that have been leaders in rigor and reform in psychology, then signal your support for them to continue to thrive.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Apr 28
An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology

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Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia
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tjitsvanlent.bsky.social @tjitsvanlent.bsky.social · Apr 16
New paper in JESP: "On rewarded actions and punishment-avoidant inactions: The action–valence asymmetry in face perception.”

In four preregistered experiments, we show that inactions influence evaluations of faces. (1/5)

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On rewarded actions and punishment-avoidant inactions: The action–valence asymmetry in face perception
Although social interactions are ubiquitous, people often choose not to interact with others—for example, people may choose to not greet a stranger, t…
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · Feb 14
"First, the idea that a few minutes of self-control can leave you unable to resist temptation later has been thoroughly debunked. What remains is something far more mundane: fatigue."
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · Jan 29
Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.
The Collapse of Ego Depletion
Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure
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Jake Embrey @jakeembrey.bsky.social · Feb 13
Forthcoming at JEP: General is some more work from my dissertation. Over three experiments we test a popular model of cognitive effort aversion—the opportunity cost model, first proposed by Kurzban et al. (2013)—and find negligible support for its primary predictions. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · Feb 4
'Since the establishment of that template, this norm of the 40-hour working week, Monday to Friday, we see that not much has changed'
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Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · Jan 14
I'm excited to share a new preprint: In a novel experimental paradigm, we found evidence that stress induces a computational bias during alcohol-related decision-making in favor of alcohol, but this bias was only sometimes strong enough to overcome competing considerations (e.g., taste preferences).
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jan 14
How people decide to consume (more) alcohol when feeling stressed: http://osf.io/c7q9p/
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Jenn Richler @jennrichler.bsky.social · Dec 9
Since our first commissioning meeting my team and I have wanted to publish something about the tension between basic vs. applied research.

And now we have.

Please check out this must-read piece on the need to place greater value on applied research with concrete suggestions for how to do so 👇
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Dec 9
Applied research is the path to legitimacy in psychological science

Comment by Judith P. Andersen

Web: go.nature.com/41qmccZ
PDF: rdcu.be/d2XLq
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · Nov 27
New large study (n ~ 6 million) in @JAMApsych tracking mental disorder trends in Denmark showing increases in mood disorders in recent birth cohorts tinyurl.com/c5nyfd8k
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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · Nov 15
📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢

Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩

➡️ www.nature.com/collections/...

pls share liberally 🙏
The dynamics of boredom
This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for ...
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Apr 19
The unfathomable richness of seeing: http://osf.io/jmg35/
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · Apr 12
We're in the process of making a (I think) nice online Mackworth Clock Task in OpenSesame. Will share it at some point.
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · Jan 31
All of this is not to criticize Hull, who gave ample credit to Tsai.

But... I think we could cite Tsai a bit more often, when we discuss how people (and other animals) minimize the expenditure of effort.
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · Jan 31
Many thanks to dr. Yong Wang and dr. Wei Chen at the Center for Brain, Mind, and Education at Shaoxing University for sending me Tsai's monograph. They published a lovely biography on Tsai in 2022 (which is the source of the portrait above). doi.org/10.1007/s132... (4/5)
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · Jan 31
Tsai's "law of minimum effort" (left, 1932) is super similar to Hull's "law of less work" (right, 1943). (3/5)
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · Jan 31
Tsai (1932) published a monograph titled "The laws of minimum effort and maximum satisfaction in animal behavior".

The monograph describes data from 21 T-maze experiments. Experiments 1-13 show that, when given the choice, rats learn to choose the option that requires least effort. (2/5)
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · Jan 31
Clark Hull usually gets credit for coming up with "law of less work" (or the "law of least effort") in 1943.

I recently learned that the Chinese psychologist Loh-Seng Tsai published the same idea 11 years before Hull.

🧵Short history thread (1/5):
portrait of Loh-Seng Tsai
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · Jan 26
I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published
@PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵
Figure 1: Foraging trial diagram. On each trial participants chose to harvest the tree they were at (down arrow key) or travel to a new tree (right arrow key), during the travel they completed an effortful task, after which they arrived at a new patch with a replenished supply of apples. The tree is a green circle and rectangular brown trunk. The apples are red and lined up in a row on the bottom of the screen. There is a warrior avatar with a shield, helmet, and sword who jumps to harvest the apples.
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · Jan 9
New paper from the SCAN-Unit! How does acute stress impact effortful prosocial behaviour? @elife.bsky.social Forbes et al. elifesciences.org/articles/87271 1/8
Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour
Participants under acute stress were less willing to exert a relatively low level of physical effort for actions that benefit another person compared to actions that benefit themselves.
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