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Geoff MacDonald 🇨🇦 @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social · 23d

Is the idea that getting into a romantic relationship increases well-being a myth? A new MacLab paper says no. And I had so much to say about this work, I started a Substack: The Unromantic. Links for the paper and the Substack in replies.

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Niclas Kuper @niclaskuper.bsky.social · Sep 3

Very excited to share our new manuscript accepted at JPSP: "Cultural Differences in the Personality Triad: The Interplay of Personality Traits, Situation Characteristics, and Behavioral States Around the World"

(PDF) Cultural differences in the personality triad: The interplay of personality traits, situation characteristics, and behavioral states around the world

PDF | Understanding the interplay of persons, situations, and behavior (the Personality Triad) is a key task of psychology. However, previous research... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

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Niclas Kuper @niclaskuper.bsky.social · Aug 14

Excited to share this new preprint with Simon Breil, Katharina Utesch & Mitja Back: "Predicting More Behavior More of the Time: On the Behavioral Nature of Different Personality Trait Measures" osf.io/preprints/ps...

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StressLab UniVienna @stresslabvienna.bsky.social · Aug 12

Read our new meta-analyses paper on the connection between stress and premenstrual symptoms. Congratulations to Celine Bencker for leading this project!

Celine Bencker @celinebencker.bsky.social · Aug 11

How are #stress and premenstrual symptoms connected?
And are those with a #trauma history more likely to have #PMS or #PMDD? 🌩️

Our systematic review & three meta-analyses combine evidence from 66 studies to explore these questions.

Excited our work is finally out! ✨
👉 doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

Associations between premenstrual symptoms and (traumatic) stress: a systematic review and three multilevel meta-analyses | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Associations between premenstrual symptoms and (traumatic) stress: a systematic review and three multilevel meta-analyses

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Celine Bencker @celinebencker.bsky.social · Aug 11

How are #stress and premenstrual symptoms connected?
And are those with a #trauma history more likely to have #PMS or #PMDD? 🌩️

Our systematic review & three meta-analyses combine evidence from 66 studies to explore these questions.

Excited our work is finally out! ✨
👉 doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

Associations between premenstrual symptoms and (traumatic) stress: a systematic review and three multilevel meta-analyses | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Associations between premenstrual symptoms and (traumatic) stress: a systematic review and three multilevel meta-analyses

doi.org

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Dr. Lutz Böhm @drlutzboehm.bsky.social · Jul 24

I ❤️ MDPI

Schaut euch mal die Editoren dieses Special Issues an.
Dann schaut mal bei allen Artikeln auf die Autorenliste.

Und dann sagt mir, ob euch etwas auffällt.

Special Issue:
"Towards Autonomous Operation of Biologics and Botanicals"

www.mdpi.com/journal/proc...

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Michael D. Krämer @mdkraemer.bsky.social · Jul 21

Check out our preprint - the result of a really fun collaboration!

Bernd Schäfer @berndschaefer.bsky.social · Jul 21

New preprint: osf.io/8c6sz_v1
@mdkraemer.bsky.social and I, with our fantastic co-authors Cornelia Wrzus, Yannick Roos and @drichter77.bsky.social examined how social contact, desire, and affect dynamically interact across different modalities (in-person, digital) and time scales (hourly, daily).

OSF

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Geoff MacDonald 🇨🇦 @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social · Jul 8

New MacLab paper. Do people partner up to save on rent? Apparently not.

University of Toronto Psychology @uoftpsychology.bsky.social · Jul 8

Money can’t buy love but it might be a necessary first step, psychologists find.

New research by @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social shows that single people with higher incomes are more likely to want a relationship, think they are ready for one, and start one up.

💙 www.psych.utoronto.ca/news/money-c...

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Jul 2

Saw off two PhD students and one MRes student this morning. Happy day 🥳🍾.

If you want an amazing PhD of developmental body image hit up Dr Louise Hanson; for a post doc on voices I cannot recommend Dr @jrut.bsky.social highly enough.
And Joe McAdam is looking for PhD funding too 😊

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Julia Stern @juliastern.bsky.social · Jun 24

Aww you're way too kind, Victor! Thanks for all your support - you're the best and my personal star. Very grateful for knowing you ❤️

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ALT: a woman is smiling and holding her hand to her chest while wearing a polka dot shirt .

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Jun 24

Many thanks to HBES for this recognition and congratulations to Rising Stars @mohammadatari.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social @juliastern.bsky.social 💫

Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Jun 23

HBES is happy to recognize the following Rising Stars (<8 years post-PhD) for their research contributions:
Mohammad Atari: mohammadatari.com
Catherine Molho: catherinemolho.github.io
Daniel Redhead: www.rug.nl/staff/d.j.re...
Julia Stern: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Jun 23

HBES is happy to recognize the following Rising Stars (<8 years post-PhD) for their research contributions:
Mohammad Atari: mohammadatari.com
Catherine Molho: catherinemolho.github.io
Daniel Redhead: www.rug.nl/staff/d.j.re...
Julia Stern: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Julia Stern, for her evolutionary work on personality, including its effects on well-being, mate choice, as well as the development and hormonal correlates of personality: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Jun 23

New results from one of the few preregistered, placebo-controlled combined oral contraceptive RCTs. No pill effects found on preferences for masculine or symmetric faces, no menstrual cycle effects.
N=340, so small effects may have gone undetected.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We provide the first evidence from a randomized double-blind placebo control study of oral contraceptives on women's preferences for masculine and symmetric faces in men. We find no evidence of an effect. Similar, our correlational results testing for an association between menstrual cycle phases and facial preferences fail to reject the null hypothesis of no association, as do our estimated correlations between hormone levels and facial preferences. Although the early literature largely found support for variation in facial preferences over the menstrual cycle and with oral contraceptive use (Feinberg et al., 2008; Johnston et al., 2001; Little et al., 2002; Little et al., 2013; Penton-Voak et al., 1999; Roney & Simmons, 2008), our null results align with more recent large-sample correlational studies (Jones et al., 2018; Marcinkowska et al., 2019). One possible motivation of the hypothesis that oral contraceptives lower the preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry is in terms of the dual mating theory. In a recent review of the literature Jones et al. (2019) point out several methodological problems in the early work testing this hypothesis, such as low statistical power, and conclude that recent and methodologically stronger work fails to support the hypothesis. Our findings lend further support for their conclusions.
There are also several reasons for why false positive results could have been published in the earlier literature. Low statistical power increases the probability for false positive results as well as inflated effect sizes. Many of the older studies also rely on self-reported menstrual cycle data, which is subject to mismeasurement. In addition, without pre-analysis plans there is room for the so-called “researcher degrees of freedom” (Simmons et al., 2011) to influence the analysis such that statistically significant results become more likely to be false positive ones. This can occur through excluding observations, using covariates, testing…

Table 2. The effect of OC on facial preferences.

Empty Cell % Change in Facial Preferences
(Follow-Up - Baseline) Difference P-value of difference
Empty Cell Treatment (N = 165) Placebo (N = 168) Empty Cell Empty Cell
Masculine Faces −0.083 −0.034 −0.049 0.162
Empty Cell (0.026) (0.023) (0.035)
Symmetric Faces −0.025 0.027 −0.052 0.132
Empty Cell (0.024) (0.025) (0.034)

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Michael D. Krämer @mdkraemer.bsky.social · Jun 16

Self-improvement, self-acceptance, and/or methods effects? Travis Miller, @chopwood.bsky.social , and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, and I examined factors that might explain personality change intervention effects - now in print at JPSP 🥳: doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

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Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social · Jun 4

Do you work with #hormones? 🚶‍♂️🐁 🧫 Have you ever tried to share your data or worked with datasets and encountered challenges?

#NODES aims to develop a standard data format for hormones to remedy this.

Participate in our Delphi study to let us know what should be considered (open until mid June). ⬇️

Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social · May 21

Important #NODES updates🔥 (2/2)

We are now recruiting experts (human & animal researchers, clinicians etc) in the field of (psycho)neuroendocrinology that volunteer to fill our survey 📝
survey.questionstar.com/NODES-Delphi...

Results will be used as a starting point to develop the data structure.

NODES Delphi study

Are you studying hormones?
We need your expertise!
https://survey.questionstar.com/NODES-Delphi-round1

We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the field of psychoneuroendocrinology. We all have extensive experience in working with hormonal data and faced major challenges when trying to access and reuse datasets from others.

We want to develop a community-driven standard data structure to facilitate data sharing and reuse in our field – and we need your input to do so. Scan the QR code to participate in our Delphi study!

For more info on the project visit: https://www.nodes-pne.eu

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Jun 11

Join me at the University of Witten/Herdecke for research on meta scientific topics, replication work or other fun things :-) as well as teaching some IMO wonderful students
short.sg/j/56902143

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jun 6

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Julia Stern @juliastern.bsky.social · May 23

Join us at Psych Science! We're currently recruiting volunteers helping with reproducibility checks for conditionally accepted manuscripts. Important tasks - great team - recommended!

simine vazire @simine.com · May 23

Please spread the word!

Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network

Are you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit...

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · May 23

Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibility checkers. Please join us if you have the time and skills! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network

Are you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit...

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Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social · May 21

Important #NODES updates🔥 (2/2)

We are now recruiting experts (human & animal researchers, clinicians etc) in the field of (psycho)neuroendocrinology that volunteer to fill our survey 📝
survey.questionstar.com/NODES-Delphi...

Results will be used as a starting point to develop the data structure.

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · May 13

Why Should You Trust Research Published in #PsychologicalScience?

Read @simine.com's Editorial, NOW online

Why Should You Trust Research Published in Psychological Science? - Simine Vazire, 2025

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simine vazire @simine.com · May 8

My editorial on how journals can earn trust.

We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Apr 17

Valerie Baettig asks whether Tsimane women experience PMS. Answer: possibly slightly but not enough that they notice.
Also: across the 10 women cycles were super variable hormonally. More evidence we need hormone controls in cycle studies!
#ehbea #ehbea2025

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Apr 4

Papers published in Psych Science following January 1st, 2024 are candidates for I4R to computationally reproduce, stress-test and replicate. This is an official collaboration with @psychscience.bsky.social.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are looking for reproducers and replicators!

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