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René Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 8d

Early career personality researchers coming to the Edinburgh ECP22: If you want to get a link to a slightly more affordable uni accommodation option later this year, leave your email here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Advance Accommodation Information

Primarily for Early Career Researchers (PhD, post-doc): If you would like to receive advance information about a limited number of more affordable accommodation options available for the 22nd Europea...

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 7d

If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️

datamgmtinedresearch.com

1. Organizing data (Ch. 3)
2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9)
3. Documenting data (Ch. 8)
4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)

a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right

ALT: a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right

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Pooja Kulkarni @poojak.bsky.social · 19d

Attended #FGSP2025 earlier this week, first ever conference outside of India! Extremely grateful to have gotten the opportunity to present and win 2nd place for this poster on the study I did with @mhennecke.bsky.social and Johannes Koopmann while I was still in India!

Pooja standing next to her FGSP poster, looking a bit unsure of how to pose. The poster is A0 size with light purple, blue and while color along with university logos at the top

FGSP Poster prize certificate for 2nd place. Also comes with a chocolate and a pen!

From left to right- Pooja, Marie, and Johannes posing next to the poster.

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René Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 20d

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25.
Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Aug 8

Here's a plain summary of our work on measuring goal dimensions: link.growkudos.com/1et738saakg

A New Tool to Better Understand How People See and Pursue Their Goals

This research introduces the Goal Dimensions Questionnaire, a survey that measures nine key features of personal goals: commitment, demand, enjoyment, expectancy, external motivation, facilitation, pr...

link.growkudos.com

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Jul 24

Take a look here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Jul 24

New paper! Miriam Pfister, Melanie Naumann, Veronika Brandstätter and I validated 13 state scales to capture change in students' affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals during exam preparation - useful tools to investigate the processes driving academic success.

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Jul 2

Intergoal facilitation, commitment, and value did not predict much or anything. We would be happy if more people used our measure to learn more about its predictive validity. Here is the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... (before proofs, might differ slightly from the final, published version).

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Jul 2

It measures 9 goal dimensions. Some results: Demand, enjoyment, expectancy, and progress predicted subjective and exam performance as well as subjective well-being; external motivation and (perceived) support predicted only (aspects of) subjective well-being.

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Jul 2

New paper with Korbinian Kiendl, @rhoyle.bsky.social & @kkleinke.de accepted at Motivation Science: After noticing that practices for measuring characteristics of personal goals (= goal dimensions) are a big mess (see Kiendl et al., 2022), we decided to develop and validate a measure: ...

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · Jun 25

1. I have spent a lot of time recently sending invitations for people to review papers, and this process works extremely differently from what I imagined when I was a student. Wanted to write out how I do it in case that's helpful for you all as you submit papers.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

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Brent W. Roberts @bwroberts.bsky.social · Jun 21

Paper alert by @cavanvbonner.bsky.social looking at adversity and growth in self-regulatory dispositions. The tl;dr--no, adversity does not lead to growth in either self-reported or parent observed measures of effortful control or emotional stability. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zz0z1... 1/

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Anabel Büchner @anabelbuechner.bsky.social · Jun 19

Self-control in daily life is more than willpower — but how well do commonly used trait scales capture this recent, broader view on self-control?

New preprint with @kaihorstmann.bsky.social & @mhennecke.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Short summary below.

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Maike Luhmann @maikeluhmann.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 Job alert - please share!

I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later.

Details in thread 👇

#PsychSciSky

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Mar 18

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Treemap chart showing the fragmented landscape of psychological measures.

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is fantastic - congratulations!

IMPRS on the LIFE Course (LIFE) @imprs-life.bsky.social · Feb 27

🥂https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/awards/graduate-program-with-a-future-imprs-life-to-be-established-permanently

Graduate program with a future: IMPRS LIFE to be established permanently

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Feb 27

New preprint!

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Feb 27

How Regulatory Flexibility in Strategy Use Helps Self-Control: Theoretical Models, Empirical Evidence, and Empirical Challenges: http://osf.io/qt98u_v1/

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 26

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Feb 15

Also a great resource for teaching students data visualization

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 15

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

flowingdata.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 15

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

flowingdata.com

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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · Feb 13

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

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Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · Feb 11

The Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) annually confers an Early Career Award! The deadline for this year’s award is March 14. More info on the (self-)nomination process here: www.scienceofmotivation.org/content.asp?...

Society for the Science of Motivation

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Maike Luhmann @maikeluhmann.bsky.social · Jan 25

It's so troubling to follow the news in the U.S. this week.

Here is a resource on research funding in Germany that might be of interest to my #psychscisky colleagues in the U.S. (although I still cross my fingers you won't need it):

www.research-in-germany.org/en/research-...

Funding programmes and awards - Research in GermanyChat-Icon

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social · Feb 5

Research Coordinator (60 - 100 %) wanted! 📢
The NMR Kids Lab at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development is looking for a German-speaking Research Coordinator to join our interdisciplinary team! 🧠🔍
Click here to apply👉
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

UZH: Forschungskoordinator*in

Das NMR Kids Lab (Abteilung für Entwicklungsneurowissenschaften) am Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development der Universität Zürich sucht eine*n Forschungskoordinator*in zur Verstärkung unseres ...

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