we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

"Progress in theorising means treating our theories as works in progress in need of continuous improvement, and this sometimes also means having to kill one’s darlings."

Martijn van Zomeren and @ayseuskul.bsky.social introduce the ERSP special issue on theorizing in social psychology.

#SocialPsyc

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

2 years ago today

Colleague added an open-access full-text + paper database in the same file, easy access to the full information:

Link here:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Full text link: iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Open science link: osf.io/75zdr/

Congrats to the team and the enormous amount of work!

Some figures illustrating volume of literature by each strength. Perspective/mindfulness has the strongest ratio of survival, while kindness and gratitude have the most raw volume of RCTs.

Key findings: Yeah, there is some robust evidence on that, for perspective/mindfulness, gratitude, kindness, hope, and humor. The rest do not have enough quality.
In general, literature must improve on methods, well-being needs to be measured more and better (more eudaimonic measurements please)

We got published! We synthesized 21 systematic reviews of RCTs testing of interventions can impact character strengths and well-being. Almost 62k abstracts screened and immense work!
doi.org/10.1111/aphw...

The distinction has been around for 5/6 years, along with direct/exact reps and systematic reps. Further reading: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My take: Balance generalizability and replicability. Conceptuals maximize the first at the cost of the second, exacts do the opposite

What about conceptual replication?

That's the thing, been saying this in mindfulness research a lot. Getting a low/med/high or better/meh/worse is basically mapping a continuous thing obscured as discrete, but people desperately want "person-based" and "personalized" thingies

A wide-ranging Nature News article on developments in peer review. Like we mentioned in our billion-dollar donation article (link.springer.com/article/10.1...), I think peer review should be opened up via more post-publication (preprinting) review and smaller checks, www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tech fascism, like the tech libertarianism that birthed it, specializes in hijacking left-wing ideals, repackaging them as right-wing ideology, and selling the resulting sludge as “moderate/centrist/common sense.”

The roots of this go very deep. Keep an eye out!

🌲🧯Forest fires are increasing. Does climate change play a role?

The short answer? Yes, it does.

The hotter, drier conditions create the vicious "climate-fire feedback loop," leading to more devastating and frequent fires. Get the long answer👉 go.wri.org/climate-fire-loop-bs

DON'T PANIIKK 😱

A veces desde la psicología no podemos evitar mirar con cierta ternura a los economistas tradicionales, los del Homo economicus, la racionalidad y la maximización del beneficio.
Nosotros sabemos que el ser humano a veces toma decisiones irracionales, o es solidario, o cortoplacista...

Nice to see some commentary on the recent @theguardian.com piece by @iansample.bsky.social on #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ACADEMICsky

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Hanson believes the problem is not open access & APCs per se, but for-profit publishers that seek to publish as many papers as possible... the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated... work they support must be published in non-profit journals.

Thanks to my colleagues
@guidobcor.bsky.social
@angulobrunet.bsky.social
Eduardo García-Garzón!

Nos publican!

Un artículo divulgativo sobre la crisis de replicación y la revolución de credibilidad, buen material para iniciarse!

doi.org/10.5944/ap.2...

Taking on dissemination of the #credibilityrevolution we created this educational paper for Spanish-speaking audiences

Poder ser =! Es en todo. Tener partes horribles no invalida el conjunto, como en cualquier disciplina humana, el abolicionismo también