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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 1d

Our recent review article "The Psychology of Virality" with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social
is on the front cover of this month's issue of
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 2d

We're very proud of his ongoing commitment to supporting SBM and advancing public scholarship through his work as a Student/Trainee Liaison in both the Health Equity and the Student/Trainee Special Interest Groups!

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 2d

Shout-out to @carlosasilvera.bsky.social for his efforts to coordinate career advice from SBM students and trainees for the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Fall 2025 newsletter! 👏🏼

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 5d

Political polarization is a global concern!

Polarization was identified as one of the top three major problems facing humanity by experts and leaders globally. Learn more from @jayvanbavel.bsky.social in the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 5d

Political polarization is a global concern!

Polarization was identified as one of the top three major problems facing humanity by experts and leaders globally. Learn more from @jayvanbavel.bsky.social in the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth

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Nanci @nanciweinberger.bsky.social · 7d

Who couldn’t use a listen? I know I could.

Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 8d

🧩 New episode of the Stress Puzzle with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social & host @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social on the impact of partisan animosity, risks of rising political polarization, and how social media incentives can contribute to polarization.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth #psychscisky

Political Polarization and Health: Navigating the social media divide with Dr. Jay Van Bavel

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 8d

3. Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity

Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments designed by academics and p...

www.science.org

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 8d

2. The Psychology of Virality: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

S/O to first-author, @steverathje.bsky.social, for this important work.

The psychology of virality

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on? Here, we review the psychology of information spread, or the psychology of ‘virality’.…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 8d

1. Political Polarization and Health: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Political polarization and health - Nature Medicine

Political polarization is an understudied determinant of health. This Review describes the types of political polarization and how they impact the health of populations and individuals, including potential mitigation strategies and research priorities.

www.nature.com

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 8d

Through this episode, listeners will learn more about the psychological mechanisms behind polarization, potential interventions to reduce social and political tensions, and how social media can amplify polarization.

🧵 thread below highlighting selected papers (with many more in the show notes!):

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 8d

🧩 New episode of the Stress Puzzle with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social & host @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social on the impact of partisan animosity, risks of rising political polarization, and how social media incentives can contribute to polarization.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth #psychscisky

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 15d

Welcome @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social!! Very excited to have you with us for a few weeks!!

Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 15d

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social

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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 15d

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social
@starlabteam.bsky.social

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 17d

Listen to the full episode here: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast/epis...

Listen Now! | UCSF SMN

University of California, San Francisco

www.stressmeasurement.org

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 17d

As researchers or clinicians, how do we navigate conversations about the demands of caring (i.e., "cost of caring") without minimizing the importance of care work?

Dr. Giscombé shared her thoughts on navigating difficult conversations around coping based on her research into Superwoman Schema.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 18d

This talk kicks off Dr. Brown’s 3-week microsabbatical in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University working with @eriknook.bsky.social to better characterize how grief, stress, and emotion processes may interact to shape widow(er)s’ daily experiences and future biopsychosocial health.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 18d

📚 Dr. Brown (@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social) will be speaking at Princeton in the Department of Psychology’s Social Talk Series next week! If you’re on campus, be sure to check it out this Monday (9.22) at 12pm.

Talk details: psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/...

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 26d

We wanted to emphasize how normal it is to make mistakes or have regrets in the research process, and learn from the ways that highly-respected researchers have approached their own mistakes. Listen now: tinyurl.com/bonusstresspuzzle

Listen Now! | UCSF SMN

University of California, San Francisco

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 26d

Dr. Almeida has since updated this project to capture the positive events and experiences that also shape our day-to-day lives and experiences of stress.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 26d

Dr. Almeida runs the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE), an in-depth study that is part of the MacAuthur Foundation National Survey of Midlife in the United States. The purpose of the NSDE is to examine the day-to-day lives, particularly the daily stressful experiences, of midlife adults.

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 26d

In our episode on building #stem careers, we asked guests to reflect on mistakes in their careers, how they approached them & how it may have affected their future research. Dr. Almeida reflected on needing measures of positive events in addition to stress.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/bonusstresspuzzle

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The Kinsey Institute @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social · 29d

New paper 📢 when are dealbreakers no longer dealbreakers? This study found people were more willing to consider a partner with a highly aversive dealbreaker when faced with the prospect of prolonged singlehood.

www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pere.70026
@vwongsomboon.bsky.social

Long Stretch of Singlehood Ahead? Unpacking the Roles of Anticipated Singlehood Duration and Singlehood Stigma in Lowering Dating Standards

Although dealbreakers are framed as non-negotiable traits that disqualify a partner, rejecting someone with these traits can be challenging when the alternative is prolonged singlehood. In this exper...

www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · Sep 6

It was a great evening to explore Lubbock's First Friday Art Trail with new graduate students! We're thrilled to have you here, @kristenstopfer.bsky.social and @carlosasilvera.bsky.social!

STAR lab members at the First Friday Art Trail

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · Sep 5

Context matters for our experience and expression of emotion!

In this clip, Dr. Wendy Berry Mendes highlights the importance of recognizing how culture gives us rules around displaying emotions.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/stress-emotion

#psychscisky #affectsci #scicomm #socialpsych #healthpsych

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · Sep 2

Absolutely stoked to share Season 2 of the Stress Puzzle!

We have a phenomenal lineup of guests this season to help us all think more deeply about stress ~in context~ including @jayvanbavel.bsky.social, @ajuaduker.bsky.social @mwkraus.bsky.social, Danielle King, Mary-Frances O'Connor, and more! 🧩

Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · Sep 2

Season 2 of the Stress Puzzle is here and we're focused on stress in context!

In the first episode, host @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social chats with Dr. Wendy Berry Mendes about how stress and emotion research have grown together.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/stress-emotion
#psychscisky #affectsci #scicomm

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