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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 10d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 10d

Meta

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 14d

There were voices accusing replicators building a career on non-replications...

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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 18d

What a cool format! 🎓

I had a great time as the opponent at Thekla Müller-Boysen’s PhD defense @au.dk. It was a strong defense and made for a fun discussion on boredom & its interpersonal consequences.

Huge thanks to @stepf.bsky.social & team for the invite 🙏

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 19d

"the extremely large effect originally reported (d = 3.69)" 😱

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Marcel Fratzscher @mfratzscher.bsky.social · 19d

Mehr #Chancengleichheit —

Die soziale Mobilität im Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich gering und weiter stark gesunken. Das ist ungerecht, bremst die Wirtschaft und gefährdet die Demokratie.

#Generationenvertrag

Meine Kolumne bei Die Zeit:

www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

Soziale Mobilität: Mehr Chancengleichheit – das sind wir der jungen Generation schuldig

Wer etwas werden will, hat in Deutschland auffällig schlechte Aussichten. Das ist ungerecht, bremst die Wirtschaft und gefährdet die Demokratie. Das muss sich ändern.

www.zeit.de

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 28d

I enjoyed your paper, very thought-provoking! I’m a bit skeptical about calling it a “seemingly meaningless scale” though. People are sense-making machines, even odd items get meaning. As you show, the scale reflects relationship satisfaction, so not “pseudo". I think you are actually measuring sth.

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 29d

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle

Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?

open.substack.com

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 7

Quick, which decade had the best movies, music, TV & fashion?

Americans don't agree on the decade. But they often say it was a decade they experienced as a school aged kid. For example, the best fashion & music happened in their teenage years.
Do you agree?
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Chart showing that the most common decade people report as the time when various aspects of society peaked was a decade in which they were of school age.

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Sep 7

Research by @sergiopirla.bsky.social et al (N=60k across 30 countries) suggests a robust negative association between daily experiences of boredom and income; in lower income individuals, boredom is also more closely linked with sadness, worry and anxiety:

buff.ly/S1ez2xo

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Jul 7

An international call for action just got louder:

Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde

Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally

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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists

OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...

www.lemonde.fr

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Sergio Pirla @sergiopirla.bsky.social · Sep 1

New paper out in JESP with Thekla Müller-Boysen and @stepf.bsky.social

We used three modified versions of the dictator game to test whether boredom impacts social preferences (N = 3500).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On the relation between boredom and social behavior: A registered report

Boredom plays an essential role in everyday life and is a powerful motivator. This registered report investigated the interpersonal consequences of bo…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 15

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Support scholar-controlled diamond open access journals. See freejournals.org, DOAJ, the new European Diamond Capacity Hub, & the Open Journals Collective. A lot is happening in this space!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
@metaror.bsky.social
en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJou... nbdt.scholasticahq.com

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · Aug 7

Super relevant and a huge gap in the literature!
We once tried to study everyday aggression using experience sampling but stopped due to extremely low base rates in our pretests (e.g., even observing aggression wasn’t frequent enough). Excited to see what your project uncovers!

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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · Jul 24

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting"

By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · Jul 19

John Bargh 😱😄

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Anatolia Batruch @anatoliab.bsky.social · Jul 16

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🚨 New article out!
How robust is the psychology of social class?
Together with Nicolas Sommet and ‪@frederiqueautin.bsky.social‬, we conducted large-scale replications of 35 hypotheses across four countries.
Published in Nature Human Behaviour:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Jul 11

🧨 New draft dropped:🧨
"Cash Transfers,
Mental Health and Agency:
Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply.
Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social).
#basicincome #UBI

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Sergio Pirla @sergiopirla.bsky.social · Mar 3

95% of people underestimate the carbon footprint of the top 1%. When presented with the actual figures, people increase their support for carbon taxes.

Our new paper (with Laila Nockur and @stepf.bsky.social) is out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The misperception of carbon footprints of the rich and the poor

Not everyone contributes to climate change to the same extent. While huge inequalities exist in consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions, w…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · Mar 30

They fixed it, hurrey! The material of the boardgame is now available here: osf.io/t9ngd/

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · Mar 29

I'll write the OSF help desk.

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · Mar 29

It's marked as spam, according to OSF. I'm sorry!

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · Mar 29

The game is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This means you can change, include new content, and add to all cards and instructions as you wish, just acknowledge the creator.

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Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · Mar 29

It is a very simple board game. We have played it with a diverse range of audiences (e.g., almost all psychology professors at Aarhus University), and it was enjoyable every time. The game is fun and easy: you throw a die and follow the instructions when you land on each section.

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