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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 2d

Great to see the next article of our special issue on belief updating out in BRAT. In this large clinical trial, the authors investigated the relative importance of expectancy violation vs fear reduction as two rationales of exposure therapy. For details, see 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated and contribute differentially to treatment outcome in anxiety disorde...

Responses to exposure therapy vary across individuals, emphasizing the need for a deeper understanding of its underlying mechanisms. This study examin…

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Thomas Meyer @thmeyer.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to share my first Stage 2 recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
💡Probe-based attentional retraining does not reduce worry.
Pond et al. found that a classic ABM protocol did not shift threat bias or anxiety in high-worriers.
✅Read more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Probe-Based Attentional Retraining Does Not Reduce Worry

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 8d

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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Maren Urner @positivemaren.bsky.social · 14d

Wir müssen reden ...
über Überlastung!

7 von 9 planetaren Belastungsgrenzen sind überschritten. Das zeigt der neue "Planetary Health Check" (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Vorher waren es 6. Die Ozeanversauerung ist jetzt neu dazu gekommen.
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Marcella Woud @marcellawoud.bsky.social · 16d

In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden!

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 16d

New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Biased Belief Updating in Relation To Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Two Studies Using Feedback from Real Social Interactions - Cognitive Therapy and Research

Background Depression has been related to difficulties in updating negative beliefs in response to novel positive information. Research on this issue in the context of social feedback is scarce, thoug...

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

Here are two easy things YOU can do:

#1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same.

#2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Sep 5

New prologue episode of Nullius In Verba! We read Boring's paper on The Psychology of Controversy nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/prologus-6... Written in 1929, but relevant as if he based in on scientists arguing on social media for the last decade. A must read - or, you can just listen to it!

Prologus 66: The Psychology of Controversy (E. G. Boring) | Nullius in Verba

Boring, E. G. (1929). The psychology of controversy. Psychological Review, 36(2), 97–121. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0072273

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Thomas Meyer @thmeyer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Pretty sure "Migrationshintergrund" is very beneficial for the school's statistics - especially if risk factors associated with "Migrationshintergund" aren't present.

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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · Aug 31

German bookstore selling a curated selection of works that were banned in US public schools and libraries.
(h/t @inabeintner.bsky.social)

Bookstore selling a selection of books that the Trump administration banned from public schools and libraries

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · Sep 1

A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...

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Maike Luhmann @maikeluhmann.bsky.social · Aug 30

3 new jobs in a great project 👇

Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

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Thomas Meyer @thmeyer.bsky.social · Aug 24

At PCI-RR, you don't have to commit to any single journal (though also no psychiatry journals will commit to your RR either; you'd get a transparently peer-reviewed and validated RR protocol that you can try and publish anywhere). Perhaps worth considering?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 21

It's like an association, but more causal.

This reasoning is very prevalent in psych as well (in particular when it comes to "lagged effects", aka lagged associations, and "within-person associations") which is why we wrote a paper about it:

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

These Are Not the Effects You Are Looking for: Causality and the Within-/Between-Persons Distinction in Longitudinal Data Analysis

In psychological science, researchers often pay particular attention to the distinction between within- and between-persons relationships in longitudinal data analysis. Here, we aim to clarify the relationship between the within- and between-persons distinction and causal inference and show that the distinction is informative but does not play a decisive role in causal inference. Our main points are threefold. First, within-persons data are not necessary for causal inference; for example, between-persons experiments can inform about (average) causal effects. Second, within-persons data are not sufficient for causal inference; for example, time-varying confounders can lead to spurious within-persons associations. Finally, despite not being sufficient, within-persons data can be tremendously helpful for causal inference. We provide pointers to help readers navigate the more technical literature on longitudinal models and conclude with a call for more conceptual clarity: Instead of letting statistical models dictate which substantive questions researchers ask, researchers should start with well-defined theoretical estimands, which in turn determine both study design and data analysis.

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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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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Aug 13

Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion.

In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners

Error rates of human reviewers during abstract screening in systematic reviews

Background Automated approaches to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews are greatly needed. When testing any of these approaches, the criterion standard of comparison (gold standard) is usuall...

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Jake Embrey @jakeembrey.bsky.social · Aug 10

New letter by @minzlicht.bsky.social and I forthcoming in TiCS on whether neurometabolic costs are necessary to explain cognitive fatigue. While the origins of fatigue may turn out to be metabolic, we argue there isn’t yet sufficient evidence for such theories. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · Aug 11

Does cognitive fatigue require metabolic explanations? @jakeembrey.bsky.social and I argue the evidence is pretty thin. Computational & motivational theories may be sufficient without invoking depleting brain glucose or accumulating neurotoxins like glutamate. New commentary, in press at TiCS

Jake Embrey @jakeembrey.bsky.social · Aug 10

New letter by @minzlicht.bsky.social and I forthcoming in TiCS on whether neurometabolic costs are necessary to explain cognitive fatigue. While the origins of fatigue may turn out to be metabolic, we argue there isn’t yet sufficient evidence for such theories. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Aug 2

Two more weeks to apply 🚀

Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Jul 15

JOB ALERT 🚀

I am looking for a clinical psychologist to supervise my clinical team at uni hamburg.

Please dm me if you have any questions and please share!

Ich suche eine Forschungsambulanzleitung (E14, entfristet) an der Uni Hamburg.

Job Ad:
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fundamentally: the fact that LLMs' output is linguistic has a MASSIVE attention capture over social scientists in particular.

We need to keep our wits about us when we use these models and avoid anthropomorphizing them purely because of formal similarities in language.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · Jul 31

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it!

Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's
- Constitution
- TOP guidelines
- article types
- and reviewer guidelines
until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Apr 23

New paper: Blaming the Thermometer for the Fever: Separating Misapplication from Method in Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, with @laabho.bsky.social and @jnwulff.bsky.social. We – strongly – push back on criticisms against NHST and argue for proper application. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... >

Blaming the Thermometer for the Fever: Separating Misapplication from Method in Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

In empirical research, Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) is the most common methodology to interpret research findings and make inferences, particular

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Jul 26

Can you use off the shelf generative LLMs (eg ChatGPT, Claude) to assess personality from brief bits of unconstrained, open-ended text? If so, how well do they do?

Turns out you can, and they do amazingly well. I couldn't believe how well.

Here's our pre-print on it and a 🧵

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 26

Assessing Personality Using Zero-Shot Generative AI Scoring of Brief Open-Ended Text: https://osf.io/4zx2k

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Sam Goldstein @samschuelstein.bsky.social · Jul 27

Okay, this is not mine. I saw it while scrolling on Instagram. But I basically peed my pants laughing. PhD students are just lil bebes. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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