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Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · 21d

Trust in science predicted protection intentions 😷 during the pandemic. But does this mean trust in science CAUSED protection intentions? 🤔

Yesterday at #FGSP2025, I presented our experimental work on this and got great feedback 🙌.
If you are curious, here is our preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · 23d

Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social 😊

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 28d

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Aug 24

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions

Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

Introducing Papercheck

Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Jun 13

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Treemap showing measurement fragmentation across subfields in psychology. Hill-Shannon Diversity 𝐷=1626.05

How often measures in the APA PsycTESTS database are (re)used according to the APA PsycInfo database: rarely, the majority are never reused.

Our fragmentation index (Hill-Shannon diversity) over time across subdisciplines shows fragmentation rising.

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Oliver Genschow @olivergenschow.bsky.social · Jun 2

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Hub Science Project “Psychology of Transformation towards Sustainability”: Doctoral Research Associate with a background in Psychology or a related field

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Oscar Lecuona @oscarlecuona.bsky.social · May 27

In my talks about replication crisis (not reproducibility) I always used as attention-catcher that we cannot afford this roughly 50% replicability in human sciences since someone like Trump could use this to discredit everything and push their agenda. I hate that this prediction came true.

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Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · May 27

Yes, we grappled with this in our 2020 Trust and Replicability paper as well. This was our conclusion back then. Unfortunately, it still feels very timely.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · May 24

This is what you get for asking “yes but what’s the mechanism” one too many times 💋

Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · May 24

Can't wait for all the clownish oral microbiome transfer "trials" to start appearing alongside all the clownish fecal matter transfer "trials".

~ Kissing passes depression to newlywed spouses because microbiome, lolz.

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Arturo Hernandez @draehernandez.bsky.social · May 20

Perspectives on Psychological Science returns—reimagined. More voices. Broader reach. Rigor with respect.
Read the relaunch editorial.

#PsychScience #OpenScience #EditorInChief @psychscience.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/QWMMC...

A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science - Arturo E. Hernandez, 2025

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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · May 15

Recent research shows that AI can durably reduce belief in conspiracies. But does this work b/c the AI is good at producing evidence, or b/c ppl really trust AI?

In a new working paper, we show that the effect persists even if the person thinks they're talking to a human: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · May 13

🚨 CAN ARTISTIC ACTIVISM RESOLVE THE ACTIVIST DILEMMA? 🚨 Art is often employed as creative and attention-grabbing form of protest, but can it help alleviate negative effects of disruptiveness? Our findings now out in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (doi.org/10.1037/aca0...). 🧵1/4

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Kim Doell @kimdoell.bsky.social · May 9

🚨 New paper out! 🚨
We used interpretable machine learning on data from 55 countries (N = 4,635) to identify the most important individual- and nation-level factors predicting climate beliefs, policy support, and behaviors.
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Led by @todorova.bsky.social

Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors

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JESP @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social · May 7

The "motherhood penalty" has shown greater discrimination against moms vs dads in the workplace. New work by @chrispetsko.bsky.social Rebecca Ponce de Leon & Ashleigh Rosette now instead shows a parenthood boost effect for moms & dads! BUT White parents may have a higher boost than Black parents.

two cartoon dogs are standing next to each other in a room

ALT: two cartoon dogs are standing next to each other in a room

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Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social · May 7

👉 Science communication in psychology

Our dear colleague and Jun. prof. @marlephie.bsky.social phie.bsky.social is co-speaker of the interest group “PsyComm” - together with @hendriks.bsky.social.

We wish you & the group every success!

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#scicom #psychology

Science communication in psychology

Marlene Altenmüller from ZPID is co-spokesperson of the “PsyComm” interest group

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · May 6

Das ist ein Skandal erster Güte, kommt aber bei uns in den Nachrichten kaum vor: Die US-Regierung versucht, Harvard zu zerstören, die vielleicht beste Universität der Welt. Es ist wirklich unglaublich. Schauen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 6

Breaking News: Friedrich Merz failed to win enough support from lawmakers in the first round of voting to become Germany’s next leader. No modern German chancellor has ever failed to secure the job on a first ballot in Parliament.

Friedrich Merz Fails in First Round of Voting to Become Germany’s Next Leader

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · May 5

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · May 2

Causal inference people, please help Ruben before he goes to the hardware store and maybe even accidentally drowns himself.

Has anybody actually made a video illustrating the pipe metaphor for the flow of causality?

Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · May 2

Surely, someone has taken the DAG pipe metaphor to real life and youtubed a video of blocking pipe junctions called confounder/mediator/collider to show what happens to the influences?

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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · Apr 30

Had a really good time in Hagen - great people, great talks, great walks! Thanks for the invite! ☺️

Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · Apr 30

It was great having Marlene Altenmüller (@marlephie.bsky.social) at our faculty colloquium today at FernUni Hagen ☺️. Thanks for the great and inspiring talk!

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 30

Based on the grouchy replies, I’m beginning to think we need a crash course in how industry influences science for the #openscience folks.

Some highlights.

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Apr 29

Has anyone done a deep dive on why #openscience social scientists are all in on an obscure merchants of doubt style toxicology journal?

www.tandfonline.com/journals/teb...

Learn about Evidence-Based Toxicology

Learn about Evidence-Based Toxicology aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

www.tandfonline.com

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Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · Apr 30

It was great having Marlene Altenmüller (@marlephie.bsky.social) at our faculty colloquium today at FernUni Hagen ☺️. Thanks for the great and inspiring talk!

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Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thanks for your interest and for sharing your thoughts, Jonathan! Both possibilities would make sense to me—we’ll definitely think more about it. 😊

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Tobias Wingen @wingentobias.bsky.social · Feb 13

Obviously, it’s difficult to prove the null; however, it now seems unlikely to us that short-term changes in trust in science impact protection intentions. It still remains super important & interesting to better understand the strong correlation, though. 5/5

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