René Proyer

Spaß: Kann ich Spaß lernen? Unserem Autor fällt auf, dass der Spaß mit dem Alter immer weniger wurde. Jetzt sucht er ihn bewusst – und findet das größte Potenzial, wo er es nicht vermutet hat.

"Kann ich Spaß lernen?" www.zeit.de/2026/07/spas... mit ein paar Wortbeiträgen von mir zu unseren Arbeiten zu Humor und Verspieltheit an der @unihalle.bsky.social

New paper out: "Playful Minds Under Pressure? Exploring Links Between Playfulness, Stress, and Satisfaction in Employees and Students." Available open access here: www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/14...

Dass der Lateinunterricht sich positiv auf das logisch-schlussfolgernde Denken auswirkt ist empirisch zumindest nicht haltbar: www.reinhardt-verlag.de/peu20080303_...

Examining Play and Playfulness at Work: Current Knowledge, Practical Applications, and Future Research Directions Playfulness—the ability to frame or reframe situations in an engaging, intellectually stimulating, or entertaining way—is an emerging topic in organizational research. Traditionally seen as the opposi...

Now published in Vol. 13 of the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior: "Examining #Play and #Playfulness at #Work: Current Knowledge, Practical Applications, and Future Research Directions" www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Psychische Gesundheit von Studierenden in Deutschland: Neuer Forschungsverbund untersucht Risiken und stärkt Resilienz Ein neuer Forschungsverbund innerhalb des Deutschen Zentrums für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG) befasst sich mit der Lage von Studierenden.

Pressemitteilung (@unihalle.bsky.social) zum Verbundprojekt "Students at Risk for Mental Health Issues" (StaR_MHI). an dem wir mitbeteiligt sind und Beiträge zu Charakterstärken und maladaptiven Persönlichkeitseigenschaften leisten werden: www.umh.de/news/psychis...

YouTube video by No More Jockeys 🎄 Christmas Special 2025 – No More Jockeys with Alex Horne, Tim Key + Mark Watson

Here for those interested is the answer to my most frequently asked question of 2025 (and every other year till I die). I'll keep trying for a new set. MERRY BLOODY CHRISTMAS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mwj...

Psychological Test Adaptation and Development has a call out for a special collection on „Human – Climate – Sustainability: Assessment in the Context of Climate Change“. The deadline is April 30, 2026. More information here: www.hogrefe.com/index.php?eI...

Introducing New Author Instructions at EJPA | European Journal of Psychological Assessment

European Journal of #PsychologicalAssessment publishes TOP updates to 'materials, data, code publicly available'

and updated word limits, "the extended word count should primarily go towards the Methods and Results section" 👏

econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10....

#Psychometrics #OpenScience

Freude im Alltag: Die Evolution ein bisschen überlisten Die Welt ist blöd und schlecht? Zum Glück lässt sich unser Gehirn trainieren, mehr Lebensfreude zu empfinden. Eines der Geheimnisse dahinter: echter Genuss.

www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2... mit Zitaten von mir zu unseren Arbeiten zu Verspieltheit an der @unihalle.bsky.social

This. If you can't make an informed decision based on the reviewers' comments and your own thoughtful assessment, you shouldn't be an editor.

And now the paper has finally been accepted, I just wanna say to all the editors: PLEASE stop sending papers back out to reviewers after 1 (at most 2) round! It’s a burden on the system when a decision could be made without reviewers’ approvals. It’s not the reviewers’ job to have a final say!

Why It Might Pay to Be ‘Playful’ at Work Play isn't just for kids—a study shows how the trait can build rapport with colleagues.

A practice-friendly summary of our latest study on playfulness and authenticity at work: www.inc.com/kit-eaton/wh... (original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

New paper out: "Understanding the social benefits for #playful employees in the workplace" Focus on the important role of #playfulness and #authenticity at work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Frontiers | Is the Impostor Phenomenon expressed in language? An LIWC analysis of textual self-descriptions The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) describes individual differences in self-perceptions of intellectual fraudulence. Based on the notion that personality traits ar...

New study on the Impostor Phenomenon (IP): We (@rproyer.bsky.social) analyzed textual self-descriptions and found no associations between the authors' IP self-reports and word frequencies, except for using more anxiety-related words (r = .22). www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

New publication out: "Ina picks flowers, while Klaus rides a motorcycle: A quantitative text analysis of #gender #stereotypes in German standardized #spelling #tests" Do spelling tests use gender role stereotypes? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Out now in Annual Reviews with lab member Rebekka Sendatzki: „Examining #Play and #Playfulness at #Work: Current Knowledge, Practical Applications, and Future Research Directions“ - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

How Does the Helping Alliance Relate to Treatment... : The Clinical Journal of Pain nt, previous studies have not observed an association between treatment satisfaction and other treatment outcomes, such as pain symptoms. We hypothesized that the helping alliance – both between patie...

Interesting read by lab member @kabrau.bsky.social : "How Does the Helping Alliance Relate to Treatment #Satisfaction: Dyadic Analyses in Pediatric Pain Patients, Caregivers, and Healthcare Professionals" journals.lww.com/clinicalpain... Clinical J of #Pain

And that’s a wrap on #ECPA16!

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us - especially our amazing speakers and keynotes. See you next time in Warsaw! 🧠👏

@psicologiaub.bsky.social #PsychAssessment #Barcelona2025

It was a pleasure to talk about the work published in
PTAD and get in touch with prospective authors!

🎤 Keynote by Mathias Benedek – 09:00, Palau de les Heures Auditorium
“Advancements in Creativity Assessment”

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#ECPA16 #Barcelona2025

🚨 Early-career researchers!
Join us for drinks & good convo at L’Ovella Negra Marina
📅 Wed, July 23 | 🕢 19:30

Meet and connect with fellow researchers in a chill setting. 🍻💬

#ECPA16 #Barcelona2025 #PsychologicalAssessment
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Thank you, again, for the invitation and the interesting discussion! I really enjoyed it. Happy to share our work done @unihalle.bsky.social with the participants

Ready for Day 2 at #ECPA16. Energized by yesterday’s sessions and eager for what’s ahead 🔍✨

#Barcelona2025 #PsychologicalAssessment
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Happening now:

🎤 Keynote by Andrea Hildebrandt - 9:00, Palau de les Heures Auditorium.
“Precision neurocognition: The power of modern psychometrics and open science"

#ECPA16 #PsychologicalAssessment #Barcelona2025
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#ECPA16 has officially started! 🎉👏

#Barcelona2025 #PsychologicalAssessment #ECPA16

🎓 Join us in the auditorium of Palau de les Heures for a Pre-Conference Workshop “Create your Discuss place and start evaluating in a qualitative and naturalistic way” by Oriol Barras!

🕒 Today | 15:00–16:00

#ECPA16 #PsychologicalAssessment #Workshop #Barcelona2025

Welcome addresses by the UB Rector, EAPA President, UB Psychology Dean, and our Committee Chair set the tone for great conference ahead. 🙌

#WelcomeSession #PsychologicalAssessment #ECPA16 #Barcelona2025
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ECPA 16th European Conference on Psychological Assessment! Join us in the vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain, from July 22nd to 25th, 2025.

🗓️ Just a few days to go!

#ECPA16 kicks off Tuesday, July 22 in #Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

Make sure to check our official website for the full program, venue info, and everything you need to get ready!

🔗 bit.ly/3IzDLjq

#PsychologicalAssessment #Conference #Barcelona2025

Looking forward to this!

New paper out: "An initial study on the role of #playfulness in #vocational #interests and #career choices"
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