Brett Murphy

Automated Algorithmic Data Analysis for Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Invariance Assessment: A Tutorial for ACAMIA | Social Cognition ACAMIA is a free, open-code, R-based tool that automates multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance assessment, which are crucial for social cognition research and beyond. ACAM...

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Check out new ShinyApp for testing measurement invariance!

By Schemmerling, Kotzur, & Friehs. Out in Social Cognition

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(I *love* how researchers create these, and share. Great service to field. Thanks!)

Please join us for "Empathy as an Interpersonal Process," a virtual symposium with moderated discussion on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time.
Learn more here:
www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3 Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

YouTube video by The Love Consortium The Love Consortium Dataverse: Behind the Data

Learn more about Dr. Jessica Maxwell's speed dating study, featuring data from 400+ participants at 16 events, in her conversation with TLC Founding Director Sara Algoe in this video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjv...

Major shoutout to @andrew.heiss.phd for recreating FiveThirtyEight's p-hacking app. My teaching prep panic at discovering the broken link lasted only a few minutes of googling thanks to this beautiful replacement:
stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way

Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications The Art of Learning from Rejection

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.

CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.

But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Our latest TLC Newsletter spotlights @jaimiekrems.bsky.social from UCLA and her work as Co-founder/Director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, the first academic hub dedicated to decoding and strengthening friendship.
Learn more in our latest newsletter here: go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...

Grace Vieth shares how the unique contextual features of adult friendships make them ideal relationships for positive processes in the latest TLC Newsletter. Read her deep dive here.
go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...

For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

Instant classic!

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...

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/...

Authored by @kaileylawson.bsky.social, @jazpeitia.bsky.social, Ella Lombard, and Terrence Pope

Want to know what a sample of 200+ editorial board members think about citing practices in psychology? That and much more in this AMPPS article. We had a lot of fun pulling it together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Exciting news! I'll be working with the Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social as a fellow to develop an intervention aimed at improving the well-being of youth on social media. The intervention will train youth to engage skilfully with emotions on their feed using wise empathy.

Awesome stuff, Greg!!

When the quant profs and grad students in my department ask me what Brunswick's lens model is

GitHub - giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup: A very simple script for backing up all your data and .qsf files from Qualtrics (bug fixes) A very simple script for backing up all your data and .qsf files from Qualtrics (bug fixes) - giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup

Need to backup your Qualtrics?
I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation.

Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now.

Hope it's helpful to others:
github.com/giladfeldman...

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

All new assistant professors “enjoying” their first day: have a great one! You’ve got this!!!!!

Great reference

I love reading philosophy. Most philosophers are so politically incorrect - challenging the status quo, even challenging God. Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane. -- Mike Tyson

Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵

Conspiracies emerge in the wake of high-profile events, but you can’t debunk them with evidence because little yet exists. Does this mean LLMs can’t debunk conspiracies during ongoing events? No!

We show they can in a new working paper.

PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming I cannot say for sure when Bill Moyers first developed such a...

I wrote about my former boss, Bill Moyers.

Posted by Nick Crain (@CrainNBA) on twitter, this is the best video I've seen capturing the size of the crowd as Scissortail Park.

JDub makes sure the whole staff gets to touch The Larry O’Brien Trophy 🏆💯

It is past time to abandon the term “dark” as a descriptor of antagonistic traits.

A new viewpoint by @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social

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Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

The Real War Will Never Get Into the Books The best way to avoid the next terrible war is to unflinchingly look at the reality of the last one

This started out as a June 6, 1944 social media post that got insanely out of hand. So I did it on our substack page instead.
I'd say "enjoy", but it really ain't that kind of piece.
dancarlin.substack.com/p/the-real-w...