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Check out RegCheck, the latest research tool by the lab, headed by @jamiecummins.bsky.social: Automatically compare preregistrations with papers and reports deviations.

We might be hiring a postdoc to work on this full time nexyct year, so if this flips your pancake, please get in touch!

Controlling for careless responding requires causal justification Guest post by Taym Alsalti. If you want a citable version, see this preprint with Jamie Cummins & Ruben Arslan. Okay, maybe not require require, but it would help immensely. As the title very subtl...

what if data cleaning, but too much
www.the100.ci/2025/02/18/c...

Here are some of my favorite books that I read in 2024, in no particular order. If you are a fan of intelligent nonfiction like I am, hopefully you will enjoy some of these!

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In American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 1, Joachim I. Krueger and @dgruning.bsky.social review "The Unceremonious Death of Free Will" by Robert M. Sapolsky (@penguinpress.bsky.social 2023). https://buff.ly/41qAYjN

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Same, .30 is actually decent! (We found way lower correlations, but the item was also super broad.)

Also: Do it for self-reports on intervention effects on online consumption & it‘s even worse (more reliable is honestly who dropped out of the intervention).

We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊

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The Impact of Incentivization on Recruitment, Retention, Data Quality, and Participant Characteristics in Ecological Momentary Assessments

Does it make a difference how you pay your participants in Ecological Momentary Assessment studies, and if you provide summary feedback or not? Probably yes! ➡️ New study published in the Journal of Trial and Error: doi.org/10.36850/28b...
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Now officially out in Collabra: Psychology: "The Effects of Satisfaction With Different Domains of Life on General Life Satisfaction Vary Between Individuals (but We Cannot Tell You Why)" online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Inductive Reasoning Model We introduce the Inductive Reasoning Model (IRM) as a comprehensive platform for the study of several phenomena central to self- and social perception. Going beyond the traditional phenomenon-focus...

🚨 Brace yourselves, folks! The Inductive Reasoning Model by Krueger, David GruningJ, Patrick Heck, & David Freestone is about to take the cognitive science by storm! 🌪️ This formalized model is a fresh take on social perception & can in fact make concrete predictions 🌈 bit.ly/IndReas #MindBlown

Very excited to finally share our preprint after three years in the making! With @ruben.the100.ci @brionyswire.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social @michaelgeers.bsky.social @stefanherzog.bsky.social and Ralph Hertwig, we assessed the motives for posting content. (1/x)

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Help my family evacuate from Gaza, organized by Jana Anvari Hello kind people of the world, I am asking for your help in bringing my family to s… Jana Anvari needs your support for Help my family evacuate from Gaza

My wife has family in Gaza, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews. I don’t need to tell you how bad things are, and they’re the lucky ones. We want to try to help get them out. Please, if you can, donate and/or share this gofundme link; no amount is too small. gofund.me/6356721f

We'll likely have a 2-year postdoc position in our lab (MetaMelb) in psych at Melbourne Uni, starting later this year.
If you have a PhD, do relevant stuff, & want to spend 2 years in Melbourne studying psychology research methods & practices, please get in touch!
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2024-03-13 | Input Talk | Lydia RepkeAbstractDesigning questionnaires is said to be an art. It involves knowledge and experience. To make this a more scienti... Survey mastery: a deep dive into SQP 3.0 to enhance questionnaire development

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New recording and workshop materials published!

▶️ Survey mastery: a deep dive into SQP 3.0 to enhance questionnaire development
👤 @lydiarepke.bsky.social (GESIS)
📺 youtu.be/0zvMVONgurY
📄 github.com/SocialScienceDataLab/survey-sqp-questionaire

3-year PhD position (75%) in Social Cognition

Come join us for a three year PhD position on Evaluative Conditioning in our group at the Ruhr Uni Bochum.
Primary advisor is @moritzingendahl.bsky.social

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Training process for the SurveyBot 3000

Scatter plots for synthetic vs empirical coefficients (inter-item correlations, reliabilities, inter-scale correlations)

New work by @bjoernhommel.bsky.social and me. We fine-tuned a language model to predict correlations between survey items. In our pilot, the out-of-sample accuracy was .71 for items, .86 for reliabilities, and .89 for scale correlations. A preregistered follow-up is planned.
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abstract of the talk: Title: "Building bridges between Psychometrics Island and Psychology Mainland" Abstract: "​In the last decades, ​Psychometrics Island has been bustling with creativity and productivity, resulting in beautiful models​ such as factor and network ​analysis. These models have arrived via air mail on Psychology Mainland, often with cryptic instruction material and little information about how models ought to be used. Perhaps it is not surprising that much of the applied literature using these models fall​s short of sound theory building and testing. ​For instance, researchers ​commonly conflate statistical and theoretical models​, and there is an over-reliance on fit indices ​to adjudicate between models. Latent theories are common​,​ ​w​hen authors use implicit beliefs or causal assumptions to guide inferences.​ Generally, much of the literature looks as if researchers are baking psychometric cakes following the same recipe over and over again, without generating

Excited to visit Prague this year for a talk at IMPS on the gap between psychometrics island and psychology mainland!

Take a measurement, leave a measurement zis.gesis.org/en thanks to @lydiarepke.bsky.social and other colleagues

Contact CONTACT In case of any requests, queries, or questions, please email malte.elson@unibe.ch or ian.hussey@unibe.ch. Responsible for ERROR: Psychology of Digitalisation LabUniversity of Ber...

We are currently looking for a reviewer with expertise in SAS. Domain knowledge in intergroup dynamics would be ideal, but is not a must. If you are interested or know someone who might fit this description, please let us know! Reply here or email: error.reviews/contact/

Meta Partners with the Center for Open Science to Share Data to Study Well-being Topics Using innovative methods from the open science movement to promote rigor and transparency of research, Meta and the Center for Open Science will pilot a new approach to industry-academia partnerships ...

The Center for Open Science and Meta are partnering on a pilot project to share social media data related to well-being for academic research.

We hope that this will provide a model for industry-academia partnerships to increase access of important data.

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1/8 New tutorial preprint led by @bsiepe.bsky.social in which we present different descriptive statistics & data visualization techniques with the goal to better understand EMA item functioning.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Brief overview thread 🧵

New work by David Grüning (@dgruning.bsky.social) and André Mata (2024) finds evidence for a “prediction-comprehension bias”:

“[People] overinterpret their prediction success as indicating that they have good comprehension of what they predicted.”

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Thanks much for the nods to this literature, @markrubin.bsky.social!

Both seem to be very relevant regarding similar lines of theorizing. We’ll make sure to include these in an updated version of the preprint & the submitted version!

SAVE THE DATE! We are bringing EGPROC to Berlin (August 1-2, 2024). This interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers who use various processes-tracing methods to study decision making. More info coming soon...

New paper by John Rauthmann highlighting something that's too often forgotten:
- Personality is more than basic tendencies
- Basic tendencies are more than Big Five traits
- Self-report ist just one approach to trait measurement

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

The eleven strategies are concentrated in three areas: (1) adapting research assessment criteria and program requirements (cyan), (2) offering training (purple), and (3) building communities (yellow). While Strategy 11 is part of the ‘build communities’ category, it is placed at the center to highlight the importance of building connections with others working on strategies in other areas. Institutions can support those working on the eleven strategies by allocating resources and monitoring impact. These activities are shown as two blue rings encircling the eleven strategies. The small multiples (small versions of the main graph) highlight the strategies that different stakeholders can directly use at their institutions.

📝Eleven strategies for making reproducible research & open science training the norm at research institutions.

Writen in collaboration with 50+ researchers involved in promoting open science after a virtual brainstorming event -was lots of fun !

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Plot displaying the distributions of the point estimates of the individual-level effects of domain satisfaction on general life satisfaction

People care about different domains of life (e.g., their health, social life, work) to varying degrees. It thus seems plausible that how satisfied they are with those domains matters for their general life satisfaction to varying degrees. This idea has been investigated in the importance-weighting literature with at best mixed results, but variations of it can be found across different fields of psychology and include claims that values, personality, and age moderate the extent to which different life domains affect life satisfaction. In this study, we investigated the effects of satisfaction with 14 different life domains on general life satisfaction in a study of 439 individuals who provided up to 15 diary entries, resulting in a total of 6,071 observations. All domains had positive effects on average, with the largest effects for satisfaction with leisure time usage (b = 0.19, bstd = 0.25 relative to the within-person variability) and relationship satisfaction (b = 0.16, bstd = 0.17

New preprint! What makes for a satisfying life? The obvious answer is “it depends” and so there has been a lot of interest in heterogeneous effects on well-being. In our study, we tackled the question using diary data on both domain satisfaction and general life satisfaction: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science training the norm at research institutions elifesciences.org/articles/89736

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How do we need to combine individual predictions to maximize prediction accuracy, i.e., Wisdom of the Crowd? We invite YOU to propose an aggregation mechanism that will compete with other research teams' suggestions in a number of prediction tasks. Interested? Read more: woccap.com Please repost!