Jeff Greene

Relationships Between Experiences of Autonomy and Well(Ill)-Being for K-12 Youth: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review Childhood and adolescence are pivotal developmental stages for psychological health. An understanding of psychological mechanisms related to well-being is important for promoting positive life outcomes for youth. Research generally shows that the basic psychological need for autonomy is significantly associated with well-being. To examine the magnitude and sources of variation in this relationship, we conducted a meta-analysis of 90 reports to analyze the average effect of autonomy need satisfaction (ANS) and frustration (ANF) on indicators of psychological well- and ill-being for K-12 (Kindergarten to 12th grade) youth. Results indicated that ANS was positively associated with psychological well-being and negatively associated with psychological ill-being among youth. Further, ANF was negatively associated with psychological well-being and positively associated with psychological ill-being. Moderator analyses indicated that the association between ANS and well-being was stronger for studies conducted with children and adolescents in East Asian countries compared to studies conducted in the USA, Canada, or Northern Europe when controlling for publication status and measurement reliability. Results also showed that the average correlation between ANS and well-being was stronger for studies located in more collectivistic countries compared to individualistic countries when controlling for publication status and measurement reliability. The relationship between ANS and ill-being was stronger for studies conducted in the USA and Canada compared to East Asian and European contexts. Together, results suggest that autonomy satisfaction is related to the well- and ill-being of youth across cultural contexts, but that there is cultural variation in the association between experiences of autonomy and well-being.

Children's perceptions that the environment supports their autonomy are correlated with higher reported well-being, and perceptions of autonomy being squelched are correlated with ill-being. Cultural variation in corr strength. Autonomy need support matters! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition titled: "Cognitive Control Is Task Specific: Further Evidence Against the Idea of Domain-General Conflict Adaptation."

The ability to ignore distracting information may be more task-specific than general. That suggests successfully ignoring distractors in one context doesn't mean someone automatically be good at it in another context. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Geesh - I’m not crying. Nope. Not at all.

Great! Would love to hear what you think of it.

What Psychology doesn’t understand about sampling and selection bias-hurts our science and what we can offer to our communities from our science. This paper tries to provide some way to address some of these concerns.

Dynamic measurement: A theoretical–psychometric paradigm for modern educational psychology Scholars have lamented that current methods of assessing student performance do not align with contemporary views of learning as situated within students, contexts, and time. Here, we introduce and...

🧠 What if we measured learning as a process, not a snapshot? Dynamic Measurement Models show how students grow — and what schools can do better. A smarter way to see learning in motion. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Me and Mira Brancu at Durham Performing Arts Center.

Welp. That John Mulaney show at DPAC in Durham was pretty much the funniest show I’ve ever seen. I didn’t think anyone would top the time we saw Chris Rock a few days after the Oscars, but Mulaney did.

Frictionless and Forgettable: How Tech Undermines Friendship and Creativity Podcast Episode · PsyberSpace: Understand Your World · 09/29/2025 · 24m

The title doesn't match the topic of the podcast, which is more about how GenAI can replace desirable difficulties and other productive challenges, subverting learning and meaning-making. It also sounds like a rundown of the ideas and concepts I teach in my classes! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Universal design of educational psychology? Improving theory and application by focusing on students with disabilities Including students with disabilities is critical to the relevance and application of educational psychology theory and research. In this article, I draw on the Universal Design for Learning framewo...

And here's Dr. Daley's full article, which is definitely a great read. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Samantha G. Daley Dr. Samantha G. Daley joins podcast host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss her Educational Psychologist article, “Universal design of educational psychology? Improving theory and application by focusing on s

Universal Design for Learning is a great way to think about supporting learners - but did you know it's also a great way to think about doing research? In this podcast episode, Dr. Samantha Daley talks about her wonderful article on using UDL to inform research.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

a woman is saying " this is new for me " ALT: a woman is saying " this is new for me "

As I close out the remaining manuscripts I'm editing for Educational Psychologist, I'm reflecting on how I'll miss the rush of reading a new manuscript abstract & thinking, "Yes! This is new. It's going to change the way people think about things!" Such a joy to have early access to great thinking.

PowerPoint title slide that says “won’t get fooled again: conscious and non-conscious processing of (mis)information.”

Really enjoyed the talk and the insightful questions from the students and faculty at the Institute for Intelligent Systems!

Do Pedagogical Agents Enhance Student Motivation? Unraveling the Evidence Through Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review The use of pedagogical agents (PAs) as learning tools within digital learning environments is rising. Previous research shows that PAs can aid learning across various domains and age groups, but…

"Our results...highlight the importance of PA design...to use PAs as a motivational tool, it is not enough to simply include a character, but rather to think carefully about its function in the learning environment, its purpose in the learning process, and its design." #PsychSciSky #EduSky

Me and Shelbi Kuhlmann standing in front of a sign that says University of Memphis.

Thrilled and honored to be at the University of Memphis to give a talk at their Institute of Intelligent Systems and to hang out with the fabulous Dr. Shelbi Kuhlmann!

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

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...

A Fragmented Field: Construct and Measure Proliferation in Psychology - Farid Anvari, Taym Alsalti, Lorenz A. Oehler, Zach Marion, Ian Hussey, Malte Elson, Ruben C. Arslan, 2025 We examined the extent to which constructs and measures have proliferated in psychological science. We integrated two large databases obtained from the American...

"We are more concerned with the measures conceived with limited planning and released into the literature without much commitment or much of a life expectancy...the main avenue to rein in proliferation of poor-quality measures is raising the bar for introducing them into the literature."#PsychSciSky

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In that vein, NSF's shutdown plans just went public: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh...

Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.

How We Can Make the Internet Helpful Again Amid an infodemic of misinformation and manipulation, it feels like the Internet uses us more than we use it. Taking back control is possible.

Identifying "misinformation" can be difficult. Perhaps we should focus on finding sources that reliably "share" benevolent information? I wrote about the qualities of those sources, here: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

Our new paper finds that AI can overcome partisan #bias

We find that AI sources are preferred over ingroup and outgroup sources--even when people know both are equally accurate (N = 1,600+): osf.io/preprints/ps...

"...skills in information selection, understanding the broader psychological, persuasive, and societal impacts of misinformation, and building resilience against its persuasive effects." (2/2)

Combatting the Misinformation Crisis: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Characteristics and Effectiveness of Media Literacy Interventions - Ellen Droog, Ivar Vermeulen, Dian van Huijstee, Davit Harutyunyan, Santiago Tejedor, Cristina Pulido, 2025 Due to the prevalence of misinformation in current media environments, there is an urgent need for effective media literacy interventions that broadly protect p...

Curation matters as much as literacy. "...recommendations include broadening the scope of media literacy interventions beyond a narrow focus on misinformation detection. Interventions should prioritize developing comprehensive competencies, such as..." (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Video: Opinion | Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Meta’s A.I. Chatbot Is Dangerous for Kids Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta’s universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrai...

It’ll be fascinating to see whether or not things like this move the needle toward stronger public support for legislating #GenAI.

Countering Misinformation: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Implications of Current Interventions: European Psychologist: Vol 28, No 3 Your password has been changed

Helpful review of four types of interventions targeting misinformation at the individual level (boosting, nudging, debunking, and automated content labeling). No magic solutions, here. I suspect a combination of individual- and system-level efforts are necessary. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Screenshot of title page of a paper published in the Journal of Educational Psychology titled: "What Are They Thinking? Exploring College Students’ Mental Processing and Decision Making About COVID-19 (Mis)Information on Social Media."

Scrolling ≠ neutral.
📱 A study of college students found:
Accurate COVID posts → positive vibes
Misinformation → negative vibes
BUT: critical thinkers sometimes ignored accurate info, and curiosity sometimes led people toward misinformation.
We need tools that help us pause + think, not just react.

Photo of me holding an iced coffee with Trader Joe's Sweet Maple Cold Foam on top.

Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!

There's a joke: "Research is me-search." I've spent my career studying self-regulation (SR) because I've struggled with SR, and thus I think it's a really important set of knowledge, skills, and dispositions to develop. This piece asks good questions that hit upon the role of SR in digital literacy.

A Model of Technology Incidental Learning Effects - Educational Psychology Review Increases in technology use, among youth and adults, are concerning given the volume of information produced and disseminated in the modern world. Conceptual models have been developed to understand how people manage the large volume of information encountered during intentional learning activities with technology. What, if anything, do people learn when they happen upon news and other information while using technology for purposes other than learning? Questions like this highlight the need to understand incidental learning, i.e., learning that occurs when people, who are pursuing a goal other than learning such as entertainment, encounter information that leads to a change in thinking or behavior. In this article, we integrate theory and research from multiple scholarly literatures into the Technology Incidental Learning Effects (TILE) model, which provides a framework for future research on how incidental learning occurs and what factors affect this process. Current research on incidental learning can be informed by educational psychology scholarship on dual-processing, motivation, interest, source evaluation, and knowledge reconstruction. The TILE model points to many promising future directions for research with direct implications for modern society, including the need to better understand how and why people move from merely noticing to engaging with incidentally exposed information as well as how to help people successfully manage the large amounts of information they encounter when using technology for purposes other than learning.

Incidental learning happens when tech, like social media, exposes us to info we weren’t seeking. Our interests, friends, and algorithms shape what we see—and what we learn can change our future feeds, behaviors, and beliefs. Understanding this cycle matters. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

⁉️ What's that? You do research on artificial intelligence and how it can be used to promote positive K-12 outcomes?

🗣️Well, then you should apply to this tenure-track assistant/associate professor position and come work with me at @uncschoolofed.bsky.social!!! 🎓

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky