Thomas Meyer

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Fundamentally: the fact that LLMs' output is linguistic has a MASSIVE attention capture over social scientists in particular.

We need to keep our wits about us when we use these models and avoid anthropomorphizing them purely because of formal similarities in language.

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New paper: Blaming the Thermometer for the Fever: Separating Misapplication from Method in Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, with @laabho.bsky.social and @jnwulff.bsky.social. We – strongly – push back on criticisms against NHST and argue for proper application. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... >

Can you use off the shelf generative LLMs (eg ChatGPT, Claude) to assess personality from brief bits of unconstrained, open-ended text? If so, how well do they do?

Turns out you can, and they do amazingly well. I couldn't believe how well.

Here's our pre-print on it and a 🧵

Okay, this is not mine. I saw it while scrolling on Instagram. But I basically peed my pants laughing. PhD students are just lil bebes. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Sounds like poor peer review indeed, and will done that you protested. But AI was not the problem; bullshit was.

New lab paper on leisure, effort, and meaning by @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social, @gregdepow.bsky.social, and Srishti Agarwal from @amuselabs.bsky.social. Check it out!

Friend, tutor, doctor, lover: why AI systems need different rules for different roles What we want from AI systems depends on the kind of relationships they are trying to simulate.

'As AI becomes more embedded in our social fabric, we need nuanced frameworks that recognise the unique nature of human-AI relationships.'

The @uehiro.ox.ac.uk's Dr Brian D Earp co-writes this article ⬇️
theconversation.com/friend-tutor...

🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky

When spatial memory for scene elements was strengthened, participants had fewer intrusive memories compared to a perceptual control task - supporting dual representation theory linking (allocentric) spatial memory to trauma resilience. This may inform new intervention approaches to PTSD.

🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky

Imagine a country with a shrinking workforce where pregnancy and childbirth can put a family in $15k debt.

If for no other reason, you should read our new paper on mixed methods in psychology because we managed to get limecat in there. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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Postdoctoral Position | Center for Adaptive Rationality

We are hiring, @arc-mpib.bsky.social a postdoc for a project to investigate why citizens feel alienated from liberal democracy and how a shared sense of reality can be restored.
Work with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig and me:
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2084802/2025...

In 2024, Infant and Child Development (ICD) withdrew as a PCI RR-friendly journal and reneged on three Stage 1 recommendations issued by PCI RR. In addition, Wiley – the publisher of ICD – notified PCI RR and the PCI core team of its decision to withdraw all Wiley journals from PCI and PCI RR, including an additional 9 PCI-friendly journals. Finally, Wiley appears to have banned all of its ~1600 journals from considering submissions that have been previously reviewed by PCI or PCI RR. This statement explains the history of ICD joining PCI RR and developments that led to the current outcome. The PCI RR Managing Board believes that this shift in policy to become “PCI-hostile” renders Wiley journals incompatible not only with community-based preprint review but with preprint archiving in general.

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social

Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub

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The Beauty of Pointlessness Even if you know very little about The Big Lebowski, you probably know that The Dude loves bowling.

New post: What if the best things in life… had no point at all? I wrote about bowling, mice on running wheels, the overjustification effect, and why The Dude abides while we optimize ourselves into misery. Sometimes joy needs no justification.
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The Decameron!

Well yeah, the bar for this comparison wasn't particularly high...

Congrats! Liège is such a lovely city :)

Promising for a group intervention when compared to routine care, or not? But no preregistration or did I miss it? And, umm, "No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study"?

My favorite part about this, is that if I submitted a report, final paper, research paper, etc. with fabricated sources I would be KICKED OUT OF MY PHD PROGRAM.

But the SECRETARY OF HHS can do it without recourse.

If you work in psychology in a research area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.

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📢 New Research Alert! 🚨
Our meta-analysis - just published in @nathumbehav.nature.com reveals that social comparison as a behavioural change technique (SC-BCTs) can effectively change behaviour #BehaviourChange #SocialComparison #MetaAnalysis #Research

Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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