Thomas Meyer

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Apparently, there is still funding left in academia even though Springer Nature made $489 million profits off of it in 2024. And now they are telling researchers what great news that is.

Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820)
#springernature #closedscience

Ok researchers rise and shine, it's groundhog day - what better way to get you up to date with what has been going on at the FORRT Replication Hub? forrt.org/replication-...

The annals of Elsevier villainy are extensive, but perhaps their funniest gambit was when they started six "Australasian" fake journals that were really just sponsored publications for pharmaceutical companies, set up to launder their marketing as ostensibly peer-reviewed research.

The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self The recent exceptional growth in the number of special issues has led to the largest delegation of editorial power in the history of scientific publishing. Has this power been used responsibly? In thi...

PISS journals 😂
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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I am very proud to have published my second file-drawer report at my favourite journal Meta-Psychology together with Lisa Incerti, @tobiasrebholz.bsky.social, Christian Seida, and Frank Papenmeier. It includes four failed attempts to confirm a new hypothesis on #anchoringeffects.

Congrats! Do you have a link to the full paper?

The social constructivist movement in science has provided the fuel for the rise of anti-vaxxers and climate change denial. What is the best paper that provides a historical analysis of these negative consequences of social constructivism?

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Very pleased to share this meta-analysis on the relationship between interpretation biases and anxiety. This was a huge team effort, and it’s great to see it finally out. Happy reading!

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

How Effortful Is Boredom? Studying Self-Control Demands Through Pupillometry, from Vanessa Radtke, @wanjawolff.bsky.social, and @corimartarelli.bsky.social #RegisteredReport doi.org/10.1525/coll...

For many social dilemma's in Science (e.g. the slow uptake of diamond open access journals) stronger top down management is necessary. It won't just happen. If scientists will not create this management themselves, someone is going to create it for us.

Just feeding "slow uptake of diamond OA journals" with numbers from Germany: According to OA Monitor (open-access-monitor.de/open-access), which uses WoS, Scopus, and OpenAlex, we are talking about less than 5% (!) of articles being published as Diamond OA.

Systematic reviews can very quickly become outdated. Living systematic reviews (LSRs)—which continuously integrate new evidence—offer a solution, but their adoption has been limited to date.

In our new preprint, we suggest two approaches that can help facilitate LSR uptake osf.io/preprints/ps...

Must We Always Go Idiographic? - Cognitive Therapy and Research Purpose While psychological change processes are increasingly assumed to be “non-ergodic”, prompting a shift toward idiographic approaches, the assumption of ergodicity is often accepted a priori rath...

🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT

Task-related effort - distinguishing boredom- and difficulty-related effort via electrodermal activity Exerting effort is central to human performance, with the sources of effort varying across tasks. While traditionally linked to task difficulty, effor…

Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩

- We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity

Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement - Nature Reviews Psychology Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of global disease burden. In this Perspective, Fried et al. argue that limited progress in understanding, predicting and treating depression despite a...

Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

From Maltreatment to Mistrust: Impaired Belief Updating as a Mechanism Linking Childhood Maltreatment to Interpersonal and Clinical Outcomes Childhood maltreatment (CM), defined as caregiver-perpetrated abuse or neglect during childhood or adolescence, is associated with enduring social dys…

Next article of our special issue published in BRAT, examining the role of childhood maltreatment (CM): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Adults with CM history showed impaired belief updating when interacting with strangers and such deficits moderated the association of CM and PTSD symptoms.

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Nature Psychology Review is a journal created by a commercial publisher because it is easy profit. Review articles are easy to write, get cited a lot. Slap Nature on it and you get a high IF.
It should flip to a diamond open access journal. Submit your review articles elsewhere.

Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated and contribute differentially to treatment outcome in anxiety disorde... Responses to exposure therapy vary across individuals, emphasizing the need for a deeper understanding of its underlying mechanisms. This study examin…

Great to see the next article of our special issue on belief updating out in BRAT. In this large clinical trial, the authors investigated the relative importance of expectancy violation vs fear reduction as two rationales of exposure therapy. For details, see 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Excited to share my first Stage 2 recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
💡Probe-based attentional retraining does not reduce worry.
Pond et al. found that a classic ABM protocol did not shift threat bias or anxiety in high-worriers.
✅Read more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

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...

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über Überlastung!

7 von 9 planetaren Belastungsgrenzen sind überschritten. Das zeigt der neue "Planetary Health Check" (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Vorher waren es 6. Die Ozeanversauerung ist jetzt neu dazu gekommen.
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In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden!

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

Biased Belief Updating in Relation To Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Two Studies Using Feedback from Real Social Interactions - Cognitive Therapy and Research Background Depression has been related to difficulties in updating negative beliefs in response to novel positive information. Research on this issue in the context of social feedback is scarce, thoug...

New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
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New prologue episode of Nullius In Verba! We read Boring's paper on The Psychology of Controversy nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/prologus-6... Written in 1929, but relevant as if he based in on scientists arguing on social media for the last decade. A must read - or, you can just listen to it!