Stefan Pfattheicher

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Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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There were voices accusing replicators building a career on non-replications...

What a cool format! 🎓

I had a great time as the opponent at Thekla Müller-Boysen’s PhD defense @au.dk. It was a strong defense and made for a fun discussion on boredom & its interpersonal consequences.

Huge thanks to @stepf.bsky.social & team for the invite 🙏

"the extremely large effect originally reported (d = 3.69)" 😱

Soziale Mobilität: Mehr Chancengleichheit – das sind wir der jungen Generation schuldig Wer etwas werden will, hat in Deutschland auffällig schlechte Aussichten. Das ist ungerecht, bremst die Wirtschaft und gefährdet die Demokratie. Das muss sich ändern.

Mehr #Chancengleichheit —

Die soziale Mobilität im Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich gering und weiter stark gesunken. Das ist ungerecht, bremst die Wirtschaft und gefährdet die Demokratie.

#Generationenvertrag

Meine Kolumne bei Die Zeit:

www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

I enjoyed your paper, very thought-provoking! I’m a bit skeptical about calling it a “seemingly meaningless scale” though. People are sense-making machines, even odd items get meaning. As you show, the scale reflects relationship satisfaction, so not “pseudo". I think you are actually measuring sth.

The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

Chart showing that the most common decade people report as the time when various aspects of society peaked was a decade in which they were of school age.

Quick, which decade had the best movies, music, TV & fashion?

Americans don't agree on the decade. But they often say it was a decade they experienced as a school aged kid. For example, the best fashion & music happened in their teenage years.
Do you agree?
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Research by @sergiopirla.bsky.social et al (N=60k across 30 countries) suggests a robust negative association between daily experiences of boredom and income; in lower income individuals, boredom is also more closely linked with sadness, worry and anxiety:

buff.ly/S1ez2xo

Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...

An international call for action just got louder:

Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde

Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally

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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

On the relation between boredom and social behavior: A registered report Boredom plays an essential role in everyday life and is a powerful motivator. This registered report investigated the interpersonal consequences of bo…

New paper out in JESP with Thekla Müller-Boysen and @stepf.bsky.social

We used three modified versions of the dictator game to test whether boredom impacts social preferences (N = 3500).

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

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Support scholar-controlled diamond open access journals. See freejournals.org, DOAJ, the new European Diamond Capacity Hub, & the Open Journals Collective. A lot is happening in this space!
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@metaror.bsky.social
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Super relevant and a huge gap in the literature!
We once tried to study everyday aggression using experience sampling but stopped due to extremely low base rates in our pretests (e.g., even observing aggression wasn’t frequent enough). Excited to see what your project uncovers!

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting"

By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén

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

#econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap

John Bargh 😱😄

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🚨 New article out!
How robust is the psychology of social class?
Together with Nicolas Sommet and ‪@frederiqueautin.bsky.social‬, we conducted large-scale replications of 35 hypotheses across four countries.
Published in Nature Human Behaviour:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧨 New draft dropped:🧨
"Cash Transfers,
Mental Health and Agency:
Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply.
Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social).
#basicincome #UBI

The misperception of carbon footprints of the rich and the poor Not everyone contributes to climate change to the same extent. While huge inequalities exist in consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions, w…

95% of people underestimate the carbon footprint of the top 1%. When presented with the actual figures, people increase their support for carbon taxes.

Our new paper (with Laila Nockur and @stepf.bsky.social) is out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They fixed it, hurrey! The material of the boardgame is now available here: osf.io/t9ngd/

I'll write the OSF help desk.

It's marked as spam, according to OSF. I'm sorry!

The game is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This means you can change, include new content, and add to all cards and instructions as you wish, just acknowledge the creator.

It is a very simple board game. We have played it with a diverse range of audiences (e.g., almost all psychology professors at Aarhus University), and it was enjoyable every time. The game is fun and easy: you throw a die and follow the instructions when you land on each section.

I was invited to give a talk on open and reproducible science. Sometimes, it is challenging to discuss this topic, so I created The Transparent and Open Science Game.

I am sharing here all materials: osf.io/t9ngd

good news about needing to listen to people like Richard Dawkins, though! British people basically don't exist. There are only two nationalities: Chinese and Indian.

Plea to my fellow academics: CITE YOUR SOFTWARE. I'm hearing from several young scholars that they've given up on writing R packages and such because nobody cites them. Yet download stats and rep materials clearly show that they are being used. This is plagiarism, and it slows down innovation

A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance

It's finally out! Our large-scaled replication attempt of the induced compliance paradigm in the study of cognitive dissonance:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...