A lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent
www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...
The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement.
In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99.
At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.
Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.
Wieder eine großartige Forscherin. Die aufgrund ihres weiblichen Geschlechts übergangen wurde.
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
And now the paper has finally been accepted, I just wanna say to all the editors: PLEASE stop sending papers back out to reviewers after 1 (at most 2) round! It’s a burden on the system when a decision could be made without reviewers’ approvals. It’s not the reviewers’ job to have a final say!
Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25.
Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
New publication out: "Ina picks flowers, while Klaus rides a motorcycle: A quantitative text analysis of #gender #stereotypes in German standardized #spelling #tests" Do spelling tests use gender role stereotypes? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New study on the Impostor Phenomenon (IP): We (@rproyer.bsky.social) analyzed textual self-descriptions and found no associations between the authors' IP self-reports and word frequencies, except for using more anxiety-related words (r = .22). www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Out now in Annual Reviews with lab member Rebekka Sendatzki: „Examining #Play and #Playfulness at #Work: Current Knowledge, Practical Applications, and Future Research Directions“ - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Interesting read by lab member @kabrau.bsky.social : "How Does the Helping Alliance Relate to Treatment #Satisfaction: Dyadic Analyses in Pediatric Pain Patients, Caregivers, and Healthcare Professionals" journals.lww.com/clinicalpain... Clinical J of #Pain
It was a pleasure to talk about the work published in
PTAD and get in touch with prospective authors!
