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Is withdrawing from the world into a life of contemplation or being in the world trying to heal it the best route to growing spiritually? Turns out, as @sigalsamuel.bsky.social notes, they're not mutually exclusive. The two paths can reinforce each other. More here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Common method bias can lead to spurious correlations in relationship studies Nature Reviews Psychology - Common method bias can lead to spurious correlations in relationship studies

Nice coverage of our Pseudo project in Nature Reviews. @johnsakaluk.bsky.social @davekhera.bsky.social @helenaqin.bsky.social @sarahcestanton.bsky.social

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

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

George Santos pled guilty! He admitted he committed was a criminal. #Santos

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.

Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273

"That's what kids do and if they are on a student visa, we deport them."

Congratulations to the Relationship Researchers Interest Group award 🏆winners: Bonnie Le for the Caryl E. Rusbult Early Career Award, and Mirna Đurić for the Graduate Student Paper Award! We can’t wait to hear more at the SPSP Close Relationships Preconference! 🎉

Making pasta for her sister and for us to have later. Not eating it all today.

Tried to squeeze in BlueSky post in the middle of helping my wife make pasta.

A good paper on the tradeoff of bias and efficiency is psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-...

You say a latent variable model is under identified. Yes it would be if the model is only the two indicators. But you have X and Y. As long as one of the paths from the latent variable to X or Y is non zero, ithe model identified. Also if both paths are zero the LV is not a confounder. Right?

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If you're interested in pedagogy surrounding the teaching of negotiation, I hope you'll join us for "Teaching Negotiations the Kellogg Way."

See the repost for details.

Statistical evidence in psychological networks - Nature Human Behaviour Psychometric network models have become increasingly popular in psychology and the social sciences. Huth et al. show that a large proportion of reported network findings are based on weak or inconclusive evidence inviting caution when interpreting results.

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yep. They know that every single other part of the admission process is very easy to game. I see this *all
the time* in New York— Can’t tell you how many parents I’ve seen try to game this system in insane ways.

Rich people hate standardized because regression toward the mean guarantees that on average their kids are not going to be as smart as they are and so they argue against standardized testing.

I'm a huge fan of standardized tests because they help match students who are more likely to succeed, increase social mobility, and diversify societies leaders.

See this fantastic analysis from Raj Chetty to learn more: opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/u...

Princeton is requiring #SAT scores again for admission because test scores predict student success
But using SAT scores also increases social mobility!
Rich students (top 1%) benefit immensely when there are no test scores because they have legacy & non-academic points (which don't predict success)

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

*Borsboom*

This may not be the most appropriate paper that he wrote on this topic. I will see if I can find better one.

Theory Construction Methodology: A Practical Framework for Building Theories in Psychology - PubMed This article aims to improve theory formation in psychology by developing a practical methodology for constructing explanatory theories: <i>theory construction methodology</i> (TCM). TCM is a sequence...

For many areas of social science, formal theories are premature. Very often we need to just describe social phenomena. Denny Boorsboom discusses this. See pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33593167/

I would rather read a paper on an interesting topic that had some methodological issues than than a paper on a totally uninteresting topic that was methodological excellent. All too often in social science, we shy away from studying important topics because of mythological difficulties.

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We are hiring at South Dakota State University for a 9-month TT assistant professor!! Our call is open until 2025 November 6.
Attached is the call for the job; visit yourfuture.sdbor.edu, search by the position title, view the job announcement, and click on “apply for this job.”

Announcing Winners of SPSP’s Outstanding Single Contribution Awards

We're excited to announce the recipients of the SPSP Outstanding Single Contribution Awards! Congratulations to Cialdini Prize winners Madalina Vlasceanu and Kim Doell, and Ed O'Brien - winner of the Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize.

Learn more: ow.ly/gEto50X8v6H

SPSP Elects Nick Rule to Serve as 2027 President

SPSP is excited to announce that Nick Rule (University of Toronto) as our newly elected 2027 President! Dr. Rule brings extensive leadership experience and a vision focused on collaboration, communication, and compassion.

Learn more: ow.ly/KwTi50X3KvS

The paper was led by @madalina.bsky.social & @kimdoell.bsky.social and included 256 authors who all deserve to share in this prize.

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"!

You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New PSPR Special Issue Highlights Personality and Social Psychological Theory from the Majority World

📣Just announced: Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a Special Issue focused on elevating theoretical perspectives from non-Western societies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Learn more: ow.ly/6Z1O50X4Uug

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UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...