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2025 Big Team Science Conference Submission Form The 2025 Big Team Science Conference will feature symposiums, panel sessions, hackathons, talks, and unconferences related to big team science. This can include projects related to completed and/or ne...

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The abstract submission deadline for the pre-Psychonomics symposium on individual differences in cognition (SIDIC), to be held on Nov. 20, is due on Friday, August 1, TWO DAYS FROM TODAY!

Here's the direct link to the abstract submission information:
caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025/su...

Having been on job search committees we have tended to wait until the deadline before reading. But others may do it differently

Example Grad School Personal Statements Clinical Psychology Graduate School Personal Statement Examples Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, PhD Jessica Schleider, PhD University of Michigan Stony Brook University Updated: June 7, 2021 Why did we c...

Hey folks: A little while aback, @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and I created a repository of SOPs to help folks prepare for grad applications.

If you'd like to add your SOP, feel free to use this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Of note, mask as you desire as I will be posting them as is.

For those interested in the one replicable Construal Level Theory study:

People think it is more useful to think about WHY they would perform a high-level task (e.g. delay discounting) and more useful to think HOW they would perform a low-level task (e.g. Proofreading).

Since the 1990s, rates of anorexia nervosa have been falling.

Yet people and practitioners way overestimate not only the rate, but also this change.

From my student Erin Sullivan

osf.io/gjncz_v1/dow...

#psych

PSA: Birth rates are not fertility rates.

Birth rates include the entire population as the denominator, and fall with population aging, even if young adults are having the same number of kids as before.

If you just got an email from APA encouraging you to come to this session, YOU SHOULD! Because the "Open Science and Methodology panel member" is ME! Come say hi! Learn about registered reports, and other awesome open science things at APA!

Just got 3 error messages that osf is having problems registering my study.

Sure glad they got rid of the files window in order to bring us this new function...

Yoooo! Another Dutch people doing unethical things in train stations study just dropped!
Very retro!

But seriously, Dutch people let white people skip paying 67% of the time but only 49% of the time if the skipper was middle eastern.

From Kasper Otten

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

#psych

That's something we are working on right now! With a few different paradigms and questions.

I will happily change the way it is described! A benefit of preprints. Would you email or dm me exactly where I describe the paper incorrectly and how it can be better?
I love the work you did, I only chose it because it was the *only* within subjects X-phi study in the X-Phi replication project.

Yes! Always going to be a bit of both.

What is SES?

We experimentally test the big 3 components in lay & expert participants.

Once you dissociate $ from job from education, it's mostly just money (but not exclusively!).

Experts also overvalue education.

This was one of my favorite projects!

osf.io/76w9m_v1/dow...

#psych #econ

Man pointing at slide PPE London Evidence against the simple validity of life satisfaction scales from long cognitive interviews Mark Fabian (Warwick), Caspar Kaiser (Warwick), Sofia Panas (Toronto), Sabina Funk (Warwick), & Caroline Brett (Edinburgh)

Mark points at slide entitled n Scales are rarely linear’

Incredibly important results from @markfabian.bsky.social and coauthors on cognitive interviewing of life satisfaction ratings. Does not exactly inspire confidence in the scales like Cantril Ladder

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

I've always enjoyed the dual beliefs many people hold of:
1) someone in their right mind who wants to end their life should have the right to do so
And
2) anyone who wants to commit suicide is not in their right mind

Just hide it in the Files tab on OSF

Completely unrelated to anything I normally do, I just love this stuff:

The genome of an Old Kingdom Egyptian showed that he was about 20% immigrant.

We should probably stop thinking immigration is some relatively modern phenomenon and realize it is deeply human.

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

People just keep using new items & scales to measure the declines & rises of happiness over age.

Unfortunately, the U-curve of happiness is not consistent across the 17 measures previously used.

We need to get our #measurement practices in order.

Our lab paper.

osf.io/7y3wf_v2/dow...

#psych

I swear I haven’t heard a good thing about Cross-Lagged Panel Models in a While.

So here's more news.

There is a way to test if, at least, there might be a time-varying confound!

Plus a great decision tree!

From @doinkboy.bsky.social & Betsy McCoach

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

#psych

What happens when kids get their first smartphone?

They spend less time watching TV/movies, but no less time sleeping or engaging in enrichment activities like reading or going to museums or playing musical instruments or…

From @leoroe.bsky.social

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

#psych

📢 Call for big-team science! plz RT
Our stage 1 RR at @pci-regreports.bsky.social, "Assessing diversity & representativeness of BTS in psychology" will start soon!

We hope to include all available BTS in this list. 👇
🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Adding BTS by commenting.

⌛DDL: 2025-7-20

The field of #sociology is a fascinating field with some interesting assumptions that uses deceptively simple procedures to ask big questions whose results are hidden behind an indecipherable wall of jargon.

Is there a literacy crisis? Or am I just old? Yes.

I had a hard time figuring out if all the stories about how kids can't read are a real problem or if it was just adults going "kids these days." So I looked into it! www.vox.com/culture/4190...

I’m going to say it despite how controversial it is:

5 is maybe the largest number of experiments any one (non meta-analysis) paper should have.

We are downing in papers with so many 'studies' it is near-impossible to keep the thread of what is happening.

#psych #stats #phdsky

In the world’s 1stcity, bodies were defleshed, dried, buried under the houses.

It included unrelated children too. When genetically related, it followed the mothers line & more often girls, showing the importance of women in 1st cities.

From Eren Yuncu

www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

#phdsky

Mark your calendars! BTSCON2025 is officially set for October 6-8th.
@psysciacc.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social @manybabies.org

Any unequal outcome can be modelled as coming from random starting points w/reinforcement OR traits causing the unequal outcomes. Both models fit equally well.

Lots of implications!

From @alexgelas.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

#phdsky

Fairness and randomness in decision-making: the case of decision thresholds - Synthese This paper defends the role of lotteries in fair decision-making. It does so by targeting the use of decision thresholds to convert algorithmic predictions and classifications into decisions. Using an...

Good new paper on why the fairest allocations of limited goods is a weighted lottery. Your chances in the lottery are weighted by the merit or strength of your claim.

An idea for funders and grant orgs?

From Kate Vredenburgh

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#philosophy #meta #phdsky