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Chicago Restaurant Recs Chicago Restaurant Recommendations from Jin Goh and Lydia Emery Chicago has an amazing food scene. You can get a great meal in pretty much any neighborhood, all of which have unique culture, food, an...

SPSP is just around the corner and in our backyard of Chicago! @lydiaemery.bsky.social and I love the Chicago food scene, and we've put together a list of places we like. We hope this will help you enjoy and explore Chicago!! See y'all soon!!

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The STRESS Lab is recruiting 4 full-time Research Assistant I positions across multiple research projects led by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social (Director and PI of the @stresslab.bsky.social).

Position details and application instructions are linked below.

Trauma or Toxic? A Deep Dive into the Impact of Stress on Kids’ Health UCSF researchers found evidence that stress occurring as early as before birth or as late as adolescence can affect multiple conditions in kids, from asthma to mental health to cognitive functioning.

Very proud to share this Annual Review synthesizing 75+ years of research across 150+ studies on how stress, starting as early as the prenatal period, shapes children’s health across systems. This is the first review to center interdisciplinary pediatric outcomes.
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Replications Sourcing Sheet

Join our Replicability Project: Health Behavior!

We have 55 replication studies underway, our target is 65-70.

We are only recruiting for secondary data replications--i.e., using existing data to test the original question.

Here's a list of studies we think could be feasible.

If interested...

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer

Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

Yes, it's one of the most common measures of relationship closeness! psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-...

Very cool to see this measure from relationship science move into poli sci!

A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536)

Only 50% of findings replicated

Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Is social interaction a tradeoff of autonomy for belonging compared to being alone? New paper by phenom @elainehoan.bsky.social says yes if you're interacting with strangers, no if you're interacting with friends/family. With a romantic partner you gain in both. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The comparison isn't 20 mins driving time versus 40 mins bus time; It's 20 mins primarily focused on driving versus 40 mins where you can do most work or personal enjoyment tasks that can be accomplished while sitting quietly in a chair

Growing up Different(ly than Last Time We Asked): Social Status and Changing Reports of Childhood Income Rank - Social Indicators Research How we remember our past can be shaped by the realities of our present. This study examines how changes to present circumstances influence retrospective reports of family income rank at age 16. While retrospective survey data can be used to assess the long-term effects of childhood conditions, present-day circumstances may “anchor” memories, causing shifts in how individuals recall and report past experiences. Using panel data from the 2006–2014 General Social Surveys (8,602 observations from 2,883 individuals in the United States), we analyze how changes in objective and subjective indicators of current social status—income, financial satisfaction, and perceived income relative to others—are associated with changes in reports of childhood income rank, and how this varies by sex and race/ethnicity. Fixed-effects models reveal no significant association between changes in income and in childhood income rank. However, changes in subjective measures of social status show contrasting effects, as increases in current financial satisfaction are associated with decreases in childhood income rank, but increases in current perceived relative income are associated with increases in childhood income rank. We argue these opposing effects follow from theories of anchoring in recall bias. We further find these effects are stronger among males but are consistent across racial/ethnic groups. This demographic heterogeneity suggests that recall bias is not evenly distributed across the population and has important implications for how different groups perceive their own pasts. Our findings further highlight the malleability of retrospective perceptions and their sensitivity to current social conditions, offering methodological insights into survey reliability and recall bias.

The GSS asked the same people about their childhood income rank three different times. 56% changed their answer, even though what was trying to be measured couldn’t change! We dig into this in a new article at @socialindicators.bsky.social. 



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For my #psych profs, update to add to your availability heuristic slides

The Development and Validation of a Dimensional Childhood Adversity Measure - Angelina Pei-Tzu Tsai, Peter F. Halpin, Lucy Lurie, Meredith Gruhn, Maya Rosen, Donald H. Baucom, Michael B. Sarabosing, S... Research on the developmental consequences of early adversity has grown rapidly, yet measures of childhood adversity have not kept pace with evolving theoretica...

The Development and Validation of a Dimensional Childhood Adversity Measure journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My first year, a senior person who was giving a guest lecture asked me “Who is looking out for awards for you?” That was a good impetus to reach out to my mentors and ask them to nominate me. I am trying to remember to be that person for others now

Technoference (how tech gets in the way of building/maintaining in-person social ties) was a major emphasis pre-COVID. Since then, more work has examined benefits to virtual interaction, esp. for people who would otherwise be isolated, & I'm starting to see work comparing the two contexts directly

Some researchers refer to this as "social snacking"-- It feels good in the moment, but does not imbue the full benefits or social "nutrition" that in-person social interactions do

Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments.

My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

It's out!!🌶️🔥

I once had a student explicitly argue that he was the customer to be catered to.

I explained that, if we *had* to use the customer framing, he wasn't the customer but the product. He was being given an education & then a degree that future employers would see value in.

My job? Quality control.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com

It's less personal, but it does get them moving around, talking to one another, and learning each others' names!

In Stress & Coping, I give each student a slip of paper with a different definition of stress and a bingo boards to complete with classmates' names based on their stress definitions, with objective ("mentions biological response") and subjective ("you think is a bad definition") squares to fill

I have a friend who opens some of his courses with Aron's fast friends paradigm, so they at least get to know one person in the class! He says sometimes he sees them end up choosing to sit next to one another all semester because of it🥰

The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection.

This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

If we don't laugh, we cry

Maybe we can turn the merch into sandbags that conveniently follow all branding identity guidelines...

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky