Chris Carpenter

Validation of an efficacy of lying scale Efficacy of lying is the belief that lying is an effective and efficient communication strategy. A new measure of efficacy of lying is presented to assess the belief that lying is an effective way ...

Our article titled, "Validation of an efficacy of lying scale" is now in an issue. If you want a self-report scale that measures people's belief that lying is effective, we've got you. There's a bonus finding about superdiffusers.
Click here for a free copy:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGJWP...

Congratulations!

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

Yes, there are some classics in that series.

Thanks, I will check it out!

A Second Sight Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation t...

I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025 Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“The right boundary for thinking about a problem rarely coincides with the boundary of an academic discipline, or with a political boundary.”
-Donella H. Meadows, “Thinking in Systems”

Associate Professor or Professor in Journalism - School of Communication Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

#OhioState is hiring -- can you help us find an established journalism scholar? Deadline is 10/1 osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j... #commjobs #ICA26

“I’m not an alien.”

I’ll hope not with one hand and do what I can with the other.

I never buy luxury brands inconsistent with the characteristics with which I describe myself (seven point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree)

Guys today is a red-letter day for bad survey questions. Look at this lovely double negative that just rolled in!

Probably just because they thought it looked badass.

Ouch, what the hell, Ohio?

This conference site is a disaster.

"No president has the legitimate authority to impose such a review. Established by Congress in 1846 as a unique and independent agency, the Smithsonian Institution is not, and has never been, under the authority of the Executive Branch."

My brain when abbreviations overload:

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

I hate that BlueSky is following the Twitter model and labeling harmful content.

Posts that violate the community standards need to be removed. Users who violate them repeatedly need to be deplatformed.

A label does absolutely nothing except inform everyone that BlueSky will do absolutely nothing.

Academic whiplash:
I received an email with a desk reject from one journal and an email with an R&R from another journal. The emails arrived one minute apart.

This week, the board met in person for the first time since the email vote. At the meeting, Dean gave an informational presentation about tenure at the university, including how the process typically works. The board wasn't entirely receptive. Trustees Marty Kotis and Jim Blaine both reiterated their opposition to tenure, while Perrin Jones and Rob Bryan raised skeptical questions. Much of the discussion centered around the net present cost of tenured faculty-the metric Clemens argued against using—and how the board can provide strategic and financial oversight of those decisions given the commitment of long-term resources. Preyer said he supported tenure in general but felt it had been given out "willy-nilly" in the past. He also inquired about ways to oust tenured faculty who "retire on the job." No one discussed the other side of the accounting ledger, as Clemens had. Roberts did not weigh in on the discussion.

Pretty grim kicker on an overall bleak outlook on the future of UNC

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors They've already told us everything we need to know...

They've already told us everything we need to know...
www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...

Of course they are.

Thanks again to Erin Spottswood for collaborating on this paper, the original model, and the various tests of the model we published previously. This paper tests one of the last major untested predictions of the model and was one of the ones Erin came up with for the original model. 3/3

people see their friends engaging in more friendship maintenance behaviors with each other than with themselves, they report more loneliness. This effect was stronger for those with higher network awareness (S1) and among those perceiving higher levels of the affordance of accessibility (S2). 2/3

Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model The hyperperception model (Carpenter & Spottswood, 2021a) makes predictions about when an observer of others’ social media interactions may be misperceived. We used this model to make predictions a...

New Pub:
"Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model" in Comm Quarterly

We used our hyperperception model to predict what kind of social media experiences are associated with loneliness. We found that when 1/

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PGVPM...

Coding for a systematic review: 5% of the studies included suck up about 75% of the time it takes to finish, and most of that time could be saved if people reported results in a way that was straightforward.

She’s an author on a paper in the first issue of JPSP!

Psychologists Have Been Wrong About Death For 40 Years Smart people are sometimes the last to realize that the cognitive ship they are captaining is about to sink.

Is research into ego depletion and terror management progressing or degenerating? Smart people will disagree because:

“The smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.”

#MetaSci