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Initial actions to promote diversity can be followed by decisions “blind” to candidates’ demographics This intervention reduces concerns about a diversity–meritocracy trade-off in workplace hiring & grad admissions psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Great quote from a 100% correct piece. We know all of our models of the world are wrong, but we still have to do research and take action in the world. How do we balance those concerns?

Congratulations to Dr. Hee Yeon Im, Dr. @zachtpennington.bsky.social, Dr. @rosieshrout.bsky.social, and Dr. @milanium.bsky.social who received research infrastructure support from @innovation.ca's John R. Evans Leaders Fund! Learn more: psych.ubc.ca/news/jelf-20...

One week to go until I'll be reviewing the applications - can't wait! I've now added information on the top-up funds I have available too. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in doing a PhD in quantitative psychopathology :) miriamkforbes.academic.ws

One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential, and what should these researchers had done ahead of time to see this? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/20/w...

A reasonable interpretation is that less time on homework means lower grades. That's not necessarily the fault of AI

One of the more counterintuitive findings in relationship science is how much of what we "see" in a partner is actually something within us. I talked with Shankar Vedantam about projection and other biases in how we see people on the latest episode of Hidden Brain.

Attention early career methodologists and quantitative psychologists: Berkeley Psychology is hiring! This is an assistant teaching professor position with potential for security of employment (equivalent to tenure). Please share widely! Thank you! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05480

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

📢 We’re hiring! Postdoc in Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment at the University of Greifswald. ✨ Lots of freedom for your own research ✨ Start Oct 2026 or later ✨ Long-term perspective toward a permanent position Deadline: 15 Aug Please share — and feel free to get in touch!

Join our department! We're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology with anticipated start date of July 1, 2027. Apply by October 1, 2026. Pls. share! Learn more and apply: psych.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

This was bad enough, but he is now misleading people about it. For instance, yesterday he posted on LinkedIn that she was lying about the ruling. So I am writing to fact check the misinformation he spread and share the email with the official ruling from the NYU Office of Equal Opportunity:

Humbled and happy to have received a Veni grant by the NWO (Dutch Research Council) to continue my work on ambivalence in close relationships! Especially now, as science funding faces increasing pressure worldwide, I'm deeply grateful for this opportunity. www.nwo.nl/en/researchp...

New highlight of our work (starring Zsofia Takacs & Boglarka Vekety) showing no real changes in child behavior problems over 40+ years! grimoiremanor.substack.com/p/what-if-th... #phdsky #psych

I feel like "The conclusions of this paper are fully in line with the corresponding author's whole schtick so they really want them to be true" should count as a conflict of interest #phdsky

Next week I'm teaching a workshop on Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) using Mplus. The focus is on helping researchers use MSEM to move beyond the limitations of multilevel models and structural equation models. Registration: smart-workshops.com/msem-info More info 👇 1/

Another notch in the Dead Internet Theory's belt: Now the majority of visits to websites comes from bots more than from humans. That is probably why every website is now throwing up captcha's to even visit. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-...

What is interesting about psychology is that they did the whole replication crisis one time before in the 1970s. It is so similar to the 2010 one, you would not be able to tell if a paper on the replication crisis was published in 1972 or 2012. See rips-irsp.com/articles/10....

The evidence is clear: socioeconomic conditions play an *enormous* role in brain development Amazing work by @smarek0502.bsky.social &co doi.org/10.1126/science.aee6213 +perspective by @lucindasisk.bsky.social & @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/science.aei3393 #neuroskyence #PsychSky

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

More preregistered cognitive dissonance without choice findings! Choosing for people makes them rationalize they like the task more. From @kurtmunz.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver... #psych

What if research papers could flag potential problems before publication? @lakens.bsky.social showcases tools for identifying reporting inconsistencies, citation issues, reproducibility concerns, and other signals relevant to research integrity. Register free; open to all. tinyurl.com/3wbx9tmr

7/ There is also an important caution. Human-only teams found more major coding errors than AI-assisted teams. So even when AI assistance preserved reproduction success, it did not clearly improve the harder work of finding consequential problems in code and data.

Just published in JOSS: 'dySEM: An <em>R</em> Package for Dyadic Structural Equation Modeling with Latent Variables' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.10115

Teaching DAGs sounds easy, until students actually have to make one themselves. A new tutorial lays out simple steps to make it clear and easy for students to understand. Draw process, selection, outcome, confounds. From Nathan J. Quimpo & Peter M. Steiner files.osf.io/v1/resources... #psych

"People generally accurate in perceiving partners’ attachment, but overestimated partners’ attachment anxiety and avoidance and often projected own attachment orientation. These perceptions persisted over time and depended on how the relationship was going." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A new paper disentangles the effects of narcissism’s various traits on partnerships: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...

I'll be speaking at @psychscience.bsky.social in a symposium on "Safeguarding Democracy: Polarization, Populism, and Post-Truth" This symposium examines these dynamics and considers how democracies can build resilience in the face of authoritarianism www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

Done with my last talk before leave! This one was fun and I'm glad I added Columbo last minute. Slides here, in case you're curious: juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

New paper published in Personal Relationships 📢with Carmen Surariu and Kathy Carnelley We examined how social media self-disclosure and self-presentation relate to perceived interpersonal benefits in collectivistic cultural contexts (Brazil and Indonesia). Open access: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

#statstab #529 Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials Thoughts: Randomization is close to magic, but we still must be critical of our methods. #randomization #rct #design #critique #covariates #causalinference #ATE #confounder #bias doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

27 new videos on research methods and statistics are now live on my YouTube channel! 🧵 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Last week this man was Chamberlain to his own Hitler. This week he is Judas to his own Jesus. One can pile up the blasphemies and the ironies or one could just say that this man is unwell.

#statstab #526 A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics Thoughts: The impact of the design on conclusions is under-appreciated #demandcharacteristics #design #methodology #error #bias #metascience #metaanalysis online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Tim Errington and Abel Brodeur will be on Science Friday today talking about the reproducibility, robustness, and replicability projects in the social and behavioral sciences. Listen live at 2p ET, or at the website after: www.sciencefriday.com

There is no good vs. bad AI. The promise and peril are inextricably linked. The big take home is that we need to take collective action to change the incentive structure before it's too late. Read our summary of the entire event here: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/reflection...

In follow-up work, we will examine sources of interdependence, shared fate, and cooperation (1) among dyads to study bidirectional (i.e., partner) effects, (2) whether shared fate guides partner-choice decisions, and (3) consequences for social integration & wellbeing (9/10).

How do people know whom, and how much, to help? we (@jessicadayers.bsky.social @leecronk.bsky.social Daniel Balliet @jeremykoster.bsky.social & @athenaaktipis.bsky.social) tackle this question among the Mayangna of northern Nicaragua, who rely primarily on horticulture for subsistence 🧵(1/10).

Part 2 of my shrinkage estimator series is out! Part 1 covered the univariate case, but now we dive into multivariate shrinkage 🤓 We cover Spearman's classic correlation disattenuation formula, multivariate James-Stein estimators, and hierarchical methods too haines-lab.com/post/how-to-...

🌐Online First Publication: Good years. Bad years. Your family feels every one of them. A new 16-year study from Shrout et al. on what really drives marriages toward — or away — from the edge. 💒 doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing

2026 American Causal Inference Conference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/28/2...

For this specific topic, this post is even better. Spoiler, use either the ANCOVA-change or the ANCOVA-post. solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...