John Guilaran

Over 11k video games (1993-2016), competitive content declined and prosocial content (friendship, warmth, care) rose, within genres and within franchises osf.io/preprints/ps...

Social investment in universities to independently pursue knowledge for its own sake is the greatest driver of innovation we've every known. That is *the* message, and our leaders aren't doing nearly enough to help policy makers understand it.

🤔 Did you know IAAP has 18 Divisions, each dedicated to a different field of applied psychology? Our Divisions are driven by members who share their expertise, ideas, and time to help strengthen our global community. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/KJ5bhYu

EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database, is the most widely used and trusted global disaster database for tracking disasters. It is at risk of closing. I have just signed the petition to preserve it. openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...

Such a lovely piece. Takahē ♥️

Asta to Sally: "You can research and experiment as much as you want, as long as you don't hurt anyone or cause trouble! And if you use your research to help people, we'll gladly help you out, too! You'd be happy then, right?" Black Clover and research ethics!

Sexual haarassment rates are higher in climates that create a perception of tolerance of harassment Organizations where harassment occurs see reduced employee satisfaction, lower organizational commitment, increased absenteeism, and deteriorating relationships pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29894119/

It’s that time of the year again when APA reminds me to keep my membership.

"Reject With Invitation to Resubmit" “I don’t know if this is all down to journals gaming their metrics, rejecting lots of mss quickly in order to have high ‘rejection’ rates and quick times to ‘final’ decision... But whatever the reason(s), it’s all become a pointless charade.” #AcademicSky

Very cool to see this commentary on the responsibilism project published in Nature Human Behaviour by Adam Cohen and Amiryah Toves. They did a great job of getting to the heart of why this problem was so vexing for years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The brain must hold onto the specific details of a single event, but it also needs to find patterns across multiple events to predict what might happen in the future.”

I highly appreciate this directed graph showing which language is used to indicate incomprehensibility in different languages (eg, “it’s Greek to me”)

This is good advice for prospective PhD students. I'm getting a ton of emails that are heavily written by AI. If you can show that you've actually read some of the research yourself and have a few original thoughts about it you'll definitely stand out.

We really need to make Meng's Big Data Paradox central to teaching, don't we? Researchers don't know this stuff bc they have never been exposed to it. But it is fundamental. (Link to paper PDF statistics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...)

Anime weekends. Binging on Black Clover.

After a long peer-review process, I'm so excited to share a pre-proofed version of our paper titled "Social Support among LGBTQ, Cisgender, and Heterosexual Undergraduate Students: An Egocentric Social Network Study," accepted for publication in the American Psychologist. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Professors in the Philippines really don’t have it easy. Most of us have full teaching load (4-6 courses per entire semester without TAs), do research with very low institutional support, and perform a lot of other tasks on top of teaching and research.

This is why pervasive use of GenAI by university students is such a problem. (*) We do not set you an essay on the fauna of the lower Carboniferous because we want to read it (*) We do not make you write a computer program from scratch because we need to run that program (1/2)

05 October is world teachers’ day. Here’s to thank all my teachers from grade school to grad school!

Finally, it's out! I contributed a chapter on Disasters and Mental Health as part of the World Scientific Book Series in Extreme Events: Risk Analyses and Actions. www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Mohammad Atari presents data measuring moral values in texts across history at SESP Montreal. #SESP2026

A new study found smartwatches overestimated people’s caloric burns by about 15 to 25 percent. If you're using your watch to track calories, an exercise scientist recommends to check the number after a workout and round down.

Does spreading mental health awareness online amplify self-diagnosis? In my first PhD pre-print, I empirically examine this question (n =3392) with some kick-ass collaborators and tools from cultural evolution A 🧵

Teaching GenZ students is sometimes wild. In today’s discussion on sleep and dreams, we briefly touched on Freud’s dream interpretation. When I asked about manifest content, one student said it is when we dream about what we want to achieve. I cannot. #manifesting

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

Support for meritocracy (accept performance-based inequality, reject luck-based inequality) is common in countries that are richer, equal, individualistic, with weaker kinship ties and democratic institutions Other countries prefer egalitarian or libertarian fairness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am always thankful that our faculty room never runs out of coffee, and coffee mates. These breaks serve a purpose beyond momentary rest; they facilitate socialization, emotional connection, and (of course), increase of one’s perceived social support and social integration.

Hard work does not always pay off.

“AI systems rely on published studies for training, and if those studies disproportionately report positive outcomes, the derived models will replicate and amplify this skew.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re asking the wrong question about AI in research www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/were... “There is a difference between using AI to improve readability, assist translation or help organise information, and using it to generate substantive interpretations, evaluations or decisions.”

Me: book chapter deadline is this week. It’s a race to the finish line! The Universe: Wait a sec, you have 5,673 meetings scheduled this week.

I appreciate it when colleagues do things with a bit of human kindness. Stop by the office, make a phone call, it doesn't all need to be formal, written messages. Scientists are human beings

“When resilience is celebrated in the absence of structural change, it allows institutions to sustain austerity, while avoiding accountability for the systems that produce overwork, insecurity and exhaustion.” www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/its-t...

Higher perceived social support predicted less decline in attention over time. www.news-medical.net/news/2026092...

Online toxicity silences the majority and fuels power users On social media, extreme or hostile content often gains the most visibility. This creates a spiral of silence among most users But polite and constructive environments encourage silent readers to share www.psypost.org/how-online-t...,

These predatory/deceptive practices are often connected with how we do academic evaluations in universities. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

World Risk Report 2026. And we are, once again, number 1. #Philippines #WorldRiskReport2026 weltrisikobericht.de/decf411b-04e...

holy fucking shit - see Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rip through a survey eligility test I was really proud of... It requires tracing a route through designated points on a map with server-side Javascript applying eligibility criteria. (1.5 min video)

I wonder what the X and Y axes are. 😅

First time to bike to work since I returned from sabbatical leave last month. Feels great!

I've been noticing that “cross-sectional” has become shorthand for “methodologically weak” in (network) research, and often data being cross-sectional is treated as a methodological objection in itself. I took some time to put my thoughts down in writing. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵⬇️

“Climate change appears to be contributing to more frequent and severe migraine flare-ups by amplifying environmental conditions that are already known triggers….” www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

How is the world doing on the development goals it set for 2030?

Good morning, from the GMT +8 time zone!

From southern Africa to the Amazon, the risks of the worst El Niño in recorded history are mounting and the window for action is rapidly closing, says Zeke Hausfather go.nature.com/4cZcfZ1

The Motivational Benefits of Group Membership in the Face of Climate Change: Ingroup Identification Increases Approach Motivation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...