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Allie Farrell

@allisonkfarrell.bsky.social
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Assistant prof at Miami Univ (OH) studying close relationships, stress, and health across the lifespan. www.allisonkfarrell.com (she/her)

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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 12h
Out today! A joint statement in @bmj.com led by @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social and the GenderSci Lab on the risks of digital menstrual tracking offers strong caution against the use of these tools to address menstrual conditions or direct fitness and nutrition behaviors. www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint with @violetsarebrown.bsky.social: "Measuring Up: Accessible Approaches for Improving Measurement Practices in Psychological Science." The aim of the paper is to reduce barriers to entry to doing measurement work in Psychology. #schmeasurement osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here’s a video showing how it looks for the user! With example survey questions at open and close
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This week in my grad Soc of Family, we're covering Relationship Formation. First up, a quick data viz by @joannapepin.bsky.social & @philipncohen.com documenting shifts in young people's expectations of marriage & being a spouse. 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Figure 1. The figure shows data from the 1976 to 2022 Monitoring the Future Public-Use Cross-Sectional Datasets, a nationally representative annual survey of U.S. high school seniors. (A) Young adults’ assessment of how good a spouse they expect to be, by gender (“very good,” “fairly good,” “good,” “not so good,” or “poor”), by gender. (B) Young adults’ expectation of marriage (“get married,” “not get married,” or “no idea”), also by gender. The bottom panels show the percentage point change over the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 for how good a spouse they will be (C) and their expectation of marriage (D). Over the last 10 years of the survey, the percentage of high school seniors who think they will make very good spouses has dropped, as has the percentage expecting to marry. Data access and replication code are available at https://github.com/jrpepin/MTF_Marriage.
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David Chester @davidchester.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Be still my methodological heart, this study validated a set of experimental manipulations of romantic closeness motivation by showing they have a larger effect on the target construct and smaller effects on secondary constructs (i.e., the nomological shockwave)! tinyurl.com/4wujfcpa
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Bridging Hearts: Developing and Validating... : Personal Relationships
This study aimed to validate experimental manipulations to increase state closeness motivation toward the romantic partner which are implemented in...
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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Psychology has been riding the intensive longitudinal train for a bit, but what about immunology? Now live @brainbehavimm.bsky.social, our physiometric report on the stability of inflammatory proteins collected every 3 days for 22 days during a natural stressor 1/X
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Inflammatory Proteins are Highly Variable During a Natural Stressor: A Call for Intensive Longitudinal Blood Microsampling
Although research into how inflammation mediates the effects of stress on disorders such as heart disease and depression has grown rapidly, standard l…
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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/
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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
excited about this one: using longitudinal movement data and dyadic models, we show that orangutan moms adjust their ranging patterns so their kids can play with age-mates independent of kinship, at personal costs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Mothers with similarly aged offspring share more space, and their offspring play more.
Posterior effect sizes from social relations models (SRMs) of (a, b) infant-infant play scans (n = 996
infant-dyad-years across 79 mother dyads) and (c) mother-mother home-range overlap (Bhattacharyya coefficient; n
= 282 mother-dyad years across 71 mother dyads). Panel (a) shows the hurdle component (probability of play
occurrence), sign-flipped so positive values indicate higher probability of play occurrence; panel (b) shows the count
component (play frequency). Points and thick and thin lines show posterior medians with 66% and 89% credible
intervals, respectively. (d) Counterfactual home-range overlap for each dyad when offspring are the same age versus
6 years apart. Points show posterior medians across all mother-mother dyads (one horizontal bar per dyad);
background densities show population-level predictions. (e) Offspring age-difference effect on home-range overlap
versus intersection area. (f) Posterior difference between the two effects (BC overlap minus intersection area).
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Emma McGorray @emmamcgorray.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Have you wanted to make your samples more diverse or your methods more inclusive, but felt unsure how to take steps in that direction? We've built a resource website (psychgrail.com) to help!
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Páraic O'Súilleabháin @paraic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Our new registered report in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (led by Tomiko Yoneda and Eileen Graham): #Loneliness appears to be consistently associated with elevated risk of #cognitiveimpairment and #mortality across stat approaches in 11 longitudinal studies (18 countries; N=175,070)
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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New team science initiative just dropped! manyscale.org We're looking for collaborators to lead repositories of self-report measures in their own psychology subfields.
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ManyScale - A Home for Psychological Measures and Constructs
ManyScale will be a network of repositories for self-report measures in psychology.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/06/2026
Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 08/06/2026
Now that's what I call a spicy opeing: Understanding mechanisms is not a research question.
"Understanding Mechanisms?"
"Understanding" is not a research question
- how do you verify understanding?
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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
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RelaScale - Psychological Measures and Constructs
RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.
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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📝Why do Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? New paper w/ Shannon Taflinger in ESR We test 3 mechanisms: •perceived similarity in values & lifestyle •character judgments •fear of social disapproval ➡️All matter, similarity leads And: Dem women penalize out-partisans most doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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US Americans are divided along party lines, both in politics and personal relationships. While prior research shows a preference for dating co-partisans, it remains unclear why people prefer to date co-partisans and for whom the effects are strongest. Therefore, we examine whether perceived character quality of a potential partner, perceived similarity, and expected social approval mediate the effects of matching and non-matching political party on romantic interest and whether effects vary by gender and party combinations. We conducted an online dating experiment with US American partisans and partisan leaners aged 20–33 (N = 1,097). Respondents viewed six fictional dating profiles that randomly included ‘Democrat’, ‘Republican’, or no political information. Results show that romantic interest was largely driven by preference against out-partisans, rather than for co-partisans. Out-partisan rejection was driven by perceived similarity, followed by expected social approval and perceived character quality, while co-partisan preference was driven by perceived similarity and, to a lesser extent, perceived quality. The in-group preference was strongest for Republican men and women, while out-group rejection was strongest for Democratic women. Overall, our findings show that people use politics as a proxy for non-political characteristics. They also highlight the importance of distinguishing between in-party preference and out-party animosity.
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Monitoring heart rate while using smartphones provides insights into physiological responses during daily activities. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Many people write grant applications assuming their reader is engaged, but the opposite is more likely. Your evaluators are time- and attention-poor, so you should design your application with this in mind. This slide is part of a talk I'm giving today on writing grant applications
Presentation slide. Header: "Core principle 1 — Your evaluators are time- and attention-poor." Subtitle: "Design every page for the tired reader (not the engaged one)."
Left panel ("Picture This"): It's 10pm. Your application could be the fifth one your evaluator has opened tonight. The kids are finally asleep; there's maybe a half-finished glass of red on the desk. They are not going to read it the way you wrote it. Takeaway: "Make your application easy to evaluate!"
Right column, four tips: (1) Land the project on page 1 — don't build it like a story; state what, why, and how by the first page. (2) Help them fill out the evaluation form — mirror the funder's criteria in your headings so evaluators can copy-paste into their report. (3) Bold the key sentences — mark claims a skimmer must catch, but sparingly; if everything is bold, nothing is. (4) Put a summary figure on page 1 — one visual that captures the whole project and makes sense before any prose does.
Logo top right: Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Laboratory.
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 21/05/2026
Towards mechanism-focused and scalable resilience interventions Review by Sarah K. Schäfer, Jutta Stoffers-Winterling & Klaus Lieb go.nature.com/42Jtubn
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Engaging with popular ideas about relationships - such as the love languages - could help scientists improve theories of love, communicate research more clearly, and design guidance that better fits people's lives and relationships. Read more in #PSPR: ow.ly/4CCR50Z1NHG
Silhouette of a man lifting a young girl in a white dress against a golden sunset over the ocean.
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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
One thing I wish we talked about more explicitly with #earlycareer faculty is how gradually the pool of people who'll write their tenure letters develops. Impressions form slowly over the pre-tenure years, which makes visibility much easier to build over time than to manufacture later.
nfographic titled "Building Visibility in the Pre-Tenure Years." Four rows, each pairing an observation on the left with a corresponding action on the right.
Row one. Observation: the tenure-letter pool forms gradually. The pool of people who may eventually write tenure letters is not formed in year five, it develops gradually across the pre-tenure years. Action: build visibility early. By the time a tenure case is assembled, many scholars have already formed impressions through talks, preprints, grants, and conversations. Pull quote: "Start in year one, not when tenure is approaching."
Row two. Observation: visibility is not just networking. The goal is not to collect contacts. The goal is for the right people to understand your questions, your trajectory, and your contributions. Action: make the work legible. Help others understand what problems you are trying to solve and how your work is changing the conversation. Pull quote: "Who should understand your work, and why?"
Row three. Observation: impressions build through substantive engagement. Conference talks, seminars, preprints, workshops, panels, and study sections all help others see how you think. Action: share ideas consistently. Visibility grows through repeated, substantive forms of engagement. Strong work matters, but it also has to be visible and legible to the field. Pull quote: "Share ideas early and often."
Row four. Observation: sponsorship carries real weight. Senior faculty can help make visibility possible by opening doors to the conversations where reputations are formed. Action: turn mentorship into sponsorship. Nominate early-career colleagues for talks and panels. Introduce them to people who should know their work. Pull quote: "Small acts of sponsorship can carry real weight.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.
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Karen Smith @kesmith.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Check it out! Really enjoyed writing this and thinking through how our ideas about how to address this challenge have evolved in the last five years.
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Relationship Researchers Interest Group @rrigspsp.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We're recruiting new RRIG grad student AND junior committee members! Join Kori Krueger, Tatum Jolink, Yoobin Park, Judith Gere, Laura Machia, Levi Baker, and Lisa Neff to plan the SPSP close relationships preconference! Applications due May 15th. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CALL FOR JUNIOR & GRAD MEMBER 2027.docx
CALL FOR JUNIOR MEMBER The Relationship Researchers Interest Group (RRIG) seeks an application for one new junior committee member. You may self-nominate or nominate others for this role. The committe...
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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 30/04/2026
Most psychological research tells you if a treatment (or any other cause) works on average. But averages hide a lot. Some people benefit, some see no effect and some may actually be harmed. Our new primer in Psychological Methods tackles this head-on. 🧵
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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A graduate student working with me will be teaching positive psychology this summer, which is a new class for our dept. Can anyone point me/us to some resources for teaching on this topic and/or share course materials? Would love any help you can provide! 🙏
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David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"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....
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Truth and Bias in Partner Perceptions of Attachment Orientation Over Time: The Moderating Role of Relationship Quality - Jeewon Oh, Mariah F. Purol, William J. Chopik, Fiona Ge, Sally I. Powers, Paula...
People’s attachment orientations change over time and are linked with their relationship experiences. However, it is unclear whether perceptions of a partner’s ...
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Leonie Vogelsmeier @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Our paper on 13 methods for detecting careless responding in EMA has been accepted by Psychological Methods. Grateful to have collaborated with this wonderful team of researchers🍀(final post-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...).
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The Research Center for Group Dynamics @rcgd-isr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
U-M's Annelise Madison, speaking at RCGD today on inflammation & psychosocial health, describes her RUSH experiment exploring how sorority recruitment affects stress, mood, and physiological responses in undergraduate women. Follow @rcgd-isr.bsky.social for leading research on well-being & the mind.
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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.
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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Made CDS Bingo cards for my students to help them do their first conference right! If anyone would like a copy to use/adapt I‘m happy to share!
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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New research challenges what we thought we knew about men's friendships. A new study by @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Sociology grad student, Emily Fox (@emilycfox.bsky.social), asks: is the "gender friendship gap" really about gender? Spoiler: not exactly. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles
Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...
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Anthony D. Ong @anthonyong.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New paper led by SJ Shao in @commspsychol.nature.com. Across 20 days of EMA (5x daily), momentary loneliness prospectively predicted heightened social threat perception and social withdrawal. Trait loneliness amplified loneliness–rejection coupling and social disengagement @emoriebeck.bsky.social
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Loneliness modulates social threat detection in daily life - Communications Psychology
Using ecological momentary assessment and multilevel time-series models, we quantify loneliness inertia and its links to perceived social threat and social behavior, identifying dynamic patterns that ...
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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Why do participants stop responding in #ESM / #EMA studies? 📱🔔 Average compliance is about 7️⃣9️⃣%, but that hides massive variation. Our new m-Path blog reviews predictors of response compliance: study design, incentives, participant traits, and time effects. 🔗 blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...
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Predictors of response compliance in ESM / EMA research
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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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...
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Alexandra (Allie) Sullivan, PhD @alliesullivan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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. www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...
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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.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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...
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Replications Sourcing Sheet
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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:
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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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