iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My paper with @chrisoveis.bsky.social, Emily Zohar, and @minzlicht.bsky.social about regulating empathy on social media is now out in SM+S doi.org/10.1177/2056.... We show that training individuals to 'share not compare' for + emotions and 'care not share' for - emotions improves their well-being.

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Wise Empathy Improves Well-Being on Instagram - Gregory John Depow, Christopher Oveis, Emily Zohar, Michael Inzlicht, 2026

Two-thirds of the global population spends significant time browsing social media, making it critical to understand how to improve online experiences to support...

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David Chester @davidchester.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Laypeople don't tend to think 'dark' is an appropriate term for psychologists to use to refer to antagonistic traits. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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APA PsycNet

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André Bittermann @abitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reference limits can exacerbate biased citation behavior! In my current commentary article on the work of @kaileylawson.bsky.social, @brettmurpsych.bsky.social, et al. (2025), I provide empirical support for this thesis. Now published #OA @collabrapsychology.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1525/coll...

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I see everyone is posting about their labs taking PhD students with pretty AI made posters. So here's mine made with Paint because I'm a luddite. See lab website for details www.pbandjlab.com

a poorly drawn poster made in Paint with words saying "PB & J Lab is looking 4 new PhD student!! Apply!!"

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today’s song is “That Woman Called Mary” by Lightnin’ Hopkins. Performed for a docu in 1968 when he was 56. The canonical blues structure but loose and conversational. Listen to the sheer slowness, the unrushedness of the performance and yet how mesmerizing and magnetic. youtu.be/HbJiriEol44?...

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Samuel Lightnin' Hopkins - The Blues

YouTube video by Javier Eder

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 01/08/2026

Some photos of our recent film shoot in Indonesia for our video for Episode 21, on the Empire of Majapahit. Really excited to share the results with you all when it's done! All reenactment footage we use is 100% real, with human actors and costumes, and always will be!

Photo of our film shoot in Indonesia. A camera looking at some men in costume.

Photo of our film shoot in Indonesia. Some royal women and a queen walk down the stairs.

Photo of our film shoot in Indonesia. Two men in Javanese costume stand in front of a far-off temple.

Photo of our film shoot in Indonesia. The people are in traditional costumes and are holding a banner saying "Fall of Civilizations from Indonesia".

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 31/07/2026

🏝️🌋 Episode 21 is now live! 🌋🏝️ This time we look at the Majapahit Empire on the island of Java. With traditional music, shadow puppet performances, and readings in Old Javanese, find out how the empire of the islands fell. YouTube: youtu.be/01CZBhZM430?... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3xZ9...

Sunset at the temple of Borobudur in Java.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Amazing. Ancient Egyptian versus Modern Egyptian Arabic. Video is in Egyptian Arabic but you'll get the gist of it. Some words haven't changed in 5,000 years. Via www.instagram.com/reel/DYKjGpA...

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?

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Dr. Rosie Shrout @rosieshrout.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Excited to share our new blog about how family and friends affect marital stability. Our unexpected but not too surprising takeaway: A good marriage can buffer an unsupportive family, but a supportive family can’t fully protect a struggling marriage @spspnews.bsky.social @josoperrel.bsky.social

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Can Family and Friends Make or Break a Marriage? | SPSP

Family and friend relationships are important, but the quality of the marriage matters most.

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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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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Empathy & Moral Psychology Lab will be at APS in Barcelona! Unfortunately, I can't be there in person. Check out @amormino.bsky.social's symposium & talk, @jokretz.bsky.social's first talk, two talks by @jdweng.bsky.social (including one on my behalf), @farvk.bsky.social's poster. A great team!

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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

1/ We've been measuring intellectual humility wrong. Most scales ask "are you intellectually humble?" but the people least humble are the most miscalibrated about it. They overclaim. The #humilityparadox. Out today in Behavior Research Methods. Here's what we did instead. 🧵

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A meta-analysis is not a ‘easy’ publication. Search strategy development, screening, more screening, data extraction, requesting additional data, risk of bias assessments, the actual synthesis, write up—it all takes time. Many people heavily underestimate the resources required to complete one

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The preprint is now available: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thanks to the PsyArXiv moderators for their speedy review! Freely available to any who want to read about the many ways in which the oft-cited literature on desistance spectacularly fails to support the claim of widespread desistance

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I consider Dr. Foa’s exposure therapy work among the most profound achievements in clinical psychology. Her work has saved so, so many lives. She led a big life. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/h...

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Edna Foa, Who Pioneered Exposure Therapy to Treat PTSD, Dies at 88

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Robert Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm excited to announce one of the two big Consortium on Moral Decision-Making conferences for spring 2026. In June, we're collaborating with Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics to host "AI and Social Research: Empathic AI, Metascience, and Methodology" here on campus and hybrid on Zoom.

Poster reads "AI and Social Research: Empathic AI, Metascience, and Methodology." The QR code links to the webinar registration. Sponsors are listed at bottom. Wed June 3 and Thurs June 4, Penn State Innovation Hub. Image shows a pair of eyes looking out at the user amidst various graphical images.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/03/2026

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Ridiculously useful information for anyone designing EMA studies or evaluating EMA studies as a reviewer/consumer of research.

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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My new career column in Nature is out. After reviewing hundreds of PhD applications for my lab and admissions at the UIUC, I kept seeing the same mistakes. I share 8 common application and interview mistakes and what applicants can do differently. doi.org/10.1038/d415...

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Eight common errors I see in PhD applications and interviews, and how to avoid them

Convince a supervisor that you’re a great fit for their laboratory by preparing questions, honing your personal statement and showcasing strong team-player instincts.

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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I saw we were fighting about what AI will do to (social) science. I have some thoughts (originally written for a book on scientific inquiry) and decided to turn them into my first substack article. Co-written with Nat Rabb! tomstello.substack.com/p/standing-o...

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Standing on the Shoulders of Termites

Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love AI (scientists)

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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Can this thing also answer Prolific surveys? I am beginning to really worry that the MTurkification of Psych Science might be nearing an end

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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc at @cmu.edu (w/ far.ai & @dgrand.bsky.social + @gordpennycook.bsky.social)! How do LLMs shape human beliefs — and what do we do about it? AI safety meets behavioral science. Open to technical and social science backgrounds.

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is pleased to announce its 2026 proposal cycle for interdisciplinary seed grants for morality and ethics research. Check out our call below, and visit our website (from the press release) to learn about eligibility and how to apply. @ssripennstate.bsky.social

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Consortium on Moral Decision-Making announces grant funding | Social Science Research Institute

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I got 99 problems in online survey research but social desirability ain‘t (a huge) one Important paper ⬇️⬇️

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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Excellent article! The tone is very measured but the implications are definitely worth field-wide attention!

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Super proud advisor moment: kudos to @jdweng.bsky.social for his first first-author publication! With @minzlicht.bsky.social, we inverted the empathy selection task to look at preferences to receive empathy. We can speculate on what people want from AI, but a motivational account suggests we ask 1/n

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Brett Murphy @brettmurpsych.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

To potential students, 10/10 would recommend working with Greg Depow!

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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

After a provocation from Todd Kashdan I wrote up some frustrations I have with "wellbeing science", specifically the idea that it was born with life satisfaction scales. I think this belief is untrue and unhelpful. profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...

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Airing my grievances with wellbeing science

We have a streetlight problem

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Dan Carlin @dancarlin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

So of course I screwed up the announcement post for the new Hardcore History by not including g the art of Erich Sayers that goes with the show. So...here it is now

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college. Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The economists accuse those, to whom the enunciation of their atrocious villainies communicates a thrill of horror, of being sentimentalists. It may be so: I willingly confess to having some tincture of sentimentalism in me, God be thanked!

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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Excited to share our new paper in Cognitive Development! We replicate that children punish for both retributive and consequentialist reasons — and, surprisingly, intergroup context doesn’t change these effects. tinyurl.com/ycyhcn5a Check in out! ✨

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Motivational context does not influence children’s third-party punishment in intergroup contexts

Children punish to reciprocate harm (retributive motives) and to prevent future wrongdoing (consequentialist motives). Building on this idea, we wante…

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Recently presented at @theloveconsortium.bsky.social's Virtual Symposium on Empathy as an Interpersonal Process with Dr. Kotiuga and Dr. Monroy. I presented on how empathy predicts perceptions of partner responsiveness across positive and negative emotional contexts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyRA...

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Virtual Symposium: Empathy as an Interpersonal Process

YouTube video by The Love Consortium

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Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com · 12/11/2025

⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️ In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame. YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...

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The Love Consortium @theloveconsortium.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Please join us for "Empathy as an Interpersonal Process," a virtual symposium with moderated discussion on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Learn more here: www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

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Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3

Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3

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The Love Consortium @theloveconsortium.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Learn more about Dr. Jessica Maxwell's speed dating study, featuring data from 400+ participants at 16 events, in her conversation with TLC Founding Director Sara Algoe in this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjv...

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The Love Consortium Dataverse: Behind the Data

YouTube video by The Love Consortium

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Major shoutout to @andrew.heiss.phd for recreating FiveThirtyEight's p-hacking app. My teaching prep panic at discovering the broken link lasted only a few minutes of googling thanks to this beautiful replacement: stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way

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Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory (recreation) – Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory

Recreation of FiveThirtyEight’s “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” with Observable JS

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.  CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.  But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

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