Reposted by Bastian JaegerDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵 4264111
Reposted by Bastian JaegerThomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com 312460
Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Now out at EJSP: We explored cultural & individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern across student samples from 41 cultural groups (n >6500). doi.org/10.1002/ejsp... 165
Reposted by Bastian JaegerLeonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Congratulations to Elsevier on this insanity my colleague found. Is anything in this clinical trial from Spain and UK real? www.cell.com/the-innovati...cell.comQuantum evidence of nonlocal consciousness during clinical deathIf consciousness can operate under quantum principles, then the boundaries between life, death, and cognition are far more permeable than current science allows. In the first large-scale, randomized, ... 135423
Reposted by Bastian JaegerMark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Excited to share this new preprint from @lindseytepfer.bsky.social, @chujunlin.bsky.social, and me, in which we investigate the different ways our brains allow us to change our minds about people! "The neurocomputational mechanisms of naturalistic trait impression updating" osf.io/preprints/ps... 14714
Reposted by Bastian Jaegerkoenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Research by @bxjaeger.bsky.social et al suggests that, compared to scientific experts, laypeople are 8pp less likely to attribute consciousness and 21 pp less likely to attribute emotions to non-human animals, and on average also more confident in their beliefs: buff.ly/5RapCMB 121
Reposted by Bastian JaegerBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For the Replicability Project: Health Behavior we need some editors and reviewers of analysis plans for secondary data replications, especially for complex designs including multilevel, weighting, clustering, missing data. Earns coauthorship on the summary paper. Interested? replications@cos.io 01514
Reposted by Bastian Jaegersimine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 426794
Reposted by Bastian JaegerData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139 816857
Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New preprint! 🧠🐸🐦⬛🐟 (w/ Stefan Leach and Matthew Zipple) We find that the US public is more skeptical than scientific experts about the possibility that various animals are conscious & able to feel emotions. They are also more confident in their beliefs than the experts. osf.io/preprints/ps... 110
Reposted by Bastian JaegerData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 31/08/2026An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138datacolada.org[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About ProcrastinationA new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr… 723799
Reposted by Bastian JaegerLeah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1021491
Reposted by Bastian JaegerJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 7244128
Reposted by Bastian Jaegermark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026New pub, led by Aymin Triki & in collab w/ @abbycassario.bsky.social, accepted at JESP! We found similarities in party cues among the left and the right when using representative samples of issues, although right-wing authoritarians may be an exception Other interesting findings follow! 12212
Reposted by Bastian JaegerBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.cos.ioOSF Changes | Center for Open ScienceWe are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif... 10120113
Reposted by Bastian JaegerHideki Sato @hidekis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Item Selection as the Cause and Solution to Validity Problems in Psychology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 074
Reposted by Bastian JaegerVishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work! 41923
Reposted by Bastian JaegerIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 03/08/2026New Jingle assessment: we show that the "Perspective Taking Protocol" has very poor reliability and near-zero convergent validity with other nominal measures of emotional and spatial perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind. w/ @malte.the100.ci 12110
Reposted by Bastian JaegerJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 30/07/2026New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...the100.ciReviewer notes: Odds ratios are really oddWhen psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog... 2428779
Reposted by Bastian JaegerAnne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rrtinyurl.comCareer incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditionsRegistered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish... 15934
Reposted by Bastian JaegerJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci > 1027797
Reposted by Bastian JaegerTed Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026New meta by @peterhaehner.bsky.social et al (I'm a little middle author) on individual differences in personality change across the lifespan (229 studies, N = 230k) 10.1037/bul0000525 Cool finding (imo): For all Big Five, variance in change is greatest in youth, declining through young adulthood! 35625
Reposted by Bastian JaegerJulia Stern @juliastern.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I'm hiring! I am currently establishing my new Research Group for Personality Psychology at Ulm University and am looking for a motivated researcher to join the team starting October 1, 2026 (or by arrangement). 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 Full description and details: stellenangebote.uni-ulm.de/jobposting/a...stellenangebote.uni-ulm.deAkademische/r Beschäftigte/n (m/w/d) - Abt. Persönlichkeitspsychologie - Referenz-Nr. 26091 22530
Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026One takeaway from our ongoing meta-analysis of meat reduction interventions: We need higher-quality evidence. We've included 451 effect sizes from 162 studies so far. Only one effect size came from a study with all 5 quality markers shown below. #EASP2026 061
Reposted by Bastian JaegerQuentin André @quentinandre.bsky.social · 24/06/2026HBS' latest filing in the Gino lawsuit contains a few new details: 1. A committee of 26 professors, admins, and fellows reviewed the allegations, and *unanimously concluded* that there was *clear and convincing evidence* of research misconduct. 13522
Reposted by Bastian JaegerKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026New post is live! 40 years of race science arguments about brain size & the racial IQ gap, nobody bothered to write down the math or do anything beyond gawk at correlations. I did, walking through the data & formalizing it with the Lande equation. It fares worse than you could even imagine.open.substack.comRace on The Brain: why brain-size differences can’t explain the IQ gapTackling a popular hereditarian argument 721665
Reposted by Bastian JaegerMax Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026@keithpayne.bsky.social, @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social, Heidi Vuletich and I are co-editing a new Social Cognition special issue titled "10 Years of Bias of Crowds – Reflections and Future Directions". Deadline for letters of intent is July 15th. bit.ly/3R9e8KB 179
Reposted by Bastian JaegerInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 29/05/20261/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science. 36337
Reposted by Bastian JaegerLéo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Why do humans punish? Our new paper, with @manvir.bsky.social, is out in Psychological Science! With experiments in a small-scale society (Mentawai) & the US, we test whether punitive cognition evolved to deter wrongdoing or restore fairness. link: tinyurl.com/msrmu7cc pdf: tinyurl.com/mvprz8fb 24313
Reposted by Bastian JaegerDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41... 114273
Reposted by Bastian JaegerMatt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 25/05/2026If you compare people's life satisfaction to their retrospective judgments, it suggests that happiness is not declining. Instead, our expectations are changing with aggregate improvements so our relative satisfaction is rescaled for current circumstances www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comIs it possible to raise national happiness?We revisit the famous Easterlin paradox by considering that life evaluation scales refer to a changing context, hence they are regularly reinterpreted… 063
Reposted by Bastian JaegerSociety for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 19/05/2026Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief! The SIPS Publications Committee encourages editors with innovative ideas about how Collabra: Psychology can best accomplish its mission to apply. 11926
Reposted by Bastian JaegerPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 14/05/2026Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723arxiv.orgLLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citationsLarge language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p... 18626297
Reposted by Bastian Jaegerkoenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 13/05/2026What determines the morality of harming another creature—eg a farm animal, or a foetus? In the West, this judgment relies more on sentience than on agency, and research by @bxjaeger.bsky.social& Bosten finds it generalizes across six cultures: buff.ly/4intBok HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social 043
Reposted by Bastian JaegerNicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Can gratitude interventions make the world happier? We tested 6 gratitude practices across 34 countries with 10,696 participants to find out — and the answer is more interesting than a simple yes 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgA multinational megastudy of the effects of gratitude practices on subjective well-being | PNASScholars have observed people from a variety of cultures using a variety of gratitude-related practices to change their emotions, outlooks, and soc... 22418
Reposted by Bastian JaegerArnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Disease cues and social avoidance Study how sensory disease cues shape social avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮, laboratory experiments, and psychophysiological methods. ⏳ Start: Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 17 📍 CNRS / University of Montpellier 🇫🇷 → emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...emploi.cnrs.fr Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - PhD Position in Behavioral Sciences (Psychology, Behavioral Ecology, and Psychoneuroimmunology): Perception of Disease Cues and Social Avoidance in Humans (M/F) 133
Reposted by Bastian JaegerArnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social · 11/05/2026🤢 Disgust, food avoidance, & immunity Study how disgust shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮, laboratory experiments, and psychophysiological methods. With @csarabian.bsky.social & me ⏳ Start: Oct 2026 | Deadline: May 20 📍 Univ. Montpellier 🇫🇷 → euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430 034
Reposted by Bastian JaegerPatrick S. Forscher @psforscher.bsky.social · 11/05/2026New in AMPPS, led by Adeyemi Adetula: "The Evaluation of Harm and Purity Transgressions in Africans: A Paradigmatic Replication of Rottman and Young (2019)" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... We attempted to replicate a moral psychology finding in 1,320 participants from 12 African sites 1/ 1127
Reposted by Bastian JaegerJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Although a tiny group of people are spreading misinformation, it is impacting the beliefs of a wide swath of the population. Over 70% of people believe at least one of these false or unproven health claims: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 0218
Reposted by Bastian JaegerRoger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Just spreading the word about an opportunity to nominate or be nominated for Editor-in-Chief of SPPS, beginning next year. I'm chairing the panel so feel free to ask about it! Deadline 30 June 2026. www.easp.eu/news/itm/nom...easp.euNominations Requested for SPPS Editor-in-ChiefSocial Psychology News Articles 022
Reposted by Bastian JaegerDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 01/05/2026New preprint: Preregistration is supposed to make research more transparent. But if registry records aren't kept up to date, the transparency benefit erodes. We checked 1,137 psych meta-analyses on PROSPERO and found the records are systematically out of sync with reality osf.io/preprints/ps... 15621
Reposted by Bastian JaegerDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 01/05/2026So we emailed the authors of all 358 unpublished registrations. 80 wrote responded. The reasons they gave were almost entirely logistical: no time (47%), people leaving the project (11%), no funding (7%). Only one person cited non-significant results as a reason for not publishing. 1115
Reposted by Bastian JaegerIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 18/04/2026I’m hiring a PhD student! The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...jobs.unibe.chPhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology - Universität BernUniversität Bern is looking for PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology 47358
Reposted by Bastian JaegerExperimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 14/04/2026How do people decide whether it’s wrong to harm a pig? A chimp? A baby? In the West, these judgments are based more on *experience* (being able to feel) than on *agency* (being able to think and act) New study finds that same pattern across other cultures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 13111
Reposted by Bastian JaegerJoel van der Weele @joelvdweele.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Proud of this paper; five years in the making. Correcting consumer beliefs about carbon impact of meat products (controlling for salience and social norms) does *not* lead to any change in consumption behavior in our setting. Any effects of carbon labels are likely to work through salience/norms. 0135
Reposted by Bastian JaegerMeltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨 ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts. internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/internationalsocietymoralpsychology.comBecome a Member – International Society for Moral Psychology 24025
Reposted by Bastian JaegerKatie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The governing body for 14 Dutch universities (UNL) has published a "Vision on Publication Culture" that is so inspiring and forward thinking. Worth a read for those trying to changes publishing and research assessment practices. Take a read: www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/public... 43928
Reposted by Bastian JaegerAndrew Gordon @andrewgordon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]osf.ioOSF 213162
Reposted by Bastian JaegerBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.cos.ioSCORE | Center for Open ScienceSCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r... 1190107