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Erik Bijleveld

@erikbij.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Radboud University. I post about mental effort and mental fatigue. www.ebij.net

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Narrowing Boundaries: Mental Fatigue Reduces the Amount of Evidence that People Use when Making Decisions under Risk: osf.io/x5zys
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
2-year postdoc in our team, supervised by Laura Fruhen and Tirza van Noorden. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Postdoc Position: Workplace Communication and Employee Wellbeing | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc: Workplace Communication and Employee Wellbeing at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Motivation and Emotion is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief! 4-year term starting Jan 2025. Looking for someone with vision, experience in motivation/emotion research, and editorial chops. Deadline: Aug 1. Ready to shape the field? Details: morgan.ryan@springer.com
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In our new RR, we will test whether and how mental fatigue impacts dishonesty: rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere... I am already excited about the to-be-collected data. Nice work led by Mara Bialas 👏 (also with @maartenboksem.bsky.social)
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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
ashamedly i've never tried this (from Kahneman's 1973 'Attention and Effort')
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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tjitsvanlent.bsky.social @tjitsvanlent.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New paper in JESP: "On rewarded actions and punishment-avoidant inactions: The action–valence asymmetry in face perception.” In four preregistered experiments, we show that inactions influence evaluations of faces. (1/5) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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On rewarded actions and punishment-avoidant inactions: The action–valence asymmetry in face perception
Although social interactions are ubiquitous, people often choose not to interact with others—for example, people may choose to not greet a stranger, t…
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"First, the idea that a few minutes of self-control can leave you unable to resist temptation later has been thoroughly debunked. What remains is something far more mundane: fatigue."
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
'Since the establishment of that template, this norm of the 40-hour working week, Monday to Friday, we see that not much has changed'
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Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I'm excited to share a new preprint: In a novel experimental paradigm, we found evidence that stress induces a computational bias during alcohol-related decision-making in favor of alcohol, but this bias was only sometimes strong enough to overcome competing considerations (e.g., taste preferences).
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New large study (n ~ 6 million) in @JAMApsych tracking mental disorder trends in Denmark showing increases in mood disorders in recent birth cohorts tinyurl.com/c5nyfd8k
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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢 Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩 ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... pls share liberally 🙏
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The dynamics of boredom
This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for ...
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
The unfathomable richness of seeing: osf.io/jmg35
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Clark Hull usually gets credit for coming up with "law of less work" (or the "law of least effort") in 1943. I recently learned that the Chinese psychologist Loh-Seng Tsai published the same idea 11 years before Hull. 🧵Short history thread (1/5):
portrait of Loh-Seng Tsai
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵
Figure 1: Foraging trial diagram. On each trial participants chose to harvest the tree they were at (down arrow key) or travel to a new tree (right arrow key), during the travel they completed an effortful task, after which they arrived at a new patch with a replenished supply of apples. The tree is a green circle and rectangular brown trunk. The apples are red and lined up in a row on the bottom of the screen. There is a warrior avatar with a shield, helmet, and sword who jumps to harvest the apples.
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
New paper from the SCAN-Unit! How does acute stress impact effortful prosocial behaviour? @elife.bsky.social Forbes et al. elifesciences.org/articles/87271 1/8
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Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour
Participants under acute stress were less willing to exert a relatively low level of physical effort for actions that benefit another person compared to actions that benefit themselves.
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Matthew B. Jané @matthewbjane.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 t.co/ByeSMQNJdp
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Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals
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Valentin Riedl @vavatin.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
‚Science Advances‘ published our paper in which we asked: "Where does all the sugar go in the brain?" doi.org/10.1126/scia... Short answer and 4 main findings in 🧵 below. #funding: ERC_Research #neuroskyence
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Oh, wait, Bartley and Chute said this already *in 1945*.
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
I sometimes try to publish in work psych journals, and this is in line with my experiences: "Unfortunately, journals in industrial, work, and organizational psychology still fail to support Open Science practices" open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Replication of the original experiments on the “Effort Heuristic” (higher liking, and perceived higher quality and monetary value for goods that take more effort to produce) finds at best mixed results: buff.ly/3Ms53ar HT @giladfeldman.bsky.social
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
I think gaps in fatigue by social class are somewhat under-studied. They clearly exist: People with low SES are more tired. For example: doi.org/10.1186/1756...
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Determinants of fatigue and stress - BMC Research Notes
Background Fatigue can be triggered by previous perceived stress which may lead to impairment of performance and function. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between fatigue ...
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Evaluating Large Language Models for Assisting Meta-Analysis: osf.io/dc6tz
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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Generative AI is opening a new era for trolley problems aesthetics
the trolley problem styled as a vintage travel poster (no one is going to die in paradise)the trolley problem styled as a pulp novel cover
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
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Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Translating psychological verbal theories into formal testable models of differential equations: osf.io/kqyxa
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
This just came out: Three experiments suggest that specific and difficult task goals enhance sustained attention performance. 👁️👁️ I like how these authors applied theory from work psychology to their cognitive paradigm. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Yesterday, we organized an internal "Boost Your Skills Day" at our institute. We had workshops on theory development, methods/stats, and OS. No external guests, just ~90 faculty and students learning from each other. The vibe was optimistic and warm. Can highly recommend.
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Short new paper: The ebb and flow of cognitive fatigue authors.elsevier.com/a/1hwHP4sIRv... I highlight the new findings by @quining.bsky.social et al. and I reflect on the current state of fatigue science. #psychscisky #cogsci #psychology 🧵Little thread with the main points: (1/6)
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Protzko @protzko.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
No, people aren’t less able to concentrate now than they used to be. Meta Analysis from 287 samples (N = 21,291) shows scores are either the same as they ever were or (in adults) getting better. From Denise Andrzejewski, Elisabeth Zeilinger & Jakob Pietschnig www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
#HiSciSky #psychsky #cogsci I am a psychologist at Radboud University. In my research, I try to understand the costs of cognitive work. Right now, I mostly try to examine the nature and causes of (mental) effort and (mental) fatigue. 🙇
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Julian Matthews @quining.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Academia can be brutal. As someone with a tendency to be self-critical, I often find it hard to believe that my work could inspire others as they have inspired me. It's encouraging to read this positive commentary of our recent paper. Thanks @erikbij.bsky.social & TiCS.
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Lovely commentary on our paper in cognition by @erikbij.bsky.social in TICS on the 'ebb and flow of fatigue' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The ebb and flow of cognitive fatigue
If you are currently feeling tired, you are not alone: feelings of fatigue are incredibly common. In a recent study, Matthews et al. investigated mome…
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Hi everyone, I am here now. I wish you a pleasant evening.
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