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Check out the paper and let me know what you think! Link: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... Open access link: gregdepow.com?page_id=278

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This suggests that, if we wish to respond effectively when people share good news, we should try to use our empathy to feel what the other person is feeling, and co-experience their positive emotions with them. As a bonus, this seems to help empathizers too: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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After each conversation, participants rated their partner's response to their good news. Were they active and enthusiastic, or passive and uncaring? Were they constructive or destructive? We found that positive emotion sharing predicted response quality, but other dimensions of empathy did not.

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Participants took turns sharing a positive event with their partner in video-recorded conversations. They then watched the videos back twice while rating first their own affect, then their partners affect, with a continuous rating dial. We thus tapped multiple empathy dimensions.

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Capitalization (sharing good news with others) is beneficial, but benefits depend on the response. Yet, the psychological processes in a 'responder' related to better responses are unclear. We had strangers in the lab share good news with each other to test which aspects of empathy seem to help.

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How should you respond when friends share good news? My new article in Emotion with @chrisoveis.bsky.social, Dr. Gu, and Dr. Gordon (doi.org/10.1037/emo0...) suggests feeling positive emotions with your friend when they 'capitalize' (share good news) correlates with better responses. #empathy

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That's great, I look forward to giving this a read--thanks for sharing. FYI, google scholar says 0 citations, but dimensions says 3: badge.dimensions.ai/details/id/p..., not to mention 1 news story, plus 45 x/twitter and 5 Bsky posts: eneuro.altmetric.com/details/1406... :)

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Some Tips for Writing Science | Dimensions Badges

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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

To celebrate the openESM paper release, I wrote a brief blog post summarizing recent developments: openesmdata.org/blog/2026-07... We: 💠added more data 💠provided descriptive visualizations for each item 💠created a semantic similarity mapping for items, making it easier to find related items

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Updates: Paper published, new dataset & features

Our tutorial paper on openESM has been published, and we have added new datasets and features to the platform.

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

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RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🧵 New paper out in JPSP: Morality Cut Both Ways. Can reading facts make you moralize an issue — or lose a moral conviction? We ran 6 studies, 4,464 participants. The results were surprising. 👇 #MoralPsychology #Attitudes. @icedteas.bsky.social 1/8

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Len Simms @lensimms.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Reminder: If you have students or colleagues who would benefit from a workshop focused on psychometric scale development, please spread the word: smart-workshops.com/scale-dev-info

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Makes sense! I'm able to access it now. Look forward to reading it.

Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Cool work! I had trouble accessing the preprint, but perhaps the issue is on my end.

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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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Diego Guevara Beltran @psycheddiego.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

An outstanding question: does helping really cultivate empathy or is it the other way around?). We will examine this with dyadic daily diaries, and ecological momentary assessments (w @dsbarra.bsky.social Jessica Andrews-Hanna & @gregdepow.bsky.social)

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Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion @ucsdcompassion.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

@ucsdcompassion.bsky.social -funded researchers – @gregdepow.bsky.social & @chrisoveis.bsky.social – were recently published for their new #research on positive empathy and perceived responses to #capitalization attempts. Read the article ➡️ osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 31/05/2026

What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ

The graphic contains photos of speakers Prof. Timothy Snyder, U. of Toronto, Author of On Tyranny, Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, Standford U. Nobel Laureate 2022, Amb. Norman Eisen, Democracy Defeders, and Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi, 20 yr NIH Veteren, "AND MORE..." to speak. The graphic reads: "TUESDAY JUNE 2nd 4PM ET/1PM PT, All welcome for the SUFS EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING, VIRTUAL AND ACCESSIBLE, What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? REGISTER HERE: https://zurl.co/oCIDw, LINK IN BIO".

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Excited for the 1st day of APS today in Barcelona @psychscience.bsky.social! I'll be attending the empathy pre-conference organized by The Love Consortium @theloveconsortium.bsky.social where I'll be talking about positive empathy and capitalization. If you're around, feel free to say hello!

William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

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I expect it is happening, people often hesitate to share positive news to protect other's (e.g. doi.org/10.1016/j.ob...). Disclosing to AI could let them celebrate without risk. But, they could be foregoing chances to strengthen relationships and people want to hear our good news more than we think.

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As they say, a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved, but a joy shared is a joy doubled. Capitalization is about doubling one's joy by sharing it with others and as you say making stronger connections in the process.

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I get what you mean because we often talk about capitalizing on someone else's mistake, but I don't think of it as having an ulterior motive. I think capitalization is about 'capitalizing on' positive events as opportunities to share with others and benefit over and above the event alone.

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This was underpinned by more active constructive and less passive destructive responses. Positive emotion sharing remained predictive controlling for all empathy dimensions, as well as convo features like depth of disclosure and individual moments of positive/negative affect for both dyad members.

We find that co-experienced positive affect, or feeling positive with the capitalizer, was uniquely predictive of greater perceived responses to capitalization attempts. The more responders felt positive with the capitalizer, the higher they were rated on capitalization responses.

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This allowed us to capture dimensions of empathy like empathic accuracy, emotional synchrony, co-experienced positive and negative affect, and compassion. Participants who disclosed their positive event then rated their partner in terms of the partner's responses to their capitalization attempts.

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With Rainy Gu, @chrisoveis.bsky.social, and Amie Gordon, I examined real dyadic conversations where participants shared a meaningful positive life event with a stranger. After the conversation, participants watched a video of the interaction and rated their own and their partners emotion throughout.

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