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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 🧠 A good figure makes the structure of an effect visible at a glance. Great figures, like great scientific writing, are precise and self-explanatory. A high information/ink ratio in both domains makes your argument easier to see, and harder to dismiss.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 🧠 If you justify your sample size as "comparable to prior work", we will ask you to remove that claim. Precedent is not a justification — it moves the question one paper back. Prior work can still inform your expected effect size, with due caution about published estimates.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 🧠 Small-N designs can be informative, with a lot of data per S. Estimate the effect within S, then ask if it replicates across S. A pooled analysis across all trials can produce impressive, but misleading, precision. See Smith & Little (2018), doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 🧠 We prefer a realistic account of power to an overly optimistic one. A clear and convincing case that a study has 55% power for the effect the authors consider meaningful is more useful than a figure above .80 that depends on an effect size chosen to produce it.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 🧠 Convenient equipoise: a writing move that presents a literature as evenly divided, so that only new data could settle it, without comparing the studies on power, measurement quality, or explaining that one set was designed to fix flaws in the other.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 🧠 New article in JEP:HPP, open access: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001442

Verbal codes may help bind what we see to where we saw it.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 A public significance statement is not a short abstract. Write these statements with non-scientists stakeholders in mind, for instance journalists or those who make high-level decisions about science funding. This is more important than ever.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🧠🤸 Are the body and mind always aligned? Battistel et al. recently found that in extreme temperature changes sensitivity declines. Interestingly, physiological changes did not explain the sensory decline. Read the study here: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Before you consider using a convention e.g., for a “medium” or “large” effect, please see Correll et al. (2020), doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.12.009.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

tip for senior authors: read the tips for junior authors, nobody is judging ;-)

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tip for junior authors: the strongest submissions we get do not only ask, "Does my theory predict this?" but "What would someone with a different theory predict?" The most compelling papers explain how their experiments can distinguish between those answers. #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tip for junior authors: A power analysis is only as good as the effect size you feed it. "Medium" is not a justification. Tell us whether your effect size comes from prior empirical work (justifying that choice) or from theory (e.g., the smallest effect you'd care to detect). #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#BeyondTheLab #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab. Free to read: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001429 #Psychology #Perception #Emotion #BodyLanguage

In the July JEPHPP volume: People judged facial emotions more slowly and less accurately when emotional cues from the body—or even just the hands—conflicted with the face, showing that emotion from hand posture is automatically integrated into face perception.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tip for junior authors: Use the same effect size metric in your power analysis and in your results. If you report d, don't power for partial η². Reviewers can't tell whether you achieved the effect you planned to detect if the units shift between sections. #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

👀 New in JEP:HPP: Size and density adaptation are perceptual precursors of numerosity. Aftereffects on perceived numerosity are due to adaptations primarily affecting encodings of density and size. 📖 Full text here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Tip for junior authors: Calling a debate "ongoing" or a literature "mixed" can be accurate and still fall short. If the evidence tilts with one side using larger samples, larger effects, more specific predictions... say so! Bothsidesism isn't balance; it's uninformative. #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

#BeyondTheLab #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab. Free to read: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001418

Editorial post about a psychology study showing that irrelevant but high- or low-value options can bias choices through perceptual grouping. When grouping is disrupted, the effect disappears, suggesting value may be processed perceptually.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Tip for junior authors: "Filling a gap" is not a theoretical motivation. Before submitting a paper, ask which theory or model predicts a different pattern from yours. If no rival prediction is at stake, you're likely testing an effect, not a theory. #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🧪🧠 An oculomotor universal: When your eyes jump from the end of one line of text to the beginning of the next, the movement is nearly identical whether you're reading in any of 22 languages tested across multiple writing systems — including vertical scripts. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001419 #cogpsyc

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Your brain learns when things tend to happen, without you noticing. New in JEP:HPP: people incidentally pick up time–event regularities, and the learning sticks even after the regularity disappears. From attention all the way to action. Open access: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001407] #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Tip for junior authors: What matters isn't whether a power analysis was run before or after data collection, but whether it depends on the observed effect size. If based on theory, prior studies, or meta-analysis, it remains independent of the data. The problem is circularity, not timing.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Question for HPP authors: at a recent discussion on peer review at VSS, junior authors expressed worry about bias in the process (not at HPP but generally). Let us know in replies if you are too, and what you believe could help. We want to hear from you!

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#BeyondTheLab 🧪JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab. Open Access: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001436

Editorial post about a study showing baseball batting involves the interaction between prediction and online visual-motor correction within a 400 ms time window.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Tip for junior authors: Keep your cover letter short. Clarify (1) the fit to the journal’s mission and (2) what kinds of reviewers would be most appropriate. Especially for work that bridges areas, or if the paper could be misread as belonging to a different area than the one you see as central.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Tip for junior authors: Clarifying exclusions increases trust in your work. Distinguish attention checks from outlier removal, justify both, and show how exclusions affect results. Understand that aggressive reaction time trimming can bias results and reduce power. Share all data with clear flags.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

📣 New article: Longo & Mackenzie found that, like whole-body posture, isolated hands influence the speed and accuracy of facial emotion judgments, showing that emotion from hands is automatically integrated with facial emotion. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Curious about temporal binding? start with these JEP:HPP papers: Saad, Hemmer, & Musolino (2026), doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001370 Chen et al. (2025), doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001339 Bart, Wenke, & Rieger (2025), doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001265

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

#BeyondTheLab 🧠 🧪JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001385

Describes a study showing that autistic and non-autistic people use eye contact and gaze cues similarly to identify communicative intent, challenging the view that autistic people have broad deficits in social gaze understanding.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#BeyondTheLab 🧠 🧪JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

Post from the editor of JEP:HPP. Describes a study showing that
individuals born without arms still perceive arm movement using biomechanical constraints, suggesting the brain builds movement models from visual experience rather than from one's own body.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Tips for junior JEP:HPP authors: Many of the strongest papers we receive ask "when does this effect break?" rather than "does this effect exist?" If you have a robust phenomenon, the next move is finding its boundary conditions.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Souza tracked open science adoption in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance over 8 years. Data sharing went from near zero to 88%. Sample size justification hit ~100%. Editorial policy works if you actually enforce it. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... 🧪

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📣 New: Dupont et al show phasic alerting speeds up visual processing globally but leaves top-down control and tonic alertness intact. Two experiments using computational modeling untangle these long-conflated signals. Read the full story: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Can you please add this account (@jephpp.bsky.social), which is for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (of which I am the editor, @isabelgauthier.bsky.social) www.apa.org/pubs/journal... thank you!

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001267; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001344; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001259; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001358; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001357; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001428; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001367; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001257

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APA Style @apastyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This post on the APA Style blog includes practical tips for students to identify and thus avoid citing articles from predatory journals. apastyle.apa.org/blog/predatory-jou…

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Real or fake? What students should know about predatory journals and journal hijacking

What students should know about predatory journals and journal hijacking.

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When the visual system extracts regularities from the environment, what coordinate system does it use? doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

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Veera Ruuskanen @veerahelmisofia.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

How robust is the large-pupil advantage in visual detection? Turns out, very! Here we show with @cogsci.nl that the effect persists for different stimulus colors, eccentricities, and retinal adaptation-states ✨👀 Check it out in JEP:HPP: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

individual differences are well represented recently in the Journal: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The stats are in for last year: JEP:HPP had a 72% rejection rate in 2025, a time to decision of less than 2 weeks, a total time from submissions to online publication of ~3 months. Consider JEPHPP for your best work! #Perception #CognitivePsychology

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Humans Persistently Devalue AI-Generated Creative Writing psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... do you think disclosing AI use for scientific writing will have the same effect?

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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance examined how image memorability and emotional valence influence visual statistical learning across three experiments. Read the Editor’s Choice article: bit.ly/4siB2wA @jephpp.bsky.social

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

📣 New in @jephpp.bsky.social: Xu et al. found humans incidentally learn and adapt to temporal patterns of events, enhancing perception and adaptive reactions in real-world scenarios! 📖 Read the full study: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"These findings highlight that the negative feeling of being rushed is a key reason why performance efficiency suffers under pressure", doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

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