Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026How well can others judge our self-control? 👀 People who know us well can tell surprisingly well how much self-control we have, and even predict how successfully we navigate temptations in daily life. But some aspects of self-control are much easier to see than others. Read here (open access!) 041
Reposted by Marie HenneckeMarie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 24/05/2026There is a position for a Postdoc (3+3 years) in my lab. If you are interested in studying goals, self-regulation, self-control, motivation, personality, well-being, personality development, and/or intra-individual variability with me, here is more information jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.dePostdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x; as "Akad. Rat/Rätin auf Zeit": 3-year contract with a possible 3-year extension) 11211
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 24/05/2026There is a position for a Postdoc (3+3 years) in my lab. If you are interested in studying goals, self-regulation, self-control, motivation, personality, well-being, personality development, and/or intra-individual variability with me, here is more information jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.dePostdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x; as "Akad. Rat/Rätin auf Zeit": 3-year contract with a possible 3-year extension) 11211
Reposted by Marie HenneckePascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026unibocconi.itOpen Rank Faculty Cluster Hire Search for the New Department of Cognitive Science at Bocconi - Bocconi University 3150119
Reposted by Marie HenneckeEmily Willroth @emily-willroth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science. wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comPostdoctoral Research Associate - Psychological & Brain SciencesPosition Summary Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at WashU in St. Louis, to work on department-funded res... 0712
Reposted by Marie HenneckeMalte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 26/02/2026Our institute is hiring 1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology) ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... 2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...ohws.prospective.chAssistant Professor Tenure Track for Social Psychology with a Focus on Environmental Psychology - Universität BernUniversität Bern is looking for Assistant Professor Tenure Track for Social Psychology with a Focus on Environmental Psychology 02631
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Preprint just accepted by Motivation Science! osf.io/preprints/ps... Despite decades of research, we do not have a clear or unitary definition of self-control! In this article, I discuss: • Is self-control an ability or a personality trait? • Should habits count as self-control? [...]osf.ioOSF 263
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Collaborating on this was fun - and it shows that research stays - in addition to their immediate impact- can still promote collaboration and productivity 15 years later! Thank you @liztenney.bsky.social for asking me to join the team! 021
Reposted by Marie HenneckeJennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow. Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, using different orientations and motions, an example of multi-purpose tool use. This suggests scientists may have underestimated cows' cognitive abilities. arstechnica.com/science/2026...arstechnica.comMeet Veronika, the tool-using cowVeronika uses sticks to scratch herself, suggesting scientists have underestimated cow cognition... 413735
Reposted by Marie HenneckeSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu... 28803313
Reposted by Marie HenneckeAssociation for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Check out the newly launched International Student Resource Center (ISRC), a national organization dedicated to helping international students and scholars navigate the complex landscape of U.S. immigration laws, regulations, and policies. #AcademicSky www.internationalstudent.usinternationalstudent.usInternational Student Resource Center 032
Reposted by Marie HenneckeRené Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 06/11/2025🔔 Those coming to the ECP22 in Edinburgh: Consider booking accommodation early! Edinburgh is a very popular place. Here are accommodation tips for ECP folks: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 📝 Submissions & registrations are also open: ecp22edinburgh.org #ecp22 084
Reposted by Marie HenneckeRené Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Early career personality researchers coming to the Edinburgh ECP22: If you want to get a link to a slightly more affordable uni accommodation option later this year, leave your email here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comAdvance Accommodation InformationPrimarily for Early Career Researchers (PhD, post-doc): If you would like to receive advance information about a limited number of more affordable accommodation options available for the 22nd Europea... 078
Reposted by Marie HenneckeCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️ datamgmtinedresearch.com 1. Organizing data (Ch. 3) 2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9) 3. Documenting data (Ch. 8) 4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)media.tenor.coma man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom rightALT: a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right 35718
Reposted by Marie HenneckePooja Kulkarni @poojak.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Attended #FGSP2025 earlier this week, first ever conference outside of India! Extremely grateful to have gotten the opportunity to present and win 2nd place for this poster on the study I did with @mhennecke.bsky.social and Johannes Koopmann while I was still in India! 161
Reposted by Marie HenneckeRené Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25. Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission 12313
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Here's a plain summary of our work on measuring goal dimensions: link.growkudos.com/1et738saakglink.growkudos.comA New Tool to Better Understand How People See and Pursue Their GoalsThis research introduces the Goal Dimensions Questionnaire, a survey that measures nine key features of personal goals: commitment, demand, enjoyment, expectancy, external motivation, facilitation, pr... 062
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 24/07/2025New paper! Miriam Pfister, Melanie Naumann, Veronika Brandstätter and I validated 13 state scales to capture change in students' affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals during exam preparation - useful tools to investigate the processes driving academic success. 262
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 02/07/2025New paper with Korbinian Kiendl, @rhoyle.bsky.social & @kkleinke.de accepted at Motivation Science: After noticing that practices for measuring characteristics of personal goals (= goal dimensions) are a big mess (see Kiendl et al., 2022), we decided to develop and validate a measure: ... 171
Reposted by Marie HenneckeLarisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 25/06/20251. I have spent a lot of time recently sending invitations for people to review papers, and this process works extremely differently from what I imagined when I was a student. Wanted to write out how I do it in case that's helpful for you all as you submit papers. #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky 1226
Reposted by Marie HenneckeBrent W. Roberts @bwroberts.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Paper alert by @cavanvbonner.bsky.social looking at adversity and growth in self-regulatory dispositions. The tl;dr--no, adversity does not lead to growth in either self-reported or parent observed measures of effortful control or emotional stability. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zz0z1... 1/dropbox.com 1143
Reposted by Marie HenneckeAnabel Büchner @anabelbuechner.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Self-control in daily life is more than willpower — but how well do commonly used trait scales capture this recent, broader view on self-control? New preprint with @kaihorstmann.bsky.social & @mhennecke.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps... Short summary below.osf.ioOSF 22210
Reposted by Marie HenneckeMaike Luhmann 🇪🇺 @maikeluhmann.bsky.social · 08/04/2025🚨 Job alert - please share! I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later. Details in thread 👇 #PsychSciSky 34048
Reposted by Marie HenneckeRuben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/03/2025Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke. 59473
Reposted by Marie HenneckeRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."meditationsinanemergency.comThe She Made Him Do It Theory of EverythingThe rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec... 10553241402
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Also a great resource for teaching students data visualization 050
Reposted by Marie HenneckeCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/02/2025This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...flowingdata.comDefense Against Dishonest ChartsThis is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things. 531211441
Reposted by Marie HenneckeMitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org 231308485
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) annually confers an Early Career Award! The deadline for this year’s award is March 14. More info on the (self-)nomination process here: www.scienceofmotivation.org/content.asp?...scienceofmotivation.org Society for the Science of Motivation 033
Reposted by Marie HenneckeMaike Luhmann 🇪🇺 @maikeluhmann.bsky.social · 25/01/2025It's so troubling to follow the news in the U.S. this week. Here is a resource on research funding in Germany that might be of interest to my #psychscisky colleagues in the U.S. (although I still cross my fingers you won't need it): www.research-in-germany.org/en/research-...research-in-germany.orgFunding programmes and awards - Research in GermanyChat-Icon 03315
Reposted by Marie HenneckeCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20251. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 25469974077
Reposted by Marie HenneckeJacobs Center for Productive Youth Development @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Research Coordinator (60 - 100 %) wanted! 📢 The NMR Kids Lab at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development is looking for a German-speaking Research Coordinator to join our interdisciplinary team! 🧠🔍 Click here to apply👉 jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...jobs.uzh.chUZH: Forschungskoordinator*inDas NMR Kids Lab (Abteilung für Entwicklungsneurowissenschaften) am Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development der Universität Zürich sucht eine*n Forschungskoordinator*in zur Verstärkung unseres ... 023
Reposted by Marie HenneckeDarby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science. 12652769315654
Reposted by Marie HenneckeFlorian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 03/02/2025Trump zensiert Wissenschaft: Von CDC-MitarbeiterInnen bereits eingereichte Publikationen müssen zurückgezogen oder verändert werden, wenn sie verbotene Wörter wie "gender" oder "transgender" enthalten. Das kann man nicht mehr schönreden, das ist faschistische Wissenschaftszerstörung. (Thread)insidemedicine.substack.comBREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised. 472052759
Reposted by Marie HenneckeRuhr-Universität Bochum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de · 20/01/2025Forschung zu Einsamkeit, Krebstherapien, Energiewirtschaft, IT-Sicherheit und vielem mehr erwartet euch bei diesen Accounts von RUB-Mitgliedern. Große Follow-Empfehlung! 🦋 86629
Reposted by Marie HenneckeKou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Please repost! We are hiring an assistant professor (W1) of Educational Psychology. We are looking forward to working with you!! uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...uni-tuebingen.deAssistant professorship (W1) of Education Sciences and Psychology 32438
Reposted by Marie HenneckeThe Association for Research in Personality @arpposts.bsky.social · 04/12/2024The Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!personality-arp.orgConference – Association for Research in Personality 41912
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Excited to share our new paper in @EJP! 🎉 We found that how people think and feel about their goals varies most between different goals, then over time, and least between individuals... 1105
Reposted by Marie HenneckeCharles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Interesting looking position open with some colleagues of mine (Wiebke Bleidorn / Ven Popov) here in Zurich. 3-Year Post-Doc (100%) in Individual Differences and Assessment / Computational Modelling www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/sob...psychology.uzh.chOpen Positions 045
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 30/07/2024New article in press: With lead author Mario Wenzel, we try to understand how prohedonic emotion regulation and self-control are related, assuming that they can be incompatible. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comEmotion regulation and self‐control: Same same but different… and even incompatible?Objective We explore the idea that inhibitory self-control and prohedonic emotion regulation may be incompatible concerns. Background Specifically, we propose that because some forms of self-contr... 140
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 30/07/2024In meiner Abteilung Persönlichkeitspsychologie wird eine wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:innenstellen (m/w/d) mit Möglichkeit zur Promotion frei: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/b... Themen z.B. Motivation, Selbstregulation, Selbstkontrolle und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. Bei Fragen gerne DM!jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.deWiss. Mitarbeiter*in (m,w,d) 75% Persönlichkeitspsychologie für 3 Jahre 044
Reposted by Marie HenneckeDerek Isaacowitz @disaacowitz.bsky.social · 05/01/2024Very first Bluesky post! I am excited to advertise for 2 post-docs related to emotion and aging, starting as soon as this summer, in my new lab at WashU. Please spread the word (and let me know if you have any questions)! wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... 0115
Reposted by Marie HenneckeWilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Massive collaborative effort to evaluate the validity of early behavioral science policy recommendations to support the covid-19 pandemic response! Looking good - 👂listening to the science not a bad idea for policymakers. 0112
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 01/12/2023New research with my former graduate student Sebastian Bürgler, in press in Motivation Science. We show that people tend to use the self-control strategy task enrichment in a context-sensitive way, especially when they report high levels of metacognitive knowledge.osf.ioOSF 1114
Marie Hennecke @mhennecke.bsky.social · 22/11/2023This sounds very interesting! Looking forward to reading this soon @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social ! 040