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Fabian Hutmacher @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Psychology needs better theories. Sure. But how do we build such theories? And what actually makes a good theory? Together with Alexander Wendt, I have edited a collected volume, "Theory and Model Building in Psychology," which tries to answer some of these questions. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 24/02/2026

Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Experience sampling methods require more than numbers - Communications Psychology

The experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies t...

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Caspar van Lissa 🟥 @cjvanlissa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h... We invite you to: 1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6 2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit 3) Share this post

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Markus Ilkka Eronen @mieronen.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

What is more useful for explaining human behavior, neuroscience or folk psychology? In this new book chapter, co-authored with Laura Bringmann, we argue for the latter. Featuring mirror neurons, tiny worms, and Steve buying a banana! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) On worms, mirror neurons and explaining human behavior

PDF | A key challenge for psychological theorizing is: At what level(s) should we look for the best explanations and predictions of human behavior? The... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

From the new issue: Markus Eronen & Grant Ramsey ‘What Are the "Levels" in Levels of Selection?' Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky #hps #hpbio

ABSTRACT. The levels-of-selection debate is generally taken to be a debate about how natural selection can occur at the various levels of biological organization. In this article, we argue that questions about levels of selection should be analysed separately from questions about levels of organization. In the deflationary proposal we defend, all that is necessary for multilevel selection is that there are cases in which particles are nested in collectives, and that both the collectives and the particles that compose them each separately undergo natural selection. We argue that adopting this deflationary account helps to disentangle the levels of selection and the levels of organization, and thereby contributes to advancing the levels-of-selection debate.

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Freek Oude Maatman @freekoudemaatman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🚨Preprint alert! 🚨 In this one, @mieronen.bsky.social and I argue that using network psychometrics, DAGs or BNs to study predictions of the network theory of psychopathology (NT) is conceptually incoherent. Why? NT either directly contradicts or cannot support causal sufficiency! 1/11

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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Een pleidooi van Prof. Laura Batstra waar ik het hartgrondig mee eens ben. "Procentuele verhogingen vergroten loonverschillen en bevoordelen vooral de top van een organisatie." 1/ www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/dit-...

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‘Dit is hét moment om als universiteit te stoppen met procentuele loonsverhogingen’ - ScienceGuide

De universiteit kan daarmee voorleven dat de sterkste schouders de zwaarste klappen moeten opvangen, schrijft Laura Batstra.

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Latest papers: Markus Ilkka Eronen presents a new causal perspective to psychological measurement and argues that psychological measurement is fundamentally different from measurement in the physical sciences in this open access article buff.ly/3HrrqtS

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Jolien Francken @jolienfrancken.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Workshop announcement: We organize a workshop on the interaction between conceptualization and measurement across all scientific disciplines for early-career researchers located in Europe. More info and application here ias.uva.nl/content/even... Thanks for sharing!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10/01/2024

Excellent new paper by @mieronen.bsky.social on whether psychologists actually measure anything at all. Lays out a minimal causal condition for measurement, argues that psych vars do not satisfy it & distinguishes between "hard" and "soft measurement."> www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Markus Ilkka Eronen @mieronen.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

A thoroughly revised version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Levels of Organization in Biology, written by me and Dan Brooks, has now been published! Very happy to see this online, writing it was a nice but long process. plato.stanford.edu/entries/leve...

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

More from the new issue (and open access!): Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation —Alexander Gebharter & Markus Eronen www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Supporters of the autonomy of higher-level causation (or explanation) often appeal to proportionality, arguing that higher-level causes are more proportional than their lower-level realizers. Recently, measures based on information theory and causal modelling have been proposed that allow one to shed new light on proportionality and the related notion of specificity. In this article we apply ideas from this literature to the issue of higher- versus lower-level causation (and explanation). Surprisingly, proportionality turns out to be irrelevant for the question of whether higher-level causes (or explanations) can be autonomous; specificity is a much more informative notion for this purpose.

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

New issue out now, full to the brim of crunchy and nutritious* philosophy of science www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur... *Contains science communication & superdeterminism, machine behaviour & monothematic delusions, neural oscillations & analogue computation, & much more... #philsky #philsci

BJPS, volume 74, issue 3
Table of Contents
Peter Carruthers — On Valence
Augustin Baas & Baptiste Le Bihan — What Does the World Look Like according to Superdeterminism?
Alexander Gebharter & Markus I Eronen — Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation
Miloud Belkoniene — Grasping in Understanding
Manolo Martínez & Marc Artiga — Neural Oscillations as Representations
Alfonso García-Lapeña — Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws
Cameron Buckner — Black Boxes, or Unflattering Mirrors?
Uwe Peters — Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms
Corey J Maley — Analogue Computation and Representation
James DiFrisco — Toward a Theory of Homology
Adam Bradley & Quinn Hiroshi Gibson — Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality

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