Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherKlaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026The sheer figure of 20% blows my mind. Experts are probably well aware of that. That seems to be a little higher than the chances for russian soldiers to die within one year on the front. And we talk about scaring them away by depriving them of money or putting them in camps. And people think it's 12013
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherThomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com 312462
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherSergio Pirla @sergiopirla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026New paper out in SBE! Self-employment is linked to lower boredom, a relationship that is not captured by traditional measures of well-being. A less boring life may be an overlooked (an independent) component of the well-being gains from self-employment! link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comBoredom and psychological well-being among the self-employed - Small Business EconomicsIndividuals not only seek a happy and meaningful life, but an interesting rather than a boring one. In this paper, we analyze data from 19,000 individuals across 25 European countries to demonstrate t... 022
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.thelancet.comEvaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysisUSAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a... 5435191808
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherMichael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Vaccination is collective action: Vaccination helps others by hindering disease-spread But there is an incentive free-ride: if enough others vaccinate, you don't need to pay those costs In a new paper, we provide new evidence with data from 6+ mil covid-vaccinations: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/7 2307
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 23/06/2026what on EAAAAAAARTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHH 167916
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherBrendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026excited about this one: using longitudinal movement data and dyadic models, we show that orangutan moms adjust their ranging patterns so their kids can play with age-mates independent of kinship, at personal costs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 17629
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherRasha Kardosh @rasharasha.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Out in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Inequality is not only hard to solve. Sometimes, it is hard to *see*. We ask a simple question: Do people notice when members of minority groups are absent? Across field studies and experiments, the answer was often no.pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 27033
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherNicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Can gratitude interventions make the world happier? We tested 6 gratitude practices across 34 countries with 10,696 participants to find out — and the answer is more interesting than a simple yes 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgA multinational megastudy of the effects of gratitude practices on subjective well-being | PNASScholars have observed people from a variety of cultures using a variety of gratitude-related practices to change their emotions, outlooks, and soc... 22418
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherRobert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 23/04/2026🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 together with Jürgen Huber & Michael Kirchler: “Massaging Significance in the Age of Open Science: A Satirical Tutorial,” which is a public service for anyone unwilling to let inconvenient data get in the way of a compelling narrative. 😉 Link to preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 22311
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherMalte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 24/04/2026This is why we (@jamiecummins.bsky.social @bethclarke.bsky.social and I) have developed RegCheck, a tool that automatically checks for potential deviations. regcheck.appregcheck.appRegCheckRegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly. 02911
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Show participants the decisive winner-loser moments of an NBA game, then immediately ask (economic) zero-sum beliefs. 020
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Interesting paper, the experimental evidence could be oversold though. In S3 and S4, the effects are small, about .18 to .20 points on a 7 point scale, d = .15 to .16 (p-values .007 & .018 - one-tailed). Also likely, conceptual overlap between IV and DV & demand effects: 100
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 01/04/2026Majestic, well done @rickcarlsson.bsky.social 26827
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026But also the smaller the n the larger effects you can find 000
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 19/03/20263 new studies on using psychedelics as treatments for mental disorders just came out; 2 in JAMA Psychiatry, 1 in Lancet Psychiatry. I reviewed one of these submissions. Here are the core results. 🧵 24215
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 20/03/2026In addition, "Two serious adverse reactions were reported after psilocybin, 25 mg, including 1 case of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder". 100
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherJenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · 18/03/2026The fee to publish an open access paper at Trends in Cognitive Science is now over $7,000. Seriously, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social ??? For a 4,000 word piece? Talk about a broken system. 34214
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherMarc Malmdorf Andersen @ndersen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Denmark is often portrayed as a fairly equal society, but when looking at the distribution of wealth a different picture emerges. The richest 1% of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 82% combined. Wealth tax is now being debated. #dkmedier #dkpol #dkvalg (oxfam.dk/publikatione...)oxfam.dkNy analyse: Top 1 pct. har mere formue end 82 pct. af den danske befolkningEn ny opgørelse viser, at de rigeste cirka 48.000 mennesker i Danmark har lige så meget formue som 3,9 millioner danskere tilsammen. 064
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherJoe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 13/03/2026Coming up with a post-hoc theory section when your results are weird: 51786270
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Wow the effect sizes are wild, a d of 21.5 on stress!! I'll get some Omega 3 now. 140
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 03/03/2026Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities. This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-... 315465
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 01/03/2026This is purely correlational. Authors themselves state "the cross-sectional nature of our study design precludes any causal interpretations. For example, non-normative action intentions may lead people to expressing heightened threat from repression”. Much more caution is needed, also in the title. 130
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherChristopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics... 618282
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherPeter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 25/02/2026This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/ 8436186
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 23/02/2026198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking. 613446
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Sorry, I don't understand how that addresses the issue of power and the robustness of each interaction. 000
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Cool idea, cool studies! I'm a little concerned though by the robustness of the central interactions. S1: p = .019, S2: p = .031, in S3 p = .036. Huge sample sizes are need for robust attenuated interactions doi.org/10.1177/2515... 120
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherMalte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 14/02/2026Just an aside: 41 of the 100 meta analyses published in Psych Bull between 2023 and 2025 do not include *any* quality screening of identified studies. To the degree that those literatures include bad studies, they are being laundered together with the good ones. 4296
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Just had a similar experience at Scientific Reports. We will submit to Meta Psychology, great outlet! open.lnu.se/index.php/me... 120
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 22/01/2026Positive and negative self-esteem are two (or one?) such offenders that I cover in my blog post. www.the100.ci/2023/06/13/d...the100.ciDisentangling the Dark and Bright Side of Constructs with a Bright and Dark SideThis blog post resulted from a draft that was supposed to become a proper article at some point. Michael Dufner and Tailcalled both worked on the draft and contributed important ideas. But, as so ofte... 5166
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Scientific Reports is the new Frontiers, from my experience. Low quality control, high publication fees, they have a deadline for reviewers of 10 days. 284
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Many people, unfortunately, also just don't know how bad it is (one of my colleagues had no clue; now she has and she is angry). 030
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 09/01/2026This is a chance for behavioral science. Moving away from weak online studies, weak experimental manipulations, and moving to studying real behavior in real life. Remember the 60s? Social psychology was real. Asch, Milgram, et al. 040
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Researchers recently asked Americans what income level other people need in order to live a good life. A whopping 86% of Americans reported income levels well below what others say they themselves need. Fascinating! 28023
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherRuben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/12/2025Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 28134
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherSander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 11/12/2025New paper out in @science.org! We unveil the online manipulation market with the Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI). We show in real time the cost of purchasing fake accounts across every social platform around the world - so they can be held accountable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgMapping the online manipulation economyA market perspective on digital manipulation may help improve online trust and safety 412363
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 09/12/2025Achal Agrawal is on Nature’s list of 10 people who shaped science in 2025. His work helped change India’s university rankings system to include a penalty for large number of retractions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comThis science sleuth revealed a retraction crisis at Indian universitiesAchal Agrawal is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025. 24114
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherChristoph Schild @schildchristoph.bsky.social · 09/12/2025🚨STOP, replication time!🚨 Does Feeling “Right” Make the Good More Good (and the Bad More Bad)? Achar & Lee found that when people experience regulatory fit, moral predispositions get amplified—moral folks act more moral, less moral folks act less moral. Big, exciting claim! 1125
Reposted by Stefan Pfattheicherjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 08/12/2025Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪pnas.orgCan speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNASEach year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States, generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf... 10526178
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherKarolina Ścigała @kascigala.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Does “feeling right”—that is, experiencing regulatory fit—lead us to act more in line with our moral preferences? With @schildchristoph.bsky.social and @stepf.bsky.social, we conducted a series of the first large-scale, independent close replications in the field of regulatory fit. 196
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherSnowden St. @snowden.st · 02/12/2025Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in. 732505976
Reposted by Stefan PfattheicherMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/12/2025"We will call the 12th month of the year 'December'... which means 'tenth month.'" 271314238
Stefan Pfattheicher @stepf.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Sharp analysis on why 'Why $100,000 Is the New Poor' www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... 000