Why do some things stick in memory while others fade? Next Tue, Dec 9, Alan Castel (UCLA) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social online talk series on “Memory Selectivity in Younger and Older Adults: A Value-Directed Remembering Approach.” 1/ Join us! (link below)

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

Psychonomic Society@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 9mo ago

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

The Handbook of Personalized Learning is finally in print! Arrived yesterday(!) & pre-order pricing thru 🦃. www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-... We provided teachers & designers with a guide to theoretically supported PL design logic & demos across subject areas, ages, & contexts. +DIY figure! ⬇️

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

This work was inspired by an awesome similar study by @johnflournoy.science 2024 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38141745/), obviously the midnight scan club @gordonneuro.bsky.social 2017 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) and many other amazing recent studies in precision imaging

A precision neuroscience approach to estimating reliability of neural responses during emotion processing: Implications for task-fMRI - PubMed

Recent work demonstrating low test-retest reliability of neural activation during fMRI tasks raises questions about the utility of task-based fMRI for the study of individual variation in brain functi...

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🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Precision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward Response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678878v1

Attending Psychonomics in Denver? Consider arriving early enough to join the 2nd mtg of the Symposium for Individual Differences (SIDIC) on Thurs. Registration is open thru 10/31 & we've got a great program planned, with a keynote by @amiyake.bsky.social caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025/pr...

@rolfzwaan.bsky.social is organizing a multilab replication of Loftus & Palmer's (1974) classic study: People's memory of two cars' speed was influenced by the verb used in Q ("How fast were the cars moving when they ____"). This is exciting, & if you want to take part in it, check out Rolf's post.

Rolf Zwaan@rolfzwaan.eurosky.social · 11mo ago

Invitation to a potential replication project. rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...

Another tenure/TT open-rank position is open in Developmental Neuroscience! apply.interfolio.com/171158 Deadline is also Sept. 15

Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229 Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)

Here's a replication of an informal Big 5 result I posted yesterday (the original post is pinned on my profile page). Glad to see that @aurelienallard.bsky.social found the same result. I'd love to see more attempts like this on Big 5 or other constructs. Thanks, Aurélien, for doing this analysis!

Aurélien Allard@aurelienallard.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So cool! For what it's worth, I've just tried to replicate the result for the 50-items IPIP from open psychometrics (openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/). There's also 0 participant falling into each average category for this dataset. If constructs were orthogonal this should have been 6 (out of 20,000)

Cool thread. Excellent reminder that bodies and personalities (and faces fwiw) are multidimensional, and that averages are poor lenses with which to examine them. Further, relationships within/between dimensions may be complex - jagged, yes, but also networked & dynamic #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Akira Miyake@amiyake.bsky.social · 11mo ago

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall!  The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so. I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland

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ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

Akira Miyake@amiyake.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range. QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS? What's your answer?

Akira Miyake@amiyake.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy #Caturday! Walking on this narrow wooden fence is something Tiger always does when I occasionally let her (and my other cat, Hunter) spend a bit of time at the backyard (they're under my close supervision, though). Look at her tail! She's having a good time. #cats #catsofbluesky

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

Akira Miyake@amiyake.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range. QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS? What's your answer?

September 6 is, er, was Fight Procrastination Day. I meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot, I had other things to do... Better late than never, right? In any case, I hope you didn't put off any important task yesterday!

A focus app created by @hankgreen.bsky.social, was briefly the #1 free app on the Play Store! But will it actually help users with their attention? I try the app myself, and look to a recent study that examined whether blockers improve sustained attention and mental health. My takes here:

Do blocker apps help people reclaim their attention?

A cognitive scientist's take on Hank Green's viral blocker app, Focus Friend

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Super happy with Cogsci program assistant Chris Kent's work for our college Instagram feed. Glad I could get our Loki featured to advertise my class.

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range. QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS? What's your answer?

Happy #Caturday! Walking on this narrow wooden fence is something Tiger always does when I occasionally let her (and my other cat, Hunter) spend a bit of time at the backyard (they're under my close supervision, though). Look at her tail! She's having a good time. #cats #catsofbluesky

Want a summary of the MOST important tips on how to study effectively? This short video compiles a wealth of scientific research into one tight conversation starter. Great for the start of the school year or anytime!! Please share widely!!! youtu.be/5GcIAzbmofc

A joy of morning walks (besides enjoying podcasts & audiobooks) is to discover something new. That something new the other day was a cute fox with a bushy tail. I've never seen a fox before in Boulder & didn't expect to see one just a few minutes from my house. Walking earlier than usual paid off.

Very happy to see this grant emerge from 6 months of NCE life support, which I really did not expect to happen. Excited to do the work, and wishing similar revivification for everyone else with grants in limbo!

Akira Miyake@amiyake.bsky.social · 11mo ago

After ~6 months of delay & uncertainty, the 2nd half of Year 1 funds for our IES grant has finally arrived! They tell us that the Year 2 funds will also be forthcoming. Not knowing what would happen for so long was excruciating, but I'm so grateful that we get to keep working on this project! (1/2)

Our new paper, led by Andrew Burton-Jones, argues English-only science is unfair, costly and may no longer be necessary. With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there. doi.org/10.3127/ajis... #languagebarriers 1/4

Scientists may take pride in publishing in prestigious English journals, but it is equally important to consider how these findings can be shared more broadly with their peers and the general population, especially those who do not speak or read English. #languagebarriers dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺? Implications for reinforcement learning. Very interesting paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

After ~6 months of delay & uncertainty, the 2nd half of Year 1 funds for our IES grant has finally arrived! They tell us that the Year 2 funds will also be forthcoming. Not knowing what would happen for so long was excruciating, but I'm so grateful that we get to keep working on this project! (1/2)

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