New paper out: "An Initial Integration of Constructs That Account for Moral Actions: Moral Foundations, Values, and Character Strengths" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

An Initial Integration of Constructs That Account for Moral Actions: Moral Foundations, Values, and Character Strengths - Richard A. Inman, Uwe Wolfradt, Pedro J. Costa, Paulo A. S. Moreira, René T. P...

Morality has been described as a psychological system comprising sets of values, practices, institutions, and psychological mechanisms that work together to sup...

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New editorial out: "No Rivalry Among Siblings: What Sets the Sister Journals EJPA and PTAD Apart? A Practical Guide on What to Submit Where" Eunike Wetzel and I summarize what type of article should go to which www.eapa.science journal: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

No Rivalry Among Siblings: What Sets the Sister Journals EJPA and PTAD Apart?: A Practical Guide on What to Submit Where: Psychological Test Adaptation and Development: Vol 7

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New paper out: A first glimpse on the German-language version of the MMPI-3: ‘Cross-Language Psychometric Evaluation Using a Bilingual Within-Person Design’ econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

The German MMPI-3: Cross-Language Psychometric Evaluation Using a Bilingual Within-Person Design: Psychological Test Adaptation and Development: Vol 7

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I spoke with the Czech newspaper Deník N about our work on playfulness @unihalle.bsky.social denikn.cz/2173518/jak-...

Jak nás hravost i v dospělosti učí být lidmi

Vypadají možná jako dětská kratochvíle, ve skutečnosti jsou ale až překvapivě seriózní záležitostí. Hry nejen v dětství, ale i v dospělosti podporují emocionální, kognitivní, sociální i fyzické zdraví...

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Important announcement! Save the date for the next conference of the European Association of Psychological Assessment: September 8-11, 2027. Looking forward to meeting you in Warsaw next year!

Spoke with the BBC about our research @unihalle.bsky.social on dispositions toward laughter and ridicule, and playfulness: bbc.com/future/artic...

Should we laugh more at ourselves? It's complicated

Research shows it's sometimes good for us to poke fun at ourselves, but not always. Here's how to harness the benefits, while avoiding the pitfalls.

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Obwohl Sterbehilfe in Deutschland erlaubt ist, fehlen an vielen Stellen eindeutige und konsistente gesetzliche Regeln. Mit einem neuen Gesetzentwurf wollen Jurist*innen der MLU, der @lmu.de und der Universität Augsburg diese Lücke schließen. mlu.de/aqujj

This is a data (non-)availability statement from here www.nature.com/articles/s41... I understand one may have strong opinions about what should be done with data. Still, I think this has no place in a data availability statement because this is not up to the authors to decide. 1/

Do please consider signing this... how can a university threaten to fire an entire research group because they focus on basic (rather than applied) research?

Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How long does it take BMC Psychology to publish a comment on one of its papers? Submitted: 5 Jun 2025 → Editorially accepted: 8 Jun 2026. Here's why we think it is (currently) impossible to estimate accurate prevalence rates of the IP (led by @kabrau.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Matters arising from Salari et al. (2025): Why it is (currently) impossible to estimate accurate prevalence rates of the Impostor Phenomenon - BMC Psychology

The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) describes self-perceptions of intellectual fraudulence despite external and/or objective feedback supporting one’s intellectual abilities [1]. Salari and colleagues [2] pr...

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Die #Eisbären #Berlin haben ihr Viertelfinal-Ticket für die DEL-Playoffs sicher. Am Sonntag setzte sich der amtierende Meister mit 5:1 gegen #München durch und baute seine Siegesserie zum Ende der Hauptrunde weiter aus. #DEL #Playoffs

Eisbären Berlin schlagen auch München und machen direkten Viertelfinal-Einzug perfekt

Die Eisbären Berlin haben ihr Viertelfinal-Ticket für die DEL-Playoffs sicher. Am Sonntag setzte sich der amtierende Meister mit 5:1 gegen München durch und baute seine Siegesserie zum Ende der Hauptr...

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PM zu einer spannenden Studie unserer Kollegen aus der Allgemeinen Psychologie:

Uni Halle@unihalle.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Selbst mit viel Training gelingt es dem Gehirn nicht wirklich, zwei Aufgaben parallel durchzuführen. Zudem können bereits kleinste Abweichungen von der erlernten Routine starke Folgen haben. Das zeigt eine Studie der MLU, der @fernunihagen.bsky.social und der Hamburg Medical School. mlu.de/7xtgl

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Rethinking 'WEIRD': It's Time for a Change

If we want to reduce Western bias in psychology, we should stop labeling people as WEIRD or non-WEIRD.

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A lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...

Animals experience joy. Scientists want to measure it

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure positive feelings — and it’s a challenge.

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The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Annika Külpmann@anniria.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.

Wieder eine großartige Forscherin. Die aufgrund ihres weiblichen Geschlechts übergangen wurde.

Cecilia Payne entdeckte vor 100 Jahren, woraus Sterne bestehen – und wurde übergangen

Die unkonventionelle Britin zeigte in ihrer brillanten Doktorarbeit, dass Sterne voller Wasserstoff sind. Sie stellte damit die Sicht auf das Universum auf den Kopf. Erst 1956 wurde sie die erste Prof...

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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

And now the paper has finally been accepted, I just wanna say to all the editors: PLEASE stop sending papers back out to reviewers after 1 (at most 2) round! It’s a burden on the system when a decision could be made without reviewers’ approvals. It’s not the reviewers’ job to have a final say!

Submissions 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

New publication out: "Ina picks flowers, while Klaus rides a motorcycle: A quantitative text analysis of #gender #stereotypes in German standardized #spelling #tests" Do spelling tests use gender role stereotypes? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New study on the Impostor Phenomenon (IP): We (@rproyer.bsky.social) analyzed textual self-descriptions and found no associations between the authors' IP self-reports and word frequencies, except for using more anxiety-related words (r = .22). www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Is the Impostor Phenomenon expressed in language? An LIWC analysis of textual self-descriptions

The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) describes individual differences in self-perceptions of intellectual fraudulence. Based on the notion that personality traits ar...

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Out now in Annual Reviews with lab member Rebekka Sendatzki: „Examining #Play and #Playfulness at #Work: Current Knowledge, Practical Applications, and Future Research Directions“ - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Interesting read by lab member @kabrau.bsky.social : "How Does the Helping Alliance Relate to Treatment #Satisfaction: Dyadic Analyses in Pediatric Pain Patients, Caregivers, and Healthcare Professionals" journals.lww.com/clinicalpain... Clinical J of #Pain

How Does the Helping Alliance Relate to Treatment... : The Clinical Journal of Pain

nt, previous studies have not observed an association between treatment satisfaction and other treatment outcomes, such as pain symptoms. We hypothesized that the helping alliance – both between patie...

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It was a pleasure to talk about the work published in PTAD and get in touch with prospective authors!

European Conference on Psychological Assessment (ECPA) 2025@ecpa2025.bsky.social · last yr.

*📩 📚 Meet the Editors* 13:00, Room 112, Palau de les Heures With Eunike Wetzel (EJPA) and René Proyer (PTAD) 🔗 More info: www.ecpa16conferencebcn.com/blog @psicologiaub.bsky.social