Narrowing Boundaries: Mental Fatigue Reduces the Amount of Evidence that People Use when Making Decisions under Risk: https://osf.io/x5zys

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

2-year postdoc in our team, supervised by Laura Fruhen and Tirza van Noorden. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Postdoc Position: Workplace Communication and Employee Wellbeing | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc: Workplace Communication and Employee Wellbeing at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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Motivation and Emotion is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief! 4-year term starting Jan 2025. Looking for someone with vision, experience in motivation/emotion research, and editorial chops. Deadline: Aug 1. Ready to shape the field? Details: morgan.ryan@springer.com

In our new RR, we will test whether and how mental fatigue impacts dishonesty: rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere... I am already excited about the to-be-collected data. Nice work led by Mara Bialas 👏 (also with @maartenboksem.bsky.social)

ashamedly i've never tried this (from Kahneman's 1973 'Attention and Effort')

Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

You do not need to be Dutch to sign. If you simply care to preserve programs that have been leaders in rigor and reform in psychology, then signal your support for them to continue to thrive.

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An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

New paper in JESP: "On rewarded actions and punishment-avoidant inactions: The action–valence asymmetry in face perception.” In four preregistered experiments, we show that inactions influence evaluations of faces. (1/5) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On rewarded actions and punishment-avoidant inactions: The action–valence asymmetry in face perception

Although social interactions are ubiquitous, people often choose not to interact with others—for example, people may choose to not greet a stranger, t…

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"First, the idea that a few minutes of self-control can leave you unable to resist temptation later has been thoroughly debunked. What remains is something far more mundane: fatigue."

Michael Inzlicht@minzlicht.bsky.social · 2y ago

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

'Since the establishment of that template, this norm of the 40-hour working week, Monday to Friday, we see that not much has changed'

I'm excited to share a new preprint: In a novel experimental paradigm, we found evidence that stress induces a computational bias during alcohol-related decision-making in favor of alcohol, but this bias was only sometimes strong enough to overcome competing considerations (e.g., taste preferences).

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

How people decide to consume (more) alcohol when feeling stressed: http://osf.io/c7q9p/

New large study (n ~ 6 million) in @JAMApsych tracking mental disorder trends in Denmark showing increases in mood disorders in recent birth cohorts tinyurl.com/c5nyfd8k

📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢 Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩 ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... pls share liberally 🙏

The dynamics of boredom

This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for ...

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The unfathomable richness of seeing: http://osf.io/jmg35/

Clark Hull usually gets credit for coming up with "law of less work" (or the "law of least effort") in 1943. I recently learned that the Chinese psychologist Loh-Seng Tsai published the same idea 11 years before Hull. 🧵Short history thread (1/5):

I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵

New paper from the SCAN-Unit! How does acute stress impact effortful prosocial behaviour? @elife.bsky.social Forbes et al. elifesciences.org/articles/87271 1/8

Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

Participants under acute stress were less willing to exert a relatively low level of physical effort for actions that benefit another person compared to actions that benefit themselves.

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Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 t.co/ByeSMQNJdp

Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals

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‚Science Advances‘ published our paper in which we asked: "Where does all the sugar go in the brain?" doi.org/10.1126/scia... Short answer and 4 main findings in 🧵 below. #funding: ERC_Research #neuroskyence

Oh, wait, Bartley and Chute said this already *in 1945*.

Erik Bijleveld@erikbij.bsky.social · 3y ago

One nice insight: Cognitive fatigue responds to errors. Specifically, fatigue showed the steepest increase during trials in which people exerted effort but were unsuccessful. This suggests that, when people feel they are not performing well despite exerting effort, they get more fatigued. (5/6)

I sometimes try to publish in work psych journals, and this is in line with my experiences: "Unfortunately, journals in industrial, work, and organizational psychology still fail to support Open Science practices" open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

Replication of the original experiments on the “Effort Heuristic” (higher liking, and perceived higher quality and monetary value for goods that take more effort to produce) finds at best mixed results: buff.ly/3Ms53ar HT @giladfeldman.bsky.social

I think gaps in fatigue by social class are somewhat under-studied. They clearly exist: People with low SES are more tired. For example: doi.org/10.1186/1756...

Determinants of fatigue and stress - BMC Research Notes

Background Fatigue can be triggered by previous perceived stress which may lead to impairment of performance and function. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between fatigue ...

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Evaluating Large Language Models for Assisting Meta-Analysis: http://osf.io/dc6tz/

Generative AI is opening a new era for trolley problems aesthetics

My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!

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