~84% of 18-29 year-olds use social media. The easy story: it's wrecking well-being. The evidence is more nuanced. Chia-Chen Yang, Paul Hunhoff & Jaime Lewandowski show screen time is a poor predictor - the how matters more. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

An important reminder from an APA guide on navigating AI-based advice. "Feeling better does not always mean getting better. AI is designed to respond in ways that feel validating or relieving in the moment. That does not necessarily mean the response is accurate, safe, or helpful for your long-term

Students leave home for college. Their parents' influence doesn't leave with them. Ming Cui, Oluranti Ogundele & Yinuo Zhang examine how parenting - and especially overparenting - shapes college students' well-being. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

A single conversation with a professor can shape whether a student feels ready for what's ahead. Elizabeth Jach & Yaa Essah Armah synthesize the evidence on student-faculty interactions and well-being - grounded in theory. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

A few months ago, a colleague asked me to co-author an invited review piece on well-being. But the journal said no. Not to the paper. But to me, as a co-author, I've published there too many times. Really sad - as I was excited to share ideas that I've been thinking about.

College students spend ~15 hours a week in class - and ~86 hours with friends. More than half their waking lives. Audrey Palmeri & Melissa Robertson take that number seriously in their chapter on friendship and well-being. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

It astounds me that the human brain runs on about 20 watts. That's equivalent to a dim lightbulb. And that can run everything at once - language, vision, motor control, decisions, and memories.

For one cohort, the pandemic didn't just interrupt college - it reshaped a developmental window they only get once. Xiangyu Tao examines COVID-19's impact on student well-being through the lens of emerging adulthood. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

66% of college students said they felt significant stress "a lot" the previous day (Gallup). Crystal Park & Jeanne Slattery focus on what actually helps students cope - grounded in transactional stress theory. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

The next time you see a post from academics like me on our new publication ... #academic #humor #publication #paper

We think of burnout as a workplace thing. But students burn out too. Daniel Madigan & Thomas Curran synthesize 6 reviews - 188 studies, 48,000+ students - on student burnout: exhaustion, cynicism, lost efficacy. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

People say that as you build expertise, things get easier. Beyond that, I would also say that it's finding people you work well with. Over the years, I feel like I've slowly curated an amazing network - collaborators that I genuinely enjoy working with. Those who are:

Sometimes what stops a student from getting help isn't the illness - it's the stigma. Kristin Kosyluk, Kathryn Amanda Maranzan & Patrick Corrigan break down three kinds: public, self, and label avoidance. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

When a student struggles, we look at the student. A public health lens asks us to look wider. Aimee Hourigan & Kirsten Kennedy surface the factors a campus can actually change - belonging, norms, stigma, access. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

"Why the Future of College Could Look Like OnlyFans" A New Yorker article makes this pitch: AI gives students information for free, so why pay a professor? Faculty who survive in this environment teach at the far edges of their field. Basically, niche stuff AI hasn't caught up to.

Why the Future of College Could Look Like OnlyFans

Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.

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How do we know student mental health is worsening? Because someone has been carefully counting. Sarah Ketchen Lipson & colleagues open the Handbook with data from the Healthy Minds Study - 600+ campuses since 2007. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Interested in the core components of critical thinking in AI use? Or assessing it? Check out this paper led by Gabriel Lau. I was fortunate to be brought along for the ride on this and learned a lot. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.12413 #AI #criticalthinking #factorstructure #measurement

In 1970, fewer than a quarter of faculty were part-time. Today most appointments are contingent - the "gig academy." Kevin Eagan asks what that shift does to the well-being of the people teaching most of our students. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Faculty life is usually pictured as a three-legged stool: teaching, research, service. But that leaves out the person holding it up. Brianne Roos & Carey Borkoski offer a better metaphor - a server carrying a full tray. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

So you have questions about #AI? I enjoyed reading Personnel Psychology's 40 Questions Series: Artificial Intelligence by Emily Campion and Scott Tonidandel

In higher ed we talk about student well-being, sometimes faculty - rarely staff. Maureen De Armond treats campus staff as a population deserving the same care, with a tool to inventory what helps and harms. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Psychology is the science of human behavior. Yet we rarely collect data on actual behavior. We rely on proxies like self-reports because they are easier.

The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being in Higher Education (co-edited with Beth McCuskey) is now online - 46 chapters, over 120 authors. I'll walk through it one chapter at a time over the coming months. A long thank-you to everyone who wrote it. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

I'm trying to read more. But probably too fast. And lately I've caught myself doing this thing where I finish something and then realize I can only tell you the barest of the book a few weeks later.

🚀 Introducing the AI Research Chatbot Platform We're excited to share a new tool that makes it easy to build and deploy AI-powered research studies. And without writing a single line of code!! With the platform, you can:

A few years ago, two former Purdue I-O grad students, Andrew Jebb and Vincent Ng, and I felt that scale development recommendations needed an update. There were already excellent papers offering guidance:

Frontiers | A Review of Key Likert Scale Development Advances: 1995–2019

Developing self-report Likert scales is an essential part of modern psychology. However, it is hard for psychologists to remain apprised of best practices as...

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"The University of California System’s SAT Folly: Faculty are in open revolt over the lack of standardized test scores." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

There are many reasons why citations are an imperfect proxy of impact. It depends on why you are cited. You can imagine my excitement at seeing a first citation for work led by my former graduate student, Victoria Scotney - mapping the full scope of beliefs behind why people seek help.

Football fan? Watching the World Cup? Here's a quick analysis of team value vs. outcome across the last two tournaments: 2018 and 2022 Team value is the combined salary of the squad (i.e., the squad's transfer market value).

As more university administrators invest in and embrace AI, we still lack clarity on a basic distinction: what counts as "AI literacy" versus "AI handicapping"?

This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board

The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.

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