How well can others judge our self-control? 👀 People who know us well can tell surprisingly well how much self-control we have, and even predict how successfully we navigate temptations in daily life. But some aspects of self-control are much easier to see than others. Read here (open access!)

Joniada Agalliu@joniadaagalliu.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to share that our paper with @mhennecke.bsky.social was published yesterday!   We asked: How well do others really know our self-control? Turns out, surprisingly well - but it depends on what they’re judging, the life domain, and how close they are to us. doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

There is a position for a Postdoc (3+3 years) in my lab. If you are interested in studying goals, self-regulation, self-control, motivation, personality, well-being, personality development, and/or intra-individual variability with me, here is more information jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x; as "Akad. Rat/Rätin auf Zeit": 3-year contract with a possible 3-year extension)

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There is a position for a Postdoc (3+3 years) in my lab. If you are interested in studying goals, self-regulation, self-control, motivation, personality, well-being, personality development, and/or intra-individual variability with me, here is more information jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x; as "Akad. Rat/Rätin auf Zeit": 3-year contract with a possible 3-year extension)

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A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science. wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Psychological & Brain Sciences

Position Summary Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at WashU in St. Louis, to work on department-funded res...

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Our institute is hiring 1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology) ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... 2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Assistant Professor Tenure Track for Social Psychology with a Focus on Environmental Psychology - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for Assistant Professor Tenure Track for Social Psychology with a Focus on Environmental Psychology

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Preprint just accepted by Motivation Science! osf.io/preprints/ps... Despite decades of research, we do not have a clear or unitary definition of self-control! In this article, I discuss: • Is self-control an ability or a personality trait? • Should habits count as self-control? [...]

Collaborating on this was fun - and it shows that research stays - in addition to their immediate impact- can still promote collaboration and productivity 15 years later! Thank you @liztenney.bsky.social for asking me to join the team!

IMPRS on Learning, Institutions, and Future Evolution (LIFE)@imprs-life.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A new article by LIFE alumna @liztenney.bsky.social et al., involving LIFE alumni @mhennecke.bsky.social and Jesse Graham. Read to find out the link to the Oktoberfest! 🍻 doi.org/10.1177/0956...

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow. Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, using different orientations and motions, an example of multi-purpose tool use. This suggests scientists may have underestimated cows' cognitive abilities. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow

Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, suggesting scientists have underestimated cow cognition...

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Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Check out the newly launched International Student Resource Center (ISRC), a national organization dedicated to helping international students and scholars navigate the complex landscape of U.S. immigration laws, regulations, and policies. #AcademicSky www.internationalstudent.us

International Student Resource Center

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🔔 Those coming to the ECP22 in Edinburgh: Consider booking accommodation early! Edinburgh is a very popular place. Here are accommodation tips for ECP folks: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 📝 Submissions & registrations are also open: ecp22edinburgh.org #ecp22

Early career personality researchers coming to the Edinburgh ECP22: If you want to get a link to a slightly more affordable uni accommodation option later this year, leave your email here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Advance Accommodation Information

Primarily for Early Career Researchers (PhD, post-doc): If you would like to receive advance information about a limited number of more affordable accommodation options available for the 22nd Europea...

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If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️ datamgmtinedresearch.com 1. Organizing data (Ch. 3) 2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9) 3. Documenting data (Ch. 8) 4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)

a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right

ALT: a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right

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Attended #FGSP2025 earlier this week, first ever conference outside of India! Extremely grateful to have gotten the opportunity to present and win 2nd place for this poster on the study I did with @mhennecke.bsky.social and Johannes Koopmann while I was still in India!

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

Here's a plain summary of our work on measuring goal dimensions: link.growkudos.com/1et738saakg

A New Tool to Better Understand How People See and Pursue Their Goals

This research introduces the Goal Dimensions Questionnaire, a survey that measures nine key features of personal goals: commitment, demand, enjoyment, expectancy, external motivation, facilitation, pr...

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New paper! Miriam Pfister, Melanie Naumann, Veronika Brandstätter and I validated 13 state scales to capture change in students' affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals during exam preparation - useful tools to investigate the processes driving academic success.

New paper with Korbinian Kiendl, @rhoyle.bsky.social & @kkleinke.de accepted at Motivation Science: After noticing that practices for measuring characteristics of personal goals (= goal dimensions) are a big mess (see Kiendl et al., 2022), we decided to develop and validate a measure: ...

1. I have spent a lot of time recently sending invitations for people to review papers, and this process works extremely differently from what I imagined when I was a student. Wanted to write out how I do it in case that's helpful for you all as you submit papers. #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

Paper alert by @cavanvbonner.bsky.social looking at adversity and growth in self-regulatory dispositions. The tl;dr--no, adversity does not lead to growth in either self-reported or parent observed measures of effortful control or emotional stability. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zz0z1... 1/

Self-control in daily life is more than willpower — but how well do commonly used trait scales capture this recent, broader view on self-control? New preprint with @kaihorstmann.bsky.social & @mhennecke.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps... Short summary below.

🚨 Job alert - please share! I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later. Details in thread 👇 #PsychSciSky

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

This is fantastic - congratulations!

IMPRS on Learning, Institutions, and Future Evolution (LIFE)@imprs-life.bsky.social · 2y ago

🥂https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/awards/graduate-program-with-a-future-imprs-life-to-be-established-permanently

New preprint!

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

How Regulatory Flexibility in Strategy Use Helps Self-Control: Theoretical Models, Empirical Evidence, and Empirical Challenges: http://osf.io/qt98u_v1/

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

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Also a great resource for teaching students data visualization

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

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Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org