The "Theory Paper Format" is a template for writing psychological theory papers, developed by the Taskforce Theoretical Psychology (Lorentz Workshop, 2025). Use it to structure your theoretical paper, or (for editors) consider creating journal space for theory papers doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

Suicide risk in older adults with autistic traits is linked to depression and isolation more than autism itself

Suicide risk in older adults with autistic traits is linked to depression and isolation more than autism itself

A study in Nature Mental Health provides evidence that depression, trauma, and loneliness drive suicidal thoughts in older adults with autistic traits. The findings indicate that targeted mental health support could help protect this vulnerable aging population.

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The University of Melbourne has opened a formal investigation into the prominent Australia-based education researcher John Hattie, backtracking on a decision months ago that concerns about his work didn’t warrant further scrutiny.

University of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education researcher John Hattie

John Hattie The University of Melbourne has opened a formal investigation into the prominent Australia-based education researcher John Hattie, backtracking on a decision months ago that concerns ab…

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"There are signs that the Bayes Factor is increasingly taking on a role analogous to that of the p-value, serving as a device for the automation of decisions rather than as a tool for substantive inference." Excellent new preprint by Carol Ting on the rise of NHST. #Methodology #stats

The Rise of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST): Institutional Massification and the Emergence of a Procedural Epistemology

It has long been a puzzle why, despite sustained reform efforts, many applied scientific fields remain dominated by Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST), a framework that dichotomizes study res...

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…reproducibility problems are widespread. Only one in three authors (35%) share code, and even when code is available, only every second main result (51%) is numerically reproducible.

Sadly, I think the CRediT taxonomy is being misused. Anyone can just make stuff up about paper contributions. Here we have an article where 5 authors were credited with "visualisation" in a paper with no figures. pubpeer.com/publications...

Veronique Kiermer@verokiermer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

10 years since CRediT was introduced, >20% adoption (of full text in Dimensions). Now, we need to build on this to comprehensively integrate CRediT in metadata and make sure the taxonomy evolves to remain fit for purpose. doi.org/10.1038/d415... W/ @sjcporter.bsky.social Liz Allen Ruth Whitman

I refuse to use the term "AI era". It conveys a level of persistence which is unwarranted for an innovation that may very well never become sustainable or economical. Instead I propose the term "AI crisis", given that it's something that wreaks havoc and that nobody has asked for.

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The current State and Status of Theory in Psychological Science

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Check out the full article published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, an APA journal! @alicynager.bsky.social

PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social · 5mo ago

People with the least political knowledge tend to be the most overconfident in their grasp of facts

Brain scans reveal a bipolar-like link to childhood trauma in some depressed patients

Brain scans reveal a bipolar-like link to childhood trauma in some depressed patients

Not all depression is the same. A new study reveals that depressed patients with a high genetic risk for bipolar disorder show a structural brain association with childhood trauma that closely mimics bipolar disorder itself.

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The Approximate Number System account assumes an imprecise mechanism behind the precise symbolic number comparison. This leads to various contradictions in the model. Read more about it at osf.io/6m4zw.

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These findings echo the debate in adult research raised by Rey-Mermet et al. (2018), suggesting that results based on a single inhibition paradigm cannot be generalised to other paradigms.

We found no support for a unitary inhibition construct. Instead, the stop-signal task (SST) was related to symbolic arithmetic in both 5- and 7-year-olds. In contrast, the flanker task was related to non-symbolic maths, but only in 7-year-olds.

𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁! We investigated task-specific links to arithmetic to understand inconsistencies in the literature, now published open-access in Child Development: doi.org/10.1093/chid... A great collaboration with @sixtine-o.bsky.social and André Knops!

When people use LLMs for medical diagnosis accuracy is below 50%. Strong case against automated benchmarks of LLM ‘ability.’ If your uncle can’t use it to diagnose a migraine, it can’t diagnose a migraine. A doctor could, cause she understands what questions to ask. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine

In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...

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Again, I'm looking for a lab research coordinator to work on the developmental cognitive neuroscience of numeracy in preschoolers. Please pass on to those that might be interested publish.illinois.edu/danielchyde/...

If you think concerns about replicability started in the 2010's, and you don't know this was just a repetition of exactly the same concerns from the 1960's, you are failing to learn from history of science. Dig in: rips-irsp.com/articles/10.... and rips-irsp.com/articles/10....

Concerns About Theorizing, Relevance, Generalizability, and Methodology Across Two Crises in Social Psychology | International Review of Social Psychology

Research article

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Comparison of Covid vs flu in the experimental model: Only Covid showed persistent brain inflammation Repair of lung tissue impaired with Covid vs flu www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Frontiers | Characterization of subchronic lung and brain consequences caused by mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A infection of C57BL6 mice

IntroductionSARS-CoV-2 and, to a lesser extent, influenza A can lead to long-term complications in the respiratory and nervous systems. However, the mechanis...

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40,000-year-old proto-writing in Germany www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS

As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...

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@attentionlab.bsky.social identified (what look like) #AI bots in an online response-time task (Posner cuing). Give-aways are normally distributed RTs and lack of serial-dependence effects. Pretty troublng. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New research: AI models tend to reflect the political ideologies of their creators

New research: AI models tend to reflect the political ideologies of their creators

A new study suggests true AI neutrality is impossible. By analyzing how models describe political figures, scientists discovered that these systems align with the cultural and political values of their developers, often mirroring the worldview of their origin.

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Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.

Many living people carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA, remnants of ancient interbreeding events, with uneven distribution across chromosomes. New work by @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social lab suggests patterns are most consistent with Neanderthal contribution to human populations being highly male biased.🧪

Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased

Sex biases in admixture and other demographic processes are recurrent features throughout human evolution. For admixture between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), sex bias has been p...

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