Ah yea, that makes sense

I'm curious what's triggering. The squeal of fingers sliding over the strings?

I was STUNNED that this model ended up being the winner. No Big 5, or Big 3, or Big Anything. Relationships measures capture positivity, layered on top of item-specific content. That's it.

It feels like we need to start developing new measures from square one.

There must be an error here! Experimental evidence on coding errors' biases Quantitative research relies heavily on coding, and coding errors are relatively common even in published research. In this paper, we examine whether individuals are more or less likely to check their...

No, but we do talk about this one, which presents a similar message:

arxiv.org/abs/2508.20069

Adding this to grad methods next year. We talk about all of this already but this is such a powerful illustration of it. Thanks for sharing!

I secretly judge people who don't like Ummagumma

Are Women Less Sexually Satisfied Than Men? Psychologists pooled data from 37 studies to answer a question that has left many wondering. Here's what they found.

Pooled results from 37 studies finds that, on average, women in relationships report higher levels of sexual satisfaction than men. www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/attraction-evolv...

This gets the discussion going more than any other paper I've assigned. The methods are kinda bonkers and raise a ton of ethical issues. There was also a response (and counter response) that deal with these issues and it's good for demonstrating that ethical decisions are often complex.

I tried getting tickets but they were way too expensive :/

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted.
see our comment:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

There is nothing I would like more for @spspnews.bsky.social to do than provide a searchable PDF version of the conference schedule. Sorry if I miss your talk, I cannot navigate the Whova app

Looking for more data on relationships?
Did you know that The Love Consortium Dataverse is home to over 90 datasets with data from a romantic relationship.
What are you looking for?
dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/love
#ValentinesDay2026

Grateful Dead - Cassidy - 10/31/1980 - Radio City Music Hall YouTube video by Wolfgang's Grateful Dead

Sneaky good is the best way to describe LLR. Some of the late-70s versions with Donna harmonizing at the end are just stunning.

I've been listening to this acoustic Cassidy all morning:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOi...

The most ridiculous thing in all of academia might be the two-day turnaround required for article proofs, especially when the deadline is X-mas eve.

a man and a woman are working on a computer and the man is asking if the files are in the computer ? Alt: An image from the movie Zoolander, with the caption “the files are in the computer”

When I ask undergrads where they saved a file…

How did I miss that there was new Cheap Trick this year??

Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor The Department of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2026. The Department of Psycholog...

UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties:

spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557

I love when my grad students send me dorky memes

Meet Me in the Bathroom (book) - Wikipedia

Ooh, I need to get that. Did you ever read Meet Me in the Bathroom?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_Me...

1) We need better measures. Common method variance accounts for many findings.

2) We have overly relied on crowd-sourced research for the last 15+ years and the quality of those data are very poor. We have a very real MTurk crisis on our hands.

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Oh wow!

Some of this really reminds me of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (esp. Get Lucky)

"Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so"

Who!? Who are those social scientists? lol

Maybe the real crisis was the failed replications we made along the way?

When you said "a few years ago", i was expecting "[insert topic] in the time of the replication crisis". Thanks for shattering my illusion that we are still in the mid-2010's =p

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025 Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are accepting submissions for data blitz and poster presentations for our 🎉FULL DAY🎉 2026 SPSP Close Relationships Preconference! We encourage presenters to select both data blitz and poster options due to high volumes of submissions. Submit no later than 10/23: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

Submit your data blitz and poster presentations and join us for our FULL DAY Close Relationships Preconference!! 🥳