SPSP Member Monday: Jessie Sun Are moral people happier? SPSP member shares research suggesting that doing good and feeling good go hand in hand.

This SPSP #MemberMonday, we're sharing an article on morality by Jessie Sun which suggests that being good and feeling good are not mutually exclusive but, instead, go hand in hand.

Read more in Psyche Magazine: https://ow.ly/A1oW50YEuLj

Each year, people speak 338 less words per day (on average). These effects accumulate. In 2019, people were speaking 28% less words each day than in 2005 (!).

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A flyer advertising an online research study with study information, a QR code, and a graphic of a couple holding hands

Our lab at UW–Madison is recruiting young men who are in a relationship with a woman (6+ months) to participate in a ~20-minute online survey study! Participants can enter to win a $50 gift card.

Click here to enter the survey: bit.ly/49U0j9N

Please share with any eligible men you know!

Excited to give a poster presentation (and datablitz at the Happiness & Well-being pre-conference!) on some preliminary descriptive findings from a larger project assessing the link between subjective well-being and naturalistically observed daily conversation! #SPSP2026

Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

A person, shown in silhouette in front of a sunset, holding their hands together in prayer.

📈New research findings may help explain why gratitude has always been central to the practice of religion: gratitude is one affective mechanism through which religion is sustained.

Authors: Patty Van Cappellen, @amandabernal.bsky.social, Sara B. Algoe

Read more in #PSPB: ow.ly/xir950XAhmg

maybe more obvious to me as a child of immigrants socialized around other such people but categories here are not even used consistently by people who were socialized here - possibly because they don't actually make sense. it's quite possible that people from elsewhere just actually don't understand