This finding (10% of participants thought CAF was probably training a raccoon army) reminds me of the anecdote from David Wilk who wrote questions for the game show The Power of 10. When they polled Americans if they ever had been decapitated, 4% responded that they had. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

AAUP and AFT Launch National Higher Education Platform Ahead of 2026 Midterms AUSTIN, Texas—Today, the American Association of University Professors and the AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive national policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms to counter the Trump adminis...

HAPPENING NOW: The AFT and @aaup.org are in Texas launching our new Nnational Higher Education platform ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Read more in the release here, and follow along in the thread below. @afthighered.bsky.social

A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education The AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration’s far right extremist attacks on American higher education an...

Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy.

Read it in full here:
www.aaup.org/blueprint-st...

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Thanks. Fair point, platforming him is a misstep, and one could argue the event does more harm than good for that reason. I'm just responding to the comments that there are no proponents of sci. integrity. There are some great speakers. If you took a 45min break at 3pm on day 2 it would be solid.

People are upset about Bhattacharya and Oster. Fair enough. But, if you check the program (bit.ly/NASprog.) that's 45 mins out of 2 days. There are very good scientific integrity folks like @statmodeling.bsky.social, @simine.com, Leif Nelson, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @urisohn.bsky.social, etc.

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Thanks to @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson for organizing a great session yesterday on receiving empathy! Along with @anatperry.bsky.social, they are excellent colleagues to chat with and then consider true meanings of the constructs "empathy" and "brunch"
@affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026

Come check out the fun Friday morning AI empathy symposium led by @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026. I'll be talking about empathy choice for AI empathy work with @jdweng.bsky.social @minzlicht.bsky.social, and why recipient experiences matter for this debate

Looking forward to @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026 in Pittsburgh this week, where I will speak on AI empathy in a session by @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson, along with @anatperry.bsky.social. Ontology of empathy, and pierogies, a balanced meal. I may arrange an AI #empathy popup coffee ☕

Against frictionless AI - Communications Psychology AI’s greatest strength—removing friction from work and relationships—is also a liability. Prioritizing outcome over process, it eliminates desirable difficulties that drive growth. By subtracting effo...

1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social.

The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Our work suggests wise empathy is a viable tool to improve well-being on social media and a potential alternative to banning social media, while elucidating how empathy can be regulated to improve well-being. S/o to @minzlicht.bsky.social, @chrisoveis.bsky.social, and Emily Zohar. #socialmedia 4/4

These changes in online experiences caused increased well-being when participants had browsed social media recently. In particular, the well-being difference between wise empathy and control participants became significant when participants had browsed for about 12 of the last 30 minutes. 3/4

Participants who learned wise empathy experienced more appreciative joy, positive emotion sharing, and compassion for suffering, with less personal distress, negative emotion sharing and social comparison. They learned to care rather than share for suffering 😢 and share not compare for joy 😀. 2/4

Preprint of "Wise Empathy Improves Well-being on Instagram" is now available: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Effects of social media on well-being vary, and depend greatly on online experiences. Here, we present a wise empathy intervention to change digital experiences and improve well-being. #empathy 1/4

As we head toward #SAS2026 we are excited to partner with @inclivio.com to support EMA research in affective science.
If you’re attending the conference, like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) this post to enter a drawing for 1 of 3 licenses to run your study on Inclivio for *free*.
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Interested in doing a postdoc on misinfo/belief change with me and @gordpennycook.bsky.social? We are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at York University. Contact me for more details! #PsychJobs

We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026.
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
#SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics

No, I'll be at the Thunder Bay campus! Let me know if you have any insider tips :)

Thank you, Andrea! 🇨🇦

Thank you! 🥳🍻

Thank you, Harrison!!

Thank you, Brett! Appreciate it.

Excited to share: This summer I'm starting as an Assistant Professor at @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social! 🥳 I'll be continuing my research on empathy, teaching, and mentoring students. Prospective students interested in empathy are welcome to reach out. Grateful to my family, colleagues, and mentors!

Motivating Empathy and Moral Pluralism in Health Policy - C. Daryl Cameron, Paige Amormino, Joel E. Segel, 2026 Health policy is motivated by a variety of factors including moral concerns, values and convictions. Policymakers are motivated to consider how constituents and...

Excited to see this out in print in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. It's the first publication with @amormino.bsky.social in the EMP Lab, along with Joel Segel from Health Policy and Administration. At a pivotal moment for empathy, we consider its role for policymaking 1/n

How Leaders Can Practice Wise Empathy Empathy has become a baseline expectation of modern leadership, but practiced without judgment it can backfire, leaving leaders depleted and employees feeling misunderstood. Effective leadership requi...

I wrote a piece with Nick Hobson in Harvard Business Review (@hbr.org) on how leaders can use empathy wisely to help their employees feel supported while benefitting their own well-being. Check it out and share let me know what you think. hbr.org/2026/01/five...
#empathy #leadership

dySEM package logo of two gender/sex-ambiguous figures holding onto a collection of rainbow-coloured balloons in a fashion resembling an SEM path diagram

Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break.

New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Some good resources on mediation and design-based alternatives in this thread.

Here are two articles I've found useful.
On mediation in an SEM framework:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
On conceptual issues surrounding mediation and other path models:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Good to hear, appreciate that!