More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children’s academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Black and white dolls from the study conducted by Kenneth and Mamie Clarks that helped desegregated schools

A pleasant surprise to see this set of dolls from the Clark & Clark studies in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In my opinion, it’s probably one of the most important psychological research ever and we don’t discuss/ teach/ cite it enough.

MORE THAN NATURE AND NURTURE? In a new Nature Human Behavior paper, we probe the origins of indirect genetic effects on educational achievement in Norway. We found they are more due to dynastic processes than to nurture processes. Here's a thread, with slight emphasis on the sociology of it. [1/9]

I'M HIRING A POSTDOC! APPS DUE APRIL 1. more info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Change How You Study: Secrets from Cognitive Science Many people use ineffective strategies when studying. Fortunately, insights from cognitive science give us a better way. Watch this 9-minute video to learn h...

If you or someone you know is heading back to school in the coming weeks, here are some shareable tips on how to use cognitive science to study more effectively.

TikTok: tinyurl.com/2vccpeev

YouTube: tinyurl.com/5n7nk865

#psychology #backtoschool #studytips #psychscisky

#100DaysOfWriting Welcome to the #100DaysOfWriting Challenge! The purpose of this academic writing collective is to provide a virtual space for academic writers to support each other and to provide tools for creating...

Another *year* of cowriting sessions w/the #100DaysOfWriting community is in the books! Across 429 sessions, 3,532 people came together to write (not counting hundreds of ad hoc sessions)! Looking for writing accountability in 2024? Join us! Register here: tinyurl.com/100DaysRound12 🧪

We’re excited to announce that the Psychonomic Society is now on Bluesky! Posts will begin in January. Please help spread the word by following us and reposting.

We're hiring a full-time Nashville-based research assistant for a collaborative NSF grant with Meharry Medical College studying family members everyday interactions and attachment: meharrymedicalcollege.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/extern...
Please share with those looking and/or ask me questions!

Hands-on Vision Science About the site

If you're getting ready to teach Sensation & Perception, check out my teaching website for Hands-On Vision Science - you'll find instructions for lots of in-class experiments & demos, links to useful online widgets, and a free textbook! #PsychSciSky #VisionScience. sites.google.com/view/hands-o...

apaish-manuscript-typst output from reproducible Quarto source.

apaish-document-typst output from reproducible Quarto source.

apaish-journal-typst output from reproducible Quarto source.

quarto-apaish[1] is an initial attempt at producing APA7-ish formatted manuscripts from Quarto[2] with Typst[3].

Typst is a new typesetting language that is (much) faster and easier than LaTeX. Send me bug reports!

[1]: github.com/mvuorre/quar...
[2]: quarto.org/docs/prerele...
[3]: typst.app/docs

When the WENUS is due, there is no better package #stats

🚨Published fully open-access this week! We found parent-child agreement on children's psychopathology is poorer for parents with current (but not remitted) depression. ➡️ parental mental illness should be taken into account when assessing youth mental illness: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Submissions for the #BJDP Special Issue on Gender Diversity in Development are due on November 1st! For more info: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

Feel free to reach out with any questions!

Ecological Momentary Assessment to Measure Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior in Daily Life | DIGIT-MI In this session, Dr. Sarah Sperry reviews the current state of the field in terms of methodological, implementation, and statistical approaches for ecologica...

My EMA primer on measuring emotion and behavior for @DepressionCntr DIGIT-MI is now live. DIGIT-MI brings together faculty and staff across @UMich to learn and share resources about digital and mobile tech. #ClinPsych #AffectSci #Psychiatry #Clinpsy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_2...

But some institutions do not provide zoom for their employees including mine🤦🏻‍♀️

OPEN SCIENCE SPEAKERS WANTED📢

ReproducibiliTea Portsmouth is looking for guest speakers for our monthly meetings in 2024! If you are interested in sharing anything open-science related with us, please do get in touch ☕️ talks can be 45 minutes and be given online ✨

Pease repost 🔁

I haven't figured out threads on here:

We made a thing! Learn R through PSYCH! Psychological Statistics You Can Handle - a 21 part Module to teach R. It's interactive, uses real open psych data, and is free.

install.packages("swirl")
library(swirl)
install_course_github("krcarriere", "PSYCH")

Looking for someone with clinical dev psych expertise who might be interested in speaking at an in-person event on talking to kids about the Israel-Hamas conflict at a synagogue in central NJ. Send me any leads.

Does anyone have a template for reviewing pre-registrations? I have assigned pre-registrations for a course assignment and would be grateful for examples of how others evaluate these. Thank you! #openscience

A white square with a black oval at the bottom.

Made this size contrast example a while ago based on a VSS demo.

The black oval is NOT changing in size or shape. It is only moving in position. #VisionScience

steveharoz.com/public/sizec...

Nobel Prize winner for mRNA vaccines discusses being demoted by UPenn Katalin Karikó, who is sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with mRNA vaccines, says she was previously demoted by the University of Pennsylvania for her research in that area.  “I…

"🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman professor and researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen!"

If you like more guidance through the steps of a sample size justification for your next study, my Sample Size Justification paper comes with a Shiny app: shiny.ieis.tue.nl/sample_size_... Complete the steps, and you can download the justification as a PDF to include in a preregistration.

Dear researchers in clinical psychology: Please give me more work!

I am the Senior Editor for Clinical Psychology at Collabra: Psychology, and the Clinical Psych section is sleepy. 💤

Collabra should be on your list of outlets for your work! Ask me what you want to know about it!

after much thought my highest benefit-to-cost bits of advice for new PIs are:

1. make a list of all the writing you want done each year. you'll never finish it all but it feels great to cross out on a whiteboard as you go

2. write a handbook and keep it updated (esp onboarding & code of conduct):

Why, rather than using the words "complete" and "partial #mediation", we should use numerical estimates of the direct and indirect effects. From Preacher & Hayes, 2011. quantpsy.org/pubs/preache... #StatsSky #SocialPsych #PsychSciSky

I have written a new chapter for my online textbook on "Confirmation Bias and Organized Skepticism". lakens.github.io/statistical_... It's part of new lectures I will teach, starting next week. I'd love to hear any recommendations on what to add (or what I got wrong!).

Developmental Psychology: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4jb3re5t...

Tag = #devpsyc