Die #Eisbären #Berlin haben ihr Viertelfinal-Ticket für die DEL-Playoffs sicher. Am Sonntag setzte sich der amtierende Meister mit 5:1 gegen #München durch und baute seine Siegesserie zum Ende der Hauptrunde weiter aus. #DEL #Playoffs
PM zu einer spannenden Studie unserer Kollegen aus der Allgemeinen Psychologie:
A lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent
www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...
The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement.
In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99.
At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.
Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
And now the paper has finally been accepted, I just wanna say to all the editors: PLEASE stop sending papers back out to reviewers after 1 (at most 2) round! It’s a burden on the system when a decision could be made without reviewers’ approvals. It’s not the reviewers’ job to have a final say!
European Conference on Personality, Edinburgh, 2026
Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25.
Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
New publication out: "Ina picks flowers, while Klaus rides a motorcycle: A quantitative text analysis of #gender #stereotypes in German standardized #spelling #tests" Do spelling tests use gender role stereotypes? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New study on the Impostor Phenomenon (IP): We (@rproyer.bsky.social) analyzed textual self-descriptions and found no associations between the authors' IP self-reports and word frequencies, except for using more anxiety-related words (r = .22). www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Out now in Annual Reviews with lab member Rebekka Sendatzki: „Examining #Play and #Playfulness at #Work: Current Knowledge, Practical Applications, and Future Research Directions“ - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Interesting read by lab member @kabrau.bsky.social : "How Does the Helping Alliance Relate to Treatment #Satisfaction: Dyadic Analyses in Pediatric Pain Patients, Caregivers, and Healthcare Professionals" journals.lww.com/clinicalpain... Clinical J of #Pain
It was a pleasure to talk about the work published in
PTAD and get in touch with prospective authors!
