Our paper on 13 methods for detecting careless responding in EMA has been accepted by Psychological Methods. Grateful to have collaborated with this wonderful team of researchers🍀(final post-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...).

U-M's Annelise Madison, speaking at RCGD today on inflammation & psychosocial health, describes her RUSH experiment exploring how sorority recruitment affects stress, mood, and physiological responses in undergraduate women. Follow @rcgd-isr.bsky.social for leading research on well-being & the mind.

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

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Made CDS Bingo cards for my students to help them do their first conference right! If anyone would like a copy to use/adapt I‘m happy to share!

I can't see this paper's title without thinking about cannibalism...

If only there were people at the university who had expertise in psychology...👀 I also don't want to know how much the university is paying for this bullshit.

It’s not made up

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

New research challenges what we thought we knew about men's friendships. A new study by @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Sociology grad student, Emily Fox (@emilycfox.bsky.social), asks: is the "gender friendship gap" really about gender? Spoiler: not exactly. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

3. If you're going to procrastinate, do it productively. Can't tackle a big task today? Do little tasks you had planned for tomorrow to clear out extra time to do it then. Warning: Do not use when schedule is prone to unexpected chaos (e.g.,with a kid catching a new daycare disease every other week)

2. Put concrete, specific tasks in your to do list. If you say "Work on XYZ paper," it's hard to start bc you have to figure out what you need to do next, and unclear how much time to allot to that. If you say, "Run demographic descriptives and add to methods," that's easier to plan and jump on.

1. Figure out when during the day/week you're most productive and protect those times at all costs. Block them off in your calendar and avoid scheduling meeting/classes then as much as possible.

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Loneliness modulates social threat detection in daily life - Communications Psychology Using ecological momentary assessment and multilevel time-series models, we quantify loneliness inertia and its links to perceived social threat and social behavior, identifying dynamic patterns that ...

New paper led by SJ Shao in @commspsychol.nature.com. Across 20 days of EMA (5x daily), momentary loneliness prospectively predicted heightened social threat perception and social withdrawal. Trait loneliness amplified loneliness–rejection coupling and social disengagement @emoriebeck.bsky.social

Predictors of response compliance in ESM / EMA research

Why do participants stop responding in #ESM / #EMA studies? 📱🔔

Average compliance is about 7️⃣9️⃣%, but that hides massive variation.

Our new m-Path blog reviews predictors of response compliance: study design, incentives, participant traits, and time effects.

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Chicago Restaurant Recs Chicago Restaurant Recommendations from Jin Goh and Lydia Emery Chicago has an amazing food scene. You can get a great meal in pretty much any neighborhood, all of which have unique culture, food, an...

SPSP is just around the corner and in our backyard of Chicago! @lydiaemery.bsky.social and I love the Chicago food scene, and we've put together a list of places we like. We hope this will help you enjoy and explore Chicago!! See y'all soon!!

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Trauma or Toxic? A Deep Dive into the Impact of Stress on Kids’ Health UCSF researchers found evidence that stress occurring as early as before birth or as late as adolescence can affect multiple conditions in kids, from asthma to mental health to cognitive functioning.

Very proud to share this Annual Review synthesizing 75+ years of research across 150+ studies on how stress, starting as early as the prenatal period, shapes children’s health across systems. This is the first review to center interdisciplinary pediatric outcomes.
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Replications Sourcing Sheet

Join our Replicability Project: Health Behavior!

We have 55 replication studies underway, our target is 65-70.

We are only recruiting for secondary data replications--i.e., using existing data to test the original question.

Here's a list of studies we think could be feasible.

If interested...

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer

Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

Yes, it's one of the most common measures of relationship closeness! psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-...

Very cool to see this measure from relationship science move into poli sci!

A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536)

Only 50% of findings replicated

Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Is social interaction a tradeoff of autonomy for belonging compared to being alone? New paper by phenom @elainehoan.bsky.social says yes if you're interacting with strangers, no if you're interacting with friends/family. With a romantic partner you gain in both. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The comparison isn't 20 mins driving time versus 40 mins bus time; It's 20 mins primarily focused on driving versus 40 mins where you can do most work or personal enjoyment tasks that can be accomplished while sitting quietly in a chair

Growing up Different(ly than Last Time We Asked): Social Status and Changing Reports of Childhood Income Rank - Social Indicators Research How we remember our past can be shaped by the realities of our present. This study examines how changes to present circumstances influence retrospective reports of family income rank at age 16. While retrospective survey data can be used to assess the long-term effects of childhood conditions, present-day circumstances may “anchor” memories, causing shifts in how individuals recall and report past experiences. Using panel data from the 2006–2014 General Social Surveys (8,602 observations from 2,883 individuals in the United States), we analyze how changes in objective and subjective indicators of current social status—income, financial satisfaction, and perceived income relative to others—are associated with changes in reports of childhood income rank, and how this varies by sex and race/ethnicity. Fixed-effects models reveal no significant association between changes in income and in childhood income rank. However, changes in subjective measures of social status show contrasting effects, as increases in current financial satisfaction are associated with decreases in childhood income rank, but increases in current perceived relative income are associated with increases in childhood income rank. We argue these opposing effects follow from theories of anchoring in recall bias. We further find these effects are stronger among males but are consistent across racial/ethnic groups. This demographic heterogeneity suggests that recall bias is not evenly distributed across the population and has important implications for how different groups perceive their own pasts. Our findings further highlight the malleability of retrospective perceptions and their sensitivity to current social conditions, offering methodological insights into survey reliability and recall bias.

The GSS asked the same people about their childhood income rank three different times. 56% changed their answer, even though what was trying to be measured couldn’t change! We dig into this in a new article at @socialindicators.bsky.social. 



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