Epilogue to the war: Afghanistan reports the lowest well-being in recorded history Analyses reveal that after the War in Afghanistan, Afghans reported the lowest subjective well-being in recorded history.

🧨📉 Afghanistan reports the lowest wellbeing ever recorded

After the US withdrawal and Taliban return, Afghans' life satisfaction in 2022 dropped to 1.28 on a 0–10 scale – the lowest global score in 75+ years of data.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

#SciComm #Wellbeing #Afghanistan 🧪

POSTPONED to May 14: Matthias Gruber - How Curiosity Shapes Spatial Exploration and Cognitive Map Formation

Two Weeks from Today: Dr. Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social tells us about Computational Approaches to Prosocial Behavior–How and When Do We Help Other People?

Looking forward to the upcoming online talk this Wed on the "affective gradient hypothesis" @shenhavlab.bsky.social Interested researchers/students are very welcome to join! @imprs-life.bsky.social @kendraseaman.bsky.social @colleencfrank.bsky.social@kimberlychiew.bsky.social @zitamayer.bsky.social

Don’t miss out on the next “Motivated Cognition Meeting” on March 12: Dr. Amitai Shenhav will present research on an affect-centered account of motivated behavior. Join us on Zoom!

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors.

We summarize our findings below:

econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4r...

The minimally honest title here would be “leveraging climate change for neuroscience research”.

New paper in which we show that high quality test norms are achievable with convenience samples using Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP)

How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper. A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.

Mentions a bunch of the likely effects of LLMs on scientific manuscripts www.nature.com/articles/d41... #metascience

New paper identifies the jobs that a sample of 53 psychology PhD students got after completing their PhDs.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

#Psychology #PhDSky #AcademicSky #PsychJobs

Plot with two panels showing predictions from an ordered beta regression model

~Unreasonably~ pleased with how this final image turned out #rstats #ggplot #tidybayes

Ordered Beta regression models rule and everyone should try them out www.robertkubinec.com/post/limited...

Hi everyone, I’m a motivation and lifespan psychologist interested in goal pursuit, goal conflict, goal disengagement, and goal shelving 👋🏽 #PsychSciSky