🎉 New paper led by the indomitable Lisa Rhee! 💃 We explore social app ecologies (especially social media + messaging) in a deep dataset (feat GPS) 🛰️ Along with @huyentkle.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social and more of the Project mCog squad 🦥
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STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉
Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
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Excited to present some new research I’ve been working on at #NCA2025 tomorrow! We are in the early Comm and Social Cognition session starting at 8:15AM!
Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE
I'll be presenting work with @joebayer.bsky.social on affordances of constant connectivity 📶 in the top paper panel for mobile comm at 3pm Sunday in Centennial H (Regency 3)
Come to @uvapsychology.bsky.social and work with the AMAZING new hire we snagged, @ericmshuman.bsky.social!
Yeah for real, curious/nervous if/when this will become a problem 😅
Do you mean 15 pre-downloaded apps? I was curious what apps they were so searched this now and seems like the App Store wasn't even available in 2017 which I had never realized/considered?
Or should we be more concerned that the entire response is automated (which I was assuming/praying was not possible given Connect's prescreening procedures)?
This is helpful and obviously not comforting but I'm also wondering to what extent we know that people who use AI-generated responses on open responses provide invalid responses on non-open responses?
I’ve seen a few of these anecdotes now. I know you can disable copy+paste in Qualtrics via JavaScript, but if Qualtrics can hear me, a “disable copy+paste” survey options button within the Qual survey design platform would be cool beans
So much fun to have you join our team this year! Hope we can do it again in the future!
Looks like the program for @saa2025leuven.bsky.social is out (saa2025.com/Program) - how is anyone supposed to decide which sessions to choose - too many great papers! 🤩
About time! You haven't lived as an academic until you've experienced an MMC editorial board meeting
You might be able to use our Project mCog dataset (N=450ish; collected 2019) for your goals (example publication below). Feel free to reach out. @mqrmobile.bsky.social
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Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
x3 had this experience yesterday 🫣
I just had this happen too and it was so rewarding. It's like the inverse of FOMO!
Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use?
We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time.
Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion!
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Cold morning? 🥶 🌅
Time to jump on the socials apparently!
New study documents how social media activity is related to bad weather 🥵 ☔️ 🥶 ❄️
“extreme temperatures and added precipitation each independently amplified social-media activity” #commsky
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Following Ohio’s SB1 (the anti-diversity & inclusion, anti-tenure, anti-strike legislation for higher ed)? the Harding (overflow) room at the Statehouse is already almost full! Live testimonies also at ohiochannel.org/live/ohio-se...
Bill overview here: www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key...
WHAT WE VALUE: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change has been featured on The Next Big Idea Club’s April 2025 Must-Read Books!
Order it here: www.amazon.com/What-We-Valu...
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#neuroscience #communication #psychology #science
What a ride yesterday's #ica25 notifications have been 📈📉 Sadly we won't present our data linkage study on semantic affinity of Netflix content with daily stressors in Denver - so check out our preprint for a test of #moodmanagement theory with computational methods 😊☹️💻
☎️ Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually to an #ICAMobile senior scholar about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form by January 21st + we'll match you with a senior scholar to provide feedback on your project: forms.gle/YTA5qEXKhLen...
🧪 My collaborators don't use social media, so I’m excited to share the 🧵on a just-published paper from a then-undergraduate (Stefan Blancha), myself, and Professor Raymond Mar. This is a refined version of Stefan’s undergrad thesis study on #doomscrolling behavior...
People have most meaningful connection on messaging apps (eg Facetime) and they report less loneliness.
People who are highest on loneliness and have less meaningful connections are on platforms like TikTok
To learn more: psychoftech.substack.com/p/social-tec...
Nature Human Behaviour joins Psych Science, the first two journals that publish Psych papers that will be part of @i4replication.bsky.social ‘s replication games. Sign up if you want to be part of the replicating team!
Sounds like co-author worthy support to me!
If you include your pet as a co-author, “we” feels more normal.
"Do we need proper oversight and regulation of social media? You bet...But I can only conclude that despite the heated bipartisan rhetoric of blame, scapegoating social media is more convenient to politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation."
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