🚨New pub in Emotion🚨:
We find that people deal with their emotions in remarkably unique ways, often using strategies together that have rarely, if ever, been studied together. And strikingly, people are able to make these diverse combos work to reduce negative emotion.

Check it out:
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Fun fact I just learned: 30+ countries invest *more than $500M* to fight loneliness and social isolation—but what do we actually know about their global health risks? Not much.

Join us at SPSP next Saturday, where we tackle this question with data from 350,000 people across 58 nations:

🚨New pub now at JEPG🚨:

What do you do when someone you care about does something really morally bad? Do you choose loyalty to them or lawfulness to society?

The answer might depend on your culture.

In 4 studies and 2500 people we tested this in the US and Japan:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Comparative political scientist here. Assassination attempts are *always* bad, regardless of the target's politics.

Want to study people in their daily lives using ambulatory assessment (EMA, ESM, etc)?

These can be hard studies to design well. I'm teaching a 2-day intro workshop on designing ambulatory assessment this later this month June 24-25)

DM for 15% discount

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Block and move on. Block and move on. Block on a whim, Block weird replies. We are not here to "win" the internet, we are here to read cool posts from experts and artists we would never ordinarily be able to interact with, and occasionally promote our own cool stuff to like-minded weirdos.

We are pleased to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinating #BigTeamScience data collection for studies on human language

many-languages.com

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We’re excited to announce that COS is collaborating on a pilot program with Meta. Using innovative methods from the open science movement to promote rigor and transparency, Meta and COS will pilot a new approach to industry-academia partnerships for accessing social media data. bit.ly/48OzLnu

🚨We're hiring a lab manager!🚨We're looking for a stellar post-bacc interested in studying emotions, supporting lab infrastructure, and building community. Please spread the word! See links in 1st comment for our mission and culture. Review starts 3/1! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18407/r...

This but for academic papers. A lot of criticism of work is simply, “why didn’t they focus on some other variable/process that I think is important”. Taking papers on their own terms first is much more interesting and valuable.

Paging psychologists! Have you used the ✨affect grid✨ in your work? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for datasets that include the affect grid + traditional self-report measures of valence and/or arousal. Have a dataset with this? Let me know here or shoot us an email!

"Building reproducible bridges to cross the 'valley of death'" A viewpoint in Journal of Clinical Investigation by Tim Errington, Senior Director of COS.

www.jci.org/articles/vie...

How do we measure experiences of loneliness in daily life? A thread for clinical psychologists, relationship scientists, EMA nerds, and measurement geeks 🧵👇

Preregistration, data, analysis scripts, and materials at osf.io/cwgme/.

#psychscisky #rstats #statssky

Behavioral science policy recommendations early in the pandemic were *largely correct*. Our global collaboration of 80+ experts covers 747 studies (average sample size over 16,000!) & supports 16 of 19 claims. Many lessons for science & policy.

Out today in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super interesting idea:
"We can also represent human lives in a way that shares this structural similarity to language. . .we exploit this similarity to adapt innovations from natural language processing to examine the evolution and predictability of human lives based on detailed event sequences."

WOW! The same research question analyzed over 6 timescales in the same paper! I can' overstate how important this approach is. One of the biggest and most common limitations I see as an editor is investigators not justifying or even speaking to timescale of their work. Would love to see more of this

Global personality/social psychology scholars: please consider submitting a proposal for a Special Issue of PSPR on "Highlighting Personality and Social Psychological Theory from Majority World Contexts"! Info here: spsp.org/news/spsp-ne...

Research is messy. So thinking more deeply about balancing clear and articulate planning with adjusting the plan when needed to produce better research is something I think many of us are wrestling with these days. Helpful guide by @lakens.bsky.social!