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Nature research paper: Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walkability of environments result in increases in daily physical activity, providing evidence of the importance of the built environment on physical health.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science.
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Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025
Knowing the similarities among others is critical for navigating our social environments and building relationships. However, people can evaluate the similarity...
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April 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Since 1999, AHRQ has funded patient-centered research, generating vital data and tools that improve patient outcomes.
HSS is dismantling it “to create the Office of Strategy to enhance research that informs the Secretary’s policies”

I hope AHRQ resources stay public—here’s a thread my favorites.
April 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Nice comment on the state of measurement in psychology. People just keep piling on new constructs and new questionnaires. How can we clean up the mess that this creates? Feat. respectful operationalism and epistemic iteration
Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation. We call on the field to defragment psychology and prevent further fragmentation. We provide four key recommendations to achieve this and summarize the needed actions. Psychological science consists of research on a myriad of constructs and measures. Research shows that tens of thousands of distinct constructs and measures have been proposed and many new ones are introduced each year, yet most (79%) are not reused more than twice1,2. Many measures are of unknown quality and are created ad hoc for the purposes of conducting substantive research, and little work is done to first establish validity. Psychological science is especially affected because our constructs are often nouns taken from everyday language, which tends to change over time; new nouns are introduced into language, providing new constructs to be measured. We now have a deeply problematic, fragmented literature (Fig. 1; see Box 1 for glossary): there are confusing redundancies, so that constructs with different names have measures that cannot be empirically distinguished from one another (for example, ref. 3); and a lack of standardization with discrepancies that make the literature incomprehensible, such as when different measures of the same construct correlate very weakly, if at all, with each other (for example, ref. 4). Such fragmentation limits our ability to generate cumulative knowledge. ...
March 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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New tutorial @ AMPPS on how to plan your sample sizes for item-response-theory studies.

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March 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM