Jill A. Jacobson

@doctorjaj.bsky.social

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Professor and Chair of the Social-Personality Psychology Program at Queen’s University, Canada.

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 1d

University of Toronto Mississauga in Mississauga, ON is hiring an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Foundations of Psychology

Closing date: 2025/12/18

CPA Career Ads and Resources page: buff.ly/yiZAWs5

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renebekkers.bsky.social @renebekkers.bsky.social · 1d

Great teaching case! On the Bad Science Bingo Card 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 31, and 36 are strong contenders for a prize for this article detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/bad-science-...

Bad Science Bingo

Here are 36 potential flaws in research reports. Can you find them all? For each flaw, a short description is below. Follow the link for an elaborate description and visualization. Conflicts of Int…

detectingbadscience.wordpress.com

Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 1d

Timely post bsky.app/profile/stat...

Daniel E. Weeks @statgendan.bsky.social · 1d

“changes in statistical significance are often not themselves statistically significant. … even large changes in significance levels can correspond to small, nonsignificant changes in the underlying quantities.”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#Statistics

The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant

It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...

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Daniel E. Weeks @statgendan.bsky.social · 1d

The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant

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Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 1d

Besides mediation mess, they never test if the diff between significant in females but not significant in males are significantly different (cf. Gelman & Stern) or why.
No sex diff in MDD vs not gps is odd as expect 2:1 for MDD.
If lemonade is a soft drink, then what about other fruit juices?

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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 2d

"So, are you illuminating a mediation structure, assuming a mediation structure, or testing for a mediation structure?"

"Yes"

"Thus, mediation effects are valuable not because of their size, but because they can illuminate causal structure, inform further research on targeted interventions, and accumulate meaningfully across systems and populations."

"we investigated whether the data are compatible with a model in which Eggerthella abundance mediates the association between soft drink consumption and MDD diagnosis in women."

"To test whether the effect of soft drink consumption on MDD diagnosis and symptom severity, respectively, was mediated by the gut microbiome, we used a mediation analysis with soft drink consumption as the predictor, Eggethella and Hungatella, respectively, as the mediator,"

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

If you want to read up on mediation analysis, we have a paper explaining the underlying causal inference issues: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... If you wonder about why I do pay attention to the p values: www.the100.ci/2018/02/15/t...

The uncanny mountain: p-values between .01 and .10 are still a problem

[Update: After this post had been published, Uli Schimmack and I had a quick chat and Uli was very surprised to learn that I hadn't read his 2012 Psychological Methods paper on the topic. He has now p...

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Reposted by Mark E. Schaffer, John Mullahy, Kevin Carey , and 8 more Mark E. Schaffer, John Mullahy, Kevin Carey, Daniel W. Drezner, Janet Murray, Carlos Nunes Silva, Jacob T. Levy, Scott A. Imberman, Ann Bartow, Jill A. Jacobson, Daxton R. Stewart

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

What we're watching: A new take on
"Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 3d

Mini IRT rant: Why not name the slope/discrimination parm. b since b is usually slope? Then a could be difficulty, which makes more sense because 1PLM only difficulty parm. varies, so it should be 1st letter of alphabet rather than 2nd. Then models & labels align: 1PLM a, 2PLM ab, 3PLM abc.

Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 3d

ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient or item characteristic curve.
a = y-intercept, slope or discrimination parameter, path from IV->Med
b = slope or regression coefficient, location or difficulty parameter, path from Med->DV
c = guessing parameter, total effect, with a ‘ direct effect

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 3d

I feel like psychometrics is uniquely bad at naming things. Parallel, congeneric, tau-equivalent, essentially tau-equivalent measures? Configural, metric, scalar, residual invariance? Item difficulty defined so that the higher the difficulty, the easier the item???

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Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 3d

Just added to PowerLMM.js v0.3: Interactive power contour plots!

Visualize how statistical power changes across parameter combinations.

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com?view=contour

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 6d

Two most relevant papers are:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

and

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The logical structure of experiments lays the foundation for a theory of reproducibility | Royal Society Open Science

The scientific reform movement has proposed openness as a potential remedy to the putative reproducibility or replication crisis. However, the conceptual relationship among openness, replication exper...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 6d

Our amazing department (Psychology) at U-Miami is hiring in their Adult division, with open topic / focus area! Come apply and check out the job ad here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...:

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 9d

The Measurement Reliability Crisis in Event-Related Potential Research: Evidence from Bilingual Language Control: https://osf.io/h38cp

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CRAN Updates @cranupdates.bsky.social · 10d

New on CRAN: SEMsensitivity (0.1.0). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SEMsensitivity

SEMsensitivity: SEM Sensitivity Analysis

Performs sensitivity analysis for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). It determines which sample points need to be removed for the sign of a specific path in the SEM model to change, thus assessing the robustness of the model. Methodological manuscript in preparation.

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Mandy Jensen-Doss @mandyjensendoss.bsky.social · 10d

We're hiring at the University of Miami! The Department of Psychology is looking for a Child Clinical Psychology faculty member. As search chair, my contact info is in the job ad if anybody would like to discuss the position further umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...

A&S - Psychology - Assistant Professor to Assoc. Professor - Child Clinical/Family

Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11d

Newest LLM tell/quirk in coding assignments this semester: instead of generating code based on the CSVs that I provide, LLMs have been inventing datasets with rnorm() and sample() (and an obligatory set.seed(42)) and then making plots with the fake data.

I'm so tired.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 11d

Participation Effects in Ecological Momentary Assessment Research: A Taxonomy and Call to Action: https://osf.io/cj8ut

Reposted by Jill A. Jacobson, Jae-Young Son

Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · 12d

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

Reposted by Brady T. West, Jill A. Jacobson, Florian Keusch

Joshua Claassen @jclaass.bsky.social · 13d

Ever wondered how to get better survey feedback from respondents? 🧐

👉 Check out our new @jssam.bsky.social paper together with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social testing different (1) visual designs and (2) answer formats of #FinalCommentQuestions.

🌐 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...

Asking for Feedback: Innovating Final Comment Questions in Self-Administered Web Surveys

Abstract. Web surveys frequently include so-called “final comment questions” (FCQs) to provide respondents the opportunity to express their experiences wit

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Thùy Vy T Nguyễn @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social · 13d

I love seeing things like this when you can tell the original author of the scale was obviously annoyed about his scales being used in ways that he did not intend...and also by the emails.
And I love that Carver's department let him leave these notes on the website.
www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccar...

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 13d

The authors replicate a study on parties’ use of moral foundations and show how different measurements can lead to opposite effect directions. They also offer best practices for studying moral foundations in political texts. Read the full paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core

Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos

www.cambridge.org

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 13d

We wrote here why we shouldn't even call such unprincipled data dredging or fishing for statistically significant effects "exploratory research". It's time we start taking scientific exploration seriously. Again.

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Sören Krach @soerenkrach.bsky.social · 13d

New preprint by
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫

„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“

#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs

Healthy individuals typically attribute successes to internal causes, such as their abilities, and failures to external factors, like bad luck. In contrast, individuals with depression and low self-es...

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Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson , and 1 more Alexander Wuttke, Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson, Jill A. Jacobson

Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 13d

New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout.

Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 13d

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science

While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...

arxiv.org

Reposted by Jill A. Jacobson, Sean P. Corcoran

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 14d

More Vanderbilt hiring!

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Computation & Psychology, College of Connected Computing

We're searching for multiple Assistant (tenure-track), Associate, and Full Professors working at the intersection of psychology with computation or AI. 1/

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Ben Barr, Magnus Johansson , and 4 more Michael A. Clemens, Ben Barr, Magnus Johansson, Ingo Rohlfing, Jens Rommel, Jill A. Jacobson, Jan R. Boehnke

Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 14d

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

A "methods primer" article in the journal "BMJ Medicine", titled "Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors"

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 14d

For years I have been submitting this proposal for special issues and it just keeps getting rejected. One day!

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