Brett Murphy
@brettmurpsych.bsky.social
TAMU-San Antonio psych professor, former lawyer, empathy and interpersonal processes research, Okie
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⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
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"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"For instance, randomized controlled trials could explicitly manipulate multilingualism"
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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Check out new ShinyApp for testing measurement invariance!
By Schemmerling, Kotzur, & Friehs. Out in Social Cognition
guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
(I *love* how researchers create these, and share. Great service to field. Thanks!)
Check out new ShinyApp for testing measurement invariance!
By Schemmerling, Kotzur, & Friehs. Out in Social Cognition
guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
(I *love* how researchers create these, and share. Great service to field. Thanks!)
Automated Algorithmic Data Analysis for Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Invariance Assessment: A Tutorial for ACAMIA | Social Cognition
ACAMIA is a free, open-code, R-based tool that automates multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance assessment, which are crucial for social cognition research and beyond. ACAM...
guilfordjournals.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Check out new ShinyApp for testing measurement invariance!
By Schemmerling, Kotzur, & Friehs. Out in Social Cognition
guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
(I *love* how researchers create these, and share. Great service to field. Thanks!)
Check out new ShinyApp for testing measurement invariance!
By Schemmerling, Kotzur, & Friehs. Out in Social Cognition
guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
(I *love* how researchers create these, and share. Great service to field. Thanks!)
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Please join us for "Empathy as an Interpersonal Process," a virtual symposium with moderated discussion on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time.
Learn more here:
www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events
Learn more here:
www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events
October 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Please join us for "Empathy as an Interpersonal Process," a virtual symposium with moderated discussion on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time.
Learn more here:
www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events
Learn more here:
www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events
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Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3
Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3
journals.sagepub.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3
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Learn more about Dr. Jessica Maxwell's speed dating study, featuring data from 400+ participants at 16 events, in her conversation with TLC Founding Director Sara Algoe in this video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjv...
The Love Consortium Dataverse: Behind the Data
YouTube video by The Love Consortium
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Learn more about Dr. Jessica Maxwell's speed dating study, featuring data from 400+ participants at 16 events, in her conversation with TLC Founding Director Sara Algoe in this video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjv...
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Major shoutout to @andrew.heiss.phd for recreating FiveThirtyEight's p-hacking app. My teaching prep panic at discovering the broken link lasted only a few minutes of googling thanks to this beautiful replacement:
stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way
stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way
Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory (recreation) – Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory
Recreation of FiveThirtyEight’s “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” with Observable JS
stats.andrewheiss.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Major shoutout to @andrew.heiss.phd for recreating FiveThirtyEight's p-hacking app. My teaching prep panic at discovering the broken link lasted only a few minutes of googling thanks to this beautiful replacement:
stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way
stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way
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Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
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Our latest TLC Newsletter spotlights @jaimiekrems.bsky.social from UCLA and her work as Co-founder/Director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, the first academic hub dedicated to decoding and strengthening friendship.
Learn more in our latest newsletter here: go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
Learn more in our latest newsletter here: go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Our latest TLC Newsletter spotlights @jaimiekrems.bsky.social from UCLA and her work as Co-founder/Director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, the first academic hub dedicated to decoding and strengthening friendship.
Learn more in our latest newsletter here: go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
Learn more in our latest newsletter here: go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
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Grace Vieth shares how the unique contextual features of adult friendships make them ideal relationships for positive processes in the latest TLC Newsletter. Read her deep dive here.
go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Grace Vieth shares how the unique contextual features of adult friendships make them ideal relationships for positive processes in the latest TLC Newsletter. Read her deep dive here.
go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
go.unc.edu/TLCOctoberNe...
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For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
journals.sagepub.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!
Reposted by Brett Murphy
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Want to know what a sample of 200+ editorial board members think about citing practices in psychology? That and much more in this AMPPS article. We had a lot of fun pulling it together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Want to know what a sample of 200+ editorial board members think about citing practices in psychology? That and much more in this AMPPS article. We had a lot of fun pulling it together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Now through 9/5: Preorder from Barnes & Noble and get a special discount on my book! B&N Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off preorders. Premium Members get an additional 10% off physical books. Use coupon code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bonded-by-... @BarnesandNoble #BNPreorder
September 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Now through 9/5: Preorder from Barnes & Noble and get a special discount on my book! B&N Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off preorders. Premium Members get an additional 10% off physical books. Use coupon code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bonded-by-... @BarnesandNoble #BNPreorder
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Exciting news! I'll be working with the Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social as a fellow to develop an intervention aimed at improving the well-being of youth on social media. The intervention will train youth to engage skilfully with emotions on their feed using wise empathy.
🎉Meet our 2025 Digital Thriving Fellows! From reimagining empathy online to blending Pan-African community concepts with digital life, four bold projects share one goal: helping youth thrive in a tech-filled world. ✨ Learn more 👉 digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/fellows/
#DigitalThriving #YouthVoice
#DigitalThriving #YouthVoice
September 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Exciting news! I'll be working with the Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social as a fellow to develop an intervention aimed at improving the well-being of youth on social media. The intervention will train youth to engage skilfully with emotions on their feed using wise empathy.
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When the quant profs and grad students in my department ask me what Brunswick's lens model is
When a grad student asks me an obscure question and I actually know the answer
(The student asked about Q Sort and I actually used it once)
(The student asked about Q Sort and I actually used it once)
September 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
When the quant profs and grad students in my department ask me what Brunswick's lens model is
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Need to backup your Qualtrics?
I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation.
Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now.
Hope it's helpful to others:
github.com/giladfeldman...
I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation.
Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now.
Hope it's helpful to others:
github.com/giladfeldman...
GitHub - giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup: A very simple script for backing up all your data and .qsf files from Qualtrics (bug fixes)
A very simple script for backing up all your data and .qsf files from Qualtrics (bug fixes) - giladfeldman/qualtrics_backup
github.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Need to backup your Qualtrics?
I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation.
Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now.
Hope it's helpful to others:
github.com/giladfeldman...
I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation.
Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now.
Hope it's helpful to others:
github.com/giladfeldman...
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On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
August 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
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All new assistant professors “enjoying” their first day: have a great one! You’ve got this!!!!!
August 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
All new assistant professors “enjoying” their first day: have a great one! You’ve got this!!!!!
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I love reading philosophy. Most philosophers are so politically incorrect - challenging the status quo, even challenging God. Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane. -- Mike Tyson
July 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I love reading philosophy. Most philosophers are so politically incorrect - challenging the status quo, even challenging God. Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane. -- Mike Tyson
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Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵
July 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵
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Conspiracies emerge in the wake of high-profile events, but you can’t debunk them with evidence because little yet exists. Does this mean LLMs can’t debunk conspiracies during ongoing events? No!
We show they can in a new working paper.
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
We show they can in a new working paper.
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Conspiracies emerge in the wake of high-profile events, but you can’t debunk them with evidence because little yet exists. Does this mean LLMs can’t debunk conspiracies during ongoing events? No!
We show they can in a new working paper.
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
We show they can in a new working paper.
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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I wrote about my former boss, Bill Moyers.
Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming
I cannot say for sure when Bill Moyers first developed such a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I wrote about my former boss, Bill Moyers.
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Posted by Nick Crain (@CrainNBA) on twitter, this is the best video I've seen capturing the size of the crowd as Scissortail Park.
June 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Posted by Nick Crain (@CrainNBA) on twitter, this is the best video I've seen capturing the size of the crowd as Scissortail Park.
