Bastian Jaeger
@bxjaeger.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Tilburg University 🇳🇱
❤️🧠Moral Psychology & Altruism
🌚🌝First impressions & Social biases
🔬📊Meta-science
❤️🧠Moral Psychology & Altruism
🌚🌝First impressions & Social biases
🔬📊Meta-science
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This is a very interesting paper but the empirical evidence presented for an increase in connectivity (in their Fig. 1E) is rather problematic. A little thread 👇(1/7):
Is it possible that social media, which promised to connect the world, instead increased polarization? A model of human social dynamics predicts a sharp transition into a polarized state above a certain threshold of social connectivity. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Gym350XnNW8
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is a very interesting paper but the empirical evidence presented for an increase in connectivity (in their Fig. 1E) is rather problematic. A little thread 👇(1/7):
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The new journal EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY will soon be accepting submissions!
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Experimental Philosophy
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The new journal EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY will soon be accepting submissions!
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So why hasn’t this happened yet? 🤷♀️
Because for-profit publishers have distorted Open Access so thoroughly that many authors now believe their only OA option is to pay astronomical APCs.
And we ask researchers to publish OA… while rewarding prestige controlled by the same oligopoly. 5/n
Because for-profit publishers have distorted Open Access so thoroughly that many authors now believe their only OA option is to pay astronomical APCs.
And we ask researchers to publish OA… while rewarding prestige controlled by the same oligopoly. 5/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
So why hasn’t this happened yet? 🤷♀️
Because for-profit publishers have distorted Open Access so thoroughly that many authors now believe their only OA option is to pay astronomical APCs.
And we ask researchers to publish OA… while rewarding prestige controlled by the same oligopoly. 5/n
Because for-profit publishers have distorted Open Access so thoroughly that many authors now believe their only OA option is to pay astronomical APCs.
And we ask researchers to publish OA… while rewarding prestige controlled by the same oligopoly. 5/n
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Why? 🤑
In just the last 5 years, 4 publishers made $US 41 billion in revenue and $14.7B in profit - money that largely comes from taxpayer-funded research budgets.
For context: the entire 2024 NSF budget was $9B USD.
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social made $3.9B that year at a 38% profit margin. 2/n
In just the last 5 years, 4 publishers made $US 41 billion in revenue and $14.7B in profit - money that largely comes from taxpayer-funded research budgets.
For context: the entire 2024 NSF budget was $9B USD.
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social made $3.9B that year at a 38% profit margin. 2/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Why? 🤑
In just the last 5 years, 4 publishers made $US 41 billion in revenue and $14.7B in profit - money that largely comes from taxpayer-funded research budgets.
For context: the entire 2024 NSF budget was $9B USD.
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social made $3.9B that year at a 38% profit margin. 2/n
In just the last 5 years, 4 publishers made $US 41 billion in revenue and $14.7B in profit - money that largely comes from taxpayer-funded research budgets.
For context: the entire 2024 NSF budget was $9B USD.
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social made $3.9B that year at a 38% profit margin. 2/n
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Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
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1/4
Policymakers often do listen to publics when formulating preferences on nuclear weapon use. Our #OpenAccess article provides first-of-kind evidence about when publics enable, constrain, or are less influential. @ejisbisa.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Link: doi.org/10.1017/eis....
Policymakers often do listen to publics when formulating preferences on nuclear weapon use. Our #OpenAccess article provides first-of-kind evidence about when publics enable, constrain, or are less influential. @ejisbisa.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Link: doi.org/10.1017/eis....
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
1/4
Policymakers often do listen to publics when formulating preferences on nuclear weapon use. Our #OpenAccess article provides first-of-kind evidence about when publics enable, constrain, or are less influential. @ejisbisa.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Link: doi.org/10.1017/eis....
Policymakers often do listen to publics when formulating preferences on nuclear weapon use. Our #OpenAccess article provides first-of-kind evidence about when publics enable, constrain, or are less influential. @ejisbisa.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Link: doi.org/10.1017/eis....
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~40% of psyarxiv preprints contain links to open data in 2025 vs (e.g.) ~10% in 2019 (although in the latter case people mostly did not report this metadata): vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das...
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
~40% of psyarxiv preprints contain links to open data in 2025 vs (e.g.) ~10% in 2019 (although in the latter case people mostly did not report this metadata): vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das...
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Results from study of mental health in 92 countries (n>53,000): People are not doing well.
- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person
Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person
Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Results from study of mental health in 92 countries (n>53,000): People are not doing well.
- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person
Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
- U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness
- Education still matters (a lot)
- 45% of older people live alone
- Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person
Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
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I hate demand characteristics, but many other pre-registered experiments *have* found the effect.
We discuss in this meta:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
We discuss in this meta:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I hate demand characteristics, but many other pre-registered experiments *have* found the effect.
We discuss in this meta:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
We discuss in this meta:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Prediction: Social psychologists will still insist that the book's thesis is valid, thereby ironically validating its thesis
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Prediction: Social psychologists will still insist that the book's thesis is valid, thereby ironically validating its thesis
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I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it
It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
1/
It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
1/
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it
It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
1/
It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀
1/
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🎉 New paper accepted at JPSP: ASC!
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎉 New paper accepted at JPSP: ASC!
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Verena Heidrich, Felicitas Flade & I ask:
When people meet others, which social lens do they use — age, gender, race?
Our paper: “Face the Difference: Meta-contrast as an Affordance to Spontaneous Social Categorization.”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>
Respond with the same actor as a hero and villain.
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>
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Just bumping this -- I'll be recruiting a new graduate student this cycle, to start in fall 2026. So will my colleagues Karen Gasper and Reg Adams. I'm currently the area coordinator. Reach out if you have questions about Penn State Social Psychology -- WE ARE!
Although most of my photos right now are of State College autumn, here's Happy Valley from the sky this August. It was awe-inspiring to get this view.
So, come join us here! I'll be recruiting a graduate student to the Empathy & Moral Psychology (EMP) Lab during this cycle, to start in fall 2026.
So, come join us here! I'll be recruiting a graduate student to the Empathy & Moral Psychology (EMP) Lab during this cycle, to start in fall 2026.
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Just bumping this -- I'll be recruiting a new graduate student this cycle, to start in fall 2026. So will my colleagues Karen Gasper and Reg Adams. I'm currently the area coordinator. Reach out if you have questions about Penn State Social Psychology -- WE ARE!
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✈️🥩♻️ How accurately do people perceive the #climate impact of different lifestyles — and how do those perceptions relate to their own behavior and policy preferences?
Our new study investigated exactly this in China, Germany, and the US.🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new study investigated exactly this in China, Germany, and the US.🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Climate impact perceptions and associations with reported behaviors and policy support in three countries
To accelerate climate change mitigation, substantial lifestyle changes and more ambitious climate policies are urgently needed. However, realizing beh…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
✈️🥩♻️ How accurately do people perceive the #climate impact of different lifestyles — and how do those perceptions relate to their own behavior and policy preferences?
Our new study investigated exactly this in China, Germany, and the US.🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new study investigated exactly this in China, Germany, and the US.🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐶New preprint! 🐶 co-led by Ayça Akkuş
w/ @drcharlie.bsky.social & Brock Bastian
We explore cultural and individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern in a sample of >6500 participants from 41 cultural groups.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
w/ @drcharlie.bsky.social & Brock Bastian
We explore cultural and individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern in a sample of >6500 participants from 41 cultural groups.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🐶New preprint! 🐶 co-led by Ayça Akkuş
w/ @drcharlie.bsky.social & Brock Bastian
We explore cultural and individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern in a sample of >6500 participants from 41 cultural groups.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
w/ @drcharlie.bsky.social & Brock Bastian
We explore cultural and individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern in a sample of >6500 participants from 41 cultural groups.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
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Prayer's effects on health have been studied many times.
Small studies initially reported some benefit, but more rigorous studies found null or even harmful effects.
In sum, prayer seemed ineffective, recommending focus on more promising interventions: doi.org/10.1002/1465...
Small studies initially reported some benefit, but more rigorous studies found null or even harmful effects.
In sum, prayer seemed ineffective, recommending focus on more promising interventions: doi.org/10.1002/1465...
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Prayer's effects on health have been studied many times.
Small studies initially reported some benefit, but more rigorous studies found null or even harmful effects.
In sum, prayer seemed ineffective, recommending focus on more promising interventions: doi.org/10.1002/1465...
Small studies initially reported some benefit, but more rigorous studies found null or even harmful effects.
In sum, prayer seemed ineffective, recommending focus on more promising interventions: doi.org/10.1002/1465...
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PsyArXiv also recently switched to a pre-moderation workflow due to AI slop (the attached graph shows the 2025 increase caused by a large review backlog due to the moderation switch): blog.psyarxiv.com/2025/08/20/c...
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
PsyArXiv also recently switched to a pre-moderation workflow due to AI slop (the attached graph shows the 2025 increase caused by a large review backlog due to the moderation switch): blog.psyarxiv.com/2025/08/20/c...
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New preprint w/ @fbartos.bsky.social , Ben Jones, and @tvpollet.bsky.social .
Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
New preprint w/ @fbartos.bsky.social , Ben Jones, and @tvpollet.bsky.social .
Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A self/other asymmetry in the perceived emotional costs of self-reporting good deeds: Participants believed that (1) reporting their own good deeds will leave them feeling worse, and that (2) others will not suffer similar negative feelings.
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A self/other asymmetry in the perceived emotional costs of self-reporting good deeds: Participants believed that (1) reporting their own good deeds will leave them feeling worse, and that (2) others will not suffer similar negative feelings.
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
🙂🧠
"At the within-person level, declines in life satisfaction predicted subsequent declines in cognitive function, and vice versa."
(n > 60,000 from multiple countries)
doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
"At the within-person level, declines in life satisfaction predicted subsequent declines in cognitive function, and vice versa."
(n > 60,000 from multiple countries)
doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🙂🧠
"At the within-person level, declines in life satisfaction predicted subsequent declines in cognitive function, and vice versa."
(n > 60,000 from multiple countries)
doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
"At the within-person level, declines in life satisfaction predicted subsequent declines in cognitive function, and vice versa."
(n > 60,000 from multiple countries)
doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
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🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
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We just started a website highlighting articles that would make good candidates for a Robustness Report.
🌐 Check out the website: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org
📄 Read our first blog post: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org/inaugural-po...
🌐 Check out the website: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org
📄 Read our first blog post: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org/inaugural-po...
Journal of Robustness Reports
The Journal of Robustness Reports The Journal of Robustness Reports (JRR) is a diamond open-access journal that focuses on the reanalysis of high-impact empirical findings. JRR contains collections of...
www.journalofrobustnessreports.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
We just started a website highlighting articles that would make good candidates for a Robustness Report.
🌐 Check out the website: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org
📄 Read our first blog post: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org/inaugural-po...
🌐 Check out the website: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org
📄 Read our first blog post: www.journalofrobustnessreports.org/inaugural-po...