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Bjørn Sætrevik
@drsatrevik.bsky.social
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Professor of general psychology at the University of Bergen, where I lead the master in psychology program. My research is mostly centered around applied decision making. I'm a lapsed clinician and neuroscientist.
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Our #RegisteredReport is now published in #personalityscience: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27000710251378402 We tested all #big5personality traits against COVID-19 #perceivedthreat and #InfectionPrevention. (1/3)
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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collabrapsychology.bsky.social
New in cognitive psychology, from @drsatrevik.bsky.social, Thea Granerud, Mona Nijhof, and @ams79.bsky.social: Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation
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Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation
It has been suggested that stress management techniques may reduce acute stress for police officers and thus lead to more optimal performance in critical situations. In a preregistered between-subject...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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In an hour and a half (12:30 UTC / 14:30 CET) I'll give a lightning talk at the online BTS conference about the tool we are putting together for standardizing hypotheses.

Free registration: https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/
Tool: https://tinyurl.com/hypothesizer
Slides […]
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October 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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In about two hours (12:30 UTC) I'll be hosting a hackathon where we'll work on a checklist for generating research collaboration statements. Register for free and join us in the brainstorming: bigteamscience.github.io

#bigteamscience #bigteamscience2025 #bts2025 #OpenScience #authorship […]
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October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.
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September 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I'm putting together a short bibliography of recent papers about #bigteamscience, with emphasis on challenges and solutions for large social science projects. Am I missing any important papers? I'm in particular looking for any tools or checklists to use when […]

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A screen shot of a bullet list containing the following items: Teasley, S., & Wolinsky, S. (2001). Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science, 292(5525), 2254-2255. Bammer, G. (2008). Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges. Research policy, 37(5), 875-887. Vogel, A. L., Hall, K. L., Fiore, S. M., Klein, J. T., Bennett, L. M., Gadlin, H., ... & Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2013). The team science toolkit: enhancing research collaboration through online knowledge sharing. American journal of preventive medicine, 45(6), 787-789. Yao, B. (2021). International research collaboration: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 37(2), 107-108. Coles, N. A., Hamlin, J. K., Sullivan, L. L., Parker, T. H., & Altschul, D. (2022). Build up big-team science. Nature, 601(7894), 505-507. Baumgartner, H. A., Alessandroni, N., Byers-Heinlein, K., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Soderstrom, M., ... & Coles, N. A. (2023). How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), 230235. Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E. J., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., Dutra, N., Basnight-Brown, D., & IJzerman, H. (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of bi
August 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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rogerthegs.bsky.social
Attention conference hosts
fhp.bsky.social The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · Jul 18
Tucked away in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' is the requirement that all visitors to the US must pay $250 just to enter the country starting 1 October! For a family of 5 that's $1250! I doubt this will help America's crashing tourism business which is down 10% already since January
July 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago is hiring SIX faculty. open area

Otago is the second-largest research university in New Zealand, and, among other nice things, is located near some of the best wineries on the planet

www.seek.co.nz/job/85709111
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor - Psychology Job in North Dunedin, Otago - SEEK
The University of Otago’s Department of Psychology is a highly ranked, internationally respected hub of research and teaching excellence.
www.seek.co.nz
July 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️

In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵

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June 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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alexh.bsky.social
The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.
July 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Do #personality traits predict #PublicHealth behaviour and reactions to #pandemics? Various traits have been suggested to associate with various outcomes, with varying strength of evidence. (thread 1/n)
July 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."
The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.
July 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Buying train tickets for British rail travel makes it all worth it. #academicchatter #TrainTravel #togferie
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July 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I just got a first round #PeerReview where #Reviewer2 just wrote "I did not find anything to comment on and congratulate the authors on a well written manuscript." That's gotta be a first. Reviewer 1 had a number of comments though, but they seem reasonable and constructive.

#academicchatter […]
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June 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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I think the "streamlined review" option offered by Collabra: Psychology (@collabraoa) is under-appreciated.

Have you received a #PeerReview that you think was unfair, overly critical, based on a misunderstanding, or on scientific criteria you disagree with? Do you think you could have responded […]
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June 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Uh-oh, this could have depressing interpretations... (graph from @infobeautiful). But while "major breakthroughs" peak early-ish, perhaps the slow-and-steady work that benefits the field in the long term also comes later in life?
Graph showing peak age for scientists' major discoveries and publications. The x-axis represents age ranging from 20 to 80, and the y-axis shows the number of discoveries. The purple curve (1935-1965) peaks sharply around age 37, while the green curve (post-1965) peaks more broadly. Annotations indicate that the burden of knowledge increased after 1965, requiring more time to master fields.
July 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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I had a great time at #sips2025 last week! I learned lots about theory building, preregistration tools, scientific assessment and dissemination.

This being my fourth SIPS, it was about time I hosted my first (on-the-fly) #hackathon. Reach out if you'd like […]

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Group photo of SIPS2025 participants taken from a river boat on the Danube.
July 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
drsatrevik.bsky.social
The #OSF online #preregistration form is difficult to use for drafting (lacking tools for collaboration, commenting, track changes, version history). We use this Word file that matches the online form for drafting, and past into the OSF webpage when completed: osf.io/ufzra Please reuse! #OpenScience
First page of the Word-file mentioned in the post, showing leading texts and response boxes that match the online preregistration form on OSF.
June 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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What characterised people who became infected in the few first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic? Had they underestimated the risk, been in more risky situations, or not followed public health advice?
February 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Professor James Reason passed away a few days ago. The Reason model - often known as the Swiss cheese model - of accidents revolutionised aviation safety and risk management practices, as it did for many other fields. Vale.
The Reason model of accidents, sometimes also known as the Swiss cheese model.
February 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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New preprint from our lab: "In-situ Feedback about Mental Model Cohesion in Emergency Response Teams" https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pdxek_v1

Team members answered questions about their task work during a scenario exercise. Teams performed better when […]

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Screenshot of preprint with abstract: Effective emergency response teamwork relies on the team members’ mental models, such as having accurate situation awareness and shared mental models of the task, situation and teamwork. The present study developed and field-tested an approach to measure and monitor mental models in-situ. This was done by comparing the information that different team members had about their tasks and compiling the information to a “cohesion report” for the team leader. Data was collected during ongoing training scenarios across 14 training sessions for second-line emergency response teams (N = 134 participant recordings). The study developed and demonstrated a way of measuring cohesion. The study also tested the effect of providing the team leader with the team’s level of cohesion during the training session. Replicating a previous finding, we found that team-membership influenced team members’ shared mental models. This indicates that certain team factors contribute to some teams having higher cohesion than other teams. The experimental manipulation of providing team leaders with access to the cohesion measure improved the team’s mental models (when excluding the team role with most variation). Such tools could be used to evaluate and enhance mental models in emergency response teams, and further research could explore how team leaders could benefit from in-situ monitoring of the team’s mental models.
February 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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New preprint from our group: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/hwzsc_v1

A field-experiment tested whether a brief stress management intervention could have improve police performance in a simulated training exercise for police students. We found self-rated […]

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Screenshot of preprint. Abstract: It has been suggested that tactical breathing may reduce acute stress for police officers and thus lead to more optimal performance in critical situations. We tested the effect of a brief intervention on task performance in a simulated training scenario. Ninety-six advanced police students participated in a preregistered between-group experiment during a simulated training scenario. Expert observers evaluated performance, and participants reported their level of stress. The results showed that stress was associated with lower performance. The participants that used tactical breathing performed better than the control group, while it did not change their self-reported stress. This could indicate that tactical breathing improves performance by increasing focus and attention.
February 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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It always takes me some minutes to look up the interpretation guidelines for various effect size measures (yes, I know the rules of thumb are somewhat arbitrary). Today I edited Wikipedia to show three different guidelines for four different measures in the […]

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Screenshot of effect size interpretation table on Wikipedia.
January 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM