Grades are finally in, and my heart is so full from the love I received throughout the year. Sharing a few snippets below. The last picture is a gift from a student who saw this in the Christmas market and associated it with my love for small furry animals. 🍀

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.

I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...

Poor folks have (comparatively) few rich friends on Facebook.

It’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…

In a new documentary project, SPSP member Dr. Amber Gayle Thalmayer is helping to put young adults in Namibia at the center of research on emerging adulthood.

Learn more about the film - Namibia Up - here: ow.ly/gskH50XrWY6

New research explores why openness/intellect stands apart from other personality traits. It turns out this trait may be less universal across cultures and rarely targeted for change.

Read more in #PSPR: ow.ly/UGlJ50XqLqS

Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

A talk, an invited lecture, and a full marathon in one week. A fall break to be recounted by posterity…:)

Apropos of nothing, I’m just loving being at a SLAC! ☺️🌟🍀

It was my first full week as a professor:) The gorgeous @holy-cross.bsky.social campus and my pretty office are instant dopamine boosts to my mental health.

If this is helpful for anyone going on the social psych tenure track job market in US, here are my Colby (in 2018) and UIC (2023) statements: osf.io/ef7s3/files/...

My lab website has links to other people's materials. Of course the markets were very different back then.
www.pbandjlab.com/resources