Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
A series of presidential approval polls from the last two weeks, all but one in negative double digit approval, including one at -20.
Casual reminder that the country fucking hates this shit.
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
For my multilevel modeling students, I created a tutorial sharing all the main functions I use for data cleaning in R.
It took me maaaany years to figure out my cleaning workflow, so I wanted to share it with y'all in case I can save anyone else time :-)
sites.google.com/view/gabriel...
This statement from the NSF is insane.
Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false.
Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
Kombucha girl maybe meme. On the left, frowny face: working on an important manuscript On the right, intrigued: spending two hours to create a figure that came to my mind quite randomly
This study adapts a relationship commitment measure for singlehood, showing that satisfaction, investment, and alternatives predict singlehood commitment. As singlehood grows globally, understanding its dynamics is vital. These findings deepen insights into what drives commitment to being single.
ChatGPT ass presidency
My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line:
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws"
Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.
Our paper "The strategic use of harm-based moral arguments in the context of women’s bodily autonomy" is now out in JPSP! 🥳with @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social, and @nadirafaber.bsky.social. 🧵
"Bisexual/pansexual adults reported more stress events, greater perceptions of stress, poorer coping, less positive emotions compared to lesbian/gay and heterosexual adults. Bisexual/pansexual and lesbian/gay adults recorded higher heart rate compared to heterosexual" psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
If you're looking to do a postdoc studying research methods in the close relationships/sexuality space, you can apply to work with me or @johnsakaluk.bsky.social or both!
www.uwo.ca/research/fun...
The institution of American science is on the front lines in the fight against fascism.
This is more than just indirect cost caps.
On March 7th, we stand for the freedom of thought, the power of knowledge, and, ultimately, democracy.
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
Please share widely!
Meme of a cute pink plush Kirby holding a knife and smiling menacingly.
Love Is Blind contestants: “This experiment…”
Me, a social scientist:
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job
I am still recruiting for this doctoral study. I need 6 participants still. Research is crucial. Help me help the future.
What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.
OnlineFirst publication:
Caselli et al. examined if people who were more anxiously attached were more likely to incorporate negative characteristics of their partners into their own self-concepts. doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
New pub alert! In this study, led by Abby Caselli, we found that White partners in interracial relationships who considered their partner's perspective—regardless of discrimination salience—experienced greater self-expansion, which predicted greater sexual desire. doi.org/10.1111/pere...
The liberal myth that somehow young people would automatically be less racist/more progressive needs to die.
Same with the idea that the increased racial diversity would automatically favor Democrats.
When someone says “the president is not a dictator” and you say “maybe soon though” I worry that that’s a akin to “obeying in advance.”
No. The president of the US is not a dictator. Even if he would like to be, we will not allow it.
PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident
Psychology be like:
"Sorry, you didn't preregister this discovery --yawn"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Does social avoidance maintain social anxiety? Our paper is now published with some "free" eprints at this link www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RQK9U...
Or preprint PsyArxiv link:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
TLDR? More info below👇
#exposure #CognitiveBehavioralTherapy #SocialAnxiety
For those interested, my department has a FULLY FUNDED Masters Program in Experimental Psychology. The deadline is February 1. Faculty support student interests in behavioral neuroscience, social, cognitive, clinical, and developmental psychology.
Feel free to share!
www.wm.edu/as/psych-sci...
December 26-30 is a shared liminal space
