New preprint! What are the individual brain structure correlates of the externalizing spectrum (EXT)? A big thanks to the entire authorship team (Brinkley Sharpe , Courtland Hyatt, Max M Owens, Donald Lynam, & Josh Miller + IMAGEN Consortium) for this one! (1/n)

Major development in important Alzheimer’s research scandal: Authors of landmark study move to retract, admitting that key images in the paper were doctored. My story in @newsfromscience 1/2 science.org/content/articl…

Wonderful work by Caitlyn Hood, PhD, Christal Badour, PhD (she/her), & Matt Southward bringing a dimensional view of psychopathology to the treatment of co-occuring #bpd and #ptsd (using @bpdcompass). Link to full text in the comments 💎

Life satisfaction is mostly about personality, for most people, most of the time. Even more so, than we thought. Likely the most comprehensive study yet is now out in the JPSP: doi.org/10.1037/pspp00… 🧵

Most psychological interventions decay pretty quickly unless there is a sustained effort to build them into habits, cultural practices, or policy.

🚨🚨New preprint alert🚨🚨 The Fable of State Self-Control With Brent Roberts Brent W. Roberts osf.io/preprints/psya… /1

New preprint! 🌍🧑‍🎨👩‍🔬🧙‍♂️"Openness/intellect: The weirdest trait in the Big Five world?" 🌍🧑‍🎨👩‍🔬🧙‍♂️ w/ paragon of openness Amber Thalmayer osf.io/preprints/psya…

Failure to replicate a finding from Terror Management Theory (N = 3,447), but death-related thoughts can be primed #terrormanagementtheory #registeredreplicationreport osf.io/preprints/psya…

A 🧵 on unintended consequences of mental health interventions, and why some school and workplace schemes may be contributing to the problem they were designed to solve. 1/10

On December 8th, our Berkeley journal club read a paper claiming that thoughts of God increased algorithm appreciation. Today, PNASNews published our attempts to replicate those results. Spoiler alert: we fail to replicate the original claims pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New paper alert, led by Madita Zetzsche: Men do not find the axillary odour of naturally cycling women more attractive when they are fertile. Neither does the chemical composition of the scent change with fertility or hormonal status. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

We have some new work out on the Marshmallow Test, led by Jessica Sperber (she/hers). We followed up on our 2018 paper and extended predictions to adulthood. We did not find many effects across a bunch of adult outcomes... 1/3

Really important paper on fadeout effects of SEB skill interventions H/T Tyler and colleagues

Could it be that age is almost perfectly written in personality? Because age may be super accurately (r > .90) predictable from trait ratings – that is, if there was no measurement error. I find this possibility quite amazing. Let me explain. 1/5

New article! Pooja Kulkarni (She/Her) and I review research on the role of metacognitive knowledge for self-control: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (1/2)

In certain parts of psychology, statistical modeling is an arcane art that requires intimate familiarity with contraptions known mostly by their acronyms (CLPM, RICLPM, ARTS, STARTS, LGCM...). Let's mix things up by putting substance first instead.

🚨 New Research Alert 🚨 Are you and your partner two peas in a pod, or do opposites attract? Together with Gabriel Olaru and Thomas Leopold, I explored why long-term couples are similar in personality. Check out our preprint (to appear in JPSP) here: osf.io/2s5ua/

My editorial in PLOS Biology: Fixing science means an end to gaming the system. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Toward whole-person fit assessment: Integrating interests, values, skills, knowledge, and personality using the Occupational Information Network (O*NET). psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-19…

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.