🔥Download the Science of Science book for FREE🔥 We're VERY excited to make the whole book freely available: dashunwang.com/book/the-scien… Please help us RT & let everyone know of this resource! #ScienceOfScience

Very excited to share this new paper out at Nature Human Behaviour!! w/ Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social Cendri Hutcherson Scientists' forecasts for societal change (polarization, life sat, biases++) are not more accurate than statistical models. More accuracy w/ expertise, interdisciplinarity. 🧵⬇️(1/9)

Many takeaways from the paper, of note to and expectations for myself: "Scientists were more accurate if they had scientific expertise in a prediction domain, were interdisciplinary, used simpler models and based predictions on prior data."

Personality folks joining #icps23be! You‘re all welcomed to join our Symposium on trait activation tomorrow late afternoon. I’m pleased to organize a symposium for my first-time and on my birthday٩(˃̶͈̀௰˂̶͈́)و. Very much looking forward to the mutual-stimulating conversations!

Thanks again for the invitation PersonalityPsychologyPodcast and Lisanne de Moor to be part of this interesting and stimulating discussion on basic personality models! It was a lot of fun 🙂!

It was a true pleasure talking with @BjksPodcast about science - and life 🙂. Thanks again for the invite to the podcast, Ben!

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the APC for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. EiCs Stephen Smith Til Ole Bergmann Birte Forstmann) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately. I am joining this action and have also resigned imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.p…

EAPP is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Personality EJP! Application deadline is August 1st, start date October 1st. The complete call can be found here: eapp.org/wp-content/upl…

Wohoo, we recently launched our PIC - Personality, Identity, and Crime Lab Twitter channel where we are going to share research and updates from our group studying personality, (un)ethical, and social behavior. Stay tuned!

Is GPT psychologically WEIRD? Using the World Values Survey and other psych measures, we seat GPT within a global perspective. The culturally more distant a place is from the US, the lower the correlation with GPT Mohammad Atari Damian Blasi Dorsa Amir

Utrecht University Utrecht University in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University ranking World University Rankings provided by Times Higher Education. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence a thread 🧵1/16

Really cool paper by Marco Colnaghi: Adaptations to infer fitness interdependence promote the evolution of cooperation pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

What predicts cooperation in experimental games? Expectations of partner behavior, preferences for conditional cooperation, & punishment seem to matter the most. Other commonly studied factors (e.g., time pressure, proximity) were much less important. psyarxiv.com/pybxr/

We're super happy to share that Ranran Li is joining us at MPI-CSL, Freiburg, as a research fellow on a DAAD scholarship, to complete her PhD thesis! She studies how personality and situations shape behavior, and we’re thrilled to have her in the group for the next months. 🥳