Incredibly grateful to be awarded this grant. Huge thanks to APA Division 10 for supporting my research on co-creativity! Stay tuned for updates on its progress!

Folks on the academic job market this year—check out three upcoming panel discussions on how to write research, diversity, and teaching statements, and how to interview on the market! More info below, sign up here: forms.gle/2ZstSNP5wM1Qdv…

📢 😃Thrilled to share this Preprint with you‼️ We (28🧠-Scientists) propose 4 Ways to increase Effect Sizes (not only Sample Size) to enhance the Replicability of Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

I'll be recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025 at Penn State! Looking for applicants interested in creativity, cognitive neuroscience, AI, psychometrics, learning/creativity in education. See below for application info and please share 🙂 psych.la.psu.edu/graduate/prosp…

‼️Starting to email prospective advisors for #Psychology #PhD programs? Check out our resource guide which includes several tips, tricks, and templates. Erin Kaseda 加世田エリン Jeri Sasser, PhD drive.google.com/drive/folders/… #AcademicChatter Academic Chatter™

✨it's PhD application season again!✨ i am re-sharing my popular guide on applying for PhD programs in STEM, that has now been viewed 60k+ times over the past 6 years😍 please RT and share with anyone that might find it useful! lucylai.com/blog/gradapps

New work from our lab: generating new creativity tests using large language models: 1. AI "test generator" creates candidate test items 2. AI "test takers" solve them 3. AI "scorers" rate solutions for originality 4. Best items selected for creativity tests

👀 As the faculty job market picks up speed, it's already time to prepare for zoom/phone interviews! I've posted a list of questions I and others have been asked on my website....if you can answer them thoughtfully, you'll be well-prepared for the call! docs.google.com/document/d/1pV…

Cold-emailing potential postdoc advisors is a hugely successful strategy! Here is the exact e-mail I sent back in the day (& it worked) - feel free to use as a template: docs.google.com/document/d/1Ob…

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

How does AI impact our sense of agency in the creative process? This paper suggests a few key factors: whether AI competes or complements human abilities, how effective we perceive AI to be, and whether the stakes are high or low. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Did you apply to #psychology PhD programs this cycle? It’s time to prepare for the interview. Check out these sample questions and access additional resources here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Academic Chatter™ PsychinOut 🧠 Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Div. 12)

Thrilled to announce our latest publication on #scientific_creativity🤩! We investigate the Woseco task as a novel method to map creative thinking through semantic networks. Check out our paper with my co-authors Clin Lai Roger Beaty Massimo Stella PhD psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-53…

A comprehensive review of research on creativity in AI---from artistic creation to scientific discovery---grounded in creativity theories. arxiv.org/abs/2410.17218

Meta-analysis of PISA creative thinking data by Benjamin Goecke across 62 countries (n=493,660) finds SES is a strong predictor of creativity, along with gender: girls scored higher than boys—a bigger gender gap than boys’ slight advantage in math. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Who is more creative: two humans, or a human and an AI? This study finds human teams generate better ideas than human-AI pairs, pointing to benefits of human collaboration over AI co-creativity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in Nature Reviews Psychology We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Free link: nature.com/articles/s4415… Led by Stefan Feuerriegel

"AI’s use by high-school and college students to complete written assignments, to ease or avoid the work of reading and writing... puts the process of deskilling at education’s core. To automate learning is to subvert learning" Great piece by Nicholas Carr newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-of-…

Creativity is collaborative. But with LLMs, many now collaborate with AI. Are people more creative working with other people or LLMs? We find human pairs are MORE creative, and AI actually reduces human originality over time, despite increasing verbosity. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists osf.io/preprints/psya… via @OsfFramework