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Join Editor-in-Chief simine vazire and other editors of Psychological Science for Office Hours with the Editors on February 15. Stop by to hear their thoughts, ask questions, and chat about Psychological Science. All are welcome to attend this free event. member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event-d…

Later this week we (Psych Science editors) will hold drop in “office hours” on zoom during waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, and parts of Oceania. See link for details and to register (registration is required but free & open to all). Please share!

We have another Psych Science drop in zoom office hour coming up, Feb 22, at a time better suited for people in North, Central, & South America (& parts of Oceania) 4pm Eastern US time on Thurs Feb 22 Registration is free & open to anyone Please share! member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event-d…

The MacLab has a new paper first authored by Elaine Hoan on personality facets and relationship status. Data were 2 studies, direct replication. The top line finding is singles are less extraverted (sociability, assertiveness, and energy level) than partnered people. 1/9

Just a couple of days until our next Psych Science drop in office hours! Register to attend and ask questions, bring up topics you want to discuss, or just lurk!

Drop in office hours for Psych Science: come ask questions, discuss stuff with us, or just listen! Registration required to get zoom link, but free. Thurs 22 Feb at 1pm Pacific US time, 4pm Eastern, 6pm Brasilia time [Fri 23 Feb at 8am Australian Eastern time, 10am NZ time]

New post on estimating the reliability of parameters in multilevel models. There's an easy solution using the standard errors of your shrunk parameters. It feels kind of obvious, but maybe it isn't sufficiently obvious yet. rubenarslan.github.io/posts/2024-02-…

Excited to share that our paper "Distinguishing four types of Person × Situation interactions: An integrative framework and empirical examination" is now published at JPSP! doi.org/10.1037/pspp00…

New paper uses LPA to identify groups of singles via attachment security. The group highest in well being is secure singles with (among other things) relatively low reported need for romantic relationships but relatively high desire for one. @YuthikaGirme onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Reposting for those in time zones in Europe, Africa, Middle East, etc. Please share!

NEW PAPER ALERT Online diary study (N=390) confirms general sexual desire increases around ovulation while food intake increases during luteal phase of the ovulatory cycle. Supporting Jim Roney's Motivational Priority Shifts Hypothesis. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… #preregistered

New paper! Ovulatory decreases in food intake and increases in sexual desire, and initiation of dyadic sexual behaviour in a N=390 online menstrual diary study.

🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨Looking for two PhD candidates to join the Social and Economic Psychology group (social-econ-psych.univie.ac.at) at the University of Vienna. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University… Please share. 🧵👇for more information (1/4).

I search for PhD candidates Uniwersytet Jagielloński Project on #sexhormones #menstrualcycle #stress, #reproductivehealth & life satisfaction (PL or ENG). Start: Oct 2024, 3700 - 5700 PLN/month. Apply by 26.07.24. More info: shorturl.at/pKJdT or DM [email protected]

Do changes in oral contraceptive use negatively affect partnered women's sexual satisfaction? Our meta-analysis found little to no evidence of a negative effect. w/Julia Stern, František Bartoš, Yasaman Rafiee, @tvpollet.bsky.social, and Ben Jones. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/psya…

+++ ESM researchers +++ I am planning a coordinated data analysis on stress generation in daily life across experience sampling studies that examined the occurence of daily hassles. Do you have any datasets that you could share for such an analysis? 🙆‍♂️

For those attending #dgps2024, please consider checking out my keynote address on Thursday, title "The Person in Psychology: The Importance of Idiographics and Nomothetics." I will post slides after for those who can't!

Excited to share our (John Rauthmann & I) new paper on the landscape of personality-psychological publications in the last 2 decades, accepted at JPSP! osf.io/preprints/psya… (1/15)

Ovulatory cycle shifts in human motivational prioritisation of sex and food In cycling ♀️, ovulation ⬆️ sexual desire and ⬇️🍲🍝 intake HC 💊 users show more blunted effect @LaraSchleife Julia Stern Larissa L. Wieczorek Tanja M. Gerlach Ruben C. Arslan Lars Penke sciencedirect.com/science/articl…