Social psychologists: What’s an effective and well replicated experimental means of dampening people’s self-esteem? Fake negative performance feedback? Social exclusion? Something else entirely?

Cool study with huge n and RSA method from educational psych again finds no benefits of self-insight: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

On how to be liked: Warm and dominant behavior both lead to popularity. When it comes to being particularly liked by a specific other however, being warmer than usual - but not more dominant - seems to work best. Check out our new ps paper: psyarxiv.com/6pcnv/

On how to be liked: Warm and dominant behavior both lead to popularity. When it comes to being particularly liked by a specific other however, being warmer than usual - but not more dominant - seems to work best. Check out our new ps paper: psyarxiv.com/6pcnv/

Does anyone know a good textbook chapter/paper that can be used to teach the basics of formative measurement models to undergraduate students? English or German would both work

In Münster (Psychologische Diagnostik und Persönlichkeitspsychologie; Mitja Back) sind zwei unbefristete PostDoc Stellen ausgeschrieben (TV-L 14, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2023). uni-muenster.de/Psychodiagnost… Bitte bewerben & RT! 1/4

More evidence for the usefulness of EMG as a diagnostic tool in personality research: People differ in their facial reactions to pictures of themselves and these differences are linked to self-reported self-esteem and likability: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Why does affective reactivity matter for motivation? Check out this blog post about our recent paper and the larger research program on motive-specific affective contingencies: ejp-blog.com/blog/2023/3/13…

Great Post-Doc opportunity for 3+3 years (TV-L 13) at our research group led by Jochen Gebauer at the University of Mannheim 🤓🏰 If you hold a PhD in social/personality psychology and are excited about (communal) self-enhancement, check out the ad: psy.de/senh.pdf

Check out our new paper on narcissists’ attributions in a competitive intergroup setting: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

The tendency to focus on status-related cues can be measured very reliably via eye tracking and it is higher among narcissists. The paradigm could be used to study the links between personality and visual attention more generally. osf.io/preprints/psya…

How are constellations of provided and received social support related to adjustment? With conventional NHST, main effect, self-enhancement, congruence models are all supported. With competitive RSA testing, the pattern looks different journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Need a reference showing that behavior observation works just as well during Zoom calls as in the lab? Here you go: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

People systematically differ from each other in how strongly their facial emg reactions are linked to experienced affect. The link ist stronger in women and in people with good socio-emotional abilities. Check Out the Paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-70…

Do narcissists show stronger physiological responses when put under social stress? This study indicates no: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19… Speaks against the idea that narcissism is a compensation of a weak, or fragile, self