Do yourself a favor and spend 30 seconds looking at this chart and then ask yourself how likely it is that the unemployment rate will just move sideways from here.

From my undergrad advisor! Token economies: Evidence‐based recommendations for practitioners - degli Espinosa - Behavioral Interventions - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

New paper (and yes, open access)! We compared two procedures for assessing the discounting of delayed losses and found the discounting on the Adj-Amt was highly correlated with that on the DLQ, regardless of the delayed amount and the measurement type. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The end of an era in Colorado. Charlie Blackmon collects a hit and walks off the field for the final time 👏🥹

Anthony Volpe GRAND SLAM!!!!

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

Last workout session of the summer at the KU gym (S:315, B:225, P:135, D:385) before heading to St. Louis for my dissertation. All training this summer is just a backup plan for the dissertation in case verbal arguments with my committee don't go well and we have to arm-wrestle.

For fellow behavioral researchers: I've open-sourced the replication code for my published papers on discounting & operant demand that may be useful. github.com/haoranmattwan I will be honest; I never would have bothered reorganizing and commenting all that code without AI.

New brief report in The Psych Record: We validated brief versions of the Monetary Choice and Delayed Losses Questionnaires. By removing the medium amount questions, we reduced administration time by a third while preserving reliability and validity. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I am thrilled to share that I have accepted a TT AP of Behavioral Science at Duke Kunshan University starting Fall 2026. A huge thank you to my advisors and colleagues who have supported me during my PhD. Dissertation defense comes next...