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Dr. Shayna Sparling @shaynagram.bsky.social · Sep 14

If my editor is wondering why my book chapter is taking so long to write, it's because people keep publishing cool stuff like this that I want to read and reference 😵‍💫❤️

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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Geoff MacDonald 🇨🇦 @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social · 29d

The paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Geoff MacDonald 🇨🇦 @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social · 29d

Is the idea that getting into a romantic relationship increases well-being a myth? A new MacLab paper says no. And I had so much to say about this work, I started a Substack: The Unromantic. Links for the paper and the Substack in replies.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Devinder Khera @davekhera.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'd feel more confident with the wet bandits.

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 11

For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our preprint for #dyadic SEM tutorial with {dySEM} is back up/available!

Thanks to @psyarxivbot.bsky.social team quickly retooling their approach (and the thankless work of the mods) to help sift the real from the slop!

John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets.

This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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JK Flake @jkflake.bsky.social · Sep 11

Sorry I gave them so much hell on this one but happy to see some solid discussion about the necessity of qualitative approaches. Bravo.

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

We put forth several recommendations to help tackle this problem, including better curation of measures, careful attention to measurement validation (particularly with qualitative approaches), and adoption of SEM approaches that can probe for method effects.

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · Sep 11

Excellent paper alert!!!

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’ve watched Sam give two talks about this topic (once as a first year grad student which was extremely formative for my research trajectory). Very excited to see this in print!

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Devinder Khera @davekhera.bsky.social · Sep 11

Helena's qualitative work for this was so amazing. Participants summed up sentiment override and their use of global evaluations for us really nicely.

Despite the unclear meaning of the items, many participants tried to rate them by drawing on information about their own romantic relationships. A total of 88.89% of participants referenced their own relationships in response to at least one item, and many of these responses (41.46%) drew on global, usually positive feelings about the relationship. For example, when asked to justify a rating to the snowdrop item, a participant wrote, “I love the person I am in a relationship with. 7 was the highest number I could choose to indicate how much I love them.” In response to the umbra item, another wrote, “I wasn’t sure what umbra meant. But I appreciate everything that comes with my relationship, so I clicked ‘agree.’”

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Sep 10

This is schmeasurement's Dead Salmon fMRI study:

A cautionary tale of how standard research practices can produce misleading results.

I love it. Immediately putting it on my reading lists.

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's out!!🌶️🔥

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

Shoutout to my talented coauthors @johnsakaluk.bsky.social, James Kim, @davekhera.bsky.social, Helena Qin and @sarahcestanton.bsky.social.

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · Sep 10

When considering the moving to UWO, the opportunity to have Sam as a colleague in SPDP, and work with her, was a huge draw. And I'll never forget how agitated her award-winning address--where she first laid these ideas out--left the audience. Incredibly proud to see this work out and play a role.

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

Shoutout to my talented coauthors @johnsakaluk.bsky.social, James Kim, @davekhera.bsky.social, Helena Qin and @sarahcestanton.bsky.social.

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Sep 10

From this paper:

(Holy Cow! Reminds me also of how Bullshit Receptivity items can glom together!)

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚨 YA’LL!! HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS PAPER TO COME OUT FOR AGES. IT IS SO SATURN.

I MEAN, IT IS SO GOOD.

SAME THING.

(JUST READ IT)

Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!

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The Love Consortium @theloveconsortium.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Love Consortium Statistics Decision Tree launched today! Think of it like a choose-your-own adventure guide to help you identify the best analyses for your specific dataset and research question.

theloveconsortium.org/so/9fPWyVE6Z...

#DataScience #Statistics

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets.

This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Geoff MacDonald 🇨🇦 @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social · Jul 8

New MacLab paper. Do people partner up to save on rent? Apparently not.

University of Toronto Psychology @uoftpsychology.bsky.social · Jul 8

Money can’t buy love but it might be a necessary first step, psychologists find.

New research by @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social shows that single people with higher incomes are more likely to want a relationship, think they are ready for one, and start one up.

💙 www.psych.utoronto.ca/news/money-c...

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Devinder Khera @davekhera.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is amazing news!! Congrats 💐.

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Michael Seto @mcseto.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share that I will be the next Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior.

See: link.springer.com/journal/1050...

Archives of Sexual Behavior

The official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research (IASR), Archives of Sexual Behavior publishes scientific research on sex, gender, and ...

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