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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 10h

We're searching for a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology here at the University of Arizona! Come to Tucson-- great place to live and work! 🌄🌵🏀 @uarizona.bsky.social

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE)

The candidate will be expected to build and sustain an externally funded, nationally recognized research program, provide effective instruction at the...

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 1d

Dear PsyArXiv users!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧

Thank you for your patience!

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Dominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · 23h

Is anyone going to #SAS2026 and would like to be part of a symposium on the measurement of emotions? I wanna present results from mixed methods study where we asked people to explain HOW they chose a certain number during each emotion assessment.
@affectscience.bsky.social #AffectSci

Pls share!

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Elise Kalokerinos @elisekalo.bsky.social · 1d

In this behemoth effort led by @anhhtran.bsky.social, we reanalysed 11 experience-sampling datasets, and found limited evidence that context (intensity, controllability, and social features) meaningfully shaped everyday emotion regulation strategy use.

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 3d

Context Matters, Doesn't It? The Role of Context in Everyday Emotion Regulation Strategy Use: https://osf.io/axzk6

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 1d

Did you see this, Jason?

Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 1d

I ran into that yesterday, fix in this commit

Update muscle-testing-helpers.R · joachimvandekerckhove/muscle-testing@678694f

# jv edited 10/11/2025 to update OSF interface.

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly! My research suggests that there'll be an efficiency accuracy tradeoff. They'll be more efficient but the socks might be over the shoes. And if they get distressed when you tell them to hurry, they may put the socks and shoes on sllightly less efficiently than if you just left them to it 🤓

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 7d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 6d

Here's the preprint again. Come for the theory, stay for the execution. (And the open data, code, and materials.)

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jan 16

Perceived Time Pressure Affects Fine Motor Performance via Subjective Distress in U. S. Adults: http://osf.io/rb3g4/

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 6d

P.P.S. I kinda love how the title subtly references the first author...me. "Urgent, H Urry Up!!!..."

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 6d

P.S. Nobody screamed at participants who took part in this study. Urgency messaging cues were visual.

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 6d

This work will be published by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. The review process was super helpful-- the paper is stronger for it!! My thanks to the editor and reviewers.

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 6d

Findings were consistent across the two studies, as demonstrated in this figure depicting meta-analytic results.

Meta-analytic results across Level 1 results focusing on effects of urgency messaging on distress and three performance outcomes (accuracy, information processing efficiency, route efficiency). There's a forest plot on the left showing effect sizes aggregated across two studies, study-specific effect sizes in the middle, and stats for the study 2 minus study 1 difference on the right.

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 6d

And yet, the total effect of urgency messaging was to improve information processing efficiency and hamper accuracy. Modeling presumed mechanisms was key to uncovering this juxtaposition in results.

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 6d

In brief, urgency messaging induced a state of threat marked by distress, which then hampered information processing efficiency and route efficiency but not accuracy in a route planning and tracing task. See (overwhelming) figure of Level 1 effects in two studies below.

Results of multilevel structural equation models showing urgency messaging effects on subjective stress (Study 1, N=93 on left) and anxiety (Study 2, N=148 on right), which then reduce performance efficiency, captured as two latent variables with multiple indicators each. Distress was not, however, a mechanism by which urgency messaging affected accuracy.

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 6d

What happens when someone screams "Urgent, Hurry Up!!!" at you while you're trying to perform a task requiring fine motor control?? We borrowed the integrative framework of stress, visual attention, and motor performance to answer this question. Check out the updated preprint (v3).

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jan 16

Perceived Time Pressure Affects Fine Motor Performance via Subjective Distress in U. S. Adults: http://osf.io/rb3g4/

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JoCNForum @jocnforum.bsky.social · 7d

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Principles for proper peer review

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 13d

👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.bsky.social · 13d

Ha! “If you study living things and control for life, don’t be surprised if your results seem a bit dull.”

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Felix Thoemmes @felixthoemmes.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to share that I’ll be the incoming Editor of AMPPS. My first priority is building a diverse team of Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. If you’re interested, DM me or add your name via this super simple survey.
cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 14d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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ejwagenmakers.bsky.social @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social · 16d

A chess scandal revisited -- and why Nakamura was right
www.bayesianspectacles.org/a-chess-scan...

A Chess Scandal Revisited – Why Nakamura is Right About Cherry-Picking

Recently I was attended to a paper by Maharaj, Polson, and Sokolov, in which they provided a statistical analysis of a chess cheating allegation. Their abstract: We provide a statistical analysis o…

www.bayesianspectacles.org

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 17d

Tufts equity dataset available through ICPSR: peterlevine.ws?p=34521

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 17d

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 17d

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · 17d

Call for collaborators! 🧵

The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.

In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5

Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Further details in the 🧵:

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