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Nadja Rupprechter

@naru96.bsky.social

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phd student and research & teaching assistant at IKMZ | University of Zurich🇨🇭| media psych & comm | human-AI relationships & wellbeing | open science nadjarupprechter.wordpress.com if (!working) { playing_counterstrike() at_gym() creating_memes() }

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · Jun 30

📣 New preprint out!

In "It’s her! Investigating relationship development with social AI chatbots", we explore how people form emotional bonds with chatbots.

📄 Read the full preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
✍️ with @tobiasdienlin.com

OSF

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 7h

🎉🎉

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 4d

Wondering if you can outsource your data viz work to ChatGPT? 📊

I tested out a few different generative AI tools, giving them prompts to visualise two different data sets. If you're interested in the results, you can read them here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/gen-ai-...

#RStats #Python #DataViz #GenAI

Generative AI for Data Visualisation – Nicola Rennie

Can generative AI create good data visualisations? This blog post compares the performance of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini when presented with a generic request to visualise a dataset.

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 3d

Writing my second paper has me face-to-face with all my writing flaws.

This great piece by Michael Black reminded me that scientific writing is really about storytelling: medium.com/@black_51980...

Be the hero of your story — and make sure there’s a golden nugget to share. Really good stuff.

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 5d

a man on a horse is ringing a bell in a tower

ALT: a man on a horse is ringing a bell in a tower

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 5d

Best friend snapped this on their way to work; what a beauty ✨

#vienna

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 9d

It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 10d

bob the builder is holding a hammer and asking can we fix it ?

ALT: bob the builder is holding a hammer and asking can we fix it ?

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 10d

😂 manuscript-plasticity

Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 10d

manuscript just needs a little shaping

#academicsky

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 10d

Oh nooo, ok fair enough..this is really sad 🥺 And having all theses preregistered just reminds me how different psych majors are from comm majors 😳

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 12d

I agree. I do wonder, though, how the benefit of producing more informative results relates to the benefit of allowing students to go through the data collection process themselves—so that they gain that experience, at least at the BA level where the stakes may not be as „high“

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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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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 16d

“[S]tatistical complexity risks becoming decorative—used to signal analytical sophistication rather than deepen theoretical insight”

Several good points by Winston Peng in his inaugural piece as HCR editor.

academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 18d

The future is now! Or something along those lines 🥴🫠

Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 18d

Perks of living near a railway station? Peek-a-boo, cool train edition 🚂

#iliketrains

Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks so much! I remember reading this excellent paper when I was writing my masters thesis. But back then I wasn’t really aware of formative measurement models! Excited for the re-read! 😊

Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 19d

Smart folks of bsky 🧠: If you’ve used formative constructs, what were the biggest validity challenges & how did reviewers react? Any opposing takes on formative measurement? Also after good methods papers 🔍 Read some Diamantopoulos + Coltman—what else? Ty!!

#measurement #rstats #SEM #academicsky

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations Michal! 👏

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 24d

resilience

#academicsky

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · Jan 11

My wife and I reached the "sending each other passive-aggressive messages using the titles of pop sci books that we publish" stage of marriage.

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PEBKAC @telecom-terrorist.com · Sep 8

4 lbs of Doritos would fix me

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Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · 29d

Camo pants go hard.

Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · Sep 11

Had such a great time today speaking on a panel among amazing scholars about Human–AI and Mediated Experiences 🤖📺

Big thanks to everyone who joined the session and your thoughtful questions! ✨

#mepsy25

Nadja Rupprechter @naru96.bsky.social · Sep 10

After a good night’s rest here in Duisburg, I’ll soon be heading to the MediaPsych Doctoral Workshop, which takes place just before #mepsy25 kicks off. I’m so excited!