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Jill A. Jacobson

@doctorjaj.bsky.social

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Professor and Chair of the Social-Personality Psychology Program at Queen’s University, Canada.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 21h

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 2d

Many people lack a coherent system of political beliefs (Converse, 1964). Yet, studies in social and political psychology often measure political ideology using a single-item "liberal-conservative" or "left-right" scale that assumes a coherent ideology.

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Previous research has shown that a large part of the population lacks a coherent system of political beliefs (Converse, 1964). Yet, studies in social and political psychology often examine the relationship between ideology and political attitudes/behavior on the basis of a one-dimensional self-placement liberal-conservative or left-right ideology scale that assumes that all of the participants have a coherent ideology. In the current paper we suggest a simple method by which ‘non-ideologists’ could be identified in studies that are based on a one-dimensional ideology scales, and demonstrate that excluding them from the analysis. improves the validity of our conclusions regarding the role of ideology in political psychology. We conclude with a discussion of the pros and the cons of such exclusion.

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 2d

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

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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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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 2d

PCI Psychology is open for submissions! Did you know that you can easily submit your recommended preprint to any of the 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals? See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr...
#PsychSciSky #SciPub

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model

Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 3d

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017.

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Statistical evidence in psychological networks - Nature Human Behaviour

Psychometric network models have become increasingly popular in psychology and the social sciences. Huth et al. show that a large proportion of reported network findings are based on weak or inconclusive evidence inviting caution when interpreting results.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4d

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

Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 7d

Marseilles, IL and Monticello, IL vs Marseilles, France and Monticello, VA

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 7d

We're hiring! 📢

Senior Lecturer in ‘Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria’ for 23 hours per week

The position is to be filled from September 1, 2026, and is limited until August 31, 2030

Deadline: 27 October 2025

More details: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Senior Lecturer (Academic Teaching)

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 8d

We are hiring at Emory Psychology in Developmental!

Come join a wonderful department in a great city ☀️

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Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · 8d

Associate Professor @lucystats.bsky.social spoke today at the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague on how “Causal inference is not just a statistics problem”

You can find her slides here: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/isi_wor...

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OECD Statistics @oecdstatistics.bsky.social · 8d

🆕 New edition of the #OECD Guidelines on Measuring #SubjectiveWellbeing now available!

Building on recommendations from 2013, this update clarifies and streamlines practices of subjective well-being measurement in light of new research and policy needs.

🔗 oe.cd/subjectivewellbeing

OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being (2025 Update)

The OECD regularly produces guidelines to advance the measurement of concepts that are crucial to the well-being of people, the planet and future generations. In 2013, the OECD published the first edi...

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Joshua Claassen @jclaass.bsky.social · 8d

📢One week left to apply!

DZHW is hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science (Hannover).

Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision.

I'd apply myself if I weren't already on the team🤓

👉 karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...

Promotionsstelle

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 9d

Post-doc opportunity at Northwestern: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 9d

Dunham House in Dunham, QC is hiring a Psychotherapist

Closing date: 2025/11/03

CPA Career Ads and Resources page: buff.ly/akPASv3

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 9d

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Analyses of ‘change scores’ do not estimate causal effects in observational data

AbstractBackground. In longitudinal data, it is common to create ‘change scores’ by subtracting measurements taken at baseline from those taken at follow-u

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 9d

We're looking for an experimental psychologist in Witten. Contact me if you have questions about the job (I'm not on the commission, so can talk freely :-)
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/59638545...

Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) bei Universität Witten/Herdecke

Wir suchen: Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) (Vollzeit) • Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58455 Witten, Deutschland

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 9d

The extremely problematic use of change scores is so poorly understood by researchers that it’s almost sickening. Most don’t even understand what is needed for the subtraction operator to work. hbiostat.org/bbr/change

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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · 12d

UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 12d

The next Lunchbox Lecture will be October 24 at 3pm EDT

"The Pull Toward Neutrality: Emotional and Cognitive Costs of Avoiding Extremes"

Presented by Dr. Thomas Vaughan-Johnston, Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, Cardiff University

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 13d

Queen's University, Smith School of Business in Kingston is hiring a Professor in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resources

Closing date: 2025/11/10

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UBC Psychology @ubcpsych.bsky.social · 13d

UBC Psychology is calling for applications to teach in the 2026 Summer Sessions:
➡️ Summer Session Term 1 (May to June 2026)
➡️ Summer Session Term 2 (July to August 2026)
➡️ Summer Session Term 1 – 2 (6 credits; May to August 2026)
Apply by Oct 10. 2025: psych.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

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Zachary Fisher @fishingwithzack.bsky.social · 13d

We’re hiring in Quantitative Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill!

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the program and please share widely!

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

Primary responsibilities of the position will include conducting high quality research, publishing in peer reviewed journals and broader dissemination, seeking external funding for research, teaching ...

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Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 13d

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Lorne Campbell @lornejcampbell.bsky.social · 14d

New ad for an open rank position in Psychology at Cornell. That Human Bonding course seems very popular! May be a good fit for a relationship scientist out there. Below is a snippet of the job ad.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 14d

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

tl;dr

Collinearity is a form of lack of information that is appropriately reflected in the output of your statistical model.
When collinearity is associated with interpretational difficulties, these difficulties aren’t caused by the collinearity itself. Rather, they reveal that the model was poorly specified (in that it answers a question different to the one of interest), that the analyst overly focuses on significance rather than estimates and the uncertainty about them or that the analyst took a mental shortcut in interpreting the model that could’ve also led them astray in the absence of collinearity.
If you do decide to “deal with” collinearity, make sure you can still answer the question of interest.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to share the first meta-analysis on biased belief updating in depression, published in Clin Psych Rev. Across 29 studies, depression was related to a reduced belief update following positive information, but not to an increased update following neg info. 👇 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lsBL~0r1z...

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Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 16d

I pointed out to ours that I didn’t have to complete an 8-page consent form to get chemo, and it can kill you unlike a study on Qualtrics.

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David Bartram @dbartram.bsky.social · 16d

I'm totally on board with that finding, and the reason for previous incorrect findings:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

To Evaluate the Age–Happiness Relationship, Look Beyond Statistical Significance - Journal of Happiness Studies

The persistent contentiousness of research on the age–happiness relationship is puzzling; it should be possible to gain clarity and consensus about how to address the question effectively. In this paper I show that a key reason for the lack of clarity consists of overreliance on statistical significance as a means of evaluating empirical results. The statistical significance of a quadratic specification (age plus age-squared) is often taken as evidence in support of a ‘u-shaped’ relationship between age and happiness. But statistical significance on its own cannot tell us whether the age–happiness relationship is ‘u-shaped’ (nor indeed whether it takes any other shape). On the contrary, statistical significance can mislead us about it: a set of quadratic age coefficients can be ‘significant’ even when the relationship is obviously characterised by a different shape. When we have clarity on how to construct the analysis so that we can ‘see’ the underlying patterns in the data, it becomes obvious that the age–happiness relationship in European countries commonly shows other patterns; a u-shape is evident only in a minority of countries.

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Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) @ibg.colorado.edu · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors. This is open to all department areas, including Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Statistical Genetics🧬 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor

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