Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science.
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Our institute is hiring
1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology)
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2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology
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If we want cumulative theory, valid measurement, and interpretable findings, conceptual precision is not optional.
• Is state self-control about attempts—or actual performance?
• Should all goal conflicts qualify—or only those involving affectively charged response tendencies?
• Is self-control reducible to temporal discounting or cognitive control?
Preprint just accepted by Motivation Science! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Despite decades of research, we do not have a clear or unitary definition of self-control!
In this article, I discuss:
• Is self-control an ability or a personality trait?
• Should habits count as self-control?
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Collaborating on this was fun - and it shows that research stays - in addition to their immediate impact- can still promote collaboration and productivity 15 years later! Thank you @liztenney.bsky.social for asking me to join the team!
Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow. Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, using different orientations and motions, an example of multi-purpose tool use. This suggests scientists may have underestimated cows' cognitive abilities. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
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Check out the newly launched International Student Resource Center (ISRC), a national organization dedicated to helping international students and scholars navigate the complex landscape of U.S. immigration laws, regulations, and policies. #AcademicSky
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🔔 Those coming to the ECP22 in Edinburgh: Consider booking accommodation early!
Edinburgh is a very popular place.
Here are accommodation tips for ECP folks:
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📝 Submissions & registrations are also open:
ecp22edinburgh.org
#ecp22
Early career personality researchers coming to the Edinburgh ECP22: If you want to get a link to a slightly more affordable uni accommodation option later this year, leave your email here:
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If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️
datamgmtinedresearch.com
1. Organizing data (Ch. 3)
2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9)
3. Documenting data (Ch. 8)
4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)
Pooja standing next to her FGSP poster, looking a bit unsure of how to pose. The poster is A0 size with light purple, blue and while color along with university logos at the top
FGSP Poster prize certificate for 2nd place. Also comes with a chocolate and a pen!
From left to right- Pooja, Marie, and Johannes posing next to the poster.
Attended #FGSP2025 earlier this week, first ever conference outside of India! Extremely grateful to have gotten the opportunity to present and win 2nd place for this poster on the study I did with @mhennecke.bsky.social and Johannes Koopmann while I was still in India!
European Conference on Personality, Edinburgh, 2026
Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25.
Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
Here's a plain summary of our work on measuring goal dimensions: link.growkudos.com/1et738saakg
New paper! Miriam Pfister, Melanie Naumann, Veronika Brandstätter and I validated 13 state scales to capture change in students' affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals during exam preparation - useful tools to investigate the processes driving academic success.
Intergoal facilitation, commitment, and value did not predict much or anything. We would be happy if more people used our measure to learn more about its predictive validity. Here is the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... (before proofs, might differ slightly from the final, published version).
It measures 9 goal dimensions. Some results: Demand, enjoyment, expectancy, and progress predicted subjective and exam performance as well as subjective well-being; external motivation and (perceived) support predicted only (aspects of) subjective well-being.
New paper with Korbinian Kiendl, @rhoyle.bsky.social & @kkleinke.de accepted at Motivation Science: After noticing that practices for measuring characteristics of personal goals (= goal dimensions) are a big mess (see Kiendl et al., 2022), we decided to develop and validate a measure: ...
1. I have spent a lot of time recently sending invitations for people to review papers, and this process works extremely differently from what I imagined when I was a student. Wanted to write out how I do it in case that's helpful for you all as you submit papers.
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
Paper alert by @cavanvbonner.bsky.social looking at adversity and growth in self-regulatory dispositions. The tl;dr--no, adversity does not lead to growth in either self-reported or parent observed measures of effortful control or emotional stability. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zz0z1... 1/
Self-control in daily life is more than willpower — but how well do commonly used trait scales capture this recent, broader view on self-control?
New preprint with @kaihorstmann.bsky.social & @mhennecke.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨 Job alert - please share!
I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later.
Details in thread 👇
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Treemap chart showing the fragmented landscape of psychological measures.
Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
This is fantastic - congratulations!
New preprint!
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
Also a great resource for teaching students data visualization
This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
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