Hans Rocha IJzerman

EXCL: Wes Streeting has asked Jonathan Haidt, a bestselling author and high-profile advocate of banning social media for under-16s, to speak to officials in his push for UK to consider following Australia's landmark ban -

Banning social media for kids may be good or bad but that guy is a comically obvious bullshit artist with entire books full of trite lessons extrapolated from anecdotes that are themselves barely half-true.

Full Türkiye country report here: absl.io/wp-content/u...

When Hospitality Hides Loneliness In Türkiye, economic hardship—more so than social skills—drives loneliness. Many reframe solitude as growth and connection as extending beyond humans to nature and places.

When Hospitality Hides Loneliness | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/body...

From Time Trends to Structural Barriers: Six Teams Reexamine Social Isolation in the United States This blog post was written by Hans Rocha IJzerman, Annecy Behavioral Science Lab & University of Oxford Jeffrey Buckley, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest Jason R. Power, Unive...

New collaborative blog post (led by @ijzerman.bsky.social and others) in which we examine the evidence for an "Epidemic of Loneliness" in the United States, and find it wanting. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-t...

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I’m sure those heterodox people will take big offense to this.

I’ll never forgot a careers workshop I randomly attended at my first conference during my PhD. It the first time (pre-twitter!) I’d heard an honest conversation about career prospects in academia

A picture of a trophy. The real award looks much cooler.

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I had to look up events to know when they occurred!

I’d say the signing of Schengen and the Heysel drama are things I remembered.

The year after, Chernobyl and not eating spinach impressed me as a kid.

Yeah I mean, better than São Paulo, the city with the most Italians in the world?

And how much damage this one has done…

(Just to be sure, I don’t actually call you a monster, but I’m trying to justify always procrastinating updating clocks).

Which monster has actual accurate times on the oven and microwave for more than six months?

Seconded. Recently I couldn’t walk comfortably for half a day.

Reliability cannot be “good” either, unless the items show adequate properties regarding dimensionality, invariance and monotonicity of response categories. Just running alpha does not prove reliability. And yes, most measures have not been properly analyzed/tested. #psychometrics

Homeboy stopped the wrong lady

(H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social )

The recorded press conference and the full #Loneliness Action Plan (all in German) can be found here:

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Today, the government of Northrhine-Westphalia (Germany) announced its #Loneliness Action Plan. I was invited to join Minister President Hendrik Wüst at the press conference and provide my perspectives as a loneliness researcher.

Foto: Land NRW / Josua Dunst

Misnomers of Modern Malaise: Stop calling loneliness an epidemic By Drs Hans Rocha IJzerman & Marlies Maes The words we use to describe social issues shape both public perception and the strategies we develop to address them. This is especially true in discussions about chronic loneliness—a serious and wid...

By using accurate, thoughtful terminology and focusing on comprehensive, multifaceted solutions, we can move beyond the oversimplified “epidemic” narrative and address the real drivers of #loneliness.

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By @ijzerman.bsky.social & Marlies Maes.

The 25 days of chRistmas: an R advent calendaR Thank you for your interest in this advent calendar and learning R! R is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. At first, it can be really overwhelming, but after you pick up the basics,...

It's Dec 1 and you want to finally start learning R? The R advent calendaR by @kiirsti.bsky.social is an excellent place to start. Do it now! #rstats kiirstio.wixsite.com/kowen/post/t...

Bravo for @fabricefrank.bsky.social

In-depth interview. Former biologist turned computer scientist, Fabrice Frank, passionate about science, has since Covid launched into the hunt for scientific fraud. He has revealed several scandals of national magnitude.

For France, it may be an appropriate sentiment.

“There's always another form" - Ancient French Proverb

Just when you think you've filled out the last paper, the clerk pulls out Form 27B-6 (can only be obtained on alternating Tuesdays between 14:23 and 14:47, and must be signed in triplicate preceded by “Lu et approuvé”).​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I thought the FPP was on the shelves already but they held it back because of Stapel. Not sure if true.

Re open data, yes Stapel. I chaired the data sharing committee in Tilburg and lots happened there

Yes, totally.

Voodoo Correlations Are Everywhere-Not Only in Neuroscience - PubMed A recent set of articles in Perspectives on Psychological Science discussed inflated correlations between brain measures and behavioral criteria when measurement points (voxels) are deliberately selec...

And a related paper, where Klaus presented this before at ESCON, criticizing the “hunter gatherer mentality” of psychological science: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26162135/

(Nb: I would now say these were also underpowered).