Kostadin Kushlev

I did it! I am now a tenured professor! Turns out I do belong after all! So grateful for everybody who supported me and pushed me all these years—from a small-town boy in post communist Bulgaria to a tenured professor @ Georgetown. Yabadabadoooo! Wow! Phew!

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7/ Compliance, as you can imagine was far from perfect, so a more accurate summary of the findings is that reducing phone use for unnecessary stuff is good for you. You don't have to completely throw away the baby with the bathwater.

6/ 🧠 Takeaway: Causal evidence suggests that constant mobile internet access may be harming cognitive function & well-being. A digital detox could help! #Mindfulness

5/ 🏃‍♂️ Why did this work? Without mobile internet, people:
✅ Spent more time socializing in person 👫
✅ Exercised more 💪
✅ Spent more time in nature 🌿

4. Key Findings:
✅ Improved mental health
✅ Higher subjective well-being
✅ Better attention span (objectively measured)
✅ 91% of participants improved in at least one area! #AttentionSpan #Focus

3/ To find out, we ran a 1-month randomized controlled trial (RCT) where participants blocked mobile internet (but kept calls & texts) for 2 weeks.

2/ While smartphones help us stay connected, research suggests constant internet access may hurt cognitive function & well-being. But is this really true?

1/ Check out our newest paper in PNAS-Nexus: Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being #DigitalDetox #MentalHealth https://buff.ly/3X6vojS

NIH to cut indirect cost rate to 15%.

Рецепта за по-добър живот: Среща с българина, който е „професор по щастие” https://buff.ly/3Eo9stW

Here is the list of #federalgrants that are on the cutting board even after the “pause”: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

fascinating. never would have thought such a minor change would have such a huge effect bsky.app/profile/flor...

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
-How fields and norms co-evolve, such as 'transitional justice'.
-How to theorize stupidity in IR.

Exciting Postdoc at Georgetown! Explore creativity & education using computational methods. 🧠💡 Dive into innovative research & contribute to groundbreaking projects. Start in 2024. Apply now: cng.georgetown.edu/people/join-... #Research #PostdocJobs
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Super proud of my graduate student,Kibum Moon, for his innovative ideas and methods on #AI #chatgpt and creativity at #spsp2024!

If you’re still at SPS2024, we’d love to see you at the repliCATS workshop at 1pm. Please bring a laptop!

Here is my take on the age-old question whether money buys happiness on CBC Radio One! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Wondering how to maximize the benefits of technology without interfering with the wonder of face-to-face conversations at #SPSP2024 This blogpost explains: How social technology is influencing human connection and loneliness open.substack.com/pub/psychoft...

Rates of anxiety and depression are slightly higher for PhD students (5.1%) than those who left graduate school after their Masters (4.2%)--and this gap grows larger over years of the PhD.

But it is still lower than other 20-39 year olds (6.1%) and the general population. jtag.se/pub/workingp...

Essay | For Happiness in the New Year, Stop Overdoing Everything Overachieving and overthinking are ways we try to feel more secure, but they can seriously hurt our mental and physical health.

Constantly striving to be the best doesn’t make you the top performer.

A meta-analysis of 25,000 people found no relationship between performance & perfectionism.

Instead, perfectionism is related to greater anxiety & depression. When we overdo it, we harm ourselves. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

On the frequency of diverse friend groups. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Beautiful

Hmm. Who knew!

Looking for a postdoc or visiting prof position? Reed is hiring! I did my undergrad at Reed, and loved it - heck I named my dog after the place! 😅

Review starts 2/2: apply.interfolio.com/139565

I feel like I would be in that one!

What is your communication style as a mentor/mentee? #academicchatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social

I highly recommend the Raising a Resilient Scientist (RRS) series by #NIH: A five-part series including lectures and discussion groups for mentors in the biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences.

www.training.nih.gov/raising-a-re...

Science benefits from diversity Improving the participation of under-represented groups is not just fairer — it could produce better research. Improving the participation of under-represented groups is not just fairer — it could...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

GASP Mentorship Luncheon at SPSP 2024 Annual Convention GASP Mentorship Luncheon at SPSP 2024 Annual Convention GASP is the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology, an affiliate of SPSP. GASP events are open to all students, faculty, and other...

Going to #SPSP2024? Come to the GASP Mentorship Luncheon on Friday, February 9, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM PST. Sign up here: signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB... GASP is the GLBTQ+ Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology. GASP events are open to all students, faculty, and other professionals.