In the inaugural 1887 issue of the Journal of American Psychology, C.S. Peirce discussed whether computers could eventually become self-propelled scientists. This topic has an interesting intellectual history

Our systematic review & pre-registered meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-14… and our reply to commentaries is now out in Psychological Bulletin.

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This fall, I will be starting my PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth 🌲!! I'm so excited to join Kiara Sanchez and the amazing folks at Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences. Go green!!💚🌲

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New working paper! We put GPT4 from OpenAI into Qualtrics and used it to talk people out of conspiracy theories in an RCT. David G. Rand's thread is fantastic -- we'll have even more details soon.

We missed a few excellent papers in our article, such as this one showing that classic findings in the cognitive bias literature might be artifacts of careless responding. Elegant and important paper by Justin Sulik and Rob Ross open access at psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-…

S5E19 Item Response Theory, Q.E.D.
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In today’s episode, Patrick and Greg provide an intro to Item Response Theory: what it is, how it relates to traditional factor analysis, and how it improves upon some of the limitations of classical test theory.

Thrilled to share my story of how I made a place for myself in academia in Science Magazine Science Careers: science.org/content/articl…

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I’m excited to share a recent article published in the Greater Good Magazine about findings from my first first-author publication featured in APA Journals Emotion! This quick read shows it’s worth sharing and celebrating good news with others.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at SPSP this week! I have 3 events I want to share with you.

American compassion has made a comeback.

In 2011, Dr. Sara Konrath and colleagues found that US college student's empathy had dropped from 1979-2009.

The fall was precipitous. In some cases, 2009 students reported being less empathic than 75% of students 30 years before.

An incredible amount of work clearly goes into each episode. Excellent historical storytelling. Aesthetically pleasing and calming audio. You might love it even if you are not a history nerd.

Psychological research methods police: Measurement invariance is under attack!
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Excited to share a new paper with brilliant co-authors Sonja Winter, PhD Hanamori Skoblow and Ashley Watts (preprint: psyarxiv.com/n9gfa), forthcoming in Assessment. For this project, I wanted to do something beyond academic writing, so I also made a CoSME lab zine. Contents below.

I’ll be on the faculty job market this year. I’m a personality-social psychologist. Website here: thcostello.com

If you’re hiring, have any tips, or just want to say good luck, I would love to hear from you!

I am fully aware this is not a good time to tweet this, but I have delayed doing this waiting for a better day in academia…but it seems like one thing just follows another and no better day seems in sight.
My attitude now is 'don't wait, just eat cake' so I am here to pitch...1/

RIP. You can hear Daniel Ellsberg discuss the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War with Studs Terkel in this conversation from our archive: studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/danie…