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Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virginia State University studying violence, aggression, & personality. Part time bluegrass/country singer, full-time dad. Website: sjwest.io

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Does anyone know where this may be available? I've done a thorough search but the internet is vast!

03.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A report named "The big five inventoryβ€”versions 4a and 54" - has been cited over 6,000 times yet the only actual copy of it I can find anywhere is just another "citation" listing.

Seems like this should be readily available given how frequently this measure is/has been used!

03.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey psychology friends - I'm doing some digging trying to find the original validation of the 44-item BFI measure from John et al. It seems like the original validation data was not reported in a peer-reviewed publication but a technical report that doesn't seem to be available anywhere.

03.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

07.01.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 38596 πŸ” 11568 πŸ’¬ 1248 πŸ“Œ 1135

Of course they do of course they do!

07.01.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As scientists who are also humans with human politics - this is so incredibly important for all of us to support like our lives depend on it (they do).

24.12.2025 13:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Will I get in trouble if I share a pre-print and tell everyone that they should read that version bc it is better than the one that got published? πŸ˜…

19.12.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*deep fatherly sigh*

19.12.2025 15:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Social psychologist here - I can easily explain it.

He promised his supporters one of the most decadent treats of all - revenge on others with absolutely no risk to them. All the other promises are secondary to this one.

We love revenge. When we get it the reward centers of our brain light up.

19.12.2025 12:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This takes me back to middle school when our principal banned all Pokemon cards because kids were stealing from each other and getting into fights.

He refused to pronounce it correctly as a belittling joke - "Poke-uh-Man"

He didn't realize the jokes that followed would haunt him forever.

19.12.2025 12:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Crystal [meth] Castles

14.12.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just gonna keep suggesting this: We are letting bad people set our information agenda when we talk about them all the time.

13.12.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 742 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 8

Tagging the only one that's on here @faithmcl.bsky.social ❀️

13.12.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I am so very proud of my first 4 grad students for finishing! Plus one undergrad PASS lab had 5 to graduate this term. Next semester we will be a serious skeleton crew until the newbies are trained!

13.12.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Only 1 bathrooms to 8 beds was bad enough!

That is a fucking HUGE house for a meth lab. As someone from rural WNC - meth labs are usually in double wides or hotel rooms.

This is more like a meth palace.

13.12.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some of y'all never built a personal website using the geocities browser GUI using dial-up in 2003 and it really shows.

No I will not elaborate.

11.12.2025 12:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. Stevens: β€œSecretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people – spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk” W...

Proud to be supporting @rephaleystevens.bsky.social in filing articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.

WE NEED YOUR HELP for the long fight ahead of us.

Go to standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr and sign your name to our petition!

stevens.house.gov/media/press-...

10.12.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 414 πŸ” 151 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 20

Nice to see it work as intended every once in a while! πŸ™‚

29.11.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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26.11.2025 04:00 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

"Completely disregarding scientific evidence" See there. How hard was that?

22.11.2025 00:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Right? Like I'm a psychologist. Don't expect me to know about the economy beyond a basic level.

11.11.2025 13:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How could that possibly be shady?

Not having anyone to talk to and submitting to a completely faceless website with no other contact doesn't seem shadier?

Its not like the PO is involved in deciding who is awarded. They are quite removed from all of that.

11.11.2025 11:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If people are making loud, unreasonable critiques without offering alternatives...you are probably doing something right. 😎

06.11.2025 12:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The "if possible" in that sentence would lead me to reply "it isn't possible so we didn't undertake any impossible revisions" lol like at least give me a suggestion!

06.11.2025 10:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why does this sound like Eminem lol

05.11.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is 15 points and 64/100 seats a landslide?

Asking for a friend.

05.11.2025 13:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit. How is this not making headlines right now?

03.11.2025 11:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Update: I was wrong you can turn it off, google just didn't know how when I posted this. It still sucks!

01.11.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every once in a while I boot up ye olde PROCESS in SPSS just to click the PASTE button a bunch of times before I close it again in disgust.

No software tells me what to not do when I can obviously still do it!

01.11.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jeffery Combs should be available

30.10.2025 11:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0