Why do participants stop responding in #ESM / #EMA studies? 📱🔔
Average compliance is about 7️⃣9️⃣%, but that hides massive variation.
Our new m-Path blog reviews predictors of response compliance: study design, incentives, participant traits, and time effects.
🔗 blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
Diagram showing four phases of methodological research (Theory, Exploration, Systematic Comparison, Evidence Synthesis) with an arrow indicating that preregistration usefulness increases from early to late phases. Each phase lists its aim, elements, outcome, and an example from factor retention research.
Does it make sense to preregister simulation studies?
This question has sparked a lot of debate.
▶️We* work through the why, when, and how
▶️We discuss different phases of methodological research to clarify where preregistration might (or might not) add value
📝 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
New study out! These results show how our personality is infused in everything we do, even down to our mundane, everyday experiences and passing thoughts.
Excited to see this paper now in print at JPSP! doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
You can find the postprint version here: osf.io/8c6sz_v2
Thanks again to @berndschaefer.bsky.social (shared 1st author 🙏), Cornelia Wrzus, Yannick Roos and @drichter77.bsky.social for the great collaboration!
Congrats Beth!!
A new publication from my PhD project on model selection for nonstationary time-series data is out, co-authored with an amazing team (Anja Franziska Ernst, @ginettelafit.bsky.social , Ward B. Eiling, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social)!
Link: doi.org/10.1111/bmsp...
Out now at PSPR: our love letter to the personality trait of Openness!
Amber Thalmayer and I identify and (try to) explain the many ways that openness/intellect is the weirdest & WEIRDest of the Big Five. (Big improvements over the old preprint! thx reviewers)
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBGXT...
Reproducible Research in Collaboration: Join our free workshop on writing academic texts on GitHub together by Aaron Peikert and me on November 28 in Berlin!
More information & registration: www.formr-uni-siegen.de/collab-works...
Participants of the MITNB workshop, where we stand outside in a group of around 40 people
1st day of #MITNB meeting at @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social. Excited for the week ahead, where we'll tackle measurement issues in #ESM, e.g. modeling processes across timescales, building a formal theory on measurement, and evaluating statistical assumptions in #ESM data.
Go teamwork <3
Simulation studies have a conflict of interest problem. The same team:
- develops a new method
- designs a simulation study to evaluate it
However, the new method has to show good performance to get published.
We propose living synthetic benchmarks to address the issue (doi.org/10.48550/arX...).
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
In this behemoth effort led by @anhhtran.bsky.social, we reanalysed 11 experience-sampling datasets, and found limited evidence that context (intensity, controllability, and social features) meaningfully shaped everyday emotion regulation strategy use.
Had a great time at the ESM Expert Network Meeting in Rotterdam! I presented the first SHARE study results: we found that paying participants per beep boosts compliance as compared to bulk payment (with or without personalised feedback)—and without harming data quality.
Poster: tinyurl.com/47asuaxj
We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🚨 New preprint: We compared 13 methods for detecting momentary careless responding in the WARN-D data (206k+ obs.). Tutorials guide you through each method. The takeaway? Diverging results, inherent subjectivity (to varying degrees), and a clear need for further validation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Congrats Niclas!!!
Very excited to share our new manuscript accepted at JPSP: "Cultural Differences in the Personality Triad: The Interplay of Personality Traits, Situation Characteristics, and Behavioral States Around the World"
The same pattern also shows up for personality traits 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excited to share this new preprint with Simon Breil, Katharina Utesch & Mitja Back: "Predicting More Behavior More of the Time: On the Behavioral Nature of Different Personality Trait Measures" osf.io/preprints/ps...
New and improved 😆 Those who were at the first training will know we needed to 🤦♀️
See you tomorrow, we're so thrilled to see all of the interest in supporting @psyarxivbot.bsky.social
New paper by @bsiepe.bsky.social & WARN-D team out now in JoPACS, on the (lack of) relation between EMA selfreport and Garmin passive data.
Guardian @theguardian.com coverage:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Paper:
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
🧪 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #EpiSky
New paper: In the context of self-regulated learning, if LLMs reliably simulated survey responses, they could be used to test interventions, refine theoretical models, & augment sparse datasets; but the psychometric validity of the responses depends on the LLM. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings.
www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en
New preprint: osf.io/8c6sz_v1
@mdkraemer.bsky.social and I, with our fantastic co-authors Cornelia Wrzus, Yannick Roos and @drichter77.bsky.social examined how social contact, desire, and affect dynamically interact across different modalities (in-person, digital) and time scales (hourly, daily).
Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Congrats!!
Comparing the most important predictors indicated meaningful differences between the components and types. One example: impulsive tendencies predicted greater success in initiation conflicts, suggesting that a certain "just do it" attitude could be helpful for this conflict type
