Thomas Meyer

🚨🚨 Our article is now finally out in SCAN! 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.1093/scan...

“The only thing that can stop a bad guy with an LLM…”

all academics know that the best way to start asking a question when a meeting is about to end is to go "i don't want to be the person who asks a question right at the end but..."

How are you deciding to decide? A much overlooked part of decision making is determining when one should stop gathering information. In our new fMRI preprint, we show that distinct brain networks track decision-critical variables, congregation in dmPFC. For more details, see our thread 👇🏼

In this new study published open access in Translational Medicine @springernature.com we show that in a sample of clinically depressed people, higher symptom burden is related to reduced learning from positive prediction errors and aberrant neural response to neg PEs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a bit of a deviation from my usual effort & boredom research: with Johannes Keyser and @sgluth.bsky.social I have been working on a passion project on what makes a lab good, flexible, and future-proof. Not about AI or stats, but the physical hardware and how devices talk to each other 🤩 🧵

Is 10% the same as 1 in 10? It is not, our results suggest, at least not in terms of how people respond to such likelihoods when it comes to medical diagnostic information. Results speak to the importance of thoughtful likelihood framing in clinical practice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

I p-hacked my early work on prejudice. It never felt like cheating. I now wonder if that's because I believed the cause was good. New essay on why scholar-activism is a dangerous turn for social psychology. If justice comes first, truth is what gets sacrificed. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

So ist es. www.zeit.de/2026/31/gesu...

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for post COVID-19 condition: A pilot randomized controlled trial authors.elsevier.com/c/1nQIj55zZe...

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Did a 90 minute webinar workshop for APA on depression measurement. They were kind enough to allow me to share this on youtube. youtu.be/5OwYjWao1hs

Fellow Europeans, did you know about this alternative to COS/OSF? They have upload templates for the usual academic formats, but also data and even Bachelor's /Master's theses. www.psycharchives.org/en

Here we gooo 🤡🤡 Zahlenakrobatik vom Feinsten: Wenn man die Wartezeit erst ab Sprechstunde zählt, nur erfolgreiche Verläufe nimmt, und Probatorik als Therapie verkauft, dann werden aus 6 Monaten 14 Tage. Magie! 🪄📉 #Psychotherapie #Wartezeiten #vdek @tkaiser.science www.aerzteblatt.de/news/kassen-...

My 4yo looked me in the eyes, next to his mother, and said: “Mama, I love you most.” Social comparison only hurts with prediction error. I am a well-calibrated dad.

Yes yes you've had a tough year, but please spare a thought for the PHQ-9 ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🎉🥳📢: New article published in @commspsychol.nature.com! We show that causal attributions regarding success vs. failure modulate the formation and update of self-beliefs and these effects are moderated by self-esteem, pointing to the clinical relevance of the findings. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Been saying this for years: Don't submit to Frontiers. Don't peer-review for Frontiers. It's long been considered a predatory publisher by many in the field, including many who have worked as editor there.

Guter Artikel über die Anreizstrukturen, die zu ineffizienter, teurer und nicht besonders guter stationärer psychiatrischer Versorgung führen. Was es bräuchte: mehr ambulante Versorgung, mehr stationsäquivalente Behandlung und flexiblere Abrechnungsmöglichkeiten stationär www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...

(1/20) Aus dem #Sittengemälde zum #WissZeitVG (t1p.de/05lxm): Befristungen [...] führten dazu, dass Studierende unter Dozent A eine Abschlussarbeit begonnen, unter Dozent B verfasst haben und von Dozent C bewertet worden sind – sehr frustrierend sowohl für Dozierende wie auch Studierende...

(14b/20) Aus dem #Sittengemälde zum #WissZeitVG (t1p.de/05lxm): ... die Person lieber entlassen und die Stelle gestrichen wurde, obwohl ihre Arbeit von allen sehr wertgeschätzt wurde und für einen reibungslosen Ablauf enorm wichtig war.

If you are interested in EMDR, you probably heard the story about Francine Shapiro "discovering" the method during a walk in the park. This story is largely wrong.

Alles, was "man" zum Wal wissen muss, hat @perspectivedirk.bsky.social für @perspective-daily.bsky.social zusammengefasst (inkl. Zitaten von mir;)) perspective-daily.de/article/4449...

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hope to see you at the Conference on Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review on June 5, 2026, which is organized in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. Register at: meta-eindhoven.github.io/events/

Warum fiebern wir gerade mit einem (!) Wal …?! Während unsere Spezies noch immer hunderte seiner Artgenossen jährlich umbringt und den Lebensraum aller Übriggebliebenen aktiv zerstört? 🧵1/4 www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc...

It's #LoveReplicationsWeek! I'll be posting impressions from the talks all week here. >> You can still sign up for talks since we are sending out invites on the morning for new registrations. forrt.org/LoveReplicat... >> Slides will be shared in our Zenodo Community: zenodo.org/communities/...

1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social. The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I got very lucky that twitter’s Golden Age and my postdoc period happened to align. I hope to see bluesky reach the same level of utility one day 🤞

Apparently, there is still funding left in academia even though Springer Nature made $489 million profits off of it in 2024. And now they are telling researchers what great news that is. Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) #springernature #closedscience

Ok researchers rise and shine, it's groundhog day - what better way to get you up to date with what has been going on at the FORRT Replication Hub? forrt.org/replication-...

PISS journals 😂 arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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I am very proud to have published my second file-drawer report at my favourite journal Meta-Psychology together with Lisa Incerti, @tobiasrebholz.bsky.social, Christian Seida, and Frank Papenmeier. It includes four failed attempts to confirm a new hypothesis on #anchoringeffects.

The social constructivist movement in science has provided the fuel for the rise of anti-vaxxers and climate change denial. What is the best paper that provides a historical analysis of these negative consequences of social constructivism?

Very pleased to share this meta-analysis on the relationship between interpretation biases and anxiety. This was a huge team effort, and it’s great to see it finally out. Happy reading! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How Effortful Is Boredom? Studying Self-Control Demands Through Pupillometry, from Vanessa Radtke, @wanjawolff.bsky.social, and @corimartarelli.bsky.social #RegisteredReport doi.org/10.1525/coll...

For many social dilemma's in Science (e.g. the slow uptake of diamond open access journals) stronger top down management is necessary. It won't just happen. If scientists will not create this management themselves, someone is going to create it for us.

Just feeding "slow uptake of diamond OA journals" with numbers from Germany: According to OA Monitor (open-access-monitor.de/open-access), which uses WoS, Scopus, and OpenAlex, we are talking about less than 5% (!) of articles being published as Diamond OA.

Systematic reviews can very quickly become outdated. Living systematic reviews (LSRs)—which continuously integrate new evidence—offer a solution, but their adoption has been limited to date. In our new preprint, we suggest two approaches that can help facilitate LSR uptake osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT

Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩 - We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology. www.nature.com/articles/s44... (PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)

New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social: 🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠 Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty. Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...