Continuing today with my favorite fact about Chapter 4 in my textbook. This is a difficult one, as the chapter is a brief overview on Bayesian statistics 😈, but to be a bit cheeky: My favorite fact is that a recent paper shows a distressingly high misuse of Bayesian statistics in psychology papers, suggesting that there is quite some work to be done in educating people.

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/ar

I found this lecture about academic writing helpful. Like most academics (I think), I sometimes advise my students to SELL their study. But when I say things like this, I kinda feel like a used-car salesman.

This guy gives the same advice, but he does so in a much more elegant and compelling way:

youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCa

#academicwriting #writing

Hey, here's my introduction!

I am a psychologist who studies motivation.

Here are some studies I am especially stoked about:
- Our big new meta-analysis suggests that mental effort is inherently aversive. (psyarxiv.com/m8zf6/)

- Physiological effort and experienced effort are correlated, but mostly so because both respond to task difficulty (doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.)

- We studied fatigue, boredom and objectively measured smartphone use at work (doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201915)

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