"Involution." "Lying flat." The slang of Chinese college students captures a real, contradictory mood.
Xinqiao Liu & Yifan Zhang trace their well-being against decades of rapid change - and deep cultural roots.
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As a Singaporean, this one hit close to home. (Kiasu, anyone?)
Tina Li Yi Ng, Andree Hartanto & William Tov examine university student well-being in Singapore's meritocratic, exam-driven culture.
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1/ Is .31 a serious underestimate? Cognitive ability tests were long put at .51 for predicting job performance (Schmidt & Hunter, 1998); Sackett et al. (2022) say about .31. New video: the statistics of the range-restriction debate 🧵
2/ Much of it comes down to one correction and data studies rarely report. One reanalysis moves validity from .28 to .43 on assumptions alone.
Part 1, statistics: youtu.be/vfyLS3aEpeE
Part 2, substantive issues: youtu.be/RXEJjvJ_fVU
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Well-being doesn't float free of context. Where a student studies shapes what flourishing is possible.
Ortega Bechara, Chen, Vinaccia Alpi, Cowden & Worthington examine student flourishing in Colombia.
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Are we optimizing the wrong things in science?
Terence Tao on the paradox of AI and science: AI may make us more efficient at doing science while it may actually undermine our collective scientific understanding and progress.
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Nurses are the backbone of healthcare - and their well-being starts in training.
Jarden, Jarden, Twomey, Young & Gerdtz examine nursing students at the demanding academic-clinical nexus.
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Come work with us at Purdue! 📍
Multiple tenured/tenure-track faculty positions (Asst/Assoc Prof) in Psychological Sciences and Public Health. I-O, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Clinical particularly desired.
Review begins Nov 5.
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Some fields treat suffering as a rite of passage. Engineering education has often been one.
Godwin, Wilson, Jensen, Sánchez-Peña & Cross take on its "meritocracy of difficulty" - and how to change it.
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1/ Most AI benchmarks measure what models can do. ImpactBench (MIT Media Lab + collaborators) asks what models do to the people using them, across psychological, physical, and social well-being. 🧵
ALT Figure 1 from the ImpactBench preprint: the platform's wheel of psychological, physical and social well-being areas, colored from red (bad behavior) to green (good behavior), beside a list of ten AI models.
4/ Models differed far more in avoiding harm (a 38.6 point spread) than in being helpful (15.9 points), and rankings shifted across benchmarks, age contexts, and weighting choices.
5/ Paper (v1 preprint, Archiwaranguprok, Pataranutaporn et al.): impactbench.media.mit.edu/pa…
Platform: impactbench.media.mit.edu/
1/ Which hiring tool best predicts job performance? In 1998, Schmidt & Hunter ranked 19 methods using 85 years of research. Next in my series, Big Ideas in I-O Psychology 🧵
4/ In 2022, Sackett and colleagues revisited the corrections and put cognitive ability at .31. That debate comes next in the series.
5/ Schmidt, F. L., & Hunter, J. E. (1998). Psychological Bulletin, 124(2), 262-274. doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.12…
4-min explainer (AI-narrated): youtu.be/T9wAzDJkapY
Long before "well-being" was a research field, the humanities were in the flourishing business.
Sarah Sidoti, Alina Spas, Katherine Cotter & James Pawelski make the case for the arts and humanities at the center of student well-being.
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