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Postdoc @altersfragen Berlin. Lifespan psychologist studying how wellbeing and health change as we age & how we adjust to retirement. Also on Mastodon & bluesky

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Georg Henning
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New paper out in Psychology and Aging @APA_Journals ! Together with Gรธril Kvamme Lรธset and @oliver_huxhold we studied personality development across 10 years in a Norwegian midlife sample (n=1,263, MAge = 56.58) & the role of job type and retirement (1/4)
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I can only once again remind PhD students not to eat too much fruit, because an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Always true:
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US academia vs. German academia
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I'm just a postdoc, standing in front of a journal, asking it to finally publish my accepted paper, so I can tweet about it and feel productive while avoiding the real work I have to do.
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Do other postdocs publish more than I do? Yes. But are their articles as important and meaningful as mine? Yes (and more). But do I allow this to affect my feelings of academic competence? Yes.
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Georg Henning
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Many people don't know what you need to exit the labyrinth of the Minotaur. Today I will tell you. A ๐Ÿงต
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Georg Henning
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Ich kann mir 0 vorstellen wie es ist als First-Gen an einer Uni zu sein. Ich bin quasi das Gegenteil, vรคterlicherseits hatte schon mein Uropa einen Doktor. Ich merke wie meine Sozialisation mir unglaublich viele Vorteile in Studium & Wissenschaft verschafft hat.
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PhD Verteidigung in Schweden + schรถner Saal + ganzes Institut + Freunde + Familie + gibt keine Noten, alle nett Deutschland: - Besenkammer im 5.OG, Fahrstuhl streikt - nur du, die Prรผfer & deine Eltern - Wenn Prof Maier schlecht drauf ist, wars das mit dem summa + lustiger Hut
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Master Yoda presenting his first PhD paper at a major conference
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Lustige Erinnerung wie mir sowohl Krankenpfleger*innen als auch Physiotherapeut*innen in Schweden erzรคhlt haben, wie verwirrt sie waren, als ร„rzte aus Deutschland kamen und ihnen die ganze Zeit Anweisungen geben wollten, wie sie ihre Arbeit machen sollen
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Egal fรผr wie gefรคhrlich man covid einschรคtzt - ich lasse mich jedes Jahr gegen die Grippe impfen ohne Risikogruppe zu sein (& wird sogar empfohlen), warum wird bei covid so ein groรŸes Ding draus gemacht dass es auf jeden Fall nur risikogruppen machen sollen?๐Ÿค”
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2 years
I am sorry for my tweets on the PNAS paper. I usually do not make fun of specific authors or specific papers publically like this, especially if there are seemingly hundreds of other people doing the same thing. I would not want this to happen to me either. (1/2)
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Georg Henning
1 year
ich hab RIESEN Respekt vor euch.
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2 years
Start with criticizing something small, than something big, and finish with criticizing something small. I call it the German feedback sandwich.
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@martingommel Dass "ich mรถchte mich nicht mit einer Krankheit anstecken" generell erstmal als sinnvolle Aussage akzeptiert wurde...
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@hisotalus Throwback to my first finnish sauna when I tried to sit as far as possible from the fire, on the highest bench, so it wouldn't be too hot...
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Start with criticizing something small, than something big, and finish with criticizing something small. I call it the German feedback sandwich.
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2 years
I currently review papers every week on ageing, well-being and retirement. It feels like many authors have started to work on aging recently, maybe inspired by the pandemic, so here are 5 things that I see (and criticize) in every second paper : (1/X)
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WARNING: THE RESIDUAL COVARIANCE MATRIX (THETA) IS NOT POSITIVE DEFINITE. THIS COULD INDICATE A NEGATIVE VARIANCE/RESIDUAL VARIANCE FOR AN OBSERVED VARIABLE, A CORRELATION GREATER OR EQUAL TO ONE BETWEEN TWO OBSERVED VARIABLES, OR A LINEAR DEPENDENCY ...
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1 year
Part 2: Schweden + nettes Gesprรคch unter Fachleuten + Betreuer sind im Publikum und jubeln dir zu + abends groรŸe Party D: - sie reiรŸen dein Herz raus und trampeln drauf rum - dein Betreuer ist Teil der Jury & macht dich vor deiner Mama zur Sau - abends weinst du allein ins Kissen
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Georg Henning
2 years
Power structures in German academia are a real problem. It doesn't need to be that way. E.g., in Sweden, your supervisor is not your boss (you are employed by the department), you can change supervisors if it doesn't work, & the s. is not part of your dissertation committee.
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Pear reviewed publications
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Georg Henning
1 year
Don't stop me now - why pop culture references are needed in article titles: A reply to McCullough
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Georg Henning
1 year
Research-related hill I am willing to die on: In observational studies, most psychological variables that are believed to influence health are actually measures of health or socioeconomic status. EVEN if you do fancy modelling and control for lots of stuff.
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When you read about other disciplines
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Georg Henning
1 year
Bewerbt euch fรผr die Stelle als "Zwei Charitรฉ Mitarbeiterinnen stehen an einem groรŸen Bildschirm und besprechen sich"
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Georg Henning
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Pier review
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ร„rzte hier bewusst nicht gegendert you know why
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Georg Henning
2 years
Why do people code yes/no as 1 /2 in scientific use files? Is there any reason not to use 0/1 except that it brings extra work for Georg?
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Georg Henning
1 year
VWLer: Es gibt Angebot und Nachfra... Thilo Jung: HA, da habt ihr euch selbst entlarvt, ihr neoliberalen, menschenfeindlichen Marktfetischisten.
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Georg Henning
1 year
I regret to inform you all dass es an der Uni Witten ein "Integriertes Begleitstudium Anthroposophische Psychologie" gibt und ich bin eventuell gerade vom Stuhl gekippt.
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Georg Henning
2 years
Folks, the 5 - revisions paper has been accepted! ๐Ÿฅณ
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Georg Henning
1 year
In gothenburg, we had the tradition of a "grillning" (?) before a PhD defense, which meant we would ask the candidate the most complicated, meanest questions the committee may think of (in Germany we call this "normal feedback")
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Georg Henning
1 year
Am weltfrauentag heute mal kurz drรผber nachdenken wer in der Forschung bei euch in der Arbeitsgruppe die Sachen รผbernimmt, die nicht direkt Arbeitsinhalt sind und keinen weiteren Vorteil bringen (Geschirrspรผler, Kaffeemaschine, an Geburtstage denken, Streits schlichten etc)
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2 years
"Neuroticism is a strong predictor of well-being" sounds pretty cool, but it just means that people who say they usually feel bad are also likely to say they feel bad right now.
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2 years
I got it :) As an extension of my previous project, I got 2.5 more years for my independent postdoc ("Eigene Stelle") at German Centre for Gerontology @altersfragen ! We study how retirement adjustment & late work life experiences change with historical time (& with Covid).
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Georg Henning
3 years
Grant proposal submitted :D
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Georg Henning
2 months
Hab gerade gelesen dass Wissenschaftler ihr Hobby zum Beruf machen wรผrden und irgendwas hab ich anscheinend verpasst, sonst hรคtte ich in lesen, wandern und Freunde treffen promoviert...
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1 year
When I am a reviewer, I frequently ask authors to explain what a certain interaction effect in a complex longitudinal model exactly means. In the revision, the interaction effect is typically deleted from the analysis ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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As an aging researcher I don't know where to start here... at least it is funny how these kind of people always need to brag: "world record in epigenetic aging" is soo funny in this context. (1/4)
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Max Hertan
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Bryan Johnson sold his company to PayPal for $800 million in 2013. Since then, he's been investing millions to reduce aging. In 2021, he reduced his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months (World Record) Hereโ€™s a breakdown of his โ€œBlueprintโ€ and my own experience with it: ๐Ÿงต
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1 day, 2 papers accepted๐Ÿ˜Œ
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2 years
I now get why the paper does add to the literature. I still think that the framing of the paper & the exclusion of any published research on the topic in psychology is a problem & symptomatic for some problems in econ. But it was unfair to make fun of it like this (2/2)
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Georg Henning
2 years
"Our model fit the data well (CFI = 0.800) "
@dinosven
Sven Sachs
5 years
Guericke's unicorn at the Natural History Museum in #Madgeburg (Germany). Otto von Guericke, by then mayor of Magdeburg, interpretated bones of a woolly rhinoceros as those of a #unicorn and presented this reconstruction in 1672. #fossil #rhinoceros #myth #nature #museum #history
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That's not how it works - that's not how any of this works.
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Georg Henning
8 months
Irgendwie crass das angehende Neurolog*innen in Weiterbildung im Psychiatriejahr einfach so stationรคre Psychotherapie machen, ohne eine Ausbildung darin zu haben, oder hab ich was verpasst?
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Leute sagen "wir wissen aus der Psychologie..." und erzรคhlen den grรถรŸten ScheiรŸ.
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Vorsingen fรผr W3-Professur aber jeder singt einfach sein Lieblingslied und dann entscheiden Dieter Bohlen und Detlef D! Soost wer die Professur kriegt.
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1. "Elderly" is not a neutral word to describe older adults 2. Don't paint a picture of old age as a dark time full of depression and loneliness, that's not backed up by the literature 3. Don't say "decline" if you mean cross-sectional differences (2/3)
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Georg Henning
1 year
I have a new meme @dingding_peng
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11 months
My 20th paper just got accepted ๐Ÿฅณ
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Georg Henning
1 year
Kรถnnen wir bitte mit diesem "Brennen fรผr die Wissenschaft " und Geniekult aufhรถren ich bitte euch alle.
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Rudi Bachmann
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Ich kann das ja fรผr Arbeiten, von denen eindeutig nur Andere profitieren, etwa Klausurenkorrigieren fรผr den Lehrstuhlinhaber, verstehen, aber zu denken, ein Forscher, der fรผr sein/ihr Fach wirklich brennt, sei nicht irgendwie immer im Einsatz - fรผr mich verkennt das Wissenschaft.
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Submitted a big grant proposal in time and now i want to cry a little and sleep for 48 hours
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Georg Henning
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Sigmund, was befรผrchten denn die kleinen Jungs von ihrem Vater? Sigmund Freud:
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1st author paper accepted ๐Ÿฅฐ
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1 year
Major Revision vs. Conditional acceptance
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1 year
@KaczmarekOliver @spdbt Haben Sie mal mit einem Wissenschaftler oder einer Wissenschaftlerin darรผber gesprochen? Dass das Gesetz gut fรผr den Wissenschaftsstandort ist sieht keiner den ich kenne so.
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@hallojulia es braucht SO viel mehr Therapeut*innen aus nicht-akademischen Elternhรคusern
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Georg Henning
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Was mich am Diskurs zu psych. Gesundheit stรถrt ist, dass alle psych. Erkrankungen immer als chronisch geframet werden? Die gibt es natรผrlich, aber ich kenne verschiedene Leute die hatten eine depr. Episode oder eine Angststรถrung, hatten Therapie und dann war es weg.
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Georg Henning
1 year
Wenn du im Forschungsantrag deine Expertise herausstellen sollst
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Georg Henning
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4. Theories that focus on very old people close to the end of life don't necessarily fit to people around retirement age 5. If you are interested in age effects, don't "control" for lots of stuff that changes with age (e.g., health) (3/3)
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4 months
Me saying "I'm gonna quit academia" after a paper got rejected
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Selena Gomez Charts
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Selena Gomez is back on Instagram, 18 hours after announcing a social media break.
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When you have a longitudinal dataset, lots of possible predictors and no interesting research question
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Georg Henning
2 years
Just got a paper accepted with minor revisions, which is a) not in my usual discipline, which made responding to reviewer comments very hard, and b) took two years and 6 revisions in 2 journals - I am sooo relieved :)
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Georg Henning
1 year
Habe es bisher geschafft covid negativ zu bleiben, aber denke dieses Frรผhjahr/ Sommer wird es mich auch erwischen. Habt ihr Tipps die ihr gerne vorher gewusst hรคttet (z.b. was man an essen oder medis im Haus haben sollte, wie man Ansteckung im Haushalt verhindert etc)? Danke!
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Georg Henning
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Ich wenn ich die VGWort-Auszahlung kommt
@JuliusBetschka
Julius Betschka
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Cool und normal
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Georg Henning
3 months
If we consider that this academic System was specifically build for people like me (white, heterosexual, able, no migration background, parents with college education) it is ridiculous how bad I am at this.
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Georg Henning
1 year
Ok Frauen verdienen deutlich weniger, sind hรคufig beziehungsgewalt ausgesetzt und machen die meiste care arbeit, aber dafรผr haben sie bei gleichem output eine hรถhere chance auf Soziologie Professuren, also alles fair Leute
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Georg Henning
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Unser genialer studentischer Mitarbeiter stellt heut zum ersten Mal etwas auf einer Konferenz vor und ich bin ganz aufgeregt ๐Ÿ˜ƒ er macht das sicher super!
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1 year
3 wise men in the bible ๐Ÿค reading a regression table Looking for the *
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Georg Henning
2 years
There is an old saying in lifespan psychology that age is an empty variable, which is always a proxy for something (i.e., biology, experience etc.) but can never explain anything. Does anyone have a reference for it? Could be Baltes, but I don't know...
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Georg Henning
2 years
By now I hate this article, but there is nothing I can do to improve it. I guess this means it's ready to be submitted.
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Georg Henning
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Throwback to 2019 when I was at nailing my own thesis to the very same wall๐Ÿ˜ข
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Asad Sayeed @[email protected]
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Sweden has the odd PhD tradition of Lutherishly nailing your thesis to a wall a few weeks before your defense, so here is my PhD student Vidya Somashekarappa nailing her thesis into the designated thesis nailing wall (officially required btw).
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UNBEFRISTETE (!!!) TVL 14 Postdoc Stelle an der TU Berlin im Bereich Kognitionspsychologie und kognitive Ergonomie
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Georg Henning
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Der Rossmann in der Manfred-von-Richthofen-StraรŸe wรคre jetzt nicht der erste Ort, an dem mir einfallen wรผrde, mein wissenschaftliches Poster aufzuhรคngen, aber you do you fellow scientists
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I was holding my two year old daughter on a walk moments ago and for the first time out of nowhere she said, "You don't have children, you are hallucinating"
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Georg Henning
1 year
Dass so etwas legal ist macht mich maximal fertig.
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Georg Henning
1 year
@MarvinReuter3 mal abgesehen von einer gewissen finanziellen Sicherheit (hab mein Studium รผber gearbeitet aber es hรคtte immer einen "Schirm" gegeben), z.B. auch das Wissen รผber Uni-Ablรคufe, habe "akademische" Diskussionen schon als Kind mitgekriegt, akademischer Wortschatz in der Familie (1/2)
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2 years
Any recommendations on open longitudinal datasets that include 1) lots of older adults 2) measures of affect 3) measures of social contacts 4) mortality data 5) not too long intervals between measurements?
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Georg Henning
4 years
Happy and grateful to announce I got a post-doc grant from the German Research Foundation (called "Eigene Stelle")! This means a full-time research position for 2 years at the German Centre of Gerontology! Looking forward to an exciting time with amazing colleagues!
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Georg Henning
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Schnee in Berlin๐ŸŒจ๐ŸŒจ๐ŸŒจ
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Georg Henning
2 years
Lord, grant me a confidence in my field as the econ prof who was told about publication bias in psychology (on Twitter) and answered that publication bias in econ would only mean that the editors did their job, because they know from the literature what the true effects are ...
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Georg Henning
2 months
Could personality and social psychology start fighting again I am bored
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Georg Henning
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Sorry not sorry
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Georg Henning
1 year
@RepkeTilo @BaharAslan_ @gdp_nrw Sie hat von "braunem Pack in der Polizei" geschrieben. Das bedeutet dass es dort braunes Pack gibt, nicht das jeder dazu gehรถrt.
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Georg Henning
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@JaMoinLaura Irgendjemand mรถchte um 22 "mal diese Sache von 2019 ansprechen, die haben wir irgendwie nie richtig geklรคrt"
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Georg Henning
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Stillleben : Georg รถffnet eine tรผte Erdnรผsse
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Georg Henning
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@giulio_mattioli But they will blame their losses on still acting too "green"
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Georg Henning
6 months
This! Being alone or having few contacts does not equal loneliness. I see this even in scientific papers where people use social network size as a loneliness indicator
@AdamMGrant
Adam Grant
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The best cure for loneliness is not more frequent interaction. It's more meaningful interaction. Many people enjoy solitude. They can spend up to ~75% of their time alone without feeling isolated. What matters most for well-being is the quality of connections, not the quantity.
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Georg Henning
1 year
New year, new econ meme
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Georg Henning
9 months
Day started with an accept (1st author) and ended with an accept with minor revisions(2nd author) ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ
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Georg Henning
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An Weihnachten der reminder dass man Leuten keinen Alkohol aufdrรคngt, egal ob sie aus gesundheitlichen Grรผnden ablehnen, wg Suchtproblematik, oder einfach weil sie keine Lust drauf haben (me)
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Georg Henning
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It is time we stop telling people about attachment theory. It is doing more harm than good by now
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in the spirit of revolution โœŠ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‰
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Unpopular dating opinion: The intense chemistry you feel with someone you just met is a huge red flag. Most likely, they are similar to an early caregiver that neglected you & your subconscious mind is attracted to them to try to fix an old wound
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Georg Henning
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Just remembered painfully that in 2017, I mansplained the concept of mansplaining to a female colleague.
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Georg Henning
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Auf der Intensivstation gefragt zu werden warum man eine Maske trรคgt ist auch was neues
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Georg Henning
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The aging of the so-called "guest workers" in Germany is SO understudied??? In the 1950's and 60's, millions of so-called "guest workers" came to Germany from several countries (including e.g, Turkey, Italy, Greece...) (1/4)
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Georg Henning
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Ich glaube ich hab zu Beginn des Studiums das letzte mal ein neues Foto fรผr die Krankenkassenkarte macheb mรผssen... das vorher-nachher sieht irgendwie sehr bitter aus
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Georg Henning
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Ich liebe es Leuten vom Bruch zwischen Freud und Jung zu erzรคhlen. "Also Georg, wer war da jetzt der Vernรผnftige?" "Naja, Jung bezweifelte dass alle psychischen Stรถrungen eine sexuelle Grundlage haben..." "Also Jung!" "...aber er meinte auch er hat telekinetische Krรคfte" "Wow"
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Georg Henning
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Today, we are all personality psychologists.
@BrentWRoberts
Brent W. Roberts
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Not bragging or anything...
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Georg Henning
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I am fascinated by this model
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