Sander Koole

New paper! Caregivers of cancer survivors have to cope with complicated emotions. Nevertheless, their perspective in regulating own and others' emotions is understudied. In our Opinion article in Frontiers in Psychology, we propose a new framework for interpersonal emotion regulation among caregivers of cancer survivors. More in this 🪡. 1/N @zakijam @KarenNiven4 @ethan_kross @giorgiobee

Implicit bias training doesn’t work and may even make things worse. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/why-implicit…

Trends in Cognitive Sciences Synchrony and subjective experience: the neural correlates of the stream of consciousness cell.com/trends/cogniti…

"gender differences Big Five 27 countries representative samples (N=143,313)...women scored higher than men on all facets of Neuroticism and Agreeableness, but primarily on Anxiety and Compassion" osf.io/ysd3p_v1

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

Sunset in the river landscape of Everdingen

@joshtybur Congratulations Josh! Very cool topic also!

I'm happy to share that I've received an NWO (Dutch Science Organization) Vici grant. The five-year project aims to better understand how disgust relates to morality. A brief description and some highlights:

@lakens Congrats Daniel!

I'm very grateful to have received a VICI grant. I'll work on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes in psychology. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to create a team to work on this challenge in the next five years. nwo.nl/onderzoeksprog…

New Survey: "Most Single Women Believe They Are Happier than Married Women" Data: Married women, esp. married moms, are markedly happier than single women in 🇺🇸

Nice thread (look forward to reading the paper). It captures a recurring theme in the social psych of "people are idiots and fools" (and debunks one particular case): 1. Design a study to exploit something that people normally do for good reasons, but corrupt the reasons, so that 2. People look like idiots and fools 3. Then trumpet to the world how idiotic and foolish people are. "Hey, I just pubished a peer reviewed study! p<.05! You don't believe people are fools? Are you some sort of science denier?" Same problem occurs in some of: stereotype (in?)accuracy, stereotype biases, implicit "bias," attribution "errors," heuristics, confirmation bias, expectancy biases, context effects, conformity and more.

Nothing like the frosty morning sun

We uncovered this old hearth in the kitchen of my 17th century house. Isn’t it a beauty?!

@hcnoel @DCOfficial @JamesGunn Wonderful! The connection between Gunn’s Superman and the Superman from the comic books is very meaningful. Your work is a perfect highlight of that.

I always loved the classic @DCOfficial movie adaptation comic books. I drew a short comic version of @JamesGunn ‘s new Superman trailer for fun. #supermanfilm #superman #jamesgunn #dccomics

Love the new images of Superman in flight!

First sunny day of 2025!

This is the house on the outside

Moved into my new house 10 days ago. A farm from 1651, it’s the oldest house I ever lived in! Most of it is already very livable but the kitchen desperately had to be renovated. Here’s the freshly plastered wall. It’s the coziest place of the house!

@sbuehler After the kitchen is installed, the place is ready. But with a house like this, there’s always going to be something to fix. Also, I have lots of ideas of what to do with the house and its garden, which are both spacious.

@SLKoole Congratulations! Lots of work ahead? Or can you relax a bit?

@sbuehler Technically, 374 years. But, yes, very old and a lot of history connected with the place.

@SLKoole Wow! 400 years is amazing.

@PaulQuixotic So far so good. A neighbor did send me a wedding poem from 1762 that mentions the house. And the house is drawn into maps from 1760 and 1840. It has a name, it’s called ‘Essenstein’. I love all this stuff, history is so cool.

@SLKoole 1651? Damn, that's old. There must be some ghosts in this house. Do you hear strange knocking sounds at night? Footsteps when you know nobody is around but you? Do your tools dissapear only to reappear in places you know you've looked before?