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mbieleke.bsky.social
Senior researcher & data scientist at the University of Konstanz. Studying motivation, effort, and performance. Using R to learn from data. www.maikbieleke.com
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We invite submissions for a SI on "Affective Processes in Sport & Exercise Psychology" in Performance Enhancement & Health. Eds: J Fritsch, M Bieleke, C Englert 📅 Due: Oct 31, 2025 🔗 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Looking forward to your contributions—please share!

Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

#preprint 📢 Writing this was time-consuming, effortful, but never boring 🤩 w/ @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social, @jamesdanckert.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social & @corimartarelli.bsky.social, we explored how boredom and effort dynamically shape our experience of time: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

New peer-reviewed preprint by Corcoran H. & @jamessteeleii.bsky.social: Cumulative evidence synthesis and consideration of "research waste" using Bayesian methods. Recommended by @wanjawolff.bsky.social & Gaveau J. for @pci-hms.bsky.social. Reviews by @mbieleke.bsky.social. doi.org/10.24072/pci...

I created a starter pack for sports and exercise research! Please share and do let me know if you would like to be added 🙏 go.bsky.app/4hjz2Q6

📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢 Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩 ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... pls share liberally 🙏

I created a starter pack for Boredom Research! Please share and let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/LhdAdzG

#BoredomBook: V Tze, P Parker & L Daniels highlight the need for academic boredom interventions. Combining cognitive-behavioral & emotion-regulation approaches with control-value theory, they offer recommendations & early empirical evidence. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: A Brielmann & P Dayan study boredom through the lens of a computational theory of aesthetic value. They show that boredom signals inadequate sensory experience, ensuring long-term processing efficiency by prompting search for new stimulation. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Carrie Anne Marshall draws attention to boredom among people experiencing homelessness. Building on empirical & conceptual work, she unveils boredom's impact on psychosocial wellbeing and health and calls practitioners and policy makers to action. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

🚨Do you study close relationships, intimate partner violence, or their intersection? 📣We want your input on setting a shared research agenda at one of our upcoming workshops: July 6 @ 9am: @IARRofficial July 14 @ 1pm: Violence Prevention Research Conference Virtual Event: Zoom, TBA

JOB ALERT📢 PostDoc-Stelle (A13, 100%) am Lehrstuhl Sozialpsychologie der LMU München ab 01.10.2024. Gerne bis 05.07. bewerben!! Mehr Info hier: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

#BoredomBook: @wanjawolff.bsky.social, Christian Weich & Ursula Fischer review research on boredom in physical education, recreational exercise & performance-oriented sport. They show that boredom can deter some from exercising while others exercise to avoid boredom. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: A Erdemli & Geraldine Coppin investigate links between boredom & food intake. Unpacking how boredom influences eating behavior, they highlight its impact on physical & mental well-being and the need to mitigate maladaptive eating behaviors. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: E Weybright & L Caldwell explore leisure & boredom in youth, stressing the importance of positive leisure contexts & parental involvement. They offer a roadmap and interventions for fostering healthy leisure experiences & coping with boredom. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Different varieties of arousal converge on a shared cortical network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.27.594944v1

I’m presenting preliminary results of my project Sweet Stress project on the ongoing poster session at the #PuG2024 - come step by at poster number 299!

#BoredomBook: E. van Hooft & M. van Hooff explore workplace boredom based on a systematic literature review. They stress individual and organizational causes & consequences of boredom at work, deriving recommendations for both researchers & practitioners. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: T. Goetz, @lisastempfer.bsky.social, R. Pekrun, W. van Tilburg & A. Lipnevich review research on academic boredom, covering its definition, measurement, prevalence, causes, & consequences. They present ways to tackle boredom in educational settings. t.co/fMwzSlXPKN

#BoredomBook: Christine Artak & @stepf.bsky.social focus on the link between boredom and aggression. They explore trait and state boredom's interpersonal consequences and discuss why aggression appears to be an alluring remedy for boredom due to understimulation. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Wijnand van Tilburg, Andrew Moynihan, Christian Chan & Eric Igou dissect boredom proneness. They emphasize the need to formally incorporate boredom proneness in boredom theories, cover relevant measures & outline a roadmap for future research. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Allison Drody, Ofir Yakobi & James Danckert explore neural correlates of boredom. They focus on fMRI & EEG studies indicating an involvement of default mode network & insula and corroborating links between boredom & attentional disengagement. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: David Weibel & Bartholomäus Wissmath study boredom through the lens of flow research, illuminating transitions between flow & boredom experiences. Besides a theoretical overview, they discuss strategies for promoting flow & avoiding boredom. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Corinna Martarelli & Ambroise Baillifard characterize the link between boredom & different forms of mind-wandering. They portray mind-wandering as a potential explorative response to boredom when changes in activity are not possible or desired. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: @mbieleke.bsky.social, @wanjawolff.bsky.social & Alex Bertrams argue that less self-control is allocated to boring tasks, permitting optimal balance of exploration & exploitation. Their perspective addresses open questions in boredom & self-control research. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Josefa Ros Velasco presents a brief history of boredom research, spanning from ancient philosophy to modern psychology. Shedding light on its ties to psychopathology, she uncovers the many different perspectives on boredom & its conceptualization. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Eric Igou, Muireann O'Dea, Katy Tam & Wijnand van Tilburg explore the intricate relationship between boredom & meaning in life. They review research suggesting that boredom prompts a search for meaning through self-regulatory processes. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Reinhard Pekrun & Thomas Goetz explore boredom through control-value theory, differentiating it from other emotions and gaining insights into causes & consequences. Dynamic interactions offer leverage points for effective boredom regulation. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Noah Reed, Nazim Asani, Van Dang, & Heather Lench emphasize the significance of boredom as fundamental emotion that motivates novelty-seeking. They emphasize its role in exploration and its complex interaction with adaptive goal engagement. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Andreas Elpidorou presents a functional view on boredom, exploring its harms and benefits. He identifies boredom as facilitator of behaviors that restore cognitive engagement & emphasizes the need to understand its role in self-regulation. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#BoredomBook: Corinna S. Martarelli & Nathanael S. Jost review subjective & objective methods for assessing boredom. They highlight various approaches, from self-report to behavioral & neuroscientific assessments, & advocate for method triangulation. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

#SportScienceHealth: Interest in our international MSc program “Sport Science for Health” continues to grow: Number of applications has more than doubled this year, with submissions from 20 countries! 🌍 Want to learn more? Explore the program here: t.co/sTj8ZuKji0

#BoredomBook: @wanjawolff.bsky.social, Vanessa Radtke, & Corinna Martarelli define boredom as state of inadequate function utilization that promotes exploratory behavior & plays a key role in behavior regulation. They differentiate boredom from other emotions & states. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

📣The Handbook of Boredom (with @wanjawolff.bsky.social & Corinna Martarelli) is about to be published! Grateful for the opportunity to work with so many incredible minds. With help from ChatGPT, we sum up each chapter over the next weeks. Stay tuned! t.co/N2yz0kaul7

Im Open Science Team der Universität Konstanz (das großartige Arbeit leistet!) ist eine Stelle zum Thema Data Literacy ausgeschrieben, hier der Link zur Ausschreibung: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/b... Bewerbungsschluss: 3.4.2024

Super excited to be setting up a new lab at @uni-hamburg.de next spring. 🤩 We take a psycho-neuro-physiological approach to focus on dynamics of human performance regulation. Interested in joining the team and/or have any questions? DM me & stay tuned for upcoming job openings! thx for sharing 😊

This project with @wanjawolff.bsky.social & Corinna Martarelli never got boring although it took a lot of time and effort: Our Handbook of Boredom will appear soon 🤩 Stay tuned!   www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...