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Beth Visser, PhD

@BethAV

Lakehead University personality and individual differences researcher. Research: personality; psychopathy; psychological measurement; HEXACO.

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This actually happened. In college I published some short stories and poetry. It made a little bit of money to pay for textbooks and whatnot. When I took my Deaf Ed certification test, I was breezing through when I came across a poem. The question was about the author's…


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Oh dear. It seems like the publishers & film-makers truly had the wool pulled over their eyes. Thank goodness for good journalism - well done @chloehadj for exposing this. Perhaps the whole enterprise should be rebranded The #PorkiePath

Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with The Salt Path: the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. It became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj Read: bit.ly/3GtJXsy



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As President Trump meets with Prime Minister Carney, here's a fact check of 11 false claims Trump has made about Canada in 2025. For one, that "$200 billion" figure he just used again in a social media post is imaginary. cnn.com/2025/05/06/pol…

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Fact check: Trump makes more false claims about Canada in advance of meeting with prime minister |...

President Donald Trump has been making false claims about Canada for months. He did it again in the days leading up to his scheduled Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.


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Job Alert! We are looking for a PhD candidate that will study the computational underpinnings of how people learn moral rules in social contexts. Supervised by me and Rogier Mars (@NeuroecologyLab). Check it out/spread the word: ru.nl/en/working-at/…


I spend a surprising amount of day like this.

BethAV's tweet image. I spend a surprising amount of day like this.

Hilarious thread! Now I want one specific to academic jobs. Or maybe spectacular missteps would be more fun?

Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with The Salt Path: the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. It became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj Read: bit.ly/3GtJXsy



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ICYMI - Fact check: Canada makes up just 0.2% of U.S. border fentanyl seizures cp24.com/news/world/202…


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1/ 🚨 Day 8 of our #APB Winter 2025 spotlight! 🚨 Today’s feature: “Can De-escalation Training Reduce Use of Force and Injuries to Citizens Without Risking Officer Safety?” by @CarlenaOrosco , Michael White, & @SethBWatts. A thread 🧵👇 #DeEscalation #PoliceTraining

kirkluther's tweet image. 1/ 🚨 Day 8 of our #APB Winter 2025 spotlight! 🚨
Today’s feature: “Can De-escalation Training Reduce Use of Force and Injuries to Citizens Without Risking Officer Safety?” by @CarlenaOrosco , Michael White, & @SethBWatts. A thread 🧵👇 #DeEscalation #PoliceTraining

I need to update my class next week. We just talked about this topic in Forensic Psychology and I wasn't aware of this research!

1/ 🚨 Day 4 of our #APB Winter 2025 spotlight! 🚨 Today’s feature: “Comparing Police Decision-Making Errors and Stress Arousal During Video and Live Requalification Scenarios” by @jude_andersen & Paula Di Nota. A thread 🧵👇 #PoliceTraining #DecisionMaking

kirkluther's tweet image. 1/ 🚨 Day 4 of our #APB Winter 2025 spotlight! 🚨
Today’s feature: “Comparing Police Decision-Making Errors and Stress Arousal During Video and Live Requalification Scenarios” by @jude_andersen & Paula  Di Nota. A thread 🧵👇 #PoliceTraining #DecisionMaking


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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd done a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me


This seems very useful!

I solemnly vow to use this in an article in the foreseeable future



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"individuals with higher intelligence were more likely to endorse self-direction, benevolence, and universalism values… Personal values were more strongly associated with intelligence than with personality traits" ow.ly/auM950UsIyt via @PsyPost


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🚨🚨🚨 We are hiring 4 new TT faculty into our research-intensive Population Health Sciences department @UCFMed. Hard $. Very strong salaries. Areas include Data Science, Policy, Economics, Aging, Evaluation, Systems, or other areas. Details below: ucf.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/UC…


Is this a thing in Canada? Do they sell these at Christmas? I don't actually mind doing the turkey and mashed potatoes. It's trying to get everything else ready and hot at exactly the same time!

To all those people going on about the cost of a Thanksgiving turkey dinner.. Costco FTW! Crazy. For a little more than 2 hotdogs…

orenjacob's tweet image. To all those people going on about the cost of a Thanksgiving turkey dinner.. Costco FTW!  Crazy.   For a little more than 2 hotdogs…


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I've been studying charlatans, con-men, faith healers, and snake oil salesmen for a very, very long time. To people who haven't been conned, it can be very difficult to understand how it happens. Consider the guy below, who literally looks like Satan. His name is Brian Clement,…

AlanLevinovitz's tweet image. I've been studying charlatans, con-men, faith healers, and snake oil salesmen for a very, very long time.

To people who haven't been conned, it can be very difficult to understand how it happens. Consider the guy below, who literally looks like Satan.

His name is Brian Clement,…
AlanLevinovitz's tweet image. I've been studying charlatans, con-men, faith healers, and snake oil salesmen for a very, very long time.

To people who haven't been conned, it can be very difficult to understand how it happens. Consider the guy below, who literally looks like Satan.

His name is Brian Clement,…

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Twitter has lost nearly one-fifth of its daily active user base in the U.S. and a whopping one-third in the UK. Thousands of people quitting and heading to Bluesky mashable.com/article/elon-m…


I'm making the move!

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Work with us! We invite applications for a Lecturer position in Psychology with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. Apply by January 5, 2025. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3NVRxwe


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