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Evgeny Smirnov

Evgeny is a researcher who thinks across boundaries — trained in mathematics and physics, drawn to the philosophical depths of psychology and the vast scales of celestial mechanics. His work lives at the intersections: asteroid dynamics and narrative identity, orbital resonances and existential coherence. Marginalia grew from his own way of reading science — holistically, curiously, across disciplines — and a conviction that the most important connections in the literature are the ones no algorithm will find for you.

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Psychology41 papers

The Belief in a Just World

In this collection I gather (mostly) psychological studies devoted to people’s fundamental belief that the world is just. This construct, it seems to me, quite strongly affects our perception of the world and, importantly, our reaction to ongoing events — especially when we start blaming others, guided implicitly by precisely this motive. The collection includes both curated works, which at some point I read carefully and can say something sensible about, and new works being published on the topic.

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Psychology12 papers

The Reproducibility Crisis in Psychology

We are used to treating science as a source of knowledge that can be trusted a priori. But is this really the case? How much can we trust the results of psychological studies when making important decisions about our mental health and well-being. This collection contains articles devoted to checking psychological experiments — how well they can be replicated. In doing so, I examine two independent cohorts of studies: the reproducibility of the experiments themselves within large independent studies, as well as the reproducibility of meta-analyses. The latter are especially relevant, since the media often refer specifically to their conclusions.

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Evgeny Smirnov
Psychology7 papers

Measuring the unmeasurable: Psychometric tools for Existential Concerns

Key psychometric instruments for measuring existential concerns: meaning in life, existential isolation, and existential anxiety.

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Evgeny Smirnov
Astronomy19 papers

Mean-motion resonances in the Solar system

A curated collection of essential papers on mean-motion resonances in the asteroid belt, TNO, and beyond.

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Evgeny Smirnov
Psychology14 papers

Narrative coherence in life stories

The essential papers that built our understanding of how people turn lived experience into coherent stories — and why that coherence matters for identity. From Linde's life stories as linguistic acts, through McAdams' narrative identity framework, to Habermas and Bluck's developmental account of the life story — this collection traces how the field learned to see personality not as a set of traits, but as a story being told.

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Evgeny Smirnov
Astronomy2 papers

LLMs in dynamical astronomy

How large language models are transforming astronomical research in celestial mechanics and dynamical astronomy.

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Evgeny Smirnov
Astronomy35 papers

The von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai resonances in the Solar system

A curated list of essential manuscripts (both theoretical and empirical) dedicated to the von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai resonances (also known as the Kozai mechanism) in the Solar System (mostly for the main belt and TNOs). Terms: * MMR: mean-motion resonance * ZLKR: von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai resonance

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Evgeny Smirnov
Psychology1 papers

LLMs in qualitative psychology

Emerging applications of large language models in qualitative psychological research methodology as well as the critics.

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Evgeny Smirnov

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