Reviews

The main theoretical work on the concepts of narrative identity and coherence.

An excellent comparison of how 3 different systems (McAdams-personality, Reese-developmental, Lysaker-clinical) measure supposedly the same construct, but in fact its aspects. Moral: they need to be integrated; one system is not enough.

And this study confirms the link between coherence and well-being (in the case of a life story). Among the drawbacks — it was conducted on students.

For me, the interesting takeaway here is that the more normative events there are in life, the more stable the life story is, and, therefore, in a certain sense, the higher the well-being. In general, it’s useful “not to stick your neck out.”

A very interesting longitudinal study (which is rare) of agency & coherence in the context of psychotherapy. There is a correlation between well-being and agency (positive), but there is none at all with coherence. This is very strange and therefore deserves further study.

A review synthesizing several different works by Habermas et al. Useful to get acquainted as a starting point on these authors.

A conceptual mechanism of autobiographical reasoning is proposed, linking events to identity through coherence.

An interesting attempt to operationalize the coding of narrative coherence through different levels. The article is useful for understanding the development of the topic. There is a pretty good overview of previous research (although selective).

One of the first operationalizations of coherence in life stories across 4 domains (orientation, structure, affect, integration). And yes, a coherent life story leads to well-being.

Three important coherence criteria are introduced: causal explanation, richness of experience, socially valued action.

Together with the previous ones, they form the overall framework of the cognitive schema of the life story and the role of coherence within it.

The main work, in my view, is splitting coherence into domains. It’s important for understanding that different coherences are needed for the narrative to look plausible.

A key work for understanding how and why people explain their life stories. The author works in a social context, so it’s useful specifically in a social, not a personality, context.

The best example in the selection! The article that claimed the crisis had been overcome had to be retracted due to doubts about the data and analysis :)

The authors rightly note that the key problem is the lack of access to the original raw data, plus the fact that if a paper says “data upon request,” it usually means “no.” I agree 100%.

An alternative view of the results of the previous article (Kvarven et al. (2019)): that it’s not the meta-analyses that are to blame, but something else. Useful for general context and variety.

A good idea is to compare the conclusions from meta-analyses with the results of replication studies conducted by independent laboratories. The outcome, I suppose, is clear to you...

Half the effect sizes in psychology meta-analyses can't be reproduced from the primary papers. Sleep well.

We often rely on meta-analyses, but: a) they often don’t provide their raw data (=> can’t be rechecked), b) they handle statistics in an extremely “loose” manner

What struck me here was the author’s thought that good reviewers know whether the effect will be reproduced. Which, to be fair, makes you think that they don’t always say that out loud…

In all our papers, we write that you can't generalize the conclusions to the population at large. However, apparently, that's not the problem: if the effect exists, then it works everywhere!

Interesting results (poor reproducibility; weak effect), but the conclusions are overly cautious, possibly due to fear of the community’s reaction

A good start for understanding the context. The first replications were on well-known experiments and effects and showed very good results.

In 2016, 72% of scientists still believed the scientific literature; I wonder how many do now? Interestingly, scientists trust their OWN field more...

Bayesian arguments are often underestimated, and that's a pity: with their help, you can verify the reliability of seemingly unverifiable information. To begin here regarding the crisis as a whole

It seems that almost all TNOs are in two-body resonances with Neptune...

Previously, the number of resonant asteroids was estimated at 5–15%. Now it seems that more than 50% of asteroids in the main belt are resonant. Maybe even all of them...

LLMs can identify even complex themes, such as existential concerns, very accurately and perform both direct and conventional content analysis.

Many people believe that the existential concerns are givens of the existence. However, it could be the case that they are triggered by other fundamental beliefs, such as a belief in a just world.

One of the first (and good!) attempt to operationalize Tillich's notions of existential (ontological) anxiety and differentiate it from the regular one. IMO more reliable (content validity) than ECQ.

A really nice collection of the instruments of how to assess death atittudes or anxiety

The classical Religious quest scale has a limitation: it works only with religious people. EQ resolves this problem, following a similar design of the questions and sharing a similar idea.

Description of a Python package that allows you to determine an asteroid's resonances in a single line of code. It can be used for large-scale simulations.

The first survey of two-body MMRs in the Solar System

The first comprehensive survey of three-body resonances in the Solar System across all possible planetary configurations (previously only for Jupiter and Saturn).

An attempt to theoretically measure the strength of a resonance. A decent approximation, but real asteroids may often not be in strong resonances.

A systematic study of the influence of MMRs in the Solar system and a useful metric — strength of the resonance.

Sometimes one looks at the Lyapunov time of a main belt asteroid, and it’s minimal. But at the same time it’s not flying off anywhere... Thanks to stable chaos!

An essential manuscript on the concept of stable chaos driven by mean-motion resonances (short Lyapunov time but more-or-less stable orbits).

Explanation why they are no asteroids in the Kirkwood gap 3/1 (MMR 3J-1).

Theoretical paper on the application of Chirikov's criterion to the three-body problem (which led to an explanation of the chaos in 3J-1). Nice if you want to understand the fundamentals.

I'm not sure about the factors; meaninglessness, isolation, and freedom are merged into general anxiety factor; avoidance overlaps freedom...

Controversial assumption that i-Sharing assesses existential isolation, though the idea is brilliant (sharing valuable experiences with others affects aloneness)

A nice replacement of the old PIL scale that can assess the existential concern of meaninglessness, though some questions have arguable discriminant validity. To use!

A nice example of the usefulness of LLMs in astronomy + a good example of how to do a benchmark study in astronomy + LLM

Forget about filtering, periodograms, and working with time series. Just use LLMs!

A fundamental paper revealing the presence of 3-body MMRs in the main belt and its large number

Study that confirmed that indeed, 3-body MMRs are much more populated in the main belt than 2-body and revealed many of them