The Living SEB app

review
shiny
SEB
A shiny app for SEB research synthesis
Published

December 1, 2025

This app (app link) allows using the Living SEB Skills Project materials to navigate and meta-analyse evidence from all cross-sectional SEB studies.

Overview

The Living SEB App is an interactive Shiny application designed to explore, synthesize, and meta-analyse all available cross-sectional studies included in the Living SEB Skills Project. It provides a transparent, continuously updated interface to examine study characteristics, extract effect sizes, and run reproducible analyses in real time.

Built as part of a broader effort to create a living, open, and cumulative evidence base on Social, Emotional, and Behavioral skills (SEB), the app allows researchers, students, and practitioners to interact with the data without needing to write any R code.

➡️ Access the app here: https://feracotommaso.github.io/living_SEB_review/shiny-app.html

What you can do with the app

  • Browse all included SEB studies with filters for samples, designs, measures, and variables.
  • Inspect effect sizes and metadata for every association extracted in the review.
  • Run on-the-fly meta-analyses (random/fixed models, moderators, subgroup analyses).
  • Download the dataset used in the app for further analysis in R or other tools.
  • Track updates as new studies are added to the living review.

Features at a glance

  • 📊 Interactive visualizations of effect sizes, uncertainty, and heterogeneity
  • 🧮 Built-in meta-analytic models using robust and reproducible pipelines
  • 🔍 Searchable database of SEB constructs, measures, sample characteristics
  • 🔄 Continuously updated through the Living SEB Project workflow
  • 📥 Export options for datasets and analysis outputs

Background

The app accompanies the article:

Feraco, T., Calderan, M., and Pellegrino, G. (2026). The Living SEB Skills Project: A Living Resource for Review and Meta-Analysis of Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070261467477

Together with the broader Living SEB infrastructure, the app reflects a commitment to open science, research transparency, and dynamic evidence synthesis.