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 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 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.

โžก๏ธ Access the app here: https://feracoshiny.shinyapps.io/livingSEBapp/{target=โ€œ_blankโ€}

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

  • ๐Ÿ“Š Interactive visualizations of effect sizes, uncertainty, and heterogeneity
  • ๐Ÿงฎ Built-in meta-analytic models using robust and reproducible pipelines
  • ๐Ÿ” Searchable database of SEB constructs, measures, sample characteristics
  • ๐Ÿ”„ Continuously updated through the Living SEB Project workflow
  • ๐Ÿ“ฅ Export options for datasets and analysis outputs

Background

The app accompanies the article:

Feraco, T. & Pellegrino G. (2025). The Living SEB Project: A Living Database for Review and Meta-Analysis of Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ewvuf_v1

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