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Clinical Psychology student studying adolescent depression, affective health, and preventive interventions for youth depression.

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We have reached a situation where (1) the time/resources spent by people applying for grant X often outweighs (2) the time/resources awarded.

For these grants, society loses net time/resources.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

13.01.2026 09:44 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Statistical evidence in psychological networks - Nature Human Behaviour Psychometric network models have become increasingly popular in psychology and the social sciences. Huth et al. show that a large proportion of reported network findings are based on weak or inconclusive evidence inviting caution when interpreting results.

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We’re so proud of the MED Lab team for their excellent posters and presentations at VKC Science Day this week. Congratulations to Yinru @yinrulong.bsky.social , who won best research on underrepresented populations, and Ellie @elliewindham.bsky.social , who won best clinical poster!

08.10.2025 17:55 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Research Coordinator- Full-Time, Term Please note: this is a full-time, term position. The Research Coordinator is part of the Mood, Emotion, and Development Lab housed in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Peabody Coll...

We are currently accepting applications for a lab manager position to oversee the administration of multiple grant-funded research projects! More info below: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

01.04.2025 14:25 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I can't recommend this opportunity highly enough - the combination of fascinating, impactful work and excellent mentorship make this a top-notch training experience!

01.04.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So devastating

23.03.2025 01:54 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This looks fantastic, congratulations!

04.03.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for sharing these suggestions, we will definitely be incorporating for our next round of data collection!

20.12.2024 20:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a great point and what we've started digging into now to better understand the effects on power/parameter estimates/etc. Thank you for all your help with this!

20.12.2024 15:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I was thinking baseline/neutral would make sense for those instances!

20.12.2024 15:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for these recommendations! I hadn't considered filler questions to avoid bias towards responding "no" to earlier questions - are there any resources you would point me toward for standard filler questions? Thanks again!

20.12.2024 15:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's a really helpful idea - we were checking to see if these participants might be responding randomly/going quickly through items throughout the survey, we hadn't checked on correlations with momentary affect yet!

19.12.2024 22:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's what we are thinking/why I thought excluding these responses might make sense?

19.12.2024 22:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! Instructions were to rate "How bad did it make you feel" on a 5-point Likert scale. We've looked at responses and many participants respond at floor, suggesting they treated ? as nothing happened so didn't feel bad, other answers are higher, so likely other interpretations present too

19.12.2024 17:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

ESM Experts, please help! We have EMA surveys asking pts about best/worst event over 2 hrs. Many say no worst event happened, but we allowed them to provide emotion ratings. Should those ratings be excluded from MLM/DSEM models of emotional reactivity? Treated as a neutral condition? Another option?

19.12.2024 16:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. I’ve expressed concerns about Frontiers for a long time and won’t submit or review for them, but this suggests things are really bad.

16.12.2024 17:05 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That can’t be right!

14.12.2024 14:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been thinking a lot about how research pace is eclipsed by rate of change in technologies. Many books/articles make claims that aren’t supported by evidence, but research often can’t match need for decision making in the population. How do we adapt to make quality info available sooner?

11.12.2024 00:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0