A simple survey rates the meaningfulness of the 200 most common American jobs. Inspired by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @ @notalawyer.bsky.social's discussion. Results and voting available at the link.
My god, the basicness boggles the mind
Looking forward to expanding our small team a bit as the lab prepares for its 2nd year.
We will be hiring 2-3 more volunteer, in-person RAs for our team to start in the fall. Details and application info are at our website.
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Now out in npj Digital Medicine 🎉
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Our systematic review and meta-analysis examines how well language-based models detect depression from text.
We reviewed 123 studies (40,000 + observations) using NLP and machine learning.
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But it discovers causes! its in the name!
A colleague asked me today about "causal discovery analysis" - never heard of it. Sounded fishy. Looked it up, and it is rotten fish all the way down. The Directed acyclic graph folks are at it again with their irresponsible naming of this technique. Flashbacks to 2017 and "network" propaganda.
How US Youth Use AI Chatbots: Conversation Patterns from Naturalistic Keystroke Data: https://osf.io/z4mts
Similarity of Major Life-Event Perceptions and Relationship Satisfaction among Romantic Couples: The Case of Moving in Together: https://osf.io/8h6yb
Preach
My first PhD paper is out 🎉🐣
We examined transactions between Big Five traits and first sexual intercourse across up to 10 years and ~5,000 German adolescents.
Extraversion stood out 🔄🧠
Agreeableness + openness showed interesting patterns as well
Check them out here:
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I am so pro-behavioral sequences. Especially excited that the network metrics outperformed total screen time in predicting mental health.
Clinical psychology depends on scientific evidence, but research from @chopwood.bsky.social et al. suggests that the kinds of data most commonly produced may not always align with what clinicians find most useful in practice. Read the article in American Psychologist: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...
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This piece argues that psychodynamic constructs become scientific when treated as hypotheses about interpersonal dynamics over time—an idea Leary had decades ago.
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https://kimberlyjgilbert.substack.com/p/psychodynamic-theory-isnt-the-problem
The interpersonal situation framework describes a dynamic, unfolding context where perception, construal, affect, motivation, and behavior cycle between self and other. It also describes every open mic I ever did. Here, I map CIIT onto my experience.
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🧵New paper out in @commspsychol.nature.com We tested whether language-based assessments (LBAs) can predict not just subjective well-being (life satisfaction) but also psychological well-being (autonomy). Across 3 studies, we found that LBAs work well for some constructs—but not all! 1/
Adverse childhood event reports are largely stable but also fluctuate, which is related especially to current relationships with parents. More support or less strain associated with fewer recalled events. Pretty interesting work by @chops310.bsky.social
same observation applies to the surveys for rating your “experience” in airport bathrooms.
We investigated the @hitop-system.bsky.social Brief Report (HiTOP-BR) in two German samples. Although there is room for improvement in certain areas, the HiTOP-BR provides a time-efficient and psychometrically acceptable assessment of the 6 HiTOP spectra. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Though it’s a lot harder to find solid evidence against a hypothesis! can you think of a good example of this in your work?
New study out! These results show how our personality is infused in everything we do, even down to our mundane, everyday experiences and passing thoughts.
The trope “I’m an introverted extravert” is a great illustration of a) the inherently contextual nature of personality and b) limits of even our best trait models.
First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
The Personality Interest Group Including Espresso journal club (PIG-IE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign now has a public reading schedule: pig-ie-reading-vote.lovable.app/schedule. 1/
curious to know which journal?
I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data.
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So much for telehealth expanding access to care to rural and poor communities …
didn’t realize you were there! Sorry I missed ya.
