Aidan Wright
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🚨BIG NEWS🚨
I'm sorry to say the Pittsburgh Summer Methodology Series (aka Pitt Methods) has come to an end 🪦
But growing out of it is SMaRT Workshops! 🎉
Come check out our offerings at
Read down the 🧵 to hear about the new set up! 1/
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What are some of the sayings your advisors often said that have stuck with you?
For some reason today this one plays in my mind:
“When it’s your turn to be asshole, don’t.”
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It finally happened on the way to school this AM…
6yo: Dad, can we do science stuff this weekend?
Me (ecstatic): absolutely! You know mommy and I are both scientists!
6yo: I mean real science. Not people science, gooey science.
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Looking towards 2021, few statistical laws give me more hope than regression to the mean.
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So...basically 1/10 worries come true? That’s way worse than I had imagined.
What % of worries actually come true? New study finds that 91.4% of worries did not come true for those with GAD.
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I've been getting a lot of emails from potential PhD student applicants for my lab this fall. Too many to respond to. So this is the standard response I wrote up. I know some folks are on here and may not be emailing, so sharing it in case helpful.
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Yeah, sex is good, but have you tried the moral superiority of doing your slides and papers in LaTeX?
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A bit of news...
Starting "on or about January 1st, 2023" I'll be handling all new submissions to the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
I'm excited to be the incoming editor in chief and feel big responsibility for being a good steward of psychopathology sci.
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A bit of news…
I’m ecstatic to be joining the
@DepressionCntr
and
@um_psychology
this summer!! I can’t wait to join all the tremendous scholars that make up each of them. Really looking forward to working together to move the needle on depression and psychopathology!
We are thrilled to welcome renowned psychopathology researcher and professor
@aidangcw
to
@um_psychology
as our inaugural
@depressioncntr
faculty recruit. Read the full announcement -->
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It’s official, I’m old and should no longer be trusted.
The name plate is updated and everything…
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Are single item measures viable in psychological science? Here's a paper that discusses when they might fly.
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New coasters are in for recruitment for our personalized drinking models study. Time to send them out to some local watering holes.
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🚨Now in press at American Psychologist: It's Time to Replace the Personality Disorders with the Interpersonal Disorders
@WhitneyRingwald
,
@HopwoodChris
, and
@aaronpincus
and I argue that the evidence supports this shift.
A highlight 🧵
preprint:
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It’s time to end the clinical psych internship model as we know it. Forcing our students to uproot and move, possibly for only a year, in their late 20’s/early 30’s is terribly disruptive to them and families. 1/2
Ok, I’m a third of the way through internship interviews. I know it’s an arduous process regardless, but it has been especially tricky having two kids. Especially one that’s under the age of one. This wouldn’t be possible without my husband and our families....
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Ahhh...what must it have been like to do psychological research in the 1960's...
Reviewing a paper tonight and digging up primary sources to see if they actually support the author's counterintuitive claims and found this gem...
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I finally sent something to a coauthor 6weeks late, partially completed, and with apologies for being behind. He said, “there are 7.8B people on earth, and you’re the only one who thinks you’re behind.”
It was gracious, kind, and made me appreciate of the social side of science.
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More evidence that # of response options on self-report questionnaires doesn't matter once you get past 2-3. Old lore about odd vs even etc. doesn't seem to make a big difference:
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Friends, today is the worst day of mentoring, and it comes up once with every new trainee. It’s so so tough. I just hate growing through it with them. But they have to learn it! Today I explained to a student how Mplus handles data and variable names.
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A general comment to coauthors: If you think there should be a reference someplace in the manuscript, suggest one and provide the citation, adding "(REF)" at the end of every other line is...unhelpful.
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Another disappointing tweet contributing to toxic methods culture.
Hard to decide what the worst part is. Could be the tenured full prof picking on a trainee. Could be the quote tweet instead of engagement, so intent is to shame. Could be the ignorance of theory; read some.
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Human behavior, the hardest science.
What’s harder than physics? Predicting what happens when a university reopens during a pandemic. by
@kchangnyt
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I don’t know who needs to hear this...ok, lots of you do. If I don’t get back to you on email just email me again, I promise I don’t mind being pestered and actually appreciate it, because balls (rubber and glass) are dropping all over the place.
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I'm convinced that the ubiquitous "I hope this finds you well" at the start of emails is because nobody can figure out how to start an email.
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I’d like to introduce the team taking over the helm at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (JoPaCS) starting 1/1/23. I’m grateful and excited for the opportunity to work with this group to further outstanding psychopathology science.
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Very honored to be supported by this generous endowment. I hope to earn it by making good on Phil’s goal to remove stigma and measurably improve mental health.
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Symptoms that make up depression diagnosis are common across other diagnoses…it’s almost as if depression is how humans experience distress and psychological dysfunction causes people distress…
I’m being glib, but as a field we have to really get this to move the psych needle.
One disorder in particular stood out: The diagnostic criteria for major depression dominated the lists of symptoms that repeat the most.
This is bad news for diagnostic accuracy, with misattribution of symptoms and inflated comorbidity seemingly likely outcomes.
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On this sunny summer Monday morning, we should talk a little bit about estimating and interpreting intensive longitudinal data models.
I'm mostly thinking ambulatory assessment (EMA, ESM, daily diary, etc), but the point I want to make is general.
To lag or not to lag? 1/16
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Question for the day:
Will my relatively new collaborator mind that I changed all of their "utilizes" to "uses" in the draft I'm about to send back to them?
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Is this true
@APA
? How do you justify supporting politicians that are antithetical to your stated values? More to the point, what will it take for you to fix this? How many members need to quit? Do journal editors need to quit in protest?
What’s wrong with this picture?
1—Iowa's 88-year-old, ANTI-ABORTION Senator Chuck Grassley is running for re-election.
2—His opponent called the recent SCOTUS decision "a direct attack on women."
3—
@APA
’s affiliated "Psychology PAC" just donated $2500 to Grassley’s campaign.
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WOW! The same research question analyzed over 6 timescales in the same paper! I can' overstate how important this approach is. One of the most common limitations I see as an editor is not justifying or even speaking to timescale of the work. Would love to see more of this stuff.
A Matter of Timing? Effects of Parent-Adolescent Conflict on Adolescent Ill-being on Six Timescales
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I f***ing hate when journals use word limits that include citations/reference. Like what?
It also makes me compulsively use (e.g.,) in all my citations, because I have to show that I KNOW there is more relevant lit, I just can't cite it due to idiotic policies.
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I’m offering a FREE workshop May 3rd 10am ET through for grad students and ECR mentors that provides intro to NIH, fellowship grants (F31, F32), and recs for successful proposals!
Sign up if relevant and please RT/share!
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Some days I can't get over how incomprehensible it is that so much of our clinical research is driven by psychiatric diagnoses.
That's no way to advance our knowledge about mechanisms.
Diagnostic nosologies have so much power over us, even when they are obviously problematic.
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Live view of tenure track job interviewee demonstrating their knowledge in theory, methods, mentoring skills, teaching excellence, commitment to open science practices, service to department and field, and ability to get external funding
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A bit of good news. Very excited to start working on the challenging task of personalized prediction of problematic alcohol use with Katie Gates, Kasey Creswell,
@carissa_low
,
@afsanehdoryab
, Junier Oliva, and Tammy Chung!
Many thanks to
@NIAAAnews
and
@NIHOBSSR
for the support!
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Here are a set of naming schemes that someone owes us an apology for:
Efficacy vs. Effectiveness
General Linear Model vs. Generalizable Linear Model
Equality vs. Equity
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A million thanks to all these faculty searches that are putting off needing reference letters until the short list!!!
Finally folks got the message. It's better for everyone this way.
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Can we get a round of applause for journals that have a link directly to the article they want you to review, without going through the log in page.
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How should we model affective variability in daily life?
If you're interested, Today at
@affectScience
and 11am I'll talk about some methods concerns I have in this area, particularly with negative affect.
Here's a🧵 about this work...
And a preprint:
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New office Not quite 100% set up, but the plants made the trip and are acclimating to the new office.
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I know this is a little bit grandiose, but I like to write every manuscript as if someone will read it at some point.
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I wonder why scientific fields, including psychology, revisit and "rediscover" certain topics over time, basically ignoring prior work.
We can just be cynical and say people don't read enough or are purposely selling old wine in new bottles.
But I don't think that's it. 1/2
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🔥This is the most exciting paper I've seen IN A WHILE! 🔥
Shows that responses to major life events are idiosyncratic, and those idiosyncrasies are masked by average responses. Eg divorce is crushing for some, liberating for others. So has different effect on personality. 1/
New paper:
Subjective experiences of life events 🥳😰 match individual differences in personality development 📈📉
With
@WiebkeBleidorn
@JaapDenissen
@MaikeLuhmann
and
@HopwoodChris
, at JPSP
postprint:
My favorite study yet! Here’s why:
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I'm pleased to say that we have just accepted the first manuscript for publication during my tenure as Editor of the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psych)...
...it is a network analysis paper. :-)
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With all the interest in Tiger King 🐅 👑, I’m surprised that personality disorders remain understudied and their research and treatment under-funded.
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I love the way this paper begins, by asking the tough question. "what does it mean to have an evidence-based assessment of a nonevidencebased
diagnostic construct?"
The special section on evidence-based assessment is now online at Assessment, with a contribution from me and
@aidangcw
: But the breadth of the special issue is really amazing, so many topics covered 🤩
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I hope to recruit a new graduate student to come work with me at the University of Michigan on models and methods for understanding psychopathology.
Here are some thoughts and answers to questions for those who might be interested:
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Ecological Momentary Assessment: A Meta-Analysis on Designs, Samples, and Compliance Across Research Fields
“Compliance was significantly higher in studies providing financial incentives. Otherwise, design or sample characteristics had little effects.”
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I'm so excited to announce this year's slate of Pittsburgh Summer Methodology Series workshops, with
@ProfDiemer
,
@jeffreymgirard
,
@ShirleyBWang
,
@kgates
,
@KathrynFoxR
, and more (not on twitter)!
Please RT & Share!
Course schedule is available here:
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So, now that GRExit is over and the GRE is gone, is your program continuing conversations about reducing bias in graduate admissions? Is there a systematic evaluation of other practices, like letters of recommendation, access to prior lab experience, weighing UG institution?
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That's Dr.
@WhitneyRingwald
to you all! Very proud to say that she passed her dissertation defense today with flying colors! Stay tuned for more outstanding work from this exceptional scholar. Couldn't feel more fortunate than to have had her as part of the lab for the last 5yrs.
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I'm very happy to announce the new Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology co-edited with Michael Hallquist (soon to start at UNC-Chapel Hill).
With everything that's happened over the last 2+ weeks, I totally forgot this came out.
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I think grants should explicitly NOT be considered for faculty tenure evaluations.
Otherwise it gives the impression that $$ matters more than scholarship and intellectual contributions.
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I’ve become increasingly concerned that the field of psychopathology suffers from some gnarly McNamara Fallacy.
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Excited to announce this year's slate of Pittsburgh Summer Methodology Series Workshops, taught by
@ProfDiemer
,
@jeffreymgirard
,
@ShirleyBWang
,
@kgates
, Kelley Kidwell, Sara Johnson, & me.
A 🧵- Please RT & Share!
Course schedule is available here:
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How much does a graduate student cost per year in your program?
I'm putting together a list of how much graduate students cost departments/faculty at different universities.
Please contribute to the attached google sheet and please RT!
Thanks!
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Does asking about frequency vs. severity of psychiatric symptoms (depression, uncontrollable worry) affect how scales perform? This new paper suggests not very much.
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Behavioral scientists, what’s your favorite paper that you’ve published and why?
We all have our favs, and the reasons are varied. It could be your first, the most impactful, the one you think is most robust, or the effect could just be cool!
Share it here!
I’ll start ⬇️
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Is it time to demote the “Environment” section of
@NIH
grants to something like human subjects, where you raise concerns if there are any major ones, otherwise it’s a go?
I feel like detailed paragraphs abt lab square footage and how many GHz each microcomputer has are a waste.
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So delighted to have Michaelle come train in the lab! Join me in welcoming her and be on the lookout for great things to come from her!
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There’s a real danger in misunderstanding these results. This is NOT a study of “psychiatric DISORDERS” it is a study of “psychiatric DIAGNOSES”. There’s a huge difference there, because we know some classes of disorders are under and misdiagnosed!!
Prevalence, Comorbidity, and Sociodemographic Correlates of Psychiatric Disorders Reported in the All of Us Research Program (n > 329k)
@JAMAPsych
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This may be the cruelest option available to editors in the Editorial Manager system...
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Attending conferences I’m struck by how earnestly and hard trainees/ECRs are working to get things right in science. It makes me all the more irate about senior researchers who are manipulating and faking data to serve their narrative and careers. The fraudsters steal from ECRs.
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🚨Tenure Track Job Announcement🚨
We are hiring an Assistant or early Associate prof in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Must have quantitative methods expertise AND a substantive program of research.
Please RT
🧵for + info:
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Measurement is a cruel master. Just calling something “state” or “trait” and changing the wording of the items doesn’t actually give you “state” and “trait” measures...mostly trait.
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Super proud of the new Dr.
@e_edershile
for the work she did on her dissertation, which she defended today! Hands down the best defense I’ve seen. Wishing her the best on her internship start next month
@WeillCornell
We’ll miss her!
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Here is my (open access) inaugural editorial for the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psych). In it I lay out my editorial priorities and some changes in policy.
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Here is a scathing new review on "the network paradigm" in depression.
Here's the take away:
"There is a critical need to ensure scientific efforts cease to perpetuate problematic designs and findings to a potentially unsubstantiated paradigm."
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Emailing European colleagues you get an out of office message what, like 75% of the time?
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I will be interviewing students this fall for PHD in Clinical Psychology
@um_psychology
. (Still getting a lot of emails at Pitt, so trying to get the word out I’ve moved). Info for students here: ...
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Very excited to share psychometric analyses of our item bank for studying psychopathology multidimensionally and hierarchically in daily life. With
@WhitneyRingwald
and
@jz_psych
, always a pleasure. 1/
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We are hiring at the University of Michigan
@DepressionCntr
The goal is clear. Move the needle on improving mental health. But the task is hard. So we are building a multidisciplinary team. Positions are open at all ranks and in any relevant discipline.
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Against my better judgment, I'll address this post.
@R__INDEX
likes to bully people by criticizing their work publicly, and he mostly gets away with it bc they often don't respond.
I won't stand for it.
I'll tell you why his post is bogus, a thread 🧵
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Focusing on the silver linings is helpful to me in all this. Maybe the biggest one is having the time to teach my daughter to ride a bike. We got this thing a month ago (I checked, bc who can tell anymore), and she’ll be 4 later this week. Go kiddo go!
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If someone wanted to design a policy to maximize personal instability, disrupt the accumulation of wealth, and create occupational stress, the current internship model would be an excellent contender. It’s time we figured something else out, somthing better, for our students. 2/2
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Given that scientists seem eager to submit papers but reluctant to review papers in return, should journals institute a "submission password" that is given to an author only after they have completed a review for the journal?
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Not a lot of personal success to report from the past 12mos...but one I’m pretty proud of is mastering the art of pizza making. And I can replicate better than I can in my own lab work. 🤷🏼
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I'm pleased to announce that after a 1-year hiatus, the Pittsburgh Summer Methodology Series is back on for this summer.
With
@ProfDiemer
,
@jeffreymgirard
,
@ShirleyBWang
, Kelley Kidwell, and yours truly as instructors.
Check out offerings here:
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Can you distinguish the person (personality) from their mental health problems (psychopathology)?
This was the motivating question
@HopwoodChris
, I, and a bunch of authors took up in an upcoming special issue in the Journal of Personality.
A thread...
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Couldn't be prouder of this one! May the meteoric trajectory continue!
And she's being modest, she's the Stark Hathaway Endowed Assistant Professor at UMN Psych. That's right, she's so badass she gets to write someone else's names on her emails.
Pinch me… there are no words for how grateful and excited I am to announce that I’ll be an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology Research Program at the University of Minnesota starting this fall! Absolute dream come true.
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One of my favorite naturalistic personality test items: academics' email signatures.
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First official sunrise 🌄 of my sabbatical! This is a huge job perk. I get to put aside the corporate bureaucracy (the university) and focus on my small business (lab) for a year.
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Does everyone else reflexively hit "control-s" while working in google docs?
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Y'all, we were just SAVED by a reviewer!!
They pointed out that the p's in our p-values were not italicized!
Phew!
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Join the lab and you too could have an all expenses paid trip to a dive bar across the street from the psych building!
Many thanks and much appreciation to this group (and the folks who couldn’t make it).
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Paper journals may be fast becoming a thing of the past, but I gotta say this bad boy looks way better in person…
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No top tier outlet primer, but hopefully folks can still find it useful. Here's the pre-print, and it links to open syntax and data for those interested.
Feel free to share critical feedback, it will still be reviewed, and so we can still correct.
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There’s increased interest in qualitative/mixed methods in psychology. Thinking is it will increase validity though better understanding of the phenomena we study. That’s great. It reminds me that this was sort of the point of the scientist-practitioner model of clinical psych.
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“We have known for 50 years how to provide good care for severe mental illness. There is nothing mysterious or complicated about it. Decent housing. Easily accessible treatment. Social clubs. Vocational rehab. Positive regard, respect, and empathy. Family support.”
I summarize my career & explain why it's now ending on such a sour note.
I failed, & psychiatry failed, to improve terrible neglect of people suffering severe
#MentalIllness
.
I suggest simple solutions, but doubt things will ever get better.
@PsychTimes
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Santa brought my gift the day after Xmas this year. I was asked to review my own first author manuscript today.
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Academia: We're all so overworked!
Also academia: We don't have enough jobs for people!
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New personality trait identified: conscianxiousness
Worry about getting things done, and planning and doing things because you’re worried.
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This student with the flip flops using his textbook to keep his head dry.
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🚨 I'm hiring a lab manager! 🚨
Ideally a Sr lab manager w/ several years experience and at least a masters who will play a leadership role in an active and dynamic lab studying personality and psychopathology.
Please share with potential candidates!
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