People often say they oppose harming animals. Yet across several countries, our findings show selective moral leniency toward own cultural practices of animal exploitation; + associations with national identification and ideology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social

To celebrate the openESM paper release, I wrote a brief blog post summarizing recent developments: openesmdata.org/blog/2026-07... We: 💠added more data 💠provided descriptive visualizations for each item 💠created a semantic similarity mapping for items, making it easier to find related items

Daniel Heck@danielheck.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our article introducing the #openESM database for experience samling data, led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, has now been published 🎉 Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3... openESM interactive website: openesmdata.org GitHub repository: github.com/openesm-proj...

I'm really excited to share a new preprint! Lab studies have consistently shown that stress and negative emotions make people drink alcohol, but studies of daily life (EMA) keep failing to find it. What does that mean for the shared theoretical prediction both designs test? osf.io/preprints/ps...

I want to give a shout out to students that it’s 2026 and I am publishing this paper that is responding to critiques I first made in *2014.* science takes time! Similarly, an ML prediction paper I’m working on is coming 8-9 I have the idea simply because I didn’t have the data ☠️

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD@lluaces.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ @sadcatlab.bsky.social research "in press" at Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. In 274 adults with 7 weekly measurements, we find that cognitive change in CBT predicts subsequent symptom change, controlling for time-invariant confounds + linear trends osf.io/preprints/ps...

1/ @sadcatlab.bsky.social research "in press" at Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. In 274 adults with 7 weekly measurements, we find that cognitive change in CBT predicts subsequent symptom change, controlling for time-invariant confounds + linear trends osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is *wild Orwellian* shit. www.wired.com/story/story/...

Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones

“I deleted it as a test and it came immediately back,” says one government employee.

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Can less than 10 minutes daily on a mindfulness app improve the mental health of people of color exposed to discrimination? Based on our new publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (@jmirpub.bsky.social), the answer is yes! www.jmir.org/2026/1/e84328/ A 🧵:

A Self-Guided App-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Individuals Who Experience Discrimination-Related Mental Health Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Racially and ethnically minoritized individuals (REMs) who experience discrimination are at risk of developing stress, anxiety, and depression, and digital mental health interventions (DMH...

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We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵)

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Empirically derived phenotypes can reduce diagnostic heterogeneity: https://osf.io/8wtqx

I need a favor. A donor has agreed to give the @3wishesprogram.bsky.social $10,000 if we are able to show that >100 people believe in this program & willing to make a donation by 4/29/26. $5, $10, amount does not matter. Please help, I would be so grateful. bruingivingday.ucla.edu/campaigns/3-...

3 Wishes Program - UCLA Bruin Giving Day

The 3 Wishes Program at UCLA grants end-of-life wishes for patients at no cost to them or their families. 3 Wishes is a palliative care initiative in which clinicians elicit and fulfill final wishes f...

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New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...

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We are still accepting submissions to this special issue!

Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!)@bsamjournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

BSAM is welcoming submissions on any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine for a special issue for protocols and data notes! Goal is to support open/transparent research culture. Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026.

Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Join us for our first case consultation group Tues April 14 at 11am PT / 2pm ET! Open to all clinicians working in or adjacent to inpatient psychiatric units. Help us expand patient access to high quality psychological interventions in the inpatient setting!

Inpatient Psychological Care Collaborative (IPCC)@inpatientpsych.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you a mental health clinician working on/adjacent to inpatient psychiatry? Join our monthly case consultation group! Casual drop-in events for MHPs across all disciplines. Next meeting is Tues April 14 at 11am PT / 2pm ET More info on our events page: inpatientpsychology.org/events

Are you a mental health clinician working on/adjacent to inpatient psychiatry? Join our monthly case consultation group! Casual drop-in events for MHPs across all disciplines. Next meeting is Tues April 14 at 11am PT / 2pm ET More info on our events page: inpatientpsychology.org/events

two teaching roles in Psychology at Auckland Uni, one of which will be focused on research methods. NZ$100K+ salary these roles are unusual in that they are permanent teaching-focused faculty roles

Professional Teaching Fellow - School of Psychology / Te Kura Mātai Hinengaro

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the largest and most highly ranked sci...

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Congratulations to the winners of the @inclivio.com draw - @lisastarr.bsky.social , @gregdepow.bsky.social, and Christian Waugh - on each receiving a free license to run an EMA study! 🎉📱

We partnered with @affectscience.bsky.social this year on a drawing for 3 free licenses to use Inclivio for your next EMA Study. We are excited to announce the 3 recipients of this draw! @gregdepow.bsky.social of UCSD @lisastarr.bsky.social of U. of Rochester Christian Waugh of Wake Forest Univ.

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

One more week!!! We're proud to be sponsoring @affectscience.bsky.social for a second consecutive year. Like and repost this for a chance to use Inclivio for ✨free✨ for your next EMA project!

Society for Affective Science@affectscience.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One week to #SAS2026! We are thrilled to to be sponsored this year by @inclivio.com's EMA software. Inclivio offers reliable, secure, and flexible EMA software built by EMA researchers. Like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) to enter a drawing to run your study for *free* on Inclivio inclivio.com

One week to #SAS2026! We are thrilled to to be sponsored this year by @inclivio.com's EMA software. Inclivio offers reliable, secure, and flexible EMA software built by EMA researchers. Like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) to enter a drawing to run your study for *free* on Inclivio inclivio.com

Only a few weeks until #SAS2026! We are proud to be partnering with @inclivio.com to support SAS researchers with an intuitive platform for running EMA studies. Like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) to enter a drawing for 1 of 3 licenses to run your EMA study for free on Inclivio! inclivio.com

New viewpoint article, "It is time to take chronic suicidal ideation seriously", with Evan Kleiman and @katieleedg.bsky.social now published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

As we head toward #SAS2026 we are excited to partner with @inclivio.com to support EMA research in affective science. If you’re attending the conference, like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) this post to enter a drawing for 1 of 3 licenses to run your study on Inclivio for *free*. inclivio.com

Our partnership with the @inclivio.com continues as we get closer to #SAS2026. Inclivio provides EMA researchers with tools that make data collection easier and more participant friendly. Like (1 pt) and repost (3 pts) to enter a drawing for free access to Inclivio! inclivio.com

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. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Seven Symptoms Over Nearly 4,000 Days: Item-Level Variability in the Psychometric Properties of Daily Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Drinkers - Kevin M. King, Dahyeon Kang, Megan E. Schu...

People experience symptoms of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in their daily lives, including more impairment-based symptoms (e.g., hazardous use, interpersonal pro...

journals.sagepub.com

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!

🚨Excited to share a new exploratory measurement paper! There are *many* instruments measuring “helicopter parenting” in young adults, but items on those instruments are all over the place. What did young adults tell us about how well different items fit with a definition of HP? 🧵(1/13)

Construct Diversity in Measures of Helicopter Parenting in Emerging Adulthood - Andrea L. Howard, Sydney Bota, Megan Lamb, 2026

Numerous instruments assessing helicopter parenting exist, but items within and across scales are diverse and often describe behaviors that are incongruent with...

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