🎉 Today, we’ve announced the 25 finalists (+5 special awardees) of the Besample Dissertation Grant! This new wave of Ph.D. researchers is treating cross-cultural research as the default, not an exception. Meet this incredible group here 👉 besample.app/dissertation...

I wrote a short piece on what funding and hiring committees often overlook when assessing merit. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

What committees miss when they judge merit

Diversity and equity policies are often dismissed as a numbers game: too many white men at the top, so institutions try to balance the…

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Very excited to share that our paper “Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis” has been published in European Child & Adolescence Psychiatry doi.org/10.1007/s007...

Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Previous fMRI studies have documented links between internalizing problems in youth and brain functional connectivity of the default (DN), frontoparietal (FP), and salience (SA) networks. Characterize...

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1/7 First paper of my dissertation now out in EJPR with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social Can we measure affective polarization in systems with 6, 10, or even more parties without overburdening respondents or compromising validity? We show how. Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization

Measuring affective polarization, defined as the liking for one's political ingroup and the dislike for political outgroups, poses methodological challenges in multiparty systems: evaluations of seve...

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New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

🌍✨ The Love Consortium is thrilled to announce the 2025 Global Gratitude Summit! ✨🌍 🗓 Date: Wednesday, May 14 ⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET 💻 Where: Free & virtual! 🔗 Register now & learn more on our website: www.theloveconsortium.org/engage

New preprint out on the link between gratitude and wellbeing: who benefits most and under what circumstances? Across four studies with 220,314 individuals from 67 countries, we investigated whether individual, contextual, or cultural differences moderated this relationship. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The nature of the relation between mental illbeing and wellbeing osf.io/preprints/ps...

We have a new preprint out examining how different types of childhood maltreatment experiences and genetic liability predict (main and interaction effects) five different eating disorder diagnostic outcomes in up to 63,989 individuals: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The first preprint from my PhD is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...! 🥳 We explored the temporal dynamics of four careless responding indicators (response time, within-beep standard deviation, an inconsistency index, occasion-person correlation) in ESM data across different samples. Thread below🧵

Loved @MatthewIasiello's talk at #SPSP2025 on a taxonomy and item banks for positive mental health! As a wellbeing researcher who often feels lost in the sea of measures, their umbrella review is a very welcome guide of this jungle of a field: doi.org/10.5502/ijw....

Attending #SPSP2025? I’ll be presenting my work on emotion-wellbeing relationships: [105] Disentangling Gratitude & Love: A network analysis of their unique links to wellbeing & cultural differences. Come say hi! :) @theloveconsortium.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social

It was such a highlight seeing so many of my brilliant colleagues present their research at PROMENTA’s conference on mental health the other week. A few sneak peeks here, check out www.sv.uio.no/promenta/eng... and www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis... to learn more about what we do!

(1/4) Check out our new preprint: The Power to Resolve Cultural Transmission and Sibling Interaction Using Polygenic Scores (doi.org/10.21203/rs....). @drelsje.bsky.social Charlotte Pahnke Conor Dolan

I'm thrilled to share this work from my time at @ox.ac.uk (Department of Psychiatry), in which we investigate temporal and contemporaneous within-person associations between adolescent mental health difficulties and various aspects of the family environment 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

☀️🤝 In this new paper, we find that associations between diverse social factors (from relationship satisfaction to loneliness to attachment) and wellbeing are robust to unmeasured shared confounding cross-sectionally and across six years in older adults link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Multiple social factors are associated with wellbeing when accounting for shared genetic and environmental confounding - Quality of Life Research

Purpose Social factors are associated with mental health and wellbeing. However, few studies have examined genetic and environmental influences on social factors themselves, limiting current understan...

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New article in Journal of Social Policy with the amazing @annanhelgoy.bsky.social. We ask: What explains preferences for different types of family policy? We find: Justice perceptions on the division of physical, but not mental, household labour do!

In our new #OpenAccess paper, we provide an overview of frequently used and modern network analytic techniques for psychological science & the mental health field Out today at IJMPR with this stellar team of co-authors #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Methodology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Network analysis: An overview for mental health research

Network approaches to psychopathology have become increasingly common in mental health research, with many theoretical and methodological developments quickly gaining traction. This article illustrat...

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We have a new preprint out examining symptom-specific polygenic associations with maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum in up to 59,000 MoBa mothers 🧬🌧️☀️ osf.io/preprints/ps...

New Preprint and my final PhD paper🥲! We combined symptom and brain networks to look at symptom-specific associations between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents. doi.org/10.31234/osf...