I’m recruiting two new PhD students to start in 2027, working with me on my program of research in quantitative psychopathology. I’ve put some information for interested students on my website: miriamkforbes.academic.ws Please share with anyone you know who might be interested!

New out in Addiction, we wrote an editorial about negative affect and drinking in daily life. It talks a lot about ice cream. @sammeisel.bsky.social @samuelacuff.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Covariation among higher-order psychopathology dimensions is driven by nomorbidity, not comorbidity: https://osf.io/3t2cm

This y'all luminary in the clinical psych field? Possibly one of, if not the, worst papers I have ever read with extreme purposeful misrepresentation of so many constructs. But if I say this is racist would I be doing too much? I appreciate the last case example is named "Craig" though. Cute.

www.researchgate.net/publication/... I am looking to compute the w coefficient from Newsom (2015) for measurement invariance testing, but I don't have access to the text (linked). Is the formula just w = the square root of (chi square difference/overall sample size)?

New commentary (with @jdmiller.bsky.social and @davidchester.bsky.social) in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science pushing back (again) on the use of “dark” in personality research. 1/2 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Check this out for a really interesting and detailed evaluation of approaches for understanding symptom heterogeneity! @miriforbes.bsky.social figures and summaries = 🎯🎯🎯 as usual too

Miri Forbes@miriforbes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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 (🧵)

Ok everyone. I know we all write books. There are many books to be purchased. But, I am kindly asking that you consider pre-ordering my book. The book features 27 beautiful portraits/artwork of rural queer young adults in full color. TABL26 at upcolorado.com for 40% off.

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

Good morning from Kansas City! Our opening ceremony starts now with a welcome from Division President @noahemery.bsky.social

Definitely check out Anna's work (for Wyoming Psychology and across disciplines)! 🪶🏆

apetrey.bsky.social@apetrey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s been a big year in science communication for me! Including one news article, a morning show interview, and two back-to-back 3-minute Thesis wins 🐦‍⬛🫶🏼🥼

+10,000 internship aura! 🤠⛰️▶️▶️▶️🌴☀️

Katie Berry@katherineaberry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am beyond thrilled to share that I matched at the Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Program!!!!! I can’t wait to see what the next year brings me! 🤩

🔥 New viewpoint paper accepted at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! I propose a behavioral conceptualization of personality functioning (PF) that reframes the construct in terms of learned self-related repertoires rather than inferred inner structures.

In our rejoinder, we argue 1) Dark terminology isn't used responsibly as BL et al. claim, 2) the term can be replaced with a more sensible and scientific one, 3) data support our position (Stanton et al., 2025), and 4) popularity ≠ importance. @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The 'Dark Triad' may be popular, but more importantly, it is irresponsible, moralizing, trivializing, and ultimately, replaceable: A rejoinder to Borraz-Leon, Rantala, and Jonason (2025): https://osf.io/u86th

Excited to share my first President’s Column for the @apadivision50.bsky.social. In it, I discuss our 2025 theme: The Science of Lived Experience. I also reflect on leadership in a time of rapid change and share invitation for colleagues. Hope you’ll read it: addictionpsychology.org/soap-box/202...

🔥 New paper, led by my PhD student @selindem.bsky.social: preregistered single-case experimental study showing the positive impact of using the GPNS feedback system on the therapeutic alliance. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does structured, psychometrically based feedback discussion cause improvements of the therapeutic alliance? A single-case experimental study

Routine outcome monitoring and feedback (ROM) systems have been established to enhance therapeutic outcomes, prevent drop-outs and facilitate data-driven personalization in psychotherapy. However, ...

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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

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We're excited this is out! Thanks to the author teams for a range of great contributions and to the reviewers who assisted with this process. The second part of this special issue will be released in November.

Aidan Wright@aidangcw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment. Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...

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Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology offers graduate programs in cognitive, clinical, developmental, and quantitative psychology, joint doctoral programs in peace studies and in computer science / en...

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When we measure personality multiple times in a study, does it matter if we ask people about their personality *in general* or *since the last time point*? Turns out: yes! We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

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APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Absolutely shook to learn I’ve been awarded the 2025 Distinguished Early Scientific Career Contributions by the Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836

Re-upping for the weekday crowd- Choosing between syndrome/diagnosis vs. symptom focused mental health research is a false dichotomy New paper arguing how we can, and should, consider how risk/resilience/treatment factors can be uniquely + simultaneously associated with both levels of specificity

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First paper from my lab @upenn.edu (open access) @ Biological Psychiatry w/ @emilyrperkins.bsky.social +@keananjoyner.bsky.social We discuss the need to falsify theories of biology predicting syndromes vs. syndromes in ways that allow both to be true 🧵1/10 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Sometimes when I talk to intervention scientists about #measurement #psychometrics I get the argument “even if this questionnaire has bad psychometrics, everyone else in my field uses it and I want to be able to compare my results with theirs”. Let’s talk about how that is a misunderstanding 🧵 1/6

Check out our forthcoming viewpoint article in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science in which we argue that it is well past time to abandon the term 'dark' to describe antagonistic traits. w/ @jdmiller.bsky.social and @drlynam.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...