🔔 Call for Papers 🔔 I’m guest editing a Special Issue of Cognitive & Behavioral Practice Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches in Context https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/336984/special-issue-on-cognitive-behavioral-approaches-in-context

I’m grateful for the opportunity to soft-launch another upcoming Call for Papers, this one an open call for *Cognitive and Behavioral Practice* on doing effective clinical work when the dysfunction is in the client’s environment. Start your gears turning! I’ll circulate the official call next week.

Any time I have a brilliant insight about systems of oppression, my next step is to figure out which Black woman scholar already explained the idea clearly decades ago. Behold, the “matrix of domination,” the system of power named by Collins (2000). The actual, literal matrix of domination.

💡Open Call for Proposals 💡 Special Issue of Clinical Psychology Review: Phenomenology and Classification of Repetitive Thought We plan to accept 1-2 narrative, systematic, or meta-analytic reviews of underrepresented perspectives/areas. Email me your 1-page letter of intent for consideration.

I always dread prepping new courses, right up until the moment I sit down to start, at which point I remember that I actually love prepping new courses. Psychological Interventions II? Advanced grad seminar?? We are going to have SO. MUCH. FUN.

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Assume you have some power. Be critical of ideas and accepting of people. Create with care and purpose, and without fear. Do, or do not, or try — there is no correct answer. Everything would be safer and easier if we all spoke more openly. Fabulous is as fabulous does. Great minds think.

mindflakes@mindflakes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Does anyone know what to say or what to do or how to be? I'm new to all this

And now for my greatest challenge yet: adhering to my principled refusal to extend science beyond the literal while writing — wait for it — an empirical paper on the latent structure of repetitive thought.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.@laurenshallion.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I think I understand the hesitation better now. I still notice some people and interest groups defending and exploiting the invisibility of the system of power. But for most people, and for many reasons, I think it’s just very difficult to translate implicit understanding into plain language.

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I’ve yet to see much discourse around the apocalyptic destruction that generative artificial intelligence is poised to wreak on the entire concept of journalism and fact checking. If deepfakes become legal, easy to create, and difficult to detect, ChatGPT essays will be the least of our concerns.

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My bookstore is unapologetically leftist. I work very hard to curate our inventory. We often get compliments from customers. We also, sometimes, get people who wander around for a bit with a look of abject disgust on their face before quietly leaving. This, too, feels like a compliment.

I would like to gently remind academic psychology that we’re in this situation because of collective dereliction of duty. We are navigating systemic trauma. Actual progress is one of the options available to us. We’ll get there when we decide to stop relying on euphemism as a crutch.

I’m also pretty sure we just cracked the ‘satanic panic’ case. Memories can’t be ‘recovered’ — you either remember abuse or you don’t. Memory creation *is* impaired during traumatic events, though, and long-term trauma can cause memory problems. open.spotify.com/album/5yaumQ...

Tubthumper

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*stares in dominance feminism*

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

I'm looking forward to reading this. I can't stop thinking about the Scott Lilienfeld (he of "Microaggressions: Strong claims, inadequate evidence" fame) paper titled, "Looking under the tinfoil hat". I wonder what function that overt stigma serves.

Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD@jacasiegel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We submitted a manuscript yesterday about the fundamental importance of thoughtful and respectful in-person and online science communication for combating misinformation. Looking forward to sharing the preprint later today!

It occurs to me that, at the moment, I’m the only person that has all of the necessary information to understand why this is such a perfect uncanny valley. You’ll just have to take my word for it in the meantime.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.@laurenshallion.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’ve got several *extremely* cool projects on the horizon that I can’t announce yet, but here’s the artist’s rendering: https://youtu.be/nlIYME8iQ1Y?si=RJinqTLRLkCBEo08

I’ve got several *extremely* cool projects on the horizon that I can’t announce yet, but here’s the artist’s rendering: https://youtu.be/nlIYME8iQ1Y?si=RJinqTLRLkCBEo08

If you’ve never come out as #MeToo during your tenure review, I can’t fault you for being less well-versed in this particular manifestation of patriarchy. My experiences with it succeeded mostly in teaching me the mechanics of conspiracy, pissing me off, and incentivizing me to be loud as possible.

I think I understand the hesitation better now. I still notice some people and interest groups defending and exploiting the invisibility of the system of power. But for most people, and for many reasons, I think it’s just very difficult to translate implicit understanding into plain language.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.@laurenshallion.bsky.social · last yr.

I still can’t wrap my brain around the reluctance to engage in this discourse. You can all honestly do a close read of albums like folklore and RENAISSANCE and think, “this structure seems coincidental. It certainly doesn’t mirror my own digital experience or the sociopolitical landscape.” Really?

I remember, in grad school, Chuck Bosk telling us, re: ethnography--if you haven't pissed someone off with your research, you probably haven't done enough to interrogate systems of power.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When people talk about self-censorship, they often focus on campus events or classroom discussions. But self-censorship of research is different and more impt. Big difference btw "I don't want to offend others" to "I don't want to speak truth to power" www.chronicle.com/article/near...

A scientific consensus about what the term ‘trauma’ means has so far proven elusive. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology advances a common understanding of the emotional, contextual and cognitive aspects of psychological trauma. go.nature.com/3Q86EqM 🧪

I’ll remind you of some of my other views: > obviously conspiracies exist > waves are great and we should all make more of them > pronouncing it “lick-urt” is pretentious and silly I don’t need affirmative action for those ideas. I need to offer more convincing arguments.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.@laurenshallion.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yes, we desperately need viewpoint diversity. We need the views of people from diverse identities and backgrounds, and the views of women who aren’t trying to contort their points to be palatable under patriarchy. We could call it something like… diversity? inclusion? I’m just riffing here.

Yes, we desperately need viewpoint diversity. We need the views of people from diverse identities and backgrounds, and the views of women who aren’t trying to contort their points to be palatable under patriarchy. We could call it something like… diversity? inclusion? I’m just riffing here.

I’m so sad to hear this. Dr. Foa developed one of the three leading treatments for PTSD. I was privileged to learn it under her supervision. For the interested, the others are Cognitive Processing Therapy (developer: Dr. Patty Resick) and EMDR (developer: Dr. Francine Shapiro). (Notice a trend?)

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I consider Dr. Foa’s exposure therapy work among the most profound achievements in clinical psychology. Her work has saved so, so many lives. She led a big life. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/h...

We’ll get our treatment effect sizes moving again when enough white male clinical science gatekeepers finally decide to support and do the best work possible, instead of the best work possible without jeopardizing any social or epistemic hegemony. I have reason to believe that it’s possible.

I wish we had thought vaccines too. But gaslighting as public policy failed catastrophically. If you need evidence, look around. I refuse to endorse scientific malpractice so well-intentioned but deeply wrong scientists can double down on pseudoscience. If it makes me unpopular, so be it.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.@laurenshallion.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thinking of Copernicus and the surgeon that discovered hand washing today. Implying that scientists have developed thought vaccines is perpetuating misinformation. Unless, of course, someone would care to post a link to the peer-reviewed paper titled, “Thought vaccines: Mechanisms and efficacy”.

Thinking of Copernicus and the surgeon that discovered hand washing today. Implying that scientists have developed thought vaccines is perpetuating misinformation. Unless, of course, someone would care to post a link to the peer-reviewed paper titled, “Thought vaccines: Mechanisms and efficacy”.

Check out our Perspective now published in Nature Mental Heath: Confronting Crisis and Reclaiming Purpose in Psychological Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00575-4