I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.

Among adults with anxiety or depression, emphasizing the word “bothered” during #PatientHealthQuestionnaire-9 and #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder-7 administration was associated with lower symptom scores vs standard instructions. ja.ma/4bqC2IZ

Finally — someone formalized and answered this! 🤌🏻

Whitney Ringwald@whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 4d ago

Are temperament and personality the same thing? Check out our new preprint tackling this question. Led by the incomparable @kaileylawson.bsky.social, with @rebeccatheshiner.bsky.social, bsky-less Rick Robins This was such a fun one to work on with this team!

Are temperament and personality the same thing? Check out our new preprint tackling this question. Led by the incomparable @kaileylawson.bsky.social, with @rebeccatheshiner.bsky.social, bsky-less Rick Robins This was such a fun one to work on with this team!

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4d ago

Are Temperament and Personality Traits Sibling Constructs or Twins? Toward a Lifespan Science of Personality Development: https://osf.io/wfs94

Can one minute daily audio recordings replace long symptom surveys? Very excited about our new paper addressing this question! @aidangcw.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social et al. Short 🧵 below...

Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries - Volume 56

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1/5 I'm excited to share that @chopwood.bsky.social and I's paper, "Angular Discrepancy and Personality Functioning Across Interpersonal Circumplex Surfaces," is now in press at Assessment 🎉 . Postprint, code, and materials: osf.io/3tw7a/

Very excited to finally share our latest paper! We meta-analysed 732 effect sizes from 430 studies (> 62,000 participants) to ask whether lower resting HRV is specific to certain mental disorders or shared across many forms of psychopathology. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... 1/

In polls, a certain % of respondents will mis-click, or misunderstand the question, or just click randomly. On close issues (like Trump v. Harris or whatever) this randomness mostly cancels out. But it serves to inflate the % who appear to endorse rare viewpoints. See "Lizardman's Constant":

Lizardman’s Constant Is 4%

Beware of Phantom Lizardmen I have only done a little bit of social science research, but it was enough to make me hate people. One study I helped with analyzed whether people from different countr…

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Aidan Wright@aidangcw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Many congrats and thanks to @renemottus.bsky.social for planning and executing a marvelous European Conference on Personality this past week Edinburgh didn’t disappoint, and I got to do a biennial stadtbummel with two of my favorite people and collaborators: Aleksandra Kaurin and Whitney Ringwald

Are you interested in studying substance use in youth? Are you also looking for a postdoc? What a coincidence - you should come join us at MUSC and work with my amazing postdoc mentor, Dr. Lindsay Squeglia! See full job listing here: www.linkedin.com/posts/mariap...

Are you interested in studying substance use in youth? Are you also looking for a postdoc? What a coincidence - you should come join us at MUSC and work with my amazing postdoc mentor, Dr. Lindsay… | ...

Are you interested in studying substance use in youth? Are you also looking for a postdoc? What a coincidence - you should come join us at MUSC and work with my amazing postdoc mentor, Dr. Lindsay Squ...

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🚨 Now out in @jamapsychiatry.com 🚨 Are people with depression less responsive to rewards on social media, just like in the lab? Actually…quite the opposite! 🧵 📄 Read the paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The Reinforcement Effect of Social Media Likes in Depression

This study investigates individual differences in the effect of social media likes on posting behavior and their association with and specificity to depressive psychopathology.

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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/...

Kitten Enjoys Ice Cream

ALT: Kitten Enjoys Ice Cream

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Semantic alignment between clients and therapists predicts therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes in message-based psychotherapy: https://osf.io/xhs9u

One month out! If you are looking to learn a thing or two about analyzing meta-analytic data, come join us before the semester kicks off 🎒

Colin Vize@vizecolin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey folks, I will be offering my SMaRT workshop on quant methods for meta-analysis in August this year (Aug. 10-11; smart-workshops.com/meta-info). There is some more info on the website and in the post below, but feel free to shoot me a message/email with any questions!

Among high-risk outpatients with #MDD, hospital-based assertive case management reduced the severity of suicidal thoughts and behaviors more than standard care during 6 months. Findings support a scalable psychosocial suicide prevention approach. ja.ma/4f3kSC9

Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nat. Mental Health (2026) rdcu.be/fsqkm

Stability of childhood maltreatment self-reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nature Mental Health - In this meta-analysis of 49 studies, the authors find that self-reports of childhood maltreatment are generally stable, challenging assumptions of inherent unreliability and...

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✨ New paper from our lab challenging the way we think about neurodevelopmental conditions is out in Molecular Psychiatry! ✨ The study is based on longitudinal data from early childhood to adolescence in more than 10,000 children in the UK from the TEDS study. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1)

The neurodevelopmental spectrum: phenotypic architecture, etiology, predictive utility, and specificity across development - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - The neurodevelopmental spectrum: phenotypic architecture, etiology, predictive utility, and specificity across development

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I am obsessed with this methodology and want to apply it to synthesize definitions for soo many constructs. Let’s start with “psychopathology”

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · last mo.

What is life? This new paper analyses the views of a whole bunch of folks who think about such things to see what if any coherence and overlap is to be found among them. It turns out that @wiringthebrain.bsky.social is the most centrist of all... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Someone should let them know it would be more effective with adjunct psychotherapy.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last mo.

Scientists find antidepressant in the brains of sharks off the coast of Rio de Janeiro

New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

Thrilled to share a new consensus statement just published in Nature Mental Health: "Ambulatory assessment in mental health: expert consensus and recommendations" Glad to have contributed to this group effort. Open-access read cube link here: rdcu.be/fnxDZ

Thrilled (really) to share recent evidence from our READY study led by @paulaphilippi.bsky.social w/ @aidangcw.bsky.social: "Minutes that matter: A microburst approach to adolescents' resolution of affect in response to daily stressors" 🧵1/9

Aleksa Kaurin@aleksakaurin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Minutes that matter: A microburst approach to adolescents’ resolution of affect in response to daily stressors osf.io/preprints/ps...

Reminder: If you have students or colleagues who would benefit from a workshop focused on psychometric scale development, please spread the word: smart-workshops.com/scale-dev-info

In addition to a hiring PhD in ~October & hopefully some PhDs and postdocs ~February, if anyone would like to work with me as part of eg a Marie-Curie or something similar, please do get in touch. Topics include depression, classification, measurement, systems, time-series, & theory building.

Need to learn how to model panel and/or intensive design longitudinal data? I'm offering my Multilevel Modeling (MLM) for Longitudinal Data course this month 📅 June 16–18 💻 3-day online workshop, Live/recorded for self-paced learning please share/RT🙏 smart-workshops.com/long-mlm-info

Congrats to our brilliant President @miriforbes.bsky.social and the whole exec committee for kicking off the #HiTOP2026 conference! @hitop-system.bsky.social

Excited to share that our paper, “To Regulate or Not To Regulate? Situational and Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation Initiation in Daily Life,” was accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! Postprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

How does relationship happiness change across 6 years in Swiss couples during midlife? New paper out in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! with Rebekka Weidmann, Dikla Segel-Karpas, Sophie Potter and Jenna Wünsche journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/5)

When You’re With Me, Baby, the Skies will be Blue for All My Life? A Dyadic Longitudinal Study of Relationship Happiness Through Midlife - Georg Henning, Rebekka Weidmann, Dikla Segel-Karpas, Sophie P...

Romantic relationships are critically important for a range of psychosocial outcomes across the lifespan, but few studies have examined relationship happiness i...

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This study is so rad! 😍 incorporating measures of actual behavior is exactly what the field needs to understand the (dis)continuity of normal and pathological functioning. Bonus for measuring *ability* not just *tendency* which is a huge gap in psychopathology models IMO.

Claire Gillan@clairegillan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On my way to #APS conference #aps26bcn for the FIRST TIME EVER! Here's a few things the lab are presenting. I have a talk on Friday: "Mapping Extreme Deviations In Cognition to Transdiagnostic Compulsivity: A Normative Modelling Approach" with work from @alicemcox.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Personality Trait Levels and Similarity as Predictors of Daily Interactions and Relationship Satisfaction in Romantic Couples: A Dyadic Daily Diary: https://osf.io/6z3je