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Psychological methods; Philosophy of psychology; Time series data; Experience sampling method in clinical practice; Psych Networks: more than a pretty picture? https://www.laurabringmannlab.com/

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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · May 20

A new look at networks! With these two new papers published in World Psychiatry (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) and Advances.in (advances.in/psychology/1...) I hope we can think about including context, changes in the means, and how the network may be moderated by contextual factors.

The future of dynamic networks in research and clinical practice

Click on the article title to read more.

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 17d

Experts with theoretical traditions, researchers experienced in approaches to theory construction, educators and policymakers work on the first steps toward creating a mature subfield of theoretical psychology. bit.ly/4nLOWoE @annemscheel.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @jmbh.bsky.social

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Aug 7

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?

Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

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Accuracy and Consistency of Visual Analog Scales in Ecological Momentary Assessment and Digital Studies

The ubiquity of digital technologies has increased assessments of thoughts, behaviors, and experiences via electronic devices. Surveys on smartphones or laptops often implement Visual Analogue Scales ...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months).

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Does your smartwatch say you’re stressed? It may often be wrong

Consumer grade smartwatches may not be as accurate as promised when measuring tiredness or stress. That conclusion is drawn by researchers Björn Siepe and Eiko Fried based on a comparison between smar...

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The ESM Item Repository @esmrepository.bsky.social · Jul 16

New blog post 📣 by @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social's @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on six things you can do with your ESM items apart from your main, substantive analyses. Check it out here: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#M... #ESM #OpenScience #Measurement

Blog posts | ESM Item Repository

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Jul 14

Cool perspective on depression recurrence

>19,000 observations, n=37 discontinuing anti-depressants

Recurrence in ~1/3rd preceded by early warning signals in affect

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Smit et al. @mahelmich.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @eveliensnippe.bsky.social

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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · Jul 13

2 weeks left to apply to join #HPGVienna @univie.ac.at as senior scientist. More information ⬇️ #PsychJob #PhDJob #HealthPsych

Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · Jul 2

#HPGVienna is hiring! We are looking for a senior scientist to join our team and to manage the department's Ecological Momentary Assessment lab. We offer a lovely team, lots of support, and a potentially tenured position!
Apply by 27 July: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
#HealtPsych #BehSci

Senior Scientist

47 Fakultät für Psychologie

Besetzung ab: 01.10.2025 | Stundenausmaß: 20,00 | Einstufung KV: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc)

Befristung bis: 31.12.2029

Stellen ID: 4269

Es gibt viele gute Gründe, an der Universität Wien forschen und lehren zu wollen. Und einen, warum sich rund 7.500 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen vor Ihnen für diese Universität entschieden haben. Sie verstehen sich als Persönlichkeiten, die Spielraum für kontinuierlichen Anspruch, internationale Spitzenforschung und wissenschaftliche Exzellenz brauchen. Und dabei Freiheiten und Services genießen, wie sie an anderen Institutionen nicht selbstverständlich sind. Das möchten Sie auch? Herzlich willkommen in unserem Team!
Ihr persönlicher Spielraum:

Die Fakultät für Psychologie der Universität Wien umfasst das Dekanat, ein StudienServiceCenter sowie vier Institute.
Die zu besetzende Position als Senior Scientist und Labormanager*in ist an der Professur für Gesundheitspsychologie (Prof. Dr. Laura M. König) am Institut für Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologie angesiedelt. Sie untersuchen zusammen mit der Arbeitsgruppe psychologische, soziale und Umweltfaktoren, die zur Ausführung verschiedener Gesundheitsverhaltensweisen beitragen. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem Ernährungs- und Bewegungsverhalten. Weitere Forschungsschwerpunkte der Professur sind:

die Entwicklung und Evaluation von Gesundheitsverhaltensinterventionen, inkl. auf die physische Umwelt fokussierter und digitaler Interventionen
die Auswirkung der Studienteilnahme auf das Erleben und Verhalten der Proband*innen (research participation effects)
soziale Ungleichheiten in der digitalen Gesundheitsförderung (Digital Divide)
Frauen*gesundheit
Wissenschaftskommunikation.

Für weitere Informationen: https://gesundheit-psy.univie.ac.at/.
Die Arbeitsgruppe setzt sich aktiv für offene und reproduzierbare Wissenschaft (z.B. durch Präregistrierung und das Teilen von Materialien und Daten) und Wissenscha…

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Markus Ilkka Eronen @mieronen.bsky.social · Jul 12

What is more useful for explaining human behavior, neuroscience or folk psychology? In this new book chapter, co-authored with Laura Bringmann, we argue for the latter. Featuring mirror neurons, tiny worms, and Steve buying a banana! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) On worms, mirror neurons and explaining human behavior

PDF | A key challenge for psychological theorizing is: At what level(s) should we look for the best explanations and predictions of human behavior? The... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · Jul 4

Great question, we hope to do this every year or every other year!

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Jun 26

I wrote a blog post to celebrate 10 years of loo package 🎉 (R package implementing fast Pareto smoothed importance sampling cross-validation and many other useful methods for cross-validation)

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Jun 26

loo R package 10 years!
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/26/l...

loo R package 10 years! | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · Jun 26

Want to learn about dynamic modeling for daily diary, experience sampling, ecological momentary assessment data? 😎

Register for our online course ‘Modeling the dynamics of intensive longitudindal data’ which starts in October 2025! 🤩

utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

Modelling the Dynamics of Intensive Longitudinal Data (e-learning) 2025 | Utrecht Summer School

This online course covers how time series models can be used to model the dynamics of intensive longitudinal data (ILD).

utrechtsummerschool.nl

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Dominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · Jun 26

We asked people to reflect on this at each EMA beep for 25 days using open text boxes (100 answers/person). We also conducted 4 interviews in the same time. Currently still coding but comparing with previous ratings or events happens far less often that literature suggests. See design osf.io/md9xa/

How do people decide how they feel? Response Processes in ESM Studies

The Experience Sampling Method (ESM), a technique to study emotions in daily life, is booming among researchers and clinicians. To justify its use, valid measurements are crucial, but recently concern...

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · Jun 12

Folks, it's time to submit your papers to PCI Psychology. Here is our invitation to you, taken from our editorial osf.io/preprints/ps...

A screenshot from the PCI Psychology editorial

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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · Jun 5

Say you have a simple multilevel model: y ~ 1 + (1 | group).

What references are there to say (or contend with) the mean of the group-level means (group-level intercepts) is the same as the population mean (population-level intercept)?

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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · May 26

I very much appreciate @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social's openness about challenges in studying markers for careless responding and how to address them live while collecting data - among them lots of issues in dealing with participants' digital footprints #SAA2025

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Dominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · May 27

Really happy that @leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social presented the results of our mixed-methods study uncovering response processes in ESM studies 📱.

Take-away: people are very inconsistent in how they come up with their answers. Talking to participants in key! 🔐 #SAA2025

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 27

Very exciting to see the work from @katiehoemann.bsky.social at #SAA2025! Participants were able to voice record a description of events. Katie clustered these over many different topics. 2 fun ones:
- Complaints about rain (study was in Belgium 😅)
- Complaints about the study itself (ESM...)

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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · May 27

What an insane crowd at the #SAA2025 m-Party (also sublime dance moves)! 💃🪩🕺🏼

#EMA researchers know how to party! 👊🙏

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · May 29

We have a new group of Editorial Fellows at @psychscience.bsky.social journals-- check out their bios here: www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-ma...

10 Early Career Researchers Join APS’s 2025 Cohort of Editorial Fellows

APS welcomes 10 researchers from across the globe to the second cohort of APS Editorial Fellows.

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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · May 26

To really know what is going on in people's daily life, quantitative data is not enough - we need qualitative data, too! Important talk by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social at #SAA2025 👏

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Eeske van Roekel 🟥 @eeskevanroekel.bsky.social · May 26

First day of #SAA2025, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social is killing it with her talk on including qualitative options in ESM! @saa2025leuven.bsky.social
@ambulatory-assessment.org

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simine vazire @simine.com · May 23

Please spread the word!

Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network

Are you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit...

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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · May 14

Meet our candidates!

Laura Bringmann is an associate prof at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences.

Her motto: People are irreplaceable, so let's cherish one another!

Follow her at @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and go vote at rug.nl/vote 🗳️

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · May 10

Not-so-modest shoutout to our own paper on interactions in which we discuss both issues — scale dependence and confounding 😋 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Precise Answers to Vague Questions: Issues With Interactions - Julia M. Rohrer, Ruben C. Arslan, 2021

Psychological theories often invoke interactions but remain vague regarding the details. As a consequence, researchers may not know how to properly test them an...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · May 11

Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · May 5

🚨New Postdoc Opportunity

We have an opening for a postdoc jointly mentored by
Justin Baker and me for work on digital therapeutics and passive sensing using smartphones and wearables (smartwatches + smart rings). More info 👉: webbslab.com/job-postings

Please RT & share!

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