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Jonas Dora

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Psychological scientist working at the University of Washington. Substance use, emotion, motivation, decision-making. jonasdora.com

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Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · Jan 14

I'm excited to share a new preprint: In a novel experimental paradigm, we found evidence that stress induces a computational bias during alcohol-related decision-making in favor of alcohol, but this bias was only sometimes strong enough to overcome competing considerations (e.g., taste preferences).

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jan 14

How people decide to consume (more) alcohol when feeling stressed: http://osf.io/c7q9p/

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 16h

I know this is a terrible line of thinking, but these are desperate times.

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 16h

Dems are (rightfully) fighting for healthcare during the shutdown. But wouldn't it be better to let Rs implement their harmful policies now, so voters experience the consequences before midterms? This would cause short-term suffering, but if Dems lose in 2026, won't the total suffering be greater?

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 1d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 7d

Thats fair! :)

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 7d

(I’m also not advocating for anything to be a default across an entire field, I have talked about what I see sensible for my work and that of people who are in a similar position to me)

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 7d

So you’re saying you don’t know clinical psych well but know better than us who have worked in and reviewed in this field for years? I’m not assuming that it’s a sensible default for marine biology because I know exactly nothing about marine biology

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 7d

Then anyone with a brain will agree it’s ok to hold off on sharing the data until they are done :) this does not apply to 99% of clinical psych but plenty of people will use this as justification to hold onto their mturk data

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 7d

I, as many other people, get paid a salary (funded by taxpayer money) to collect data and write code. Why should they be my property “until the effort put in is paid off”? I alrdy got paid to do this work! Now they belong to those who paid for them, which is everyone

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 7d

I agree mostly and I think there are many ways to go about this but I also think the point of the OP applies to this as well, most people don’t appear to try to do that either ;)

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 8d

Saw Eiko’s post, haven’t read the paper - I’m not surprised, this is the exact criticism addiction researchers have voiced for long time re social media “addiction” - we’d be “addicted” to lots of things following the rationale, such as being social, breathing, sleeping, drinking water, …

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 10d

Honored to present my finished master’s thesis in a symposium at #SRP2025 this weekend with Jessica Hamilton, Jasmine Mote, Renata Botello, and Dan Fulford!

@sydadams.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social
@jmote.bsky.social

Me presenting at a lectern in the Crystal room at the Biltmore hotel

Presenters at the interpersonal SRP symposium

Me and Aidan in the Crystal conference room at the Biltmore in front of a projector

Me and my friends at the Biltmore hotel in front of glass doors

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Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs @jsadjournal.bsky.social · 16d

Coping motives for alcohol and cannabis use better reflect negative emotionality than emotion regulation deficits in young adults (just accepted in @jsadjournal.bsky.social)
@uwpsychology.bsky.social @jonasdora.bsky.social @kevinmking.bsky.social
www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Coping motives for alcohol and cannabis use better reflect negative emotionality than emotion regulation deficits in young adults.: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 0, No ja

Objective. Motivational models argue that people use alcohol and cannabis to regulate emotions (Cooper et al., 2016; Cox & Klinger, 1988). Descriptions of global self-reports of coping motives have em...

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 16d

Really cool new paper from the lab led by our awesome lab manager Diego Moss - see Kevin's thread below

Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 16d

The lab has been doing some cool work around basic affect regulation processes and their links to substance use. This paper was just accepted at JSAD.

OSF has the pre-print, pre-reg, codebooks, and analysis files here: osf.io/ha58c/

Paper is here: www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Coping motives for alcohol and cannabis use better reflect negative emotionality than emotion regulation deficits in young adults.: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 0, No ja

Objective. Motivational models argue that people use alcohol and cannabis to regulate emotions (Cooper et al., 2016; Cox & Klinger, 1988). Descriptions of global self-reports of coping motives have em...

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 16d

The lab has been doing some cool work around basic affect regulation processes and their links to substance use. This paper was just accepted at JSAD.

OSF has the pre-print, pre-reg, codebooks, and analysis files here: osf.io/ha58c/

Paper is here: www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Coping motives for alcohol and cannabis use better reflect negative emotionality than emotion regulation deficits in young adults.: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 0, No ja

Objective. Motivational models argue that people use alcohol and cannabis to regulate emotions (Cooper et al., 2016; Cox & Klinger, 1988). Descriptions of global self-reports of coping motives have em...

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 17d

Just got a YT ad for ICE, so it could be worse

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 19d

This H1B thing is a DISASTER for the USA. Phone your representative and senator NOW and demand action to protect America.

This is an attack on the American economy and American technological and scientific advancement. Not to mention a truly awful thing to do to half a million people.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20d

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 20d

What kind of thought process is this, “people can work here and pay taxes like everyone else but they also need to pay the government $100,000” 🤣

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 20d

So this means I can never leave the country again? (I don’t own $100k)

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations, Mickey! Well deserved

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 23d

Crazy comeback by the Seattle Storm in the fourth quarter!!!

Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 23d

D, and it’s not close at all

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 27d

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.