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Max Berg

@maxberg91.bsky.social

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[he/him], psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, Postdoc @ University of Marburg in the LOEWE center DYNAMIC. Interested in psychotherapy, network analysis, formal modelling and translational stuff. https://www.dynamic-center.net/

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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · Jul 14

New paper out in European Psychologist 📄⏰: "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Translation." In a collaborative project with spokespersons of many subfields of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) we explore ideas for connecting basic psychology and clinical psychology. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 1d

The Kant method for approaching multicolliniarity: A novel way for finding analytic propositions.

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh. It is all open access since 2025 :)

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 1d

You could subscribe to find out: econtent.hogrefe.com/loi/ror

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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 1d

But what about RDoC? 😀

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 1d

someone should point out the shortcomings of traditional nosology and test the Rorschach against metrics of dynamic networks (not me). And then repeat with HiTOP spectra. 😀

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 2d

I always feel so inspired by Boring and his definition of intelligence: Science is whatever is published in scientific journals.

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 2d

It has an impact factor of 1.8. Therefore ist must be science.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to share this new article with @saskiascholten.bsky.social, providing proof-of-principle evidence for biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms using ecological momentary assessments. Part of the special issue on belief updating in BRAT. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The update of interpersonal beliefs in everyday life situations in relation to depressive symptoms and state affect – An ecological momentary assessment proof-of-principle study

Previous research has provided valuable insights into associations of belief updating with aspects of psychopathology. However, prior work was mostly …

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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite journal. :-)

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 5d

Affektive Störungen und Raumfahrt

Thomas Heichele @thomasheichele.bsky.social · 5d

"Klassiker der Naturphilosophie und Raumfahrt"

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 5d

Während das Wintersemester nun anläuft, plant der Profi schon längst das Sommersemester 2026. Es wird überlegt, jedem Seminar, ja jeder Veranstaltung, konsequent den Zusatz "und Raumfahrt" zu geben. #undRaumfahrt

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 12d

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now.

"Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes."

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Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 10d

Ok, please school me. I can take it. I need a better way to do this:

data |>
group_by(x) |>
mutate(n = n()) |>
ungroup() |>
mutate(x = reorder(factor(x), n))

#rstats

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 21d

Dear journal editors, I urge you to establish or expand author-friendly submission guidelines that avoid unnecessary time-consuming formatting work. Although some journals have already made progress in this area, there is still much room for improvement. A plea based on a few painful experiences 👇.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 11d

Happy to share the first meta-analysis on biased belief updating in depression, published in Clin Psych Rev. Across 29 studies, depression was related to a reduced belief update following positive information, but not to an increased update following neg info. 👇 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lsBL~0r1z...

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 16d

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky!

Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

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Johannes C. Ehrenthal @ehrenthal-lab.bsky.social · Sep 10

++++ Ausschreibung für eine Professur für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie mit Schwerpunkt Psychodynamische Psychotherapieforschung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. +++

Das ist eine sehr spannende Stelle mit viel Potenzial. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 08.10.2025. Gerne teilen!

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 18d

New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Biased Belief Updating in Relation To Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Two Studies Using Feedback from Real Social Interactions - Cognitive Therapy and Research

Background Depression has been related to difficulties in updating negative beliefs in response to novel positive information. Research on this issue in the context of social feedback is scarce, thoug...

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19d

I once saw a (very interesting) talk about sleep in which the speaker started by saying that we don't really know how to define sleep, and then proceeded to operationalize sleep in flies as basically periods when they are still for a long time. This got me thinking...

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 27d

* Honest, open dialogue between differing perspectives is a core value worth preserving.

* The form of such dialogue, without the honesty or openness, has been co-opted by bad-faith actors as a cynical strategy to garner respectability.

* There are plenty of suckers eager to fall for the ruse.

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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · Nov 3

Therapy methods as Warhammer 40k factions!

Psychoanalysis: Humans. Trying their best to keep the corpse of their god emperor alive. Use very old technology with great conviction and remarkable effects.

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 22d

Oder noch existentieller: Das (Prof) Sein und das Nichts.

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DYNAMIC @loewe-dynamic.bsky.social · 29d

📝 How do experiences of discrimination affect trust in psychotherapy?

Our study is looking for participants aged 18 and older - with or without a migration background. Take part now, share your perspective and support research!

👉 www.dynamic-center.net/study-how-do...

Cover picture of the online-survey: Discrimination and Mental Health

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Johannes C. Ehrenthal @ehrenthal-lab.bsky.social · 25d

Is the assumption of human existence evidence-based?

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 23d

Das Unbehagen in der Wissenschaftskultur.

Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 25d

Horse Horse Shock GIF

ALT: Horse Horse Shock GIF

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