Whitney Ringwald
@whitneyringwald.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota | Studying the processes underlying personality & psychopathology in everyday life
Lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu
Lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu
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✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall!
Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab
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Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab
Please spread the word!
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Call for papers: Emotion special issue on Affect Dynamics Across Multiple Timescales (moments→days→years) and links to mental and physical health. Letters of intent due Jan 15, 2026. Details/submission:
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Please share with colleagues/trainees. @affectscience.bsky.social
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Please share with colleagues/trainees. @affectscience.bsky.social
www.apa.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Call for papers: Emotion special issue on Affect Dynamics Across Multiple Timescales (moments→days→years) and links to mental and physical health. Letters of intent due Jan 15, 2026. Details/submission:
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Please share with colleagues/trainees. @affectscience.bsky.social
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Please share with colleagues/trainees. @affectscience.bsky.social
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🚨New research drop!🚨
Gather around, one last bit of research to announce before the year ends! This is one that has been incubating for awhile, but the methods have finally caught up with my theorizing!
The title is: The Hidden Structure in Reality TV
1/6
Gather around, one last bit of research to announce before the year ends! This is one that has been incubating for awhile, but the methods have finally caught up with my theorizing!
The title is: The Hidden Structure in Reality TV
1/6
two women speaking into microphones in front of a sign that says mtv movie awards
ALT: two women speaking into microphones in front of a sign that says mtv movie awards
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December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🚨New research drop!🚨
Gather around, one last bit of research to announce before the year ends! This is one that has been incubating for awhile, but the methods have finally caught up with my theorizing!
The title is: The Hidden Structure in Reality TV
1/6
Gather around, one last bit of research to announce before the year ends! This is one that has been incubating for awhile, but the methods have finally caught up with my theorizing!
The title is: The Hidden Structure in Reality TV
1/6
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🔥 New viewpoint paper accepted at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science!
I propose a behavioral conceptualization of personality functioning (PF) that reframes the construct in terms of learned self-related repertoires rather than inferred inner structures.
I propose a behavioral conceptualization of personality functioning (PF) that reframes the construct in terms of learned self-related repertoires rather than inferred inner structures.
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🔥 New viewpoint paper accepted at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science!
I propose a behavioral conceptualization of personality functioning (PF) that reframes the construct in terms of learned self-related repertoires rather than inferred inner structures.
I propose a behavioral conceptualization of personality functioning (PF) that reframes the construct in terms of learned self-related repertoires rather than inferred inner structures.
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For more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
For more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7
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1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature
Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New preprint alert🚨
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
Examining the Content and Consistency of Suicidal Thoughts using Large Language Models: https://osf.io/8jx4u
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New preprint alert🚨
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
The main points about the instability of LLM answers and limits on “meta cognition“ are important but also their (purported) love of octopus, crows, and mint chocolate ice cream is just delightful.
LLMs overwhelming choose octopus as their favorite animal. But if asked 2nd-favorite animal first, they *also* choose octopus and say corvids are their top favorite, then mistakenly deny that their answers are affected by question order. Link to full blog post in thread.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The main points about the instability of LLM answers and limits on “meta cognition“ are important but also their (purported) love of octopus, crows, and mint chocolate ice cream is just delightful.
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We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes.
Why?
Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism.
Really?
Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.
Why?
Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism.
Really?
Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes.
Why?
Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism.
Really?
Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.
Why?
Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism.
Really?
Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.
What a useful study! Thank you!
The first preprint from the SHARE study is out! 🥳 We compared the effects of three different incentives (a bulk payment, a bulk payment with personalized feedback, and payment per beep) on data quantity, data quality, and participant experiences in a student sample.
The effect of incentive type on data quality and quantity in an experience sampling study in a student population: https://osf.io/pc924
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What a useful study! Thank you!
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New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
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From my master’s thesis to my first PhD project — excited to share that this work (together with @jordanrvl.bsky.social, @ginettelafit.bsky.social, Anja Franziska Ernst, Josip Razum, Eva Ceulemans, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social) is now published in AMPPS!
Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Meeting the Bare Minimum: Quality Assessment of Idiographic Temporal Networks Using Power Analysis and Predictive-Accuracy Analysis - Yong Zhang, Jordan Revol, Ginette Lafit, Anja F. Ernst, Josip Razu...
The network theory of psychopathology inspired clinicians and researchers to use idiographic networks to study how symptoms of an individual interact over time,...
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
From my master’s thesis to my first PhD project — excited to share that this work (together with @jordanrvl.bsky.social, @ginettelafit.bsky.social, Anja Franziska Ernst, Josip Razum, Eva Ceulemans, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social) is now published in AMPPS!
Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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Nice article by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @boryslaw.bsky.social: 'violations of measurement invariance imply that there are potentially interesting differences in the measurement process between the groups, which could warrant explanations in their own right.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rethinking measurement invariance causally
Measurement invariance is often touted as a necessary statistical prerequisite for group comparisons. Typically, when there is evidence against measur…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Nice article by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @boryslaw.bsky.social: 'violations of measurement invariance imply that there are potentially interesting differences in the measurement process between the groups, which could warrant explanations in their own right.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dual-process theory and decision-making in large language models
Review by Oliver Brady, Paul Nulty, Lili Zhang, Tomás E. Ward & David P. McGovern
Web: go.nature.com/3LGzbBx
PDF: rdcu.be/ePY2w
Review by Oliver Brady, Paul Nulty, Lili Zhang, Tomás E. Ward & David P. McGovern
Web: go.nature.com/3LGzbBx
PDF: rdcu.be/ePY2w
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Dual-process theory and decision-making in large language models
Review by Oliver Brady, Paul Nulty, Lili Zhang, Tomás E. Ward & David P. McGovern
Web: go.nature.com/3LGzbBx
PDF: rdcu.be/ePY2w
Review by Oliver Brady, Paul Nulty, Lili Zhang, Tomás E. Ward & David P. McGovern
Web: go.nature.com/3LGzbBx
PDF: rdcu.be/ePY2w
Cutest RCT ever?
RCT: Daily oxytocin administration combined with positive physical intimacy was linked to improved wound healing and reduced cortisol; oxytocin alone or positive interactions without physical intimacy did not enhance healing.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Cutest RCT ever?
Peer reviewers-I’m curious, why do you track your reviews with web of science?
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Peer reviewers-I’m curious, why do you track your reviews with web of science?
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Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
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delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Participation Effects in Ecological Momentary Assessment Research: A Taxonomy and Call to Action: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cj8ut_v1
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Participation Effects in Ecological Momentary Assessment Research: A Taxonomy and Call to Action: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cj8ut_v1
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Integrating HiTOP and Computational Psychiatry for a New Era of Clinical Science: https://osf.io/sbuvd
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Integrating HiTOP and Computational Psychiatry for a New Era of Clinical Science: https://osf.io/sbuvd
A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!
✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall!
Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab
Please spread the word!
Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab
Please spread the word!
Join the Lab | Ringwald Lab
ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!
God I love it when empirical data contract fear-mongering cultural narratives.
Overall social media use is declining.
Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.
A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.
Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.
A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
God I love it when empirical data contract fear-mongering cultural narratives.
This paper is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Very compelling evidence that the extensive covariance of diverse psychopathology is not an artifact of cross-sectional factor analysis.
They show extensive "co-morbidity" across generations and within-person, over time.
doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
Very compelling evidence that the extensive covariance of diverse psychopathology is not an artifact of cross-sectional factor analysis.
They show extensive "co-morbidity" across generations and within-person, over time.
doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
APA PsycNet
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This paper is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Very compelling evidence that the extensive covariance of diverse psychopathology is not an artifact of cross-sectional factor analysis.
They show extensive "co-morbidity" across generations and within-person, over time.
doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
Very compelling evidence that the extensive covariance of diverse psychopathology is not an artifact of cross-sectional factor analysis.
They show extensive "co-morbidity" across generations and within-person, over time.
doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
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I really enjoyed doing this webinar - sharing in case it's helpful for people interested in an introduction to HiTOP: novopsych.com/news/webinar...
Webinar: Shortcomings of the DSM-5 and an alternative approach to assessment and classification - HiTOP - NovoPsych
The DSM-5 has shaped how mental health practitioners think about diagnosis and treatment — but it is not always the most effective approach.
novopsych.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I really enjoyed doing this webinar - sharing in case it's helpful for people interested in an introduction to HiTOP: novopsych.com/news/webinar...