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Aidan Wright

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Psychopathology | Personality | Quant Methods Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry | Eisenberg Family Depression Center | University of Michigan Editor | Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science Founder and Instructor | www.smart-workshops.com

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo

We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback

Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨

Using HiTOP in Research

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent detailed intro paper on open scholarship in clinical psychology by some of my favourite authors on the topic, including @drlynam.bsky.social @dsbarra.bsky.social @jnfrltackett.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social and others. Perfect paper to turn into an intro lecture!

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 6d

The Open Science Movement and Clinical Psychology Training: Rigorous Science is Transparent Science: https://osf.io/s46wd

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Don Lynam @drlynam.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty excited about this one. In this paper, we discuss the replication/credibility crisis, the factors that contribute to it, and clinical psychology's slow (really slow) progress in dealing with it. We offer a competency-based fraemwork for improving our training of future scholars.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 6d

The Open Science Movement and Clinical Psychology Training: Rigorous Science is Transparent Science: https://osf.io/s46wd

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 6d

Spotted in Ann Arbor

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 6d

Apropos of nothing, remember that polygraphs (i.e., lie detector tests) are so unreliable as to be inadmissible as evidence in federal court.

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 8d

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

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats!

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

🤷‍♂️

I will confidently assert that smash style burgers are really the only kind of

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

In n out regional, we don’t got it. But I went to 5 guys the other week super excited, hadn’t been in years, but felt the meat quality was noticeably poorer than shake shack. Maybe it was a one off, but definitely had that thought.

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

I forgot you’re an Arby’s guy

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

If only there was a dashboard to dial in these evals

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

Apropos of nothing, if I was an overpriced chain burger chain, I’d make my soda cheap…on par or cheaper than McDonalds or something like that…so people would then think, “these burgers must be so expensive bc they’re awesome,” not, “I can’t believe how overpriced this place is”

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

But I don’t care what you think, it really is the best overpriced chain burger joint

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

That’s not possible. But that’s also not the point, we’d need to know more.

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, so I’ve had this thought about online reviews and teaching before, but what prompted it tonight was I saw my local shake shack got a 3.5 review, and I thought, this is impossible, I don’t know if the reference group people are using is other shakeshacks or all restaurants

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

I doubt that was me. Though I do love to say it.

I am for sure the person who started, “Let’s get rickledy pickledy!”

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

Different sampling populations maybe. But also I always want to filer out the reviews that feature service prominently when I’m doing take out.

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. I must have seen that before.

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17d

It strikes me that a good context or example for getting people to understand many key measurement principles (reference group, anchoring, sample bias, maybe even reliability and validity) is online reviews

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 19d

Either that or issue us all cattle guards

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 19d

It’s the worst spot, but a much broader issue plaguing all crosswalks near campus.

I’d support widespread deployment of crossing guards.

They could repurpose the guards who kept the diag safe last year. A better use of funds for sure.

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 19d

I take it you don’t drive within 5 blocks of campus much?

At last, the untamed chaos of the undergraduate wolverine’s perilous dance across the painted stones will be subdued!

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René Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 19d

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25.
Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

European Conference on Personality, Edinburgh, 2026

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Colin Vize @vizecolin.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Spread the word! We're (w/ @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aleksakaurin.bsky.social) organizing a special issue at PD:TRT focused on innovations for measuring context in ambulatory assessment studies of personality pathology. We'd love for you (yes, you) to submit a proposal (deadline Nov. 14th):