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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, after 21 years, an expression of concern has been issued for the publication of Study 329 by the journal where it appeared.

If you haven't heard about this scandalous study, see here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_329

www.jaacap.org/article/S089...

Efficacy of Paroxetine in the Treatment of Adolescent Major Depression: A Randomized, Controlled Trial (J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 40(7):762-772; https://doi.org/10.1097/00004583-200107000-00...

The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is publishing this expression of concern in order to alert readers to concerns that have been raised about the article.

www.jaacap.org

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 19h

‼️ Recent work by Setayesh Radkani, Joshua Tenenbaum & Rebecca Saxe:

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model | PNAS

Authorities, from parents of toddlers to leaders of formal institutions, use punishment to communicate disapproval and enforce social norms. Ideall...

www.pnas.org

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote for @psyche.co about disinhibition – the trait that brings chaos and frustration, but can also (sometimes) spark charm and boldness. Check it out!

Christian Jarrett @christianjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

The trait that makes some people so frustrating – and alluring psyche.co/ideas/the-tr... By @jananmost.bsky.social for @psyche.co Conscientiousness is constantly touted as a virtue, so what’s life like for people with the opposite trait – disinhibition?

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Dr. Jeremy G. Stewart (he/him) @querbylab.bsky.social · 1d

🎉🎉New preprint from graduate students Lily Martin and Ning Yeo! The piece focuses on better understanding / classifying suicide ideation content, and examines how endorsed content is distributed across key aspects of social identity.

Comments/feedback are welcome!

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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simine vazire @simine.com · 1d

My blog has moved! It’s now at sometimesimwrongblog.wordpress.com If you have links to posts in your syllabus, let me know if you have any trouble finding the corresponding post!

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 2d

We're looking for an experimental psychologist in Witten. Contact me if you have questions about the job (I'm not on the commission, so can talk freely :-)
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/59638545...

Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) bei Universität Witten/Herdecke

Wir suchen: Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) (Vollzeit) • Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58455 Witten, Deutschland

uni-wh.softgarden.io

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Lukas Schellenberg @schellenberglukas.bsky.social · 5d

New paper out! 🎢 We found that following negative life events most people's self-esteem tends to increase again–though some don't seem to recover. Personality traits and perceived event characteristics predicted who recovered vs. who did not. @peterhaehner.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/0890...

Individual differences in self-esteem trajectories after negative life events: The role of the Big Five personality traits and perceived event characteristics - Lukas Schellenberg, Marco Joe Altorfer,...

Negative life events can lead to changes in self-esteem, with diverging effects across individuals. To better understand these individual differences, we examin...

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 7d

If colleagues or students share a dataset with you and you make this face, consider sharing these resources with them. ☺️

datamgmtinedresearch.com

1. Organizing data (Ch. 3)
2. Naming variables and files (Ch. 9)
3. Documenting data (Ch. 8)
4. Cleaning data (Ch. 14)

a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right

ALT: a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right

media.tenor.com

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HiTOP @hitop-system.bsky.social · 7d

Longitudinal associations of structural and functional brain connectivity with dimensions of psychopathology in adolescence. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

Redirecting

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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 10d

study emotion? sections of this are a v worthwhile read. no paywall. useful reminder that not everyone falls neatly into BET v constructionism buckets researchgate.net/publication/255522683_The_duration_of_affective_phenomena_or_emotions_sentiments_and_passions

(PDF) The duration of affective phenomena or emotions, sentiments and passions

PDF | On Jan 1, 1991, Nico H. Frijda and others published The duration of affective phenomena or emotions, sentiments and passions | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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Michael D. Krämer @mdkraemer.bsky.social · May 30

We are conducting a meta-analysis on personal and contextual predictors of solitude. We're looking for unpublished research such as theses, unpublished manuscripts, conference submissions etc.
Full call for data: tinyurl.com/4hur45cw
Please reskeet, or message me if you know unpublished research!

MA solitude: Call for unpublished data

Meta-analysis on solitude: Call for unpublished data Dear colleagues, We are conducting a meta-analysis on personal and contextual predictors of solitude. Currently, we are looking for unpublished r...

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René Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 12d

Personality change people: does it make sense to think that to change a broader trait domain (neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness) one could consider starting with those facets/nuances that are furthest from the desired levels?
(Most room for change?)

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Milagros Nores @mnores.bsky.social · Jul 18

I recommend reading the age 18 follow-up on the Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Children in foster care had significantly stronger communication & socialization skills than their peers who remained in institutional care, and higher quality was critical. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40638296/#fu...

Adaptive functioning at age 18 years following severe early deprivation: Results of a randomized controlled trial - PubMed

In the present study, we examined adaptive functioning data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care followin...

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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 12d

1/32 Fluoxetine's loss of efficacy for the treatment of pediatric depression.

🚨 New paper and pre-print alert 🚨

With great colleagues @floriannaudet.bsky.social @richlyus.bsky.social @markhoro.bsky.social @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social and Gert van Valkenhoef

A longer 🧵

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 13d

At #SRP2025?

I'm presenting some findings on antagonism from meta-analyses, large scale text mining, and large language modeling tomorrow at 2:30!

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · 13d

Hey #SRP2025! Curious about how context shapes impulsive action and inaction in daily life? Come chat with me about our findings!

🗓️ Tonight (Thurs), 7-9pm
📍 Poster T72, The Topography of Momentary Impulsivity: Context Matters

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 13d

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).

📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025

👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418

Please share!

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Aleksa Kaurin @aleksakaurin.bsky.social · 14d

Easily one of my favorite collaborations yet! Working with @whitneyringwald.bsky.social is always a joy—so much fun and endlessly inspiring.

Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14d

Huge shout-out to my inspiring and brilliant co-authors @aleksakaurin.bsky.social, Kailey Lawson, and Rick Robins.

Preprint available here: osf.io/28sav_v1

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14d

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨

Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions.

We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26.

Brief thread...

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14d

We studied a sample of 647 youth who rated their temperament traits from ages 10-16 and Big 5 personality traits from 14-26.

With this unique dataset including overlapping temperament/personality assessments, spanning key developmental periods, we were able to find some very interesting things:

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14d

1. Childhood/adolescent temperament predicts conceptually similar Big 5 traits at age 26.

But also, Effortful Control predicts all Big 5, suggesting self-regulation helps us adapt to the roles of responsibilities of adulthood.

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14d

2. Looking at bivariate associations across all available waves, we see analogous temperament starts predicting adult personality around age 12-14, in line with the idea the transitional time of adolescence is when we start laying the foundation for who we grow up to be.

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14d

3. My favorite finding.

Using joint latent growth models that assume analogous temperament/Big 5 traits are indicators of the same factor...

....we found evidence that they are not distinct constructs but are actually just different expressions of the same underlying dimensions.

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14d

4. With these joint temperament/personality traits, we were then able to establish mean-level change and rank-order stability in traits across an age span that's not been investigated yet.

Bottom line: traits are really stable and change in the direction of maturity.

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