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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 9d

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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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks very much to the organizers for facilitating such a great event– truly one of the best poster sessions I've attended! 😊

Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · 12d

Had a great time presenting my poster exploring people's thoughts & feelings about death w/ #BERTopic this evening at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat– it was wonderful learning more about others' work and nerding out! 💀🪦
#SRP2025

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Aug 11

I called the phone number listed on their site and was directed by an automated message to email [email protected]— I sent them an email and it didn’t bounce so that might be worth a try!

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Steven Heine @stevenheine.bsky.social · Jul 30

I reply here to Mickey Inzlicht’s critique of our assessment of the TMT literature -led by former grad students, Lihan Chen and Rachele Benjamin. We consider the question of how can we best evaluate a literature and, judging from his critique, reach a controversial conclusion.

Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · Jul 30

Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steve Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!

The Reports of Terror Management Theory’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Last week I declared the social psychology of death officially dead.

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · Jul 30

Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steve Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!

The Reports of Terror Management Theory’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Last week I declared the social psychology of death officially dead.

open.substack.com

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Jul 25

(6/6) Big thank you to co-authors @sharinahamm.bsky.social , @leilyb.bsky.social , @kathrynfox.bsky.social , @shirleybwang.bsky.social- and bluesky-less Kathryn Coniglio, Erin Reilly, and Leah Somerville- for their support in this project!

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Jul 25

(5/6) This reveals a striking dimension of emotion regulation: that many adolescents sometimes engage in self-destructive behaviors not to escape negative emotions, but to amplify them. Implications for these findings can be found in our manuscript.

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Jul 25

(4/6) We found that: (1) contra-hedonic functions are not just present but prevalent, (2) contra-hedonic functions are most common for NSSI, and (3) contra-hedonic functions are consistently associated with a desire to self-punish.

Figure 1: Stacked bar charts showing frequency of endorsement of contra-hedonic functions of restrictive eating, binge eating, purging, and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI).

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Jul 25

(3/6)...*pro*-hedonic motivations for these behaviors- i.e., how people use them to feel *better.* However, we were curious if people ever use these behaviors to feel *worse* given that even healthy people voluntarily pursue activities that induce negative emotions.

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Jul 25

(2/6) Usually we think of people as being motivated to feel good- in research, practice & everyday life. But we know that people also do things to feel bad- like listening to sad music/watching scary movies.

Historically, explanations of NSSI & ED behaviors have only examined...

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Jul 25

(1/6) New pre-print alert! 🤩🚨

We provide new evidence for contra-hedonic functions of NSSI & ED behaviors in adolescents.

See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Irene Xu @irenexu.bsky.social · Jun 24

Check out our new paper "Before the attempt: How people think and plan in suicide crises."

We characterized contemplation & planning in suicide crises, and identified factors that related to classification in the attempt group (vs. a plan-only group).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Before the attempt: How people think and plan in suicide crises

Cognitive processes preceding suicidal attempts (SA) remain poorly understood, particularly in distinguishing those who act on suicidal thoughts from …

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Jul 2

Woohoo! We had so much fun working on this! 🤩

Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · Jul 2

Almost exactly one year after starting my lab (!), I'm thrilled to share our first preprint! 🥳 @leilyb.bsky.social @sharinahamm.bsky.social @francesghart.bsky.social

We propose future directions for mathematical, computational, & digital methods to advance suicide research: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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ABCT Student SIG @abctstudentsig.bsky.social · Jun 20

Calling for abstracts for the 2025 @abctnow.bsky.social convention by Aug 15! Submit your Student SIG poster abstracts here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · Jun 1

Shoutout to @abctstudentsig.bsky.social & Chair @francesghart.bsky.social for a rewarding & enriching FREE student research symposium today! 🤩

Honored @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social could be a part of it.

Slide from Dr. Debora Bell's (Mizzou) keynote talk on how to navigate our career paths.

Expert panel on multiple paths we can go with a psych degree!

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thanks so much for your support Matt- couldn’t have done it without you! 😁🙏

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · May 24

Thank you for your support in making this happen!! 😊

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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · May 21

Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Awardee Julia Leonard on Celebrating Children’s Progress

This Yale University researcher discusses her efforts to understand children’s approach to learning.

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks to @sharinahamm.bsky.social for recording my talk- viewable here!

youtu.be/PGK7CaxkUZ8?...

Applying Natural Language Processing for Death-Related Phenomena Detection

YouTube video by Frances Grace Hart

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · May 24

That’s a wrap! Thanks so much to everyone who came to our symposium- it was so much fun! So grateful to have chaired my first symposium with such a great group! 🤩

#APSDC25

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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · May 22

The CCS lab is en route to #APS2025! Come check out our exciting research tomorrow and Sunday 🤩

@francesghart.bsky.social @sharinahamm.bsky.social

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ABCT Student SIG @abctstudentsig.bsky.social · May 14

Counting down the days til our #ABCTStudentSymposium2025! Be sure to register on our website & check out our program: 1a812b7f-01db-43fd-b528-3a2cdc1be9c4.filesusr.com/ugd/3a1e4b_a...

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Grace Hart (she/her) @francesghart.bsky.social · May 9

Such a great conference! 😁

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