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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 3h

New lab pic - welcome to the lab Matt!

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@grantaking.bsky.social
@siennarose.bsky.social
@jananmost.bsky.social

PPOL lab on steps outside in front of doors with “Department of Psychology” written on the glass.
Top row from left to right: Chris, Grant, Aidan
Bottom row from left to right: Janan, Michaelle, Matt, Sienna

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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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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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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 22

You’ll be missed!

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 22

At #APS25DC this week? Come check out our symposium on Friday at 1pm! Featuring @whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @hfla-phd.bsky.social, @jnfrltackett.bsky.social, and Sylia Wilson!

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 16

Eg, if someone always has low values for emotion and impulsivity, with a person-specific cutoff of 85%, they would still have 15% “intense” values even though they never reported truly intense emotion/impulsivity.

It would also be cool to look at different thresholds for emotion and impulsivity.

Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 16

Thank you! In our exploratory analyses in the first sample (the other five were preregistered), we tried person-specific thresholds but the direction of correlations was reversed. Person-specific cutoffs remove individual differences and the core question here is an individual differences one.

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · May 9

Co-occurring and covarying are different things. Nice to see others taking up this position. Super cool proof-of-concept with emotional impulsivity from @jananmost.bsky.social, @drsarahsperry.bsky.social, @kevinmking.bsky.social, and @aidangcw.bsky.social.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40323898/

Uncovering urgency in daily life: Testing a novel method for assessing emotion-impulsivity co-occurrence in momentary data - PubMed

Impulsivity is a personality trait with broad health implications. Urgency is a facet of impulsivity defined as the tendency to engage in rash action when experiencing strong emotions. Thus, as define...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Thanks for reading along! Feel free to reach out with any thoughts and questions. 13/13

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Huge thanks to a great team @drsarahsperry.bsky.social,
@kevinmking.bsky.social and my advisor
@aidangcw.bsky.social! This was my first project as a grad student and it was an awesome learning experience! 12/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

These findings have implications for the measurement of momentary urgency, and potentially for the articulation of other intense and dynamic events in the moment, such as binge drinking, suicidality, and reactivity. 11/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Our results (summarized in the table below) suggest that the cooccurrence of intense instances of emotion and impulsivity was more strongly associated with trait scores of urgency and impulsivity relative to the traditional emotion-impulsivity covariance approach. 10/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

With ecological momentary assessment data from five preregistered samples and one exploratory sample, we proposed, and found support for, an alternative approach to more adequately capture urgency in the moment. 9/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Would we really want to say that Person A was highly urgent and Person B was not? 8/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

In contrast, take Person B, whose reports of emotion and impulsivity are highly variable. Although they often report intense emotion and impulsivity that frequently cooccur, due to the irregularity of scores, they would have a relatively weaker emotion-impulsivity correlation. 7/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Take Person A, whose reports of momentary impulsivity and emotion always hover in the low range near zero. To the extent that they fluctuate together, this person would have a strong covariance of emotion and impulsivity even though their reports never enter the intense range. 6/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Let’s look at an example in the figure below. 5/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

More recent work studying urgency in the moment as the covariation of emotion and impulsivity has largely found small, nonsignificant associations with trait scores of urgency. Why might that be? 4/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Urgency is a facet of impulsivity defined as the tendency to engage in rash action when experiencing strong emotions. Although urgency is defined as a dynamic, if-then process, the bulk of past work has used cross-sectional dispositional measures to study urgency. 3/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Data from 1,186 participants across six independent samples suggested that the cooccurrence of intense instances of momentary emotion and impulsivity may be a better articulation of momentary urgency than the commonly used emotion-impulsivity covariation approach. 2/n

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · May 14

Just published in JoPACS!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40323898/

What is urgency and how should we best assess it in the moment? A thread 🧵 1/n

Uncovering urgency in daily life: Testing a novel method for assessing emotion-impulsivity co-occurrence in momentary data - PubMed

Impulsivity is a personality trait with broad health implications. Urgency is a facet of impulsivity defined as the tendency to engage in rash action when experiencing strong emotions. Thus, as define...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Apr 7

Hey folks! I'll be teaching two workshops in May on Structural Equation Modeling!

One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info

The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info

🙏Please RT and share! 🙏

Let met tell you more...

Intro SEM Information — SMaRT Workshops

smart-workshops.com

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Nate Phillips @nphillips36.bsky.social · Jan 31

Very excited to share our new paper, “Additive and Interactive Relations of Personality and Cognition with Externalizing Behaviors,” now accepted at Clinical Psych Science!

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jan 31

Additive and Interactive Relations of Personality and Cognition with Externalizing Behaviors: http://osf.io/tpa8b_v1/

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Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thank you!

Janan Mostajabi @jananmost.bsky.social · Jan 30

Huge thanks to my collaborators (@vizecolin.bsky.social, @siennarose.bsky.social, @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aidangcw.bsky.social) for all their help, support, and mostly, their patience.

Thanks for reading along! Feel free to reach out with any questions or comments.
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