1/ Our paper years in the making is finally out! TL;DR even very strong effects (d=1.00) can be attenuated by sampling from populations where there is variability in their likelihood of natural improvement (e.g., mild depression cases remitting on their own) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We had an end of semester holiday/cookie-decorating party and turned it into a holiday card! ❄️

The @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social & friends stayed pretty buttoned-up this @abctnow.bsky.social 😉👔

At @abctnow.bsky.social, Rutgers’ Ellen Wittler found that undergrads who were more depressed demonstrated a stronger momentary association between tiredness and sadness, suggesting they might be experienced more similarly by those folks 🥱😥

Huge congratulations to all the @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social poster presenters at @abctnow.bsky.social this year! 📊📈

Did somebody say...happy hour? Join us at 8:30pm on Friday 11/21! Scan the QR code below to reserve your spot! Kick back after a long day of conference-ing and enjoy food, drinks, and more at Pier 424 Seafood Market! We can’t wait to hear about your ABCT adventures 🥳

Looking for a rundown of P/PD-related events for ABCT weekend? We’ve got you covered 😎 T-3 days! 🎉

BUTTONS. ARE. BACK. Find any @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social member this week at @abctnow.bsky.social in NOLA to get your FREE button(s) to show off your true personality! 📸 credit to Thea McAfee, Alex Barnhill, & Hana Nip

🍁Fall🍂 for Columbus this grad school application season!

A park full of dogs in Halloween costumes in Columbus? A park full of dogs in Halloween costumes in Columbus! 🐶🎃 www.instagram.com/reel/DQSYWtH...

#NoKings in Columbus!

Anyone interested in what we’re up to in mattlab - follow us on Instagram! We’re (@)mattlabatosu and we try to post useful mental health info, study findings, and glimpses into our actual lives 👇 www.instagram.com/mattlabosu

In this behemoth effort led by @anhhtran.bsky.social, we reanalysed 11 experience-sampling datasets, and found limited evidence that context (intensity, controllability, and social features) meaningfully shaped everyday emotion regulation strategy use.

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Despite our schools’ heated rivalry, we’ll still read and discuss great papers from ❌ichigan profs like @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social in our grad psychopathology class at OSU!

When we measure personality multiple times in a study, does it matter if we ask people about their personality *in general* or *since the last time point*? Turns out: yes! We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Update! We'll be accepting applications until 11:59pm ET on Sunday, Nov 30! 📆

What’s Columbus like, you ask? Here are some scenes! Golden foliage on campus 🍁 Making friends with a praying mantis 😺 LCD Soundsystem 🎧 Columbus Pride (feat. several clinical grad students)! 🌈

Re-upping this thread for anyone thinking about applying for grad school who wants to know what life in Columbus is like! (I’m also more than happy to answer questions, snap pics, or provide food recs as needed to give you a better sense of Columbus & OSU 🌰)

Postdoc with us in Columbus! 🌰 I'm pumped to recruit a 1-2 year postdoc working on: - mechanisms of change in treatment - treatment personalization - emotion reg With a breakdown of: 50% research 30% treatment 20% mentorship/collaboration/conferences osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Things are rough in the world right now so it’s a little relief to enjoy the rainbows in the Mirror Lake fountain on campus 🌈⛲️

Come to think of it it’s insane psychotherapy works at all. Somebody told you something or told you to DO something and it helps with a problem you’ve had for a long time 🧐

Just enjoying an 8:30pm stroll through the warm summer breeze in Schiller Park #ColumbusThings

New preprint! A Crowdsourced Megastudy of 12 Digital Single-Session Interventions for Depression in American Adults What's the best way to help someone overcome depression with just 10 minutes of their time online? We ran a trial (n=7,505) testing 12 diverse interventions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

In Columbus, we have an entire building dedicated to everyone’s least favorite analytic method 📊

Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle! There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally. u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...

📝 Collecting signatures for @stopsb1oh.bsky.social at the Columbus Actors Theatre’s *free* production of Emma last night in Schiller Park! Let me know if you want to sign and can’t make it to other events

Franklin County, Ohio #stopsb1oh Where to sign the petition:

NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers!

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

📋 I’ve got SB1 referendum petition forms! If you’re a registered voter in Ohio & want to put SB1 to a vote in November, let me know and I’ll get you one to sign 📝🙌

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Home recording of the invited talk I gave at APS last week. I discuss inferential problems that can arise from linear models and statistical control, offer sets as an alternative means for aggregating information, and provide examples from an ongoing study in my lab. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olab...

They made it really easy. Do it!

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.

The other bright spot of #APS25DC was getting to visit the mind-blowing & powerful National Museum of African American History & Culture. It seemed timely and I hadn’t been! They do an amazing job highlighting how much of the US was built by slaves & how our current ideas of race developed. 💯

Sonya Mishra shows how, when women’s gains are framed as increasing their power (control of resources), men are less likely to support them & more likely to worry they’ll be disadvantaged compared to when women’s gains are framed as increasing their status. Women show no differences. 🚻 #APS25DC

There's still plenty of time to register! Join us next Saturday (May 31) for an exciting day of student research - and don't miss our keynote and professional development panel! Register here through May 30! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

To better communicate science, we should: Use appropriate metaphors, analogies, & examples Talk in narratives Remember we read 3 words, then, if interesting, 30 words, then, if still intrigued, 300 words Start with the main point ➡️ narrative ➡️ takeaway point #APS25DC

Whitney Whitted looked at how different aspects of social media impacted mental health. People were more likely to endorse a dx when info was framed as a dx (vs a resilience framing) They didn’t distinguish expert credentials from posters’ lived experiences & info helped many feel understood!

@lluaces.bsky.social shows a stronger within-person effect of reappraisal than expressive suppression predicting session-to-session reductions in distress across two 6-week guided self-help studies of mindfulness & behavioral treatments! #APS25DC

At @psychscience.bsky.social, @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social shows how basic reinforcement learning with affective content and distractors naturally leads to repetitive negative thinking, at least over ~200,000 trials before it can get corrected. That’s a lot of thought records! #APS25DC

So, no young person lives with their grandma, works in a hospital, or is the girlfriend of a 73-year old retired coach We don’t live in age-segregated pods. If your goal is to protect high-risk groups, protecting people under 65 is part of the strategy

Join us behind the scenes, tomorrow…

Warm summer evenings call for naps on cool windowsills

[email protected] Buckeyes 🌰! We only have *43* days to collect 250k signatures to hold a referendum on SB1. We need all the help we can get (thanks to the AG & legislature for making referenda so hard) To volunteer or donate (to buy petition booklets) see & share: ohsb1petition.com

It was such a fun surprise to see @natehaines.bsky.social’s congratulations video at Jay Myung’s retirement party this weekend 🥳

Insane is exactly the phrase I would have used! ‘This is insane:’ New NIH policy on funding foreign scientists stirs outrage www.science.org/content/arti...

Hard pass (as in "no", not "pass it")