🔥 New viewpoint paper accepted at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! I propose a behavioral conceptualization of personality functioning (PF) that reframes the construct in terms of learned self-related repertoires rather than inferred inner structures.

In our rejoinder, we argue 1) Dark terminology isn't used responsibly as BL et al. claim, 2) the term can be replaced with a more sensible and scientific one, 3) data support our position (Stanton et al., 2025), and 4) popularity ≠ importance. @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social

Excited to share my first President’s Column for the @apadivision50.bsky.social. In it, I discuss our 2025 theme: The Science of Lived Experience. I also reflect on leadership in a time of rapid change and share invitation for colleagues. Hope you’ll read it: addictionpsychology.org/soap-box/202...

🔥 New paper, led by my PhD student @selindem.bsky.social: preregistered single-case experimental study showing the positive impact of using the GPNS feedback system on the therapeutic alliance. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

We're excited this is out! Thanks to the author teams for a range of great contributions and to the reviewers who assisted with this process. The second part of this special issue will be released in November.

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...

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...

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Absolutely shook to learn I’ve been awarded the 2025 Distinguished Early Scientific Career Contributions by the Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836

Re-upping for the weekday crowd- Choosing between syndrome/diagnosis vs. symptom focused mental health research is a false dichotomy New paper arguing how we can, and should, consider how risk/resilience/treatment factors can be uniquely + simultaneously associated with both levels of specificity

Sometimes when I talk to intervention scientists about #measurement #psychometrics I get the argument “even if this questionnaire has bad psychometrics, everyone else in my field uses it and I want to be able to compare my results with theirs”. Let’s talk about how that is a misunderstanding 🧵 1/6

Check out our forthcoming viewpoint article in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science in which we argue that it is well past time to abandon the term 'dark' to describe antagonistic traits. w/ @jdmiller.bsky.social and @drlynam.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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

Our newest pub is out! Here, we used EMA to examine the moment-to-moment association between drinking and subsequent problems, and if emotional functioning changed the strength of this prospective relationship among a hazardous drinking sample of young adults. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Take this brief survey on how mental health stakeholders (students, researchers, clinicians) learn about HiTOP (@hitop-system.bsky.social) - also including common challenges & misconceptions. csufull.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share to help improve HiTOP education! 💡

Feels like an especially strange time to be sharing about work, but I'm super proud of @karalink.bsky.social for writing this important paper for health service psychologists on reducing stigma and enhancing care for people who use alcohol! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New special issue out in PDTRT on externalizing psychopathology. Co-led by R. Waller, E. Verona, @drlynam.bsky.social and me. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Introduction is free to download. Check it out!

First paper from my lab, led by a wonderful and bright PhD student, Penny Peng! 🥹 Check it out!

new viewpoint article forthcoming at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science with @cassie-boness.bsky.social Thinking Beyond Substances: Why Behavioral “Addiction” Research must Move past Substance Use Disorder Paradigms osf.io/preprints/ps...