.Arie Kruglanski warns pandemic stay-at-home orders are fueling a spark in radicalization: "All of these stressors...disempowers people. They are very vulnerable to narratives that promise them the restoration of their significance, and many of the extremist narratives do just that"

Got really tired of seeing Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model illustrated only w/ white boys. So we made a new (prettier) version centering Black girls. Please RT & share in your psych classes! Full article on #attachment & #antiracism is open access: doi.org/10.1080/146167…

Shout out to Lily Assaad (she/her) for being chosen for the Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award! Lily is incredibly dedicated to teaching and mentoring and its wonderful to see that recognized publicly! Purdue Psych Dept SAMPPL

Please join me in celebrating Lily Assaad (she/her) on her successful defense of her dissertation "Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias in Personality Pathology Diagnosis" this morning! Terrific Job, Lily! 🥂🎉👏

Providers learn clinical decision making in Myanmar which is critical for helping young mothers with postpartum depression, interpersonal violence, and anxiety. Luckily they will be equipped to help treat all these problems with one evidenced based approach #CETA! USAID Jhpiego

One of my favorite traditions of being a graduate mentor is to take students out to celebrate dissertation defenses. Michelle and I were thrilled to do that for Lily Assaad (she/her) last night at Bistro 501! Even more special was to also celebrate Lily and her wife's recent marriage!

Psychologist Jessica Stern, PhD, teaches courses on emotion and close relationships at UVA. She compares emotional intimacy to water and sunlight for growing romantic and platonic relationships. #relationships ow.ly/cTC550JUXXI

Age-scalable, transdisgnostic, and income-scalable — brilliant! Eager to see how CETA increases access to EBTs across the globe 🌏🌍🌎

🚨The Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science will be participating in American Psychological Association's Editorial Fellowship program. It's for jr scholars from underrepresented groups. Please apply or nominate someone who fits the criteria. Please RT! Details in 🧵 1/3 apa.org/pubs/journals/…

BUT EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT PSYCHOPATHOLOGY DOES NOT CONSIST OF DISCRETE CATEGORICAL DISORDERS BUT IS ACTUALLY CONTINUOUS, DIMENSIONAL AND HIGHLY COMORBID. DIMENSIONAL MODELS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY ARE ACTUALLY FAR MORE RELIABLE AND VALID THAN TRADITIONAL TAXONOMIES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

We did one of my favorite activities in #PSY221 today— Students designed an emoji they felt was missing from the current options and we placed them on the emotion circumplex!

A Brief History of Men Today Are Too Feminine and Women Too Masculine 🧵

Absolutely delighted to share that I will be completing my post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Medicine in the fall! Philadelphia, I’ve heard nothing but good things about you and I can’t wait!

Nothing like walking into a 2-hr didactic to learn that the interns I was planning to present to were already familiar with the topic. So instead I taught them how to assess personality pathology via the AMPD (which they had never HEARD of). It was a fun pivot!

MISSING CONTEXT If we add same-race crime, we see that the vast majority of violent crimes in America involve white victims and white offenders. If we thought race was a huge factor, and wanted to make the biggest impact on crime numbers, we might want to start there.

My 18-year labor of research love got published today! Comparing 290 experimental effects of power with 102 sex difference meta-analyses, we suggest that many sex differences may be rooted, at least in part, in power differences between men and women. tinyurl.com/54rjbkk9

Before taking it out on your roommate for leaving dirty dishes out, you probably want to practice your conflict resolution skills first. Expert conflict resolution trainers, however, are EXPENSIVE. What if we practiced with an angry LLM instead? 😈 #CHI24 arxiv.org/abs/2309.12309