This year's annual HiTOP meeting has been great so far! Very interesting talks. But the big event is tomorrow night at 7pm EDT...

There's a lot of debate about whether a p-factor exists and, if so, what it represents. Just accepted at Psych Med, Jennifer Cheavens, Emil Coccaro, & I tested the unidimensionality of a p-factor and its associations with 5 leading theories of p. psyarxiv.com/bszt4/

Welcome to the United States. Where guns have more rights than women

Linear regression PSA before the academic year :)

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven. x.com/Acyn/status/15…

Go Becca! Dr. Rebecca Kazinka (she/her) giving her first #SRP2022 talk in the Computational Models of Paranoia symposium. Thanks to Julia @jmsheff for pulling this all together and keeping the train on the tracks.

Spilled coffee on my Society for Research in Psychopathology poster, and calling it a perfectionism exposure! Come by poster #152 tonight for live SUDs ratings! (And to learn about relationships between adolescents' daily social media use & mood 📳)

Michigan psychiatry and psychology dominating at Society for Research in Psychopathology!!!!!! Three award winners Audrey R. Stromberg @mwmenkes Shayan Asadi!!!!

Congratulations Hyeon-Seung Lee, Lénie Torregrossa, PhD and Sunil Shenoy on their recent publication looking at embodiment of emotion across cultures in individuals with #Schizophrenia and healthy controls in Psychiatry Research Communications!!! 🎉🎈🥳🎊🎊🥳🎈🎉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Direct link to the September issue of Nature Human Behaviour here: nature.com/nathumbehav/vo…

We’re hiring a lab manager for the Body, Mind & Brain Lab at Vandy! Perfect for anyone looking for research experience before applying for a PhD! Great mentorship, opportunities to attend conferences and co-author manuscripts. Apply here: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

And we're back for another year of providing feedback for underrepresented psych PhD applications! Please give ASFP a follow, sign up to help out with this awesome initiative, and fwd to others!!

Recently, a date said they were an INTJ (i.e., Myers Briggs). I told her, “I'm a PhD in psychology. I refuse to entertain some unscientific typology of personality with dubious scientific backing.” I took pride in expressing my needs. As a Pisces, I really struggle with that.

As a person living with generalized anxiety disorder, questions such as these make me squirm. University admissions committees are not legally allowed to discriminate on the basis of disability, but this sure seems likely an easy way to dance around that.

Most brain-imaging studies make 3 questionable assumptions: mental events are localizable, map uniquely to dedicated #brain circuitry, & are independent of larger context. These 19th-century views need an update. New #OpenAccess paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1/ cell.com/trends/cogniti…

"Exploring individual differences in musical rhythm and grammar skills in school-aged children with typically developing language" 🎵🗣️ #TRFpaper Link: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Exciting postdoc opportunity at UCL Psychiatry/Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and UCL Psych & Lang Sci with Quentin Huys and Essi Viding on computational modelling of longitudinal cognitive function ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… Please RT.

How do your favorite disorders fare in a data-driven reorganization of the DSM-5? Find out in this new preprint where we followed the patterns in 14,762 individuals’ symptoms with the goal of overcoming limitations in both the DSM and HiTOP x.com/PsyArXiv_bot_v…

New preprint based on the 1st paper of my dissertation is online now! We used drift-diffusion models to examine the cognitive processes driving self-referential biases in patients with psychosis (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) during social perception 🧵1/N medrxiv.org/content/10.110…