On Theory
What is a good theory, and what is a bad one? In this blog, I’ll introduce theories, models, phenomena, data, and how they relate to each other. I’ll explain what… Read more »
Modeling idiographic and nomothetic dynamics of 255 depressed inpatients
Led by the first author Kaat Hebbrecht, we published an open access paper a few days ago on “Understanding personalized dynamics to inform precision medicine: a dynamic time warp analysis… Read more »
ERC Starting Grant on predicting depression onset
I’m extremely happy, proud, humbled, and somewhat nervous announce that my application for an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant was successful (on my first try!), following the announcement by… Read more »
Measuring depression outcomes that matter to patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals
Our team led by the brilliant Astrid Chevance just published a new paper, entitled “Identifying outcomes for depression that matter to patients, informal caregivers and healthcare professionals: qualitative content analysis… Read more »
Ecological momentary assessment: app vs web tools?
This is going to be a very brief post, given my current time constraints. We are setting up a large Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) study. I have some experience with… Read more »
COVID-19 pandemic and student mental health
The goal of this blog post is to summarize our recent study on COVID-19 and student mental health, and do a bit of science translation of our core findings. You… Read more »
Summary of my academic 2019
One of the problems I’ve been facing in academia is that I don’t take pause and celebrate when things go well — after a published paper, I usually just move… Read more »
APA chief publishing officer: ignore paper removal request
On December 24th 2019, I received a legal threat by the American Psychological Association to remove one of my papers from my personal website. Similar requests have been received by… Read more »
Brief psychology news 11/2019
November 2019 news from Clinical Psychology, Quantitative Psychology (Methods, Measurement), Meta Psychology, Open Science, and Data Visualization. For prior news, see the rubric Psychology News on this blog. If you… Read more »
Brief psychology news 10/2019
October 2019 news from Clinical Psychology, Quantitative Psychology (Methods, Measurement), Meta Psychology, Open Science, and (new!) Data Visualization. For prior news, see the rubric Psychology News on this blog. This… Read more »
Workshops online: formalizing theories, network models, and questionable measurement practices
In the last month, I got to give 3 workshops on fairly different topics, and we made all materials available now. I also followed Lisa’s example (thanks for the tip!)… Read more »
Brief psychology news 07/2019
July 2019 news from Clinical Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, Meta Psychology, and Open Science. For prior news, see the rubric Psychology News on this blog. Clinical Psychology Today has a number… Read more »
Brief psychology news 06/2019
June 2019 news from Clinical Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, Meta Psychology, and Open Science. For prior news, see the rubric Psychology News on this blog. Clinical Ruscio with a new review… Read more »
Brief psychology news 03/2019
March 2019 news from Clinical Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, Meta Psychology, and Open Science. For prior news, see the rubric Psychology News on this blog. Clinical Cristea et al. performed a… Read more »
The replication crisis hits psychiatry: No candidate genes for depression
A new study on candidate genes for depression was just published in the American Journal of Psychiatry by Border et al, entitled “No Support for Historical Candidate Gene or Candidate… Read more »