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 »
Brief psychology news 02/2019
February 2019 news from Clinical Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, Meta Psychology, and Open Science. For prior news, see the rubric Psychology News on this blog. Clinical If you are interested in… Read more »
First preregistered network replication study with power analysis & open data
I haven’t written blog posts about individual new papers in over a year, but this one is a milestone I’m really proud of: Our new network paper on social media… Read more »
Brief psychology news 01/2019
January 2019 news from Clinical Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, Meta Psychology, and Open Science. For prior news, see the rubric Psychology News on this blog. The subheaders below are only rough… Read more »
The Myth of the Miracle Cure: Is Ketamine an Efficacious Antidepressant?
This blog post is the result of a collaboration between Dr Lucy Robinson (Twitter, email) & me. Life with depression can be miserable, painful and sad. The suffering it causes… Read more »
Summary of my academic 2018
Following up on last year’s summary of 2017, I wanted to write up the highlights of my academic 2018: publications, collaborations, achievements and failures, open science, blogging, and some thoughts… Read more »
Brief psychology news 11/2018
November news from Clinical Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, and Open Science. New free R ebook “Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century” by Russell Poldrack Kevin Kotzé shared all materials for his… Read more »
James Coyne sued me for cyberbullying
In this blog, I first describe the formal complaint of Dr James Coyne against me, launched a week after my blog post about tone on social media in August 2017…. Read more »
Brief psychology news 10/2018
September and October news from clinical psychology, methods, and open science. With a heavy focus on open science this time around — a lot happened in the summer. Guardian piece… Read more »
Failure of the week
In our Clinical Psychology group in Leiden, we have the tradition to share new papers, accepted grant proposal, and other achievements in emails called “Paper of the Week”, “Grant of… Read more »
Brief psychology news 08/2018
Some news from clinical psychology, methods, and open science. Again, this is a bit of an experiment … if it goes well, I’ll continue to write this up every other… Read more »
10,377 ways for major depression, but 341,737 ways for melancholia
We wrote up the core arguments and calculations of this blog post as an article for Lancet Psychiatry. Major depression: a highly heterogeneous disorder Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a… Read more »
SIPS18 collected resources, and reflections of a SIPS virgin
The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) hosted their third annual conference in Grand Rapids MI a few days ago. This blog provides a summary and some collected… Read more »
Brief psychology news 06/2018
When I started my new job at Leiden University, I decided to send around news every now and then about the world of psychology, clinical psychology, open science, and meta… Read more »