Summary of my academic 2017
Below you find a summary of my 2017 academic year, inspired by a recent blog post by Alexander Etz who concluded: I don’t see these kinds of period recap posts… Read more »
Create your collaborator network in R
I created a collaborator network last year in R, but based that on an excel input file that I created manually, and edited the names using Inkscape. Funny doing it… Read more »
Becoming a journal editor in 15 minutes: a 3-step tutorial
To boost your academic career, early career researchers should consider picking up at least one associate editor position for a scientific journal. After all, spending countless hours on administrative duties… Read more »
When small samples are problematic
A few days ago, Richard Morey started a discussion on Twitter arguing that small samples are not inherently problematic. In the interesting discussion that ensued, I kept thinking about clinical… Read more »
academia.edu might be lying to you
I received this email a few days ago from academia.edu. And honestly, this screenshot might just say all there is to say about this topic, in which case I’d like… Read more »
Are we asking too much? A list of competencies people expect me to have
Working between disciplines is exciting, and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way. Psychology has become much more interdisciplinary in recent years, and there was a discussion today… Read more »
The tone-police police, rude dudes, & how to be social on social media
TL;DR: The tone-police police on social media must take responsibility for silencing early career folks in psychological science debates on social media. I also talk about rude dudes, a dinner… Read more »
Supplementary materials fail
A few months ago, we published a new paper (PDF). For the 3 figures in the manuscript, we created some adjacency matrices that we wanted to be fully reproducible, so… Read more »
New paper: “What are psychological constructs?”
One of the fundamental shortcomings of the empirical psychological literature on mental disorders, personality aspects, intelligence, or emotions is that there is a lack of depth regarding the discussion what… Read more »
ICPS 2017 Vienna presentations online
I had the honor to chair 2 symposia at the International Convention of Psychological Science in Vienna the last days, and gave 3 talks. You can find all presentations below.
New paper on stability and accuracy of psychological networks
Our paper “Estimating psychological networks and their accuracy: a tutorial paper” was published in Behavioral Research Methods as open access paper! You can find the full paper here, and the… Read more »
Treatment-resistant depression: clarifications and important steps forward
I wrote this commentary together with Adam Chekroud. You can find a PDF version of this commentary here. Introduction The largest and longest investigation of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) to date,… Read more »
New paper: the 52 symptoms of major depression
I published a new paper in the Journal of Affective Disorders entitled “The 52 symptoms of major depression: Lack of content overlap among seven common depression scales” (PDF). The paper… Read more »
New paper on responsiveness of depression rating scales
After reviewing the paper “The relative responsiveness of test instruments can be estimated using a meta-analytic approach: an illustration with treatments for depression” by Kounali et al. 2016, the editor… Read more »
New commentary on problems with latent class analysis in depression research
We have a new commentary in Molecular Psychiatry entitled “Problems with latent class analysis to detect data-driven subtypes of depression” (PDF; together with the fantastic Hanna van Loo, Rob Wanders… Read more »