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 »
Measurement Schmeasurement
TL;DR This post summarizes our recent APS symposium entitled “Measurement Schmeasurement” (feat. Jessica Flake, Mijke Rhemtulla, Andre Wang, and Scott Lilienfeld); provides a brief history of how it came to… Read more »
Reflections on APS 18: open science, transparency, and inclusion
APS 2018 — the conference of the Association for Psychological Science — ended a few days ago. Although this was my fifth APS in a row, it was a very… Read more »
7 Sternberg papers: 351 references, 161 self-citations
Robert Sternberg, editor-in-chief of Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS), published 7 papers in PoPS in the last 2 years. The papers contain 351 references; 161 of these references (46%) are… Read more »
Academia: trapped in the upside down of publishing
TL;DR: this post explains the basics of academic publishing; highlights several severe problems; discusses the recent activities of the American Psychology Association (APA) targeting psychological researchers; suggests some ways forward;… Read more »
Assistant professor, APS rising star, and some papers
Three brief personal updates. After living in 6 countries in the last 12 years; after affairs and short relationships with Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich, Free University Berlin, University of Michigan,… Read more »
All mental disorders are brain disorders … not.
TL;DR: Mental disorders are commonly defined as “brain disorders” in the literature, and the current funding structure in psychiatry and clinical psychology is strongly based on this notion. At least… Read more »
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 »