Online now in Transgender Health

Trans & gender divers patients given Borderline PD diagnosis more than cisgender patients, & does not align with self-reports of maladaptive personality or other covariates.

We add this to our research on bias
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liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Run, don’t walk, to apply to work with Pete!! I couldn’t imagine a better mentor than him for anyone interested in computational psychiatry (especially those also interested in repetitive negative thought, too)! He’s truly the best 🤩

Researchers believe this map is the first youth-focused U.S. state-level measure of anti-LGBTQ+ structural stigma.

Read more about the research, which links anti-LGBTQ+ policies to depression in Black and Latinx youth ⬇️ (1/4)

New paper out today in molecularpsychiatry with Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD Dr. Poornima Kumar TReAD Lab Ashleigh Rutherford Manon Ironside, PhD Dan Foti Garrett F, and Fei Du where we look at what features of depression must be better targeted by treatments to improve quality of life 1/n nature.com/articles/s4138…

It's finally time! Trans girl scout cookies!

Trans kids are under attack nationwide. The Girl Scouts has accepted trans girls and non-binary kids for years now. Let's make the lives of some trans scouts a little bit better and get tasty cookies to boot.

Thread of links here! 🧵

2. My review paper outlining a novel cognitive theory of anhedonia that I’ve spent the last 5 years researching (w massive support from co-authors Jutta Joormann & Sam McDougle) was accepted at Clinical Psychology Review: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Fully savored and as good a time as ever to announce my two proudest moments of grad school thus far, both of which occurred last Friday!
1. I matched for internship to a program and track I could not be happier to join! Montefiore Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

File under 'career things I was sure couldn't happen, part 94'

My viewpoint arguing that psychologists must stop excluding experts by experience from tx design, in which I self-identify as a person w/ lived experience, is in press at Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology🤯

My colleague Steven Roberts was recently invited to comment on a 'debate' about diversity at a Association for Psychological Science journal.

His experience was troubling and surreal, and lays bare the very biases he studies. He describes it in this important pre-print.

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psyarxiv.com/xk4yu

I'm recruiting graduate students this year, to start Fall 2023 at Yale University Psychology!

Come research human action, learning, and memory!

Visit actcompthink.org for some more info about our lab, and psychology.yale.edu/graduate/admis… for app info

{ oh, and please RT :) }

Twenty-nine states are currently considering anti-trans legislation in the United States. YOU can go to transformationsproject.org to learn more about bills in your state and contact your representatives to stop them and to #StepUpForTransKids .
Read on to learn more. 🧵

Now in press at Journal of Abnormal Psychology! Using multilevel modeling, we find robust support for a five-factor, dimensional model of perseverative (repetitive, difficult-to-control) thought: psyarxiv.com/gu7xp/

New review with Aspen Yoo! Collins Lab How working memory and reinforcement learning are intertwined: a cognitive, neural, and computational perspective psyarxiv.com/ebtn6 via Center for Open Science

We are excited to kick-off Day 1 of the 2nd Workshop on Mental Effort. We thank our tutorial speakers Anastasia Biz Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD Andra Geana, Sebastian Musslick, Mads Lund Pedersen Angela Radulescu and Maria Wirzberger (she/her) for introducing participants to various computational modeling frameworks! (1/2)

now in press at clinical psychological science. preprint with the final version is here psyarxiv.com/7c2e8/