A *written thesis* to finish up a bachelor’s or master’s studies is… And I’d like to know why!

Does suppressing negative thoughts harm us? According to our paper in Science Advances with Zulkayda Mamat , suppressing fearful thoughts can improve mental health, done correctly, with bigger benefits seen in those with worse intrusive thought symptoms science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Any of my followers interested in setting something up for this? 🤗

A necessary deep dive into sexually inappropriate behaviour within #academia, right at home in this case (article in Dutch). One can only hope that it leads to change Maastricht University Utrecht University archive.ph/2023.10.06-163…

Decided to create a profile on the other platform 🔵☁️ Find me there under the same name!

Any memory control researchers interested in setting up a symposium for APS 2024 in San Francisco?

📢 Job alert 🚨 We zijn op zoek naar een junior onderzoeker! Wil je meer ervaring opdoen met onderzoek naar (chronische) #pijn en #stress? Kom dan met mij werken CoRPS ! Check de link voor meer details tiu.nu/21936 of DM/mail me met vragen. Delen = fijn!

Dit nieuwe artikel van Tilia Linthout bespreekt waarom de gevangenis als plaats voor rehabilitatie niet vanzelfsprekend is en waarom een humaner en evidence-based gevangenis beleid dringend vereist is: nl.in-mind.org/article/de-gev…

Nobody: Obligatory Clinical Good Practice course: please answer these super jargony questions. Got them all wrong? No worries, we’ll explain all jargon in two hours in chapter 28.

Interested in how people control unwanted memories? Davide Nardo and I published a detailed guide to the Think/No-Think task in Behavior Research Methods with best practice advice, including a training package with videos, spreadsheets and code. rdcu.be/dzbwA

New preprint! Using content overlap analysis, we find very limited overlap between 12 Climate Anxiety scales (mean Jaccard Index of 0.08). Importantly, it's the very first paper of Silke's PhD on Climate Anxiety🥳 with Kevin van Schie & Tom Smeets osf.io/preprints/psya…

Geïnteresseerd in onderzoek naar bijwerkingen van psychologische interventies? Dan zoeken wij jou! Solliciteer nu voor deze 4-jarige plek bij Universiteit Maastricht. Deadline: 5 mei. Maastricht Uni FPN Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald academictransfer.com/en/340050/prom…

Yesterday, a colleague of mine told me about another’s colleague research in which men smell women’s tears. She then continued to tell me that the tears first need to be *harvested*. It’s the most alien sci-fi research practice I’ve ever heard. Intrusive images all the way!

🚨PhD student gezocht🚨 📉Project: wederkerige associaties tussen pijn en psychopathologische symptomen, plus de rol van emotie-regulatie hierop 👩‍🔬Supervisors: Marlies Houben en ik 🏢Waar: Medische en Klinische Psychologie, Tilburg University ❓Info: tiu.nu/22253 of dm

Hey Center for Open Science, I submitted a registration yesterday and it’s been on “pending approval” ever since. I’m the only administrator but have not received an email to approve. I’d like to start data collection sooner rather than later. What can I do?

A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology describes intentional and unintentional forgetting, highlights alignment across these traditionally siloed research areas, and explores the role of forgetting in certain clinical conditions. 🔒 go.nature.com/4cXEBQt

This one is only for the Dutchies. 🙈 Samen met de Universiteit van Nederland heb ik een korte explainer gemaakt over waarom oogbewegingen in EMDR werken. 👀🧠 Super leuk om voor een breed publiek over wetenschap te mogen vertellen! 🎓 youtu.be/mu_A65yldm8

Anyone going to Psychonomic Society's 65th annual meeting in NYC in two weeks? 🧠 If so, always happy to meet up for a drink and talk science (or non-science). Just shoot me a message or hit me up at the conference! 😀 #psynom24 #psynomnomnom

Whatever happened to X? I know though, you don’t have to tell me. We all know. My question is, are we still using it for science communication/sharing/networking or is everyone migrating to other platforms? I miss the old science Twitter and am trying to find that again.