I’m offering a FREE workshop May 3rd 10am ET through smart-workshops.com for grad students and ECR mentors that provides intro to NIH, fellowship grants (F31, F32), and recs for successful proposals!

Sign up if relevant and please RT/share!

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Skin cancer risk in sexual minority men, now online at Health Psychology Health Psychology: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-73…

We've interviewed 17 individuals so far for our study! Help us get to 40!
Behavioral Addictions Lab
#veterans #problemgambling #military #gamblingdisorder #supportourveterans #livedexperience #veterans upport #VA #SMVF
Kindbridge Research Institute

Hi All!

I am helping to collect participants for a study on parent's perceptions of their child's video gaming behavior. In particular, there are questions pertaining to microtransactions and lootboxes. Please like and retweet if you can.

uwaterloo.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_da…

Latest paper (Compulsive Sexual Behavior in LGBTQ Individuals and Minority Stress Theory: A Literature Review and Theoretical Integration)! trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/84…
Todd Jennings 🏳️‍🌈 Neil Gleason Behavioral Addictions Lab UNLV Liberal Arts UNLV Research josh grubbs

Hello friends! Please consider sharing this study to help improve our knowledge of gambling problems in the military. If you know of anyone who has served in the military and has struggled with gambling problems, we would especially appreciate a repost!

Latest paper! Great work by Bailey Way! trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/ee…
UNLV Liberal Arts Kindbridge Behavioral Health Behavioral Addictions Lab

New preprint from the Clinical Translation Workgroup, a review of HiTOP in clinical practice:
osf.io/preprints/psya…

Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, PhD 🇹🇹🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) Caroline Balling Angeline Bottera, PhD Laurent Elkrief Dr. Kelsie Forbush Chris Hopwood Dr. Holly F. Levin-Aspenson Shreya Sheth Len Simms HiTOP Dr. Stephanie Mullins-Sweatt Mari Thomeczek

1/8 New tutorial preprint led by Björn Siepe in which we present different descriptive statistics & data visualization techniques with the goal to better understand EMA item functioning.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Brief overview thread 🧵:

Friends don't let friends make bad charts!

Chenxin Li, pulled together a lot of great advice for data visualization, with clear 'do this, not that' examples for each item.

Here are a few of my favorites, see the link below for more.

We often need larger sample sizes for accurate estimates than to claim there is an effect with low error rates. It is not unreasonable in research lines to first establish there is an effect large enough to matter, and only if this is so, estimate it with high accuracy.

Nearly three-quarters of tested psychological scales failed the test of measurement invariance needed for meaningful group comparisons
psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-39…

If you want to conduct a meta-analysis in R, definitely add “Doing meta-analysis in R” by Mathias Harrer @[email protected] and colleagues to your reading list. It is an open-source online book that teaches you how to perform meta-analysis in R using packages like {metafor}. bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/…

Hi gays, are you feeling sexy? 'Cause the first study of my PhD shows it's /very/ important to how satisfied you are with your body! We looked at how feeling sexually desirable influences body satisfaction in Aus Grindr users, and it's out in open access! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S17…

1/8 We published several big picture papers on how to best conceptualize, classify and understand mental health problems / psychopathology recently, so here's a very brief overview in case you missed some of them.

I will link to all full text PDFs at the end.

If you want to learn multilevel modelling but don't know where to start, JK Flake 📈📏 and I have created the website for you: learn-mlms.com

A brief summary of the materials and the impetus for them: (1/6)

Constantly striving to be the best doesn’t make you the top performer.

A meta-analysis of 25,000 people found no relationship between performance and perfectionism.

Instead, perfectionism is related to greater anxiety & depression. When we chronically overdo it, we harm…

Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 matthewbjane.quarto.pub/guide-to-effec…

Intervention I dislike: ACT
Intervention I begrudgingly respect: IPT
Intervention I think is overrated: MBCT
Intervention I think is underrated: PST
Intervention I like: CBT
Intervention I love: CT
Intervention I dream of writing in: CBASP

This chart was in a recent report on the loneliness epidemic.

Friendship and social connection are essential for health.

Loneliness kills.