Congrats to Penn State Psych grad student Nigel Jaffee for earning a National Research Fellowship from the NSF and to Lucia Herrero, Onyinye Obi-Obasi, and Cassandra Franke for being recognized with honorable mentions. We are very fortunate to have so much amazing talent!

So excited to teach two workshops this summer - always a highlight of my year! Come join us 🤩 1. Machine Learning (July 14-17) w/ Jeffrey Girard: smart-workshops.com/ml-info 2. Assessing Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (August 21) w/ Kathryn Fox: smart-workshops.com/sitb-info

Excited to share a new preprint w/ Tessa Blanken, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom! We discuss the striking (implicit) assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology, which is misaligned with complex dynamical systems. Read more: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Please share: Yale Psych & Med are hiring a clinical psychologist for Transitions Clinic (serving formerly incarcerated people). Therapy, assessment, groups in halfway houses, supervision opps. Strong EBT skills & interest in justice-impacted populations. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

🚨 Now out in Emotion! 🚨 📄 psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-20… Grateful to all collaborators 🙏 — excited to share this work!

Calling for abstracts for the 2025 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies convention by Aug 15! Submit your Student SIG poster abstracts here: forms.gle/YY7VyxZDDgKPdE…

Woohoo! We had so much fun working on this 🤩

Had a fantastic week in Germany & the Netherlands presenting my formal modeling work at Utrecht’s EPP Lab (thanks to Geert-Jan Will, Iris Engelhart & Mirjam v. Zuiden) and UvA’s Theory Methods Lab (thanks to Denny Borsboom). Wrapped up at #CPC2025, grateful for all conversations!

🚨New paper on emotion rigidity as a risk factor for future depression now out in BRAT! Thanks to Christian Webb, Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD, and the awesome Tedylab team, Nigel Jaffe , KristinaPidvirny, and Anna Tierney (she / her) for wonderful teamwork! 🙌 Free50d access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRqe1KMdl0p0

Can you use off the shelf generative LLMs (eg ChatGPT) to assess personality from brief open-ended text? If so, how well do they do? Turns out you can, and they do amazingly well. I couldn't believe how well. Here's our pre-print on it and a 🧵 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steven Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/Leonie JR Cloos Siepe Marilyn Piccirillo Eiko Fried Shirley B. Wang Dr. Marieke Helmich Hoffart & Johnson 🧵:

New paper by Björn Siepe & WARN-D team out now in JoPACS, on the (lack of) relation between EMA selfreport and Garmin passive data. News coverage: theguardian.com/technology/202… Paper: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…

Help us congratulate Penn State Psychology graduate student Nigel Jaffe for being one of eight graduate students receiving U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships for the 2025-26 academic year. See psu.edu/news/fox-gradu…