🥹congrats on the fellowship!!

Excited to share that I’ll be starting my PhD in Clinical Psychology at @umassamherst.bsky.social, joining @katieleedg.bsky.social's lab! Grateful for the support from all my mentors. Also thrilled to announce that I was nominated for and have been awarded the Spaulding Smith Fellowship!

Huge thanks to Prof. Jutta Joormann and collaborators! I am grateful to the three reviewers who have offered very constructive feedback that has improved the manuscript!

This has broader implications beyond ER for how we study flexibility in behavior, cognition, and physiology. Using variability as a stand-in for flexibility can be misleading if context isn't modeled simultaneously. Context is the 🔑

Across daily diary and EMA designs, we used the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity index to directly assess ER–context covariation. Contrary to the assumption that variability is good, switching strategies predicted higher distress and psychopathology when the context was stable.

Most research on emotion regulation (ER) flexibility doesn't directly measure context. It just assumes that variability in ER strategies reflects flexibility. But is that actually true?

📢 New Publication Alert at JoPaCS! Many studies use variability as a proxy for flexibility across domains. Using emotion regulation as an example, we show that variability decoupled from context can be harmful volatility. Variability ≠ Flexibility. 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

I will be sharing some exciting findings on how behavioral emotion regulation strategies are related to regulation motives and motive satisfaction at the symposium “To Strategies and Beyond!” on Friday morning. If you’re at SAS, I hope to see you there! (2/2)

Loneliness modulates social threat detection in daily life - Communications Psychology Using ecological momentary assessment and multilevel time-series models, we quantify loneliness inertia and its links to perceived social threat and social behavior, identifying dynamic patterns that ...

New paper led by SJ Shao in @commspsychol.nature.com. Across 20 days of EMA (5x daily), momentary loneliness prospectively predicted heightened social threat perception and social withdrawal. Trait loneliness amplified loneliness–rejection coupling and social disengagement @emoriebeck.bsky.social

Congratulations, Janan!!

I am excited to welcome Aaron to join my lab as a PhD student! Keep an eye out for his cool work on computational models and emotion regulation dynamics!

Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking:

Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods?

(alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)

This is so cool! Looking forward to reading!

So thrilled to welcome @bella-peckinpaugh.bsky.social as one of the inaugural members of the EPIC Lab! Stay tuned for her amazing work.​​​​​​​​​​​ 🙌

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨

Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).

We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics.

Rolling review begins 3/14
Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806

Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Research Assistant I Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...

We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

awww love this!

It this from Sword & Shield or some other versions?

I will be at SRP in LA next week! Looking forward to seeing friends and connecting with folks working on emotion/emo reg, flexibility, internalizing psychopathology, EMA, etc!

Same! I got one request every other day on average the past 3 wks which wasn’t the case other time of the year

Post Doctoral Scholar Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

Postdoc with us in Columbus! 🌰

I'm pumped to recruit a 1-2 year postdoc working on:
- mechanisms of change in treatment
- treatment personalization
- emotion reg

With a breakdown of:
50% research
30% treatment
20% mentorship/collaboration/conferences

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

I will share some common Q&As later. Applicants are very welcome to email me with questions not addressed on the department website, but contacting me isn’t required and doesn't impact your application.

Applicants interested in using EMA, psychophysiology, and/or computational methods to study stress, emotion/emotion regulation processes, and psychopathology are especially encouraged to apply.

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Very late to this but I would love to be added!

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin!

I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026.

Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats!

📄 Description: tinyurl.com/2jfk8d8m
🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com