In work recently out in Affective Science we investigated how accurately people can forecast their emotions in everyday life. Study 1 focused on forecasts for specific time periods (tomorrow, next week). Study 2 focused on forecasts for daily unpleasant events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Neuroendocrine profiles of undergraduate women show a hypoactive and a hyperactive profile for those high on Callous-Unemotional variant, maybe related to different types of stress dysregulation: tinyurl.com/bc29x6ty
The Abstract submission date has been extended to 15 December 2025. We look forward to more of your best work being submitted for our SSSP 2026 conference. @ssspstudents.bsky.social
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2x Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology positions at Flinders University. Both full-time research and teaching continuing (tenure track equivalent) positions that are open in terms of the field of psychological research. Happy to answer any questions!
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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New continuing teaching specialist position with developmental or educational child and adolescent focus at Flinders University. Happy to answer any questions!
Findings were quite mixed. For each molecule, we discuss findings within the context of developmental and methodological considerations. We also discuss a range of future directions for the CU traits field, as well as theoretical and clinical implications.
New pub. We systematically reviewed studies testing associations between signaling molecules and callous-unemotional traits in young people. Across 32 studies, 7 molecules were identified: cortisol, testosterone, oxytocin, dehydroepiandrosterone, estradiol, α-amylase, and C-reactive protein.
Check out our forthcoming viewpoint article in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science in which we argue that it is well past time to abandon the term 'dark' to describe antagonistic traits. w/ @jdmiller.bsky.social and @drlynam.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials.
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THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making space for these ideas to flourish and for a dream team of investigators to contribute!!
Advancing the science of women’s health | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Some of our members have submitted a letter to Meta protesting their revised policy on hateful conduct that now allows allegations of mental illness on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
You can read the letter and list of signatories here: www.hitop-system.org/letter-to-meta
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New preprint! We systematically reviewed studies testing associations between physiological analytes and callous-unemotional traits in young people - osf.io/preprints/os...
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Excited to post a full-access link (t.co/3h7TO5J3pO) to our new article out in Prevention Science as part of a special section honoring the career of Dr. Robert McMahon!
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We are looking for participants for our new daily study! Please reach out to the lab email if interested and please circulate
This is specific to Canadian adolescents
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Many thoughtful papers in our (w Yao Zheng) new Special Issue on insights into externalizing psychopathology in young people with intensive longitudinal data ✨
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it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
Ten recommendations for reducing the long-term costs of conduct problems: A commentary on the economic analysis of Goulter et al. (2023)
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