🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data!

Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210...

Code: github.com/DepressionCe...

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New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments.

🧪 #psychscisky #statssky

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Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the widely used physiological measures in psychophysiological research. But with over 100 indices to choose from, how do we know which ones to use?

In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.

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I am pleased to share our paper showing that daily assessment improves the precision of #self-harm and #suicide prediction beyond the data available at the start of a hospital admission. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Participants of the MITNB workshop, where we stand outside in a group of around 40 people

1st day of #MITNB meeting at @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social. Excited for the week ahead, where we'll tackle measurement issues in #ESM, e.g. modeling processes across timescales, building a formal theory on measurement, and evaluating statistical assumptions in #ESM data.
Go teamwork <3

🚨 New preprint: We compared 13 methods for detecting momentary careless responding in the WARN-D data (206k+ obs.). Tutorials guide you through each method. The takeaway? Diverging results, inherent subjectivity (to varying degrees), and a clear need for further validation.
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So proud of superstar @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social and thrilled she'll be joining us for a summer fellowship to launch this important work at NYC !! 🦄🍎

📣 If you’re attending #SPRKrakow2025 and curious about how EMA can be integrated into clinical practice, don‘t miss these panels tomorrow:

🕙 10:00 - 11:15 „EMA - Ways to extend psychotherapy as usual“

🕧 11:30 - 12:45 „Enhancing Clinical Practice with EMA“ organized by @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social

📱 Want to know when to schedule your #EMA / #ESM beeps for the highest completion rates?

⏰ Timing matters: some moments during the day and week are more receptive than others.

See: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New paper from the lab testing whether passive📱smartphone data (like GPS and activity levels) and LLMs applied to teen texts can help us objectively measure behavioral change during behavioral activation therapy (led by @hadarfisher.bsky.social and @nigeljaffe.bsky.social). osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 Now out in Emotion! 🚨
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Grateful to all collaborators 🙏

Accounting for Measurement Invariance Violations in Careless Responding Detection in Intensive Longitudinal Data: Exploratory vs. Partially Constrained Latent Markov Factor Analysis Intensive longitudinal data (ILD) collection methods like experience sampling methodology can place significant burdens on participants, potentially resulting in careless responding, such as random...

New article in MBR⭐: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We show that latent Markov factor analysis (LMFA) can detect different types of careless responding in experience sampling data while also accounting for changes in attentive responding. With Esther Ulitzsch and @joranjongerling.bsky.social

Blog posts | ESM Item Repository

New blog post! 📣 Ever wanted to do more with your open-text experience sampling items, but were unsure 🤔 how to code the responses? @annalangener.bsky.social & @mariestadel.bsky.social show us how it's done with their new Shiny app for open-text ESM data: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#M...

Comparing three neural networks to predict depression treatment outcomes in psychological therapies Artificial neural networks have been used in various fields to solve classification and prediction tasks. However, it is unclear if these may be adequ…

New paper comparing 3 neural networks in BRAT with @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social Jaime Delgadillo @danilomoggia.bsky.social. Moderate accuracy with no meaningful differences, neural nets did not outperform glm, but only few predictors.

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news.arizona.edu/news/new-pre... Out today - our protocol paper describing an ENORMOUS effort led by Ellen Driessen leveraging all available RCT data from depression trials comparing ADM/CT/BA/IPT/PDT (>60 studies, nearing 10K patients) to develop precision treatment selection decision support tools

1/3 🚨Case conceptualization at the next level: This study combines perceived causal networks with intensive longitudinal data to create individual, data-updated models of psychopathology. Read more 👇🏾
📰 Open access: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
🔗Open data, material, code: osf.io/r5xfg/files/...

Ich war wegen Krankheit nicht dabei, aber am Montag wurde Dr. Miriam Hehlmann @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social für das zweigeteilte Amt als Sprecherin der Interessengruppe ePePsy (neben mir) gewählt. Ich freue mich darauf, mit ihr Kompetenz zur praxisorientierten Psychotherapieforschung zu bündeln!

Developing a qualitative and quantitative ambulatory assessment-based feedback system within cognitive behavioural interventions for people with persecutory beliefs Although the application of self-monitoring (ambulatory assessment) and visual feedback in psychological interventions has yielded promising results, …

For those who are interested ESM feedback, happy to announce that a new paper is out, in which we combine qualitative and quantitative feedback! Innovations include clock graphs, stacked graphs, and word clouds with sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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❗ New paper ❗ in Cognitive Therapy and Research with @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social, Eshkol Rafaeli, @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social, @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social & Jessica Uhl

🔍 Wearable heart rate may provide insights into psychotherapeutic change processes when stationary measurement isn't feasible

How do you integrate mobile #AA methods in clinical practice? 🤔

New pre-print perspective by @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social and others outlining different recommendations!

✅ co-create protocol with clients!
✅ tailor assessment modality!
✅ co-determine 'meaningful change'!

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✨ Excited to share our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... ✨

In this paper, Nick Jacobson and I dive into the challenges researchers face when developing prediction models for just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI). 🧵👇

#EMA #JITAI #CrossValidation #PassiveSensing

❗ New paper alert ❗ Excited to share our new work in Clinical Psychology Review with @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social & @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social

🔍 EMA is mainly used in research
📢 More research is needed on its benefits in clinical practice

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#EMA #PsychotherapyResearch

If you do ESM research, please fill out this Short ESM Survey on open-ended items. 🤓
You can fill it out even if you do not use open-ended items in your own ESM research (will be even shorter 😊) rug.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Dispelling “pleasing myths” about the integration of ecological momentary assessment and intervention into clinical research and practice Click on the article title to read more.

Enthusiasm about integrating EMA methods into clinical practice is widespread, but there is little to no evidence that it is worth the effort. This article comments on five "pleasing myths" on this matter.

What makes a good ESM item?

We asked 42 ESM/EMA experts this question in a Delphi study, and the result is the ESM-Q: A consensus-based quality assessment tool for ESM items. Now accepted at #psynomBRM. Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Decoding emotions: Exploring the validity of sentiment analysis in psychotherapy Given the importance of emotions in psychotherapy, valid measures are essential for research and practice. As emotions are expressed at different levels, multimodal measurements are needed for a nu...

The special section on multimodal measurement in psychotherapy research #SPR led by Katie Aafjes-van Doorn is now published online, including our paper on the validity of sentiment analysis to measures emotions in psychotherapy sessions. @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social

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