Now online (open access) in the Psychological Test Adaption and Development.

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Another clinical trial indicating that emotion regulation skills training does not improve outcomes of trauma-focused psychotherapy for PTSD.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

SCORE | Center for Open Science SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Moving the field forward on moral injury: Possibilities and pitfalls of experimental research Research on Moral Injury (MI) is largely based on cross-sectional observational studies, mostly retrospective. Progress in understanding the causal me…

Get your free copy here 👇🏻:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#MoralInjury #CausalInference

🚨NEW PAPER📑:Excited to share a short commentary - first-authored by the brilliant Simon Stenkamp - on the potential of experimental paradigms to study both exposure & reactions to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs), which promises to advance causal inference in Moral Injury (MI) research.💡

a man with a mustache and a suit says " it 's science " ALT: a man with a mustache and a suit says " it 's science "

The Schrödinger's cat of personality psych.

„Otroverts are people who embody the quality of not wanting to belong to a group“…but then again, they want to belong to…🥁🥁🥁

tHe oTrOvErTs!!!

Are You an Otrovert? What to Know About the New Personality Type | U-M LSA Department of Psychology Psychiatrist Dr. Rami Kaminski coined the new to describe well-adjusted people who tend to avoid joining social groups out of preference.

Are you an Otrovert?

Here's what I'd say. First, that's not really a thing. But, sure, you can take any configuration of traits and call it something. And, there will be people who fit that configuration.

Should we have a name for this constellation of traits? Meh..

lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-e...

Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression This randomized clinical trial investigates the efficacy and safety of psilocybin, 25 mg, with adjunct psychotherapy in treatment-resistance major depression.

SPIN GRAND CHELEM 🏆
Psilocybin JAMA Psychiatry trial 🍄
a) Positive framing despite negative primary outcome,
b) Inconclusive results presented as supportive evidence,
c) Safety concerns downplayed with reassuring wording.
See the rest of the 🧵 for the verbatim...

Lehrtherapien im Psychotherapiestudium - Die Psychotherapie Background With the entering into force of the new Psychotherapist Act, teaching therapies (LT) were established as a mandatory training format in the reformed master’s study programs in clinical psyc...

Wie kann Lehrtherapie im neuen KliPP-Master aussehen, welche Herausforderungen gibt es, was sind Gemeinsamkeiten & Unterschiede, wenn der Fokus auf KiJu oder Erwachsenen liegt?

Einblicke in unser Modell an der @rptu.bsky.social gibt es hier:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.

#PsychSciSky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Many fall for AI-generated junk online" — youth demand social media ban for people above 40.

Excellent headline by a German satire magazine.

Out of sight, out of mind? High discrepancy between observer- and patient-reported outcome after routine inpatient treatment for depression Divergent outcomes of treatment for depression occur regularly, but often go undetected by clinical judgment alone. To date, no comprehensive studies …

Any royalty re: title directly to my bank account, please. 🙃
Congrats, Mareike! 👏🏻

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Out of sight, out of mind? Intersession experiences as protective and risk indicators of suicidal ideation in the context of outpatient treatment Suicidal ideation is a central clinical risk in psychotherapy. Patients’ engagement with therapy between sessions, captured by intersession processes (ISP), may be particularly informative for unde...

update: here it is! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #psychotherapy #suicideprevention

🚨OUT NOW IN COGNITION AND EMOTION🚨:

Happy to share a new open access paper about an experimental Trigger Warning study led by Hannah Willems - a brilliant PhD student I have the privilege of supervising. 💫

Get your free copy here👇🏻:

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#TriggerWarning #Trauma

New paperAlert! We show that generative AI can quantitatively assess personality from brief, open-ended text—with surprising accuracy. 🧠✨

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Postprint (pending mod approval): osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Interview and self-report measures of personality disorder criteria are not structurally equivalent. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Communicating Medical Numbers To the Editor Dr Zikmund-Fisher and colleagues1 highlight several important caveats regarding the presentation of numbers in medical communication and provide thoughtful suggestions for clinicians on ...

🎉 Happy to share a Letter with @rief01.bsky.social in @jama.com: We argue that clinicians should be aware of framing effects when communicating likelihoods. Eg, patients perceive "1 in 10 have side effects" as more concerning than "9 in 10 do not have side effects". jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me.

🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026
Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning)

⬇️ Call for Papers
tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self The recent exceptional growth in the number of special issues has led to the largest delegation of editorial power in the history of scientific publishing. Has this power been used responsibly? In thi...

PISS journals 😂
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

It’s nice to see radical behaviorism and psychodynamics - both massively underrepresented in many psychology programs btw - agree on core assumptions about personality functioning. This preprint by @kimberlyjgilbert.bsky.social argues for the psychodynamic framework.

osf.io/rg3zn/overview

Review of Professor Philipp Herzog's visit to ULiège A specialist in cognitive and behavioral clinical psychology at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, he has joined the Laboratory of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (PsyNCog).

My research stay as @unigr.bsky.social Guest Professor @universitedeliege.bsky.social : it was truly an honor and pleasure for me working with Prof. Sylvie Blairy's team - merci! 🙏🏻👇🏻

www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_205351...

A critical review of methodological quality in functional neuroimaging studies on dissociative identity disorder Background: Dissociative identity disorder remains contested. The debate hinges on whether memories carry over between identity states and whether those states are truly distinct, but most evidence...

"On current evidence, functional imaging across identity states does not support firm claims about identity fragmentation or inter identity amnesia, nor does it decide between trauma based and sociocognitive accounts."

Followers of a certain trauma/DID superstar will not like this…

I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.

1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.

While I don't agree with much of the framing, trials like this show that many care systems could profit from more fine-grained stratified care. Not everyone will profit from BA delivered by paraprofessionals, but it will surely take some pressure of waitlists…

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025

My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

Does structured, psychometrically based feedback discussion cause improvements of the therapeutic alliance? A single-case experimental study Routine outcome monitoring and feedback (ROM) systems have been established to enhance therapeutic outcomes, prevent drop-outs and facilitate data-driven personalization in psychotherapy. However, ...

🔥 New paper, led by my PhD student @selindem.bsky.social: preregistered single-case experimental study showing the positive impact of using the GPNS feedback system on the therapeutic alliance.

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Must We Always Go Idiographic? - Cognitive Therapy and Research Purpose While psychological change processes are increasingly assumed to be “non-ergodic”, prompting a shift toward idiographic approaches, the assumption of ergodicity is often accepted a priori…

Must We Always Go Idiographic? Information-Theoretic Approaches to Testing Structural Ergodicity in Temporal Symptom Networks buff.ly/1ATccXl #CBTworks #PBT #clinpsych

✨Wunderbare Neuigkeiten: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fördert unser neues Netzwerk SNEPP – das Scientific Network for Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy!

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

"You asked for truffle pasta, we gave you a microwave burger"