I agree!

Makes sense! Just based on my observations, women engage in many of these behaviors too. That’s not to say its as prevalent or that it is otherwise equivalent (given power context etc.), but it does seem worth accounting for when interpreting these results.

I wonder how specific this is to men? is there research on how much women engage in these strategies?

For sure. I don’t mean to imply only controversial things should be studied. I was taking the ”despite all the domain specificity in experience” to imply people see them as being driven by diff mechanisms. Reading back though, I think I was overinterpreting!

this is a really cool study. I am curious though— does anyone say that basic mechanisms of reward differ across domains? my impression was that was pretty non-controversial.

How do you assess the reliability of single-item ratings in ESM / EMA?

How happy are you right now?

Single-item measures dominate #ESM / #EMA.
Fast. Intuitive. Low burden.

But… how reliable are they really? #m-Path research suggests that a large share of within-person variance may be noise...

👉 Read more: m-path.io/blog/from-pa...

Nominative determinism in the wild.

Cannot recommend these workshops more enthusiastically. And I’m a pretty enthusiastic person.

And it’s still under review :)

Ah, kind of! So we argue that for variables with a skewed distribution, it’s an overcorrection to control for the mean of that variable when wanting to isolate SD associations with external criterion. And we actually find the mode is the most appropriate for these cases.

+1

Also this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 New paper out in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B in which we investigated whether conversational alignment — the tendency to reuse each other's words, syntactic constructions, topics, sounds and gestures — can be used as a reliable individual trait. It cannot!
🧵 1/4

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Hah! So what’s your fave varietal?

Envy is where it’s at

Ridiculously useful information for anyone designing EMA studies or evaluating EMA studies as a reviewer/consumer of research.

Predictors of response compliance in ESM / EMA research

Why do participants stop responding in #ESM / #EMA studies? 📱🔔

Average compliance is about 7️⃣9️⃣%, but that hides massive variation.

Our new m-Path blog reviews predictors of response compliance: study design, incentives, participant traits, and time effects.

🔗 blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

Janan’s out here blazing the trail with one of the first studies on the new HiTOP measure. Super important work!

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My god, the basicness boggles the mind

Looking forward to expanding our small team a bit as the lab prepares for its 2nd year.

We will be hiring 2-3 more volunteer, in-person RAs for our team to start in the fall. Details and application info are at our website.

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Now out in npj Digital Medicine 🎉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our systematic review and meta-analysis examines how well language-based models detect depression from text.

We reviewed 123 studies (40,000 + observations) using NLP and machine learning.

😍

But it discovers causes! its in the name!

a woman says it 's the same propaganda in front of a window ALT: a woman says it 's the same propaganda in front of a window

A colleague asked me today about "causal discovery analysis" - never heard of it. Sounded fishy. Looked it up, and it is rotten fish all the way down. The Directed acyclic graph folks are at it again with their irresponsible naming of this technique. Flashbacks to 2017 and "network" propaganda.

How US Youth Use AI Chatbots: Conversation Patterns from Naturalistic Keystroke Data: https://osf.io/z4mts

Similarity of Major Life-Event Perceptions and Relationship Satisfaction among Romantic Couples: The Case of Moving in Together: https://osf.io/8h6yb

Preach

My first PhD paper is out 🎉🐣

We examined transactions between Big Five traits and first sexual intercourse across up to 10 years and ~5,000 German adolescents.

Extraversion stood out 🔄🧠

Agreeableness + openness showed interesting patterns as well

Check them out here:

doi.org/10.1177/0890...

I am so pro-behavioral sequences. Especially excited that the network metrics outperformed total screen time in predicting mental health.