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"Silicon samples" are becoming more and more common in research and polling.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

The updated version of this preprint is now online!

THREAD🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397

Finding Flow: Cultivating Flow States as a Counterpoint to Depressive Rumination
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

26:09 John Fahey

Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival | Full Documentary YouTube video by Fat Possum Records

二人とも演奏している姿を初めて観た…。えげつないなこれ。

14:00 Jo Ann Kelly & "Backwards" Sam Firk
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What Does Personality Have to Do with Mental Disorder? (Chapter 10) - Conceptualizing Personality Disorder Conceptualizing Personality Disorder - July 2025

10 - What Does Personality Have to Do with Mental Disorder?
A Cybernetic Perspective
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Edna Foa, Who Pioneered Exposure Therapy to Treat PTSD, Dies at 88

I consider Dr. Foa’s exposure therapy work among the most profound achievements in clinical psychology.

Her work has saved so, so many lives. She led a big life.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/h...

The protective effect of decentering on the links between internalising symptoms, functional impairment and wellbeing There is a lack of longitudinal research examining the relationships between internalising symptoms and wellbeing via functional impairment. Decenteri…

脱中心化は内在化->機能障害の影響を緩和させるが，機能障害->ウェルビーイングの影響は緩和しない。

The protective effect of decentering on the links between internalising symptoms, functional impairment and wellbeing
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Use of AI within COA linguistic validation and eCOA migration processes: analysis and good practice recommendations - Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes - While there has been much discussion around the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for multilingual translations in other areas, recommendations pertaining...

Use of AI within COA linguistic validation and eCOA migration processes: analysis and good practice recommendations
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm looking for a good resource on the implications on psychometric properties and response patterns when using Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree vs Never/Rarely/Sometimes/Often/Always Likert scales on surveys. Anyone have anything I should read?

Diagnosis and Conceptualization of Suicide: Why Suicide Belongs in Dimensional Frameworks of Psychopathology
doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure.

Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations.

osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3

Are the metatraits fact or artifact? Ruling out alternative explanations for the higher-order factors of the Big Five
doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

完全に自分用。

サイバネティクス文献リスト（随時更新）
sizu.me/hidekis/post...

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Hello, friends, we have a new publication looking at Which depression symptoms matter most for functioning!

Fatigue stands out. Anhedonia, appetite changes, and guilt also play key roles.

Symptom-level approaches may improve functioning more than focusing on total severity.

Systematic review of the psychometric properties of quality-of-life outcome measures used with adult inpatient psychiatric populations - Quality of Life Research Quality of Life Research - To systematically review available quality of life (QoL) measures used in adult psychiatric inpatient settings following the Consensus-based Standards for the selection...

Systematic review of the psychometric properties of quality-of-life outcome measures used with adult inpatient psychiatric populations
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

The SCORE investigation of repeatability and credibility is a lot. There are a few ways to get your head around it.

1: The Nature collection includes 3 papers from SCORE, an amazing paper from @i4replication.bsky.social and several commentaries about the work.

www.nature.com/collections/...

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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...

Congratulation! So pleased to have been a small part of this great project!

A Japanese newspaper (The Nikkei) had an article about these Nature papers (I contributed a comment as a co-author).

www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

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.

Cybernetic Big Five Theory Cybernetics, the study of goal-directed, adaptive systems, is the best framework for an integrative theory of personality. Cybernetic Big Five Theory …

ビッグファイブやメタ特性（安定性と可逆性）をサイバネティクスの観点で記述していてとても面白い。杉浦先生の2019年の論文の中でも言及されていて震えた。

Cybernetic Big Five Theory
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

診断横断的アプローチ
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sjpr...

Meet The Expert: Dr Edna Foa We met with Dr Edna Foa world-renowned expert in the treatment of PTSD and the developer of prolonged exposure (PE) therapy

Foa先生亡くなられたのか…。貴重なインタビューだ。
www.psychologytools.com/articles/mee...

A Large-Group 1-Day RCT Investigating the Effectiveness of Four Different Strategies to Promote the Outcome of Exposure Therapy in 519 Patients with Phobic Fear of Flying Abstract. Introduction: Despite its status as the gold standard for treating fear and anxiety, exposure therapy leaves room for optimization. Clarifying and testing the clinical relevance of proposed ...

痛いところを突かれた気分。

"Are we focusing our research efforts on the wrong end of the problem? Rather than further optimizing the mechanisms of an already highly effective treatment, greater gains might be achieved by developing strategies to reduce barriers to treatment entry."
doi.org/10.1159/0005...

A Large-Group 1-Day RCT Investigating the Effectiveness of Four Different Strategies to Promote the Outcome of Exposure Therapy in 519 Patients with Phobic Fear of Flying Abstract. Introduction: Despite its status as the gold standard for treating fear and anxiety, exposure therapy leaves room for optimization. Clarifying and testing the clinical relevance of proposed ...

519 Patient:innen in 4 Flugzeugen - eine sehr spannende Erfahrung, die nun auch publiziert wurde.
Fazit: One Session Treatment als Gruppentherapie wirkt!

karger.com/pps/article-...

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めちゃくちゃクリエイティブ。最高。
www.yukinakagawa.info/post/kakuhan...

The current State and Status of Theory in Psychological Science Welcome and thank you! Thank you for taking part in this survey. We are collecting views from psychological scientists on the current state of theory development in psychology and how this may affect ...

We’ve created an overview of the current state of theory development in psychological science (doi.org/10.31234/osf...).

We're now conducting a survey on the topic to collect your views on the current state of theory development:

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JoPaCSの論文を読み終えていまだに興奮している。ほかのサイバネティクス理論の論文も読んでみよう。
deyoung.psych.umn.edu/publications

A Cybernetic Theory of Psychopathology Cybernetics, the study of principles governing goal-directed, self-regulating systems, offers a useful approach to understanding psychopathology or psychological dysfunction, overcoming limitations...

今の自分の精神病理観にとって，とても大事なことが書かれている気がする。

A Cybernetic Theory of Psychopathology
doi.org/10.1080/1047...

Understanding Psychopathology: Cybernetics and Psychology on the Boundary between Order and Chaos
doi.org/10.1080/1047...

A cybernetic perspective on the nature of psychopathology: Transcending conceptions of mental illness as statistical deviance and brain disease
doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

Why reversed items can be problematic in survey research In quantitative psychological research, questionnaires with Likert-style items are mostly used to assess variables like emotions, cognitions, and dispositions. Sometimes, it is possible to fall bac…

🚨 New Blog Post 🚨

I wrote my very first blog post 😊

This post is for quantitative researchers working with negatively worded Likert-scale items and haven't heard that these items can cause problems. I outline key issues, describe alternatives, and recommend lit.

yannicmeier.de/2026/03/03/w...