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Dan Mirea

@danmirea.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at Princeton Psych. Studying mental health, technology, reinforcement learning, language. He/they 🏳️‍🌈🇷🇴

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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Congrats to @danmirea.bsky.social who led a new paper published in @jamapsychiatry.com! "The Reinforcement Effect of Social Media Likes in Depression". jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The Reinforcement Effect of Social Media Likes in Depression
This study investigates individual differences in the effect of social media likes on posting behavior and their association with and specificity to depressive psychopathology.
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Had a lot of fun discussing our recent paper on the @jamapsychiatry.com podcast! 🎧 Listen on the podcast website here: jamanetwork.com/learning/audio-player/19077115 🟢 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5iGB... 🍎 Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We also applied a transdiagnostic approach on dataset 3, and found a double dissociation: 👍 reinforcement tendency was specifically linked to anxious-depression 🤳 behavioral persistence (a measure of posting habits) was specifically linked to compulsivity
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨 Now out in @jamapsychiatry.com 🚨 Are people with depression less responsive to rewards on social media, just like in the lab? Actually…quite the opposite! 🧵 📄 Read the paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The Reinforcement Effect of Social Media Likes in Depression
This study investigates individual differences in the effect of social media likes on posting behavior and their association with and specificity to depressive psychopathology.
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Huge congratulations to Dr. Dan Mirea (@danmirea.bsky.social) on his dissertation and defense!!! We are so proud of you and can’t wait for all the big things you continue to do! 🥳 Read more about Dr. Mirea's amazing work in this thread:
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Stefan Feuerriegel @sfeuerriegel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚀Introducing 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐋𝐋𝐌: A reporting checklist for using LLMs in behavioral & social science ✅GUIDE-LLM is a reporting checklist designed by 80+ experts to improve transparency, reproducibility & ethical accountability of LLM-based research 📄 llm-checklist.com
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GUIDE-LLM
Reporting Checklist for Studies with Large Language Models in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'm hiring a new lab manager for my lab @ UCSD! For more info on the lab, check out our website: lillab.ucsd.edu Target start date is June 1 (flexible) and application deadline is March 26. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit! Apply here: employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...
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Laboratory Coordinator - 138788
Laboratory Coordinator - 138788 | Careers at UC San Diego
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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1
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Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
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Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🚨 New preprint 🚨 We present the decisions-from-experience database (DfE-DB), including data from 168 studies. The data are currently shared with the original authors and made public upon publication. 🔗 Database: github.com/dwulff/dfe-db 🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Congrats to PNI + affiliated trainees named 2025 Honorific Fellows by the @princeton.edu Graduate School! 👏 Victor Geadah 👏 Isaac Christian 👏 @danmirea.bsky.social gradschool.princeton.edu/news/2025/ho...
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Honorific Fellows celebrated by Princeton Graduate School amidst 125th Anniversary
Thirty-two exceptional graduate students who received named or endowed fellowships for this academic year were recently feted by the Princeton Graduate School. The honorific fellowships support advanc...
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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions
This survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity.
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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇
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Cognition varies across the calendar year in multiple large-scale datasets | PNAS
Children’s cognitive abilities vary across short and long timescales, from circadian fluctuations to year-by-year developmental changes. “Summer sl...
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Excited to see this out!
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
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Eleanor Holton @eleanor-holton.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Super happy to see this review out! We ask why people are so reluctant to abandon goals and how this commitment could be understood computationally. Work with Jill O'Reilly & @yaelniv.bsky.social
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Nina Rouhani @ninarouhani.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
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Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 22/10/2025
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What influences whether people have fun with a task? Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports! rdcu.be/eI069 Paper summary below 1/4
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Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games
Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games
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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵
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Colin Hoy @colinwhoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I strongly believe modeling behavior will be critical for understanding mental health well enough to develop new interventions, but the gap between task-based and naturalistic behavior is MASSIVE. Some great ideas here for bridging that gap!
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Such an important topic: computational psychiatry at the nexus of lab-based understanding (eg of reinforcement learning and mood) and measures of real-world behavior and mental health conditions. (Scroll to the bottom for a link open to all).
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 22/09/2025
📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection 🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025 🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply #comppsychiatry #socialneuro
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Fantastic paper by @danmirea.bsky.social ! 👇
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Angela Radulescu @angelaradulescu.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Inspiring work by @danmirea.bsky.social!
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social Thread ⬇️
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Brandon C Davidson @bcdavidson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media. 🧵 Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited? It turns out, yes!
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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature
Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.
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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨 New paper alert! Do time constraints reveal habitual behaviour? 🤔 We directly compared two major paradigms in the habit research field (Outcome Devaluation vs Response Remapping) under identical training and forced-response conditions 🧠 ⏲️ ⌨️ preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
In our preprint "Limited evidence for reduced learning rate adaptation in anxious-depression, before or after treatment", led by @stephsuddell.bsky.social and Lili Zhang, we fail to find a robust association between anxious-depression and learning rate adaptation osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
At #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including: - amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks - panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social) - group brainstorming session! Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Thrilled to have received the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award for my work on understanding mental health through digital behavior! Thank you to the institute, and so grateful to my amazing advisors @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social for their unwavering support!
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
If you’re at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social next week, consider joining our workshop on real-world RL! You can sign up to our mailing list for updates here, even if you don’t attend: sites.google.com/view/rlinthe...
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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🔷New in Biological Psychiatry🔷 **Old Strategies, New Environments: Reinforcement Learning on Social Media** In this Review, we argue that the computational framework of Reinforcement Learning can help us understand social media behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dan @danmirea.bsky.social will share his science communication and public engagement expertise as an educational content creator (@danniesbrain on TikTok and Instagram) and program coordinator of @mental_health_for_romania
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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Sign up for our *free* online Science Communication Workshop on May 5&7! Tinyurl.com/scicomins Featuring our incredible workshop instructor @choano.bsky.social and our amazing social media science communication panel: @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social, @danmirea.bsky.social, and @moadlc.bsky.social.
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Huge congratulations to Chantal @talvaldivia.bsky.social for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan @danmirea.bsky.social for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!
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Roeland Heerema @roelandheerema.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I don’t dare to tell you how many years this took, but the project that I started as a MSc intern and kept working on throughout my PhD is now finally published: www.nature.com/articles/s44... [1/9]
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How mood-related physiological states bias economic decisions - Communications Psychology
Brief inductions of happiness versus sadness bias unrelated economic choices towards more rewarded but more costly options. This choice bias is predicted by a mood proxy reconstructed from physiologic...
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We’re thrilled to celebrate Erik for co-authoring the Best Paper at SAS (Nencheva et al., 2024) and Dan for winning the Diversity Award! Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: @eriknook.bsky.social @raziasahi.bsky.social @danmirea.bsky.social @claire-whiting.bsky.social
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/03/2025
New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Defragmenting psychology
Nature Human Behaviour - Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation. We call on...
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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How can we reduce conceptual clutter in the psychological sciences? @ruimata.bsky.social and I propose a solution based on a fine-tuned 🤖 LLM (bit.ly/mpnet-pers) and test it for 🎭 personality psychology. The paper is finally out in @natrevpsych.bsky.social: go.nature.com/4bEaaja
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Steven Mesquiti @smesquiti.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨New Preprint Alert!🚨 To what extent can we use language to measure psychological and subjective well-being? 🤔 We tested how well language-based models (i.e., bert-based embeddings) predict subjective & psychological well-being across three studies. Here’s what we found! 🧵👇
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Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What is driving social foraging dynamics in the wild? In a new pre-print, we investigate decision-making mechanisms in large groups of Finnish ice-fishers competing for resources: osf.io/preprints/ps... Big thanks to drone pilot Félicie Dhellemmes. 1/n youtu.be/I_RH2diXcAk
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Eleanor Holton @eleanor-holton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty from groups that are historically under-represented in academia. The program focus...
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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨 Workshop alert 🚨 If you're interested in RL and real-world data, come to our workshop @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social! Including cool talks, a panel debate, and a group brainstorming activity. sites.google.com/view/rlinthe...
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