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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Do people living with schizophrenia in Michigan feel that they are in control of their actions & the outcomes of those actions? Dr. Cowan is using lab-based measures & life story interviews to capture real world relevance in people’s lives. Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Dr. Cowan talks with a grad student at a table.

Dr. Cowan and grad student Anna Benedict discuss a dataset.

A quote attributed to Dr. Cowan: “The more we can do to help the public understand the experiences of people living with a diagnosis like schizophrenia, the more we can fight against the stigma. We can observe things in the lab about the disease, but what does that actually mean in the lives of the people affected? It’s a powerful way to fight the idea that a person can be reduced down to a label.”

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Wisdom

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Testing addiction theories at home People with alcohol use disorder, but with no desire to stop drinking, report changes in subjective experience during drinking that refute the hedonic allostasis theory of addiction. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

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Henry (Raffles) Cowan @hrcowan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Preparing my first-day-of-class slides on AI policies, and I asked ChatGPT to generate infographics of key course concepts. My favorite is this Lovecraftian nightmare summarizing "biological models of psychopathology" (aka, the Bream Chemistry of Psychopallogy)

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

New commentary in American Psychologist with the legendary @jadler.bsky.social on posttraumatic growth: why all parts of it can use some revision (like those suggested by others in this issue!), and why it's a fool's errand to predict PTG before it happens. doi.org/10.1037/amp0... (open access!!)

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

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Matt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I have a joke about internship applications, but I can't afford to send it. (But seriously this is absurd and removes any relief from actually finally finishing these apps. How did people also manage in-person interviews???)

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MSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

A warm welcome to Dr. Raffles Cowan (@hrcowan.bsky.social), our new assistant professor in the Clinical Science research area! Dr. Cowan’s research lies at the intersection of clinical science & personality psych. Get to know Dr. Cowan more here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

A quote attributed to Dr. Cowan: “Our field often has a blind spot for individuals' interpretations of their own experiences, environments, and life events. By using a more person-centered approach, we not only improve our predictive and explanatory models of mental illness, but we also treat our participants with respect as people who are more than their scores on measures of symptoms or functional impairment.”

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Henry (Raffles) Cowan @hrcowan.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Also, East Lansing is a great place to live! (if you like nice views out your lab window and an affordable cost of living and that sort of thing) More info about the program and applications here (3/3) psychology.msu.edu/programs/cli...

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Henry (Raffles) Cowan @hrcowan.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Grad students are welcome to focus more on the quantitative side (e.g., factors, clusters, MLM, NLP), the qualitative side (e.g., narrative identity, thematic analysis), or a mix of both. Interested? Join us for a virtual info session Sept 30 (2/3) psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud...

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Prospective PhD Students | Department of Psychology | Michigan State University

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Henry (Raffles) Cowan @hrcowan.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I’m recruiting a grad student this fall!! Join me at the @msupsychology.bsky.social Risk, Resilience, & Recovery Lab, where we add personality, development, life narratives, self, identity, and personal meaning into crunchy structural & longitudinal models of serious mental illness. (1/3)

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