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Kelly Donegan

@kellydonegan.bsky.social
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Cognitive & Mental Health Researcher 🧠 Post-doc @ University of York | PhD @ Trinity College Dublin ➡️ sites.google.com/view/kellyrdonegan

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Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk @pavamn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🚨Our new reviewed preprint is out at eLife! 🎉 Using bi-daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we ask: • Does depressive mood precede under-confidence, or vice versa? • How does depression affect the integration of local confidence into global confidence over time? elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Dense repeated sampling reveals impaired hierarchical integration of metacognitive confidence that scales with depression
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Excited to be chairing/presenting at our post-doc symposium discussing the advancements (and challenges 🤫) of computational psychiatry with a ⭐️ line-up of @saramehrhof.bsky.social @yanivabir.bsky.social & Alicia Rybicki. If at #BAP2026, come join us today at 2pm ‼️
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Started #cpc2026 off with a bang with an amazing poster session 💥 thanks to everyone who came by for all the thought-provoking discussions and even some new research ideas 💭
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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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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Mapping Extreme Deviations in Cognition to Transdiagnostic Compulsivity: A Normative Modelling Approach: osf.io/9bt4u
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Spent my Saturday with a “32km” (more like 36km/7 hour) 1:1 meeting with my supervisor @alexandrapike.bsky.social 🚶‍♀️~ all for a good cause for the Mentally Fit York Fund 🧠 though our physical health was definitely questionned 👣🩹
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Alice Cox @alicemcox.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New preprint from the work of my placement and final year of undergrad! 🚨 We investigated the applicability of normative modelling to large-scale, gamified cognitive data, and explored how corresponding extreme deviations from the norm relate to transdiagnostic compulsivity. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New preprint! How do threat beliefs drive avoidance & what happens when avoidance prevents us from verifying them? New work showing a bidirectional link between beliefs and avoidance! Lucky to work w @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So exciting to see @lucysta02475610.bsky.social present the results of her mammoth, multi-year project to develop a questionnaire measuring the Negative Appraisal of Gastric Sensations (NAGS): it differentiates between people with eating disorders and gastric disorders! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
💥New paper out! Why do some people generalise threat more than others? We show that anxious people generalise more strongly, even after accounting for perceptual mistakes. A huge (!) thanks to @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Excited to receive the @britishacademy.bsky.social's Early Career Researcher Seed Grant for our project “Understanding the dynamics of control in eating disorders” 🌀🌱 with @alexandrapike.bsky.social #BAECRNSeedFund
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Vanessa Teckentrup @glassybrain.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Thoroughly enjoyed writing a commentary on a great paper by @hugofleming.bsky.social et al for @biologicalpsych.bsky.social:GOS, focusing on how to further explore metabolic contributions to learning and feeling using real-time data and interventional designs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Metabolic Contributions to Learning and Feeling: Why They Matter and How to Make the Most of Them
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In factor analysis, why does the commonly used CNG method nearly always land at 3 factors when applied to anx/depr/ocd scales? TLDR: There tends to be one factor/component with a large eigenvalue. In these cases, almost inevitably and somewhat arbitrarily, the procedure selects 3 factors 👇
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Emma Sullivan @emmacsullivan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thrilled to have our new scoping review examining the longitudinal effects of social media on sleep in youth in Computers in Human Behavior Reports www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The longitudinal effects of social media on sleep among youth: A scoping review
Social media has become an integral part of our everyday lives, with nearly 5 billion users worldwide. Its ubiquity has sparked concerns about the pot…
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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Why do some people feel a “not-quite-right” sensation before they pick their skin? The first ever systematic review on interoception and skin-picking disorder explores how bodily cues and affective touch might help explain the urge. #SkinPickingDisorder #Interoception 🧵 THREAD
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Ben Jonathan Wagner @benjwagner.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Very happy that this is out www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Together with @stefankiebel.bsky.social we show that decision biases in context-dependent decision making, previously attributed to different forms of value normalization, are very well explained by habit-like action repetition.
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Action repetition biases choice in context-dependent decision-making - Communications Psychology
This study shows that decision biases previously attributed to value normalization (e.g. relative value learning or range normalization) are better explained by action repetition. Repeating an action ...
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Model-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in depression - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Model-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in depression
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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Sookud and colleagues found that individuals with higher compulsivity and intrusive thoughts develop a less certain internal understanding of the external world, and this mediates the link between symptoms and goal-directed behaviors.
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Impaired goal-directed planning in transdiagnostic compulsivity is explained by uncertainty about learned task structure
Diminished use of goal-directed (“model-based”) decision-making is a hallmark of transdiagnostic compulsivity, promoting an over-reliance on inflexible and habitual behaviours. However, the origin of ...
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Holly Myers👩🏼‍💻🧠 @holmyers.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Really excited to have had the opportunity to write this article ! IU is one of my main research areas so I really enjoyed writing about this paper 😊
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This article is now published in @plosone.org. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... New analysis added: seemingly habitual responses are explained because contingency deg didn't work for some participants (in line with recent outcome dev results in our lab and in @clairegillan.bsky.social lab)
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The degraded contingency test fails to detect habit induction in humans
In experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience, habits are considered stimulus-response (S-R) associations formed through extended reward training. Accordingly, habits are assessed using one o...
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Franziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Taken together, our results advance our understanding of the dynamics of fun in realistic environments. They also emphasize the importance of using realistic, game-like environments together with highly-controlled experiments to advance our theories of human motivation & learning. 4/4
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫 I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility
“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
B2B Cognition & Mental Health Lab talks, with unintention twinning titles 🎭 Me: The promise and pitfalls of 📱/ real-life data Alex: The promise and pitfalls of computational modelling 🧮 📍Centre for Decision Science Summer School @alexandrapike.bsky.social
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Leya @aleyamarzuki.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🚨New pre-print out! 🍂 Using daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we found that reductions in both self- and decision-making confidence precede when people are likely to report experiencing symptoms of OCD. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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Metacognitive antecedents to states of mental ill-health: Drops in confidence precede symptoms of OCD
Mental health symptoms, like those in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), show pronounced fluctuations over time. However, little is known about the underlying factors driving these fluctuations. Whi...
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Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏
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Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research
⬇️Scroll down for links to the BODY experiment and the online surveys.⬇️
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 Why do some people get stuck doing things that no longer make sense, or are even harmful? Our new study shows compulsivity isn’t just about weakened goal-directed control; people high in compulsivity also form stronger habits 📄: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PaperFairy #Habits #CogSci
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
New preprint! Habits should get stronger with more practice, right? Well, this crucial result has been difficult to reproduce in human labs. In an instant classic, de Wit (2018) showed 5 failures in obtaining more evidence of habits in conditions with more training -as compared to little trained
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I promise I missed the #CPConf2025 Travel Award photo because I was boarding my ✈️ and NOT due to punting 🛶 .. Grateful for the opportunity to present my work 📱, met up with friends & eat delicious german apple cake
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Come to my fan-tastic poster at #CPConf2025 🪭 Poster 35 to find out all things habits, gamification or to get a quick cool down 🥵
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
What does this tell us? At least some of the implicit assumptions when advocating for the use of computational models in psychiatry are not met for these popular tasks and computational models -> limiting utility.
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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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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?" Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."
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Vanessa Teckentrup @glassybrain.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The way we feel affects the way we think. Can we find evidence for this in real-world mood and cognitive performance? For a few weeks, we followed people through their daily lives on their smartphones to answer this question! 📱🌍🧠 #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Vanessa Teckentrup @glassybrain.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Very happy to see this published open-access in Behavior Research Methods now 🤗 #neuroskyence doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Digital questionnaire response time (DQRT): A ubiquitous and low-cost digital assay of cognitive processing speed - Behavior Research Methods
Digital survey tools have all but replaced paper and pen in the psychological sciences, and consequently new forms of potentially useful research paradata are now routinely gathered. A particularly co...
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Touched down in the motherland 🇮🇪 for #RLDM2025 Excited to be apart of this explosive line-up 💥 My 🎯? To cram in as many 👾-related puns as possible
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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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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
& that’s a wrap! 💫 4 amazing years done at this wonderful lab 🧠📱 Ending on a high having passed my PhD-viva 👩🏻‍🎓 Endless thank yous to (AWOL) @clairegillan.bsky.social & the lab for all their support (& attention to detail 🎈💞🎀🌸) and to @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social & Sonia Bishop for examining
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Two days left for contributed talks submissions 🤖💫 sites.google.com/view/game-on...
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
#HELP anyone know of any external travel grants supporting ECR to attend a european-based conference ? 🥺🤞🏻 (in that awkward phase between PhD & postdoc with no 💸😓) #ECR #travelgrant #psych #comppsych #cogpsych
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A super review paper about variability in decision-making, by an even super human 🥹 👏🏼 @jduffy9.bsky.social
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A *really* important piece of work - if anxiety-provoking - on biases in questionnaire-filling behaviour and how they can relate to our cognitive measures of interest in large crowdsourced samples. 1/3
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Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Paper out in PLOS Mental Health 2 weeks ago 🙈 but better late than never! Collab with @smfleming.bsky.social and @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social. We investigated how confidence is altered in transdiagnostic compulsivity across memory and perception, as memory confidence is typically lowered in OCD. (1/4)
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Finally coming down to earth after some very big and exciting academic/personal wins recently ✨☁️ … First, last Friday I submitted my PhD thesis 🥳 which used 📱 games to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying repetitive behaviours in psychiatry 🧠☄️⚙️ Yes, I did wear a tiara 👸🏻
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
One to save 💾 ~ especially with New Years Resolutions around the corner, wanting to either make or break habits with neuroscience-backed tricks! 🧠 Happy to have co-authored this review out now in TiCS, with more to come from Team Habit 🫂
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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Null findings are important ‼️ Excited to share my latest work finding model-based planning does NOT improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩‍💻 treatments 🧵👇🏻
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Samuel Hewitt, PhD @samuelhewitt.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
why is that effortful task SO unappealing today? v happy to share a BIG effort from my PhD! Real-world fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based choices osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w3x7d with incredible co-authors Dr Agnes Norbury, Prof Quentin Huys & @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social
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Anna Marie Rosická 🇺🇦☮️ @annarosicka.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
Are you interested in gamified smartphone assessments or in ApoE-e4 effects on cognition? Come visit my poster 722 at #AAIC2024 to chat! 😊🧠 So excited to present more of PhD work with Neureka in Philadelphia this year!
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
Interested in the structure of psychopathology? We have a new preprint for you osf.io/preprints/ps... led by @celinef.bsky.social "Mechanistic arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology"
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