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Katherine Tamminen

@ktamminen.bsky.social
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Full Professor, Sport Psychology The University of Toronto Registered Psychotherapist

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/01/2026
Olympians can teach us to redefine what it means to be successful.
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How Olympians think about success and failure and what we can learn from them
Olympians can teach us to redefine what it means to be successful. They face daily setbacks and have to learn to deal with coming up short.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I've been trying to use AI to support a narrative review. Has worked well in many aspects of the work. But it's screwed up royally in three ways: 1. Failed to suspect a study with 100% response rate and 100% agreement by >6000 participants to have a blood test. Saw this as a "quality feature".
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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Fact for today: Canada has climbed from 4th to 2nd in the latest international reputation rankings. The US has dropped dramatically, from 30th to 48th among the 60 top economies. Switzerland ranks first, Russia last. The rankings are often a factor in country investment decisions.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Knit one, purl two on the way to mental health healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi... by Jane Caulfield "Handcrafts have been found to be beneficial for various populations, such as cancer survivors, incarcerated individuals, older adults, refugees & dementia patients." #Knitting 🧶
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Knit one, purl two on the way to mental health - Healthy Debate
Addressing rising mental health rates will undoubtedly require a range of different tools, both pharmacological and non-pharmaceutical.
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QRSE Society @qrsesociety.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🌟 Big news! QRSE 2026 is now accepting abstract submissions! Don’t miss your chance to share your research—submissions are open until November 15th 2025. Learn more and submit here: www.qrsesoc.com/call-for-pap...
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Vic Clarke (she/her, they/them) @vicclarke.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
New open access paper by me and @ginnybraun.bsky.social - Exploring U.K. University Students’ Social Perceptions of Dating and Physical Disability Using Story Completion. There are extensive Supplementary Materials which we hope are useful for teaching reflexive TA: awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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BMJ Medicine @bmjmedicine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Calling all researchers and educators📣 This new RMR by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social on how to conduct effective case studies, offers guidance for using them for learning & decision-making. Essential reading for robust research! bit.ly/47PL01l
Promotional graphic for BMJ Medicine featuring an illustration of a person with a magnifying glass, analysing icons representing research methods and reporting, including charts and gears. The image includes text that reads 'NEW: Research Methods and Reporting,' with a call to action reading 'READ NOW.' There's also a reference to case studies and a guide for researchers
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en
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Basic Income Pilot Project / Study results
What does a universal basic income really achieve? Find the results of the first long-term German study here.
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Joel Le Forestier @joelleforestier.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
She is far too un-self-promoting to do this herself, so I'm shouting out *THE* Elizabeth Page-Gould (@page-gould.bsky.social) for winning the SESP Career Trajectory Award! Liz is the reason they had to invent the high-warmth/high competence quadrant. She is such a gem and so damn deserving of this.
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Elizabeth Page-Gould recognized with Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology
The Society for Experimental Social Psychology has recognized Elizabeth Page-Gould with a Career Trajectory Award in recognition of uniquely creative and influential scholarly productivity.
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Razia Sahi @raziasahi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Does linguistic diversity when talking about emotions track wellbeing? In a new pre-print with @eriknook.bsky.social, we link emotion vocabularies to mental health in a large real-world psychotherapy dataset. Highlight: therapist emo vocab may help clients get better over time! shorturl.at/TKPN1
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Large natural emotion vocabularies are linked with better mental health in psychotherapeutic conversations
Psychotherapy is the most ubiquitous form of mental health treatment and it unfolds predominantly through language. To better understand how this exchange of words bolsters mental health, we tested ho...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
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Prairie Socialist 🇨🇦 @prairiesocial.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Each of these points bears repeating. #cdnpoli #canada
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
No security clearance? Then no voting clearance from me. Surrounding yourself with our flags doesn't change that. "Among opposition party leaders, Poilievre is alone in refusing to apply for a security clearance." #CanadaStrong #canpoli #cdnpoli thewalrus.ca/poilievres-r...
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Poilievre’s Refusal to Get Security Clearance Raises Questions about His Readiness to Govern | The Walrus
Who seeks to lead a country without knowing the dangers it faces?
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Katherine Tamminen @ktamminen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Body mapping as a "new technique" to explain illnesses and conditions. (Not that new, but glad to see this is getting some attention as a way for patients to explain their illnesses!)
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Last minute add to my course intro slides "We conclude that handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis
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Aidan Campbell @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Two modes: 1) 40 hours of writing in 8 hours 2) 40 minutes of writing in 8 hours
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Feeling down? Taking a walk could help. The more steps we take, the less likely we are to feel depressed, new research shows. www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org #exercise🚶 #MentalHealth
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Getting your steps in can reduce depression, research finds
A recent study shows getting walking more may help prevent depressive symptoms. Tracking your steps may help you stay motivated, researchers say.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another. I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵
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Katherine Tamminen @ktamminen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Looking forward to this line of work from @sarahawalker.bsky.social to clarify the language and conceptualization around interpersonal emotion regulation! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Love... "Engagement with performance-based art such as plays, musicals & ballet, and particularly participation in music, is linked to reductions in depression and in pain and improved quality of life." Consuming arts & culture is good for health, study www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds
Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’
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Lauren Herckis @laurenherckis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Reading this fabulous paper on reporting qual research results by Braun and Clarke @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social and recommend you do too (it's also open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach
Evaluative tools for qualitative research need to be developed and designed in a way that allows them to be used by the research community to assess qualitative research on its own terms, and thus ...
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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🍾New article out in @natrevpsych.bsky.social🍾: We review how social expectations form and change in individuals with depression and how they shape the onset, course, and severity of depression. Particular emphasis is on why social expectations persist despite pos info. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Social expectations in depression - Nature Reviews Psychology
Expectations of negative social interactions or low interpersonal self-efficacy are common among people with depression. In this Review, Kirchner et al. integrate the cognitive, social and clinical as...
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Katherine Tamminen @ktamminen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Wow! "In my opinion, this manuscript is flawless. It is well written and the methodology is sound. The authors had a rather large sample and they explained their results appropriately. This can and should be published, as is." Reviewer 2, are you ok? 😊 What a lovely comment to receive this morning!
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Rethinking Barriers and Enablers in Qualitative Health Research: Limitations, Alternatives, and Enhancements - Abby Haynes, Victoria Loblay, 2024
Explorations of barriers and enablers (or barriers and facilitators) to a desired health practice, implementation process, or intervention outcome have become s...
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Katherine Tamminen @ktamminen.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
New book! Excited to receive my copy of the Handbook of Emotion Regulation edited by James Gross and Brett Ford - includes so many amazing authors, I can't wait to dig in! 🤩 Honoured to have contributed a chapter on emotion regulation in sport with Jeemin Kim guilford.com/books/Handbo...
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Katherine Tamminen @ktamminen.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
Great start to the new year! Looking forward to continuing research and projects on mental health among elite youth athletes (and their parents). Shout out to Courtney Walton for leading this paper that reviews key issues and gaps in the literature journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Katherine Tamminen @ktamminen.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
This looks like a great book with a fantastic lineup of contributors! I was delighted to be asked to contribute a chapter on stress, coping, and emotion regulation (with a social/interpersonal lens) with Faye Didymus - great to collaborate on this topic! canada.humankinetics.com/products/soc...
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Social Psychology in Sport 2nd Edition epub
Description Table of Contents Author Social Psychology in Sport, Second Edition, offers global perspectives and a broad base of knowledge in areas that shape the social environment of sport. The text ...
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Katherine Tamminen @ktamminen.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Another fantastic SCAPPS conference! Some excellent poster presentations by Megan Ifergan and Rylan Curtis, Courtney Walton, Jordan Sutcliffe, and @devinbonk.com (regretting that I didn't get a photo with Chad Danyluck!).
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