Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 7244128
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13/07/2026We're developing alternative ways to shorten questionnaires, given psychology's questionable focus on inter-item correlations. We are looking for datasets: - clinical (mental health) - contains diagnosis - contains long form - contains short form Steep requirements, but maybe someone knows smth? 62219
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichLaura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Mixed methods in ESM? Still very uncommon. 💥 That should change, we think: we should go beyond numbers, and know what people mean with their numbers. www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comExperience sampling methods require more than numbers - Communications PsychologyThe experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies t... 13516
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichLeonie Vogelsmeier @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Dr. Mihai Constantin, Prof. Dr. Jeroen Vermunt, and I are looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project: "Dynamic Mixture Modeling for Intensive Longitudinal Data". tiu.nu/23934 Please share this vacancy with anyone who might be interested!tiu.nuJob opening: PhD in Methodolgy and Statistics (23934) 086
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichTim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 30/04/2026Most psychological research tells you if a treatment (or any other cause) works on average. But averages hide a lot. Some people benefit, some see no effect and some may actually be harmed. Our new primer in Psychological Methods tackles this head-on. 🧵 14615
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichTom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Want to contribute to scientific rigor and open science in clinical psychology? Apply to be the senior clinical editor at Collabra! Worried it's too much work or you are too junior? Please ask me about it. You might, in fact, be the ideal person! 178
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 17/03/2026We’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: --> forms.gle/Ct4qq4a4raun...forms.gleThe current State and Status of Theory in Psychological ScienceWelcome 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 ... 34824
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichCommunications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 24/02/2026Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comExperience sampling methods require more than numbers - Communications PsychologyThe experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies t... 23518
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichZachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 17/12/20251/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...jamanetwork.comInterpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire InstructionsThis survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity. 36826
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichDominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025What a week! After 5 days, the #mitnb workshop has come to an end. We had a keynote on time scales and two workshops on careless responding and reliability. The central part of the workshops were the hackathons. We had super diverse hackathons, all designed to assess measurement in #ESM. (1/4) 12911
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichBjörn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf... 14285146
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/08/2025Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy... 461001285
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichTim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 11/09/2025🚨New paper (preprint, accepted at @psychscience.bsky.social journal AMPPS, with @herzog.bsky.social): a tutorial on conformal prediction, a distribution-free method for quantifying the uncertainty of predictions from statistical methods. Short 🧵 below! osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSkyosf.ioOSF 34310
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichOmid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 07/08/2025How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧵:online.ucpress.eduAccuracy and Consistency of Visual Analog Scales in Ecological Momentary Assessment and Digital StudiesThe ubiquity of digital technologies has increased assessments of thoughts, behaviors, and experiences via electronic devices. Surveys on smartphones or laptops often implement Visual Analogue Scales ... 26429
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichDaniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Cool perspective on depression recurrence >19,000 observations, n=37 discontinuing anti-depressants Recurrence in ~1/3rd preceded by early warning signals in affect journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Smit et al. @mahelmich.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @eveliensnippe.bsky.social 1162
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichMarie Stadel 🟥 @mariestadel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025📣New preprint 📣 @leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social, @domimaciejewski.bsky.social, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, Mithra Hesselink and I wrote a paper illustrating the value of qualitative methods for checking the validity of your ESM data. doi.org/10.31219/osf...osf.ioOSF 1116
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichClara Miguel @claramiguel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Our new paper on self-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression can be read open-access in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences! Here is a short summary of our findings🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgSelf-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression: a meta-analysis of randomized trials | Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences | Cambridge CoreSelf-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression: a meta-analysis of randomized trials - Volume 34 45317
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichEgon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025New work in @clinpsychrev: "EMA in psychotherapy research" EMA: ✅ most used in clin *research* ✅ often to predict symptom changes ✅ rarely implemented to impact therapeutic processes ✅ research needed on actual EMA benefits in *practice* www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12214
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichLaura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 03/03/2025If you do ESM research, please fill out this Short ESM Survey on open-ended items. 🤓 You can fill it out even if you do not use open-ended items in your own ESM research (will be even shorter 😊) rug.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... .mitnb.orgMeasurement Is The New Black -We are a group of scientists interested in improving the validity of time-series measurement in social sciences. 1711
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichDaniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Fascinating study showing affective dynamics as predictors of depression relapse in those discontinuing anti-depressants @ CPS by Smit, @mahelmich.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social Oldehinkel Wichers @eveliensnippe.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... 1102
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichOmid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵: 411041
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025King's College London launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social / @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social, a free platform with over 1,600 datasets, to support mental health research worldwide. 🌍 Read more and learn how to access: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...kcl.ac.ukKing's launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets to support mental health researchResearchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London have launched a new free platform to allow people to discover hundreds of longitudinal mental hea... 19662
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichCenter for Contextual Psychiatry @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Exciting news! 🎉 Registration for the 2025 SAA Conference is now OPENED!✨ Join us in the historic city of Leuven from May 26–28 for inspiring symposia, talks, workshops and networking! Don’t miss out—secure your Early Bird spot now! www.saa2025.com #SAA2025 #KULeuven @saa2025leuven.bsky.socialsaa2025.comSAA 2025Web site created using create-react-app 064
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichViktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5 24903384
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichJonas Haslbeck @jmbh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Emotions are reactions to situations we encounter in daily life. In our new paper in Psych Review (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...; with @oisinryan.bsky.social and @fdabl.bsky.social), we take a first step towards building a generative model for emotion dynamics based on this simple principle 1/4 310240
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichDavid Baranger @davidbaranger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Bookmark for all future grants: Use of Promotional Language in Grant Applications and Grant Success: "the percentage of promotional words was positively associated with the probability of receiving funding (NIH grants: odds ratio, 1.51 [95% CI, 1.10-2.11])." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 0309
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichTobias 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...nature.comSocial expectations in depression - Nature Reviews PsychologyExpectations 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... 24719
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichEvelien Snippe @eveliensnippe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024📊 Key finding: Emotional improvements often precede behavioral changes, which may partly be due to smaller and less frequent behavioral changes. Cognitive shifts tend to align closely with mood changes. 📄 Link to the full paper: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...psycnet.apa.orgAPA PsycNet 122
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichEvelien Snippe @eveliensnippe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I’m excited to share that @psypost.bsky.social featured our recent study on the timing of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral improvements during treatment for depression. Co-authored with: @mahelmich.bsky.social @timonelmer.bsky.social @arnoutcsmit.bsky.social Wolfgang Lutz & Eva Ceulemans 21810
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichAleksa Kaurin @aleksakaurin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024🚨New Preprint on Affective Stress Responses in Daily life (N=248) - w/ @vizecolin.bsky.social and @aidangcw.bsky.social! We used high-density sampling after stressful events to closely examine the dynamic affective response following daily hassles by estimating latent microtrajectories. 1/3 810733
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichLesley Norris, PhD @lesleynorris.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Now that I understand starter packs, I've (re)started one for people interested in all things psychotherapy personalization and optimizing treatments to the individual 😊 Anyone welcome! And consider joining our Person-Centered Treatment and Prevention Collaborative group! go.bsky.app/FXmURQf 277524
Marieke A. Helmich @mahelmich.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Wowed by the fact that the cover of the new @natrevpsych.bsky.social issue was inspired by our Perspective paper 🤩 read it here: rdcu.be/dWyLO co-1st @schreudermj.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @harrietteriese.bsky.social @eveliensnippe.bsky.social @arnoutcsmit.bsky.socialrdcu.beSlow down and be critical before using early warning signals in psychopathologyNature Reviews Psychology - Early warning signals have been proposed to predict symptom changes and to provide timely warnings of mental health risk and recovery. In this Perspective, Helmich et... 2113
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichDominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · 08/11/2024I had a blast spending a whole week working on improving the measurement of intensive longitudinal data with so many smart and kind people. Like a nerdy school trip with friends. Thank you 🙏 @eikofried.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @miguelsilan.bsky.social Josip razum #LorMITNB 1285
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichJingmeng Cui @cuijingmeng.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Hi #LorMITNB forks, this may be useful of you want to follow other participants ; ) go.bsky.app/42Nh8oA 175
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 04/11/2024Amazing to see so many early career folks who care deeply about improving measurement of intensive longitudinal data #LorMITNB 1226
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichMarieke A. Helmich @mahelmich.bsky.social · 11/10/2024🚨New paper! 🚨 Very excited to see our Perspective article on the use of early warning signals in psychopathology is now published in @natrevpsych.bsky.social ! Link to the PDF here rdcu.be/dWyLO And 1/5 🧵below 👇 #MentalHealth #ClinPsychSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #Psychiatry #ClinPsy 🧪 44218
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichOmid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 24/10/2024Starter pack for EMA, ESM, and Intensive Longitudinal Researchers. Feel free to share, follow, and nominate. Suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/LzqJoUX #ESM #EMA #AA #IntensiveLongitudinalResearch 4610459
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichMiri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 22/10/2024Not sure if I’m doing this right, but I’ve had a go at starting a ‘Reconceptualising psychopathology’ starter pack (e.g., HiTOP, RDoC, dynamic systems, clinical staging). Please do send me suggestions or requests to be added! go.bsky.app/Pek9ycQ 4415551
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichTim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 21/10/2024I made a clinical psychology/psychotherapy research starter pack thingy. If you are new here and interested in these topics, feel free to follow! go.bsky.app/Qk93DiE 4119972
Marieke A. Helmich @mahelmich.bsky.social · 11/10/2024🚨New paper! 🚨 Very excited to see our Perspective article on the use of early warning signals in psychopathology is now published in @natrevpsych.bsky.social ! Link to the PDF here rdcu.be/dWyLO And 1/5 🧵below 👇 #MentalHealth #ClinPsychSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #Psychiatry #ClinPsy 🧪 44218
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichDaniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 01/10/2024Looking forward to this! Got lots of my favorite ESM all-stars Fritz @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @depressionlab.bsky.social @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social Kirtley Moeller Neubauer @lesleynorris.bsky.social Schuurmann Snippe @bringmannlaura.bsky.social #PsychSciSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSo You Want to Do ESM? 10 Essential Topics for Implementing the Experience-Sampling Method - Jessica Fritz, Marilyn L. Piccirillo, Zachary D. Cohen, Madelyn Frumkin, Olivia Kirtley, Julia Moeller, And...The experience-sampling method (ESM) captures psychological experiences over time and in everyday contexts, thereby offering exciting potential for collecting m... 12713
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichGudrun Eisele @gudruneisele.bsky.social · 11/06/2024Happy to share the result of our Delphi study with 40+ international ESM/EMA experts: ESM-Q: A Consensus-Based Quality Assessment Tool for Experience Sampling Method Items osf.io/preprints/ps... Part of the ESM item repository project (www.esmitemrepository.com) co-lead by Anu Hiekkaranta (1/4)osf.ioOSF 12810
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichAchim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 11/06/2024PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI! This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors. Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example: 8222111
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 09/06/2024Should you use Likert or VAS for EMA research? In a new paper led by @jmbh.bsky.social & Alberto Jover, we assigned n~160 in a 2 week study to either 📏1-7 Likert or 🎚️1-100 Visual Analogue Scale and compared results using Bayesian multilevel models. Brief thread with results.🧵 🧪 #psychpsysky 35423
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichDaniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 07/06/2024Love me a fun paper on affective instability. Now out @ JoCaPS psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... 031
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichLaura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 20/05/2024A new look at networks! With these two new papers published in World Psychiatry (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) and Advances.in (advances.in/psychology/1...) I hope we can think about including context, changes in the means, and how the network may be moderated by contextual factors.onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe future of dynamic networks in research and clinical practiceClick on the article title to read more. 1246
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichOlivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · 15/03/2024The ESM Item Repository now has 1000+ items! Help us celebrate by throwing some virtual confetti over at esmitemrepository.com 🎉 🥳. Thanks to our coding team (Yoram Kunkels, Milla Pihlajamäki, Ben Kunc, & Laura Van Heck) for the confetti! #OpenScience 1168
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichDominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · 14/03/2024VACANCY ALERT! We're looking for a project coordinator for the collaborative #ESM Mini Many Labs project! Do you want to help us to create an infrastructure to improve replicability of #ESM studies? #OpenScience Apply: tiu.nu/22193 (deadline April 4) More info⬇️ Meer weergeven 11715
Reposted by Marieke A. HelmichTak Tsun (Edmund) Lo @taktsun.bsky.social · 26/02/2024My first PhD paper on emotion regulation (ER) variability is published in Emotion! doi.org/10.1037/emo0001344 With this, we ask: Within adolescents, does emotion differentiation (ED) increase ER variability? Knowing what one feels informs ways to adjust ER, right? 2122