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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 12h

☀️ Midwest weather is unpredictable but somewhat shockingly we have an incredible set of fall days for SRP (°F):

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 16h

⛳️ If you want to get some swings in at SRP, Top Golf is about a 20-min drive northeast of town, near IKEA 🛋️

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 20h

📆 If you’re starting to plan your SRP conference agenda, here are *five* talks or posters from OSU folks to check out! ☀️🔄 Sunday, 9-10:30, Delaware CD If you missed her at APS in Barcelona, Thea McAfee will be testing if values change predicts or follows other changes in BPD Compass

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🍂🍦 5 new fall flavors to try at Jeni’s! (I’m assuming she left out the sweet potato cuz she knew we knew it’s an 11/10 😉) www.instagram.com/reel/DdMog9Y...

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🌰🏈 SRP attendees know OSU plays at home against Maryland Saturday at 4:15 so traffic will be busy from like noon to 4:00 and bars in the Short North and around campus will be busy all night. But if you want to watch the game with some of the Lunatic Fringe, you’ll likely see cool things like this:

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎤 2 big shows happening the weekend of SRP: 🎸 Saturday: Interpol at KEMBA Live! outdoors, 13-min walk west of the hotel 🎧 Sunday: DJ Shadow celebrates 30 years of Endtroducing… at the Bluestone, a 6-min Uber east of the hotel

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧵 Restaurants and spots to check out near the SRP conference hotel (except Saturday night after the OSU football game) 🥘 Rooh - pricey but rich and flavorful Indian, 15 min walk north on High St maps.app.goo.gl/NbATGksrwqZ9...

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The SRP conference hotel is closest to the Arena District (named for the hockey, baseball, & soccer stadiums clustered together to the west) But a 15 min walk north on High St delivers you into the Short North - the part of town with tons of restaurants and shops from the Hyatt to about King Ave

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Columbus has all kinds of towns and neighborhoods, apparently because the city required the farther-out locales to incorporate into the city to get access to water. It means if you go 10 min north of OSU’s campus, you run into a quaint downtown of Worthington

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Columbus’ top political investigative journalist! Ohio State! Tim Tebow! Pablo Torre finds out 👀

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🍦 Jeni’s ice cream is from Columbus and an easy 15-minute walk from the conference hotel! It looks like they brought back their seeet potato marshmallow flavor for fall, but they have so many options to try 😋

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m excited to welcome everyone to Columbus next week for the Society for Research in Psychopathology next week! I’ll try to post fun things to see/do/know about Columbus between now and then to help everyone flesh out their itineraries 📝

Open personality Personality/Personality Disorders SIG button in front of the Mirror Lake fountain on Ohio State’s campus

Downtown Columbus flanked by the Scioto (psy-oh-tuh) River

The ponds at Schiller Park in German Village on the south part of town

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you're considering Ohio State's clinical psych program for grad school, you've probably already seen that we're requiring GRE scores this year, so don't forget to factor that into your plans! I'm hoping to take 1-2 students this year ☝️✌️

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

1/ @sadcatlab.bsky.social research "in press" at Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. In 274 adults with 7 weekly measurements, we find that cognitive change in CBT predicts subsequent symptom change, controlling for time-invariant confounds + linear trends osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wilco’s Solid Sound festival: would recommend! 👍🏻

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ABCT Personality/Personality Disorder SIG @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Calling all student researchers! 📣 The ABCT Student SIG is partnering with the PPD SIG Diversity Task Force for their fourth annual Student Research Symposium! FREE, virtual, and open to undergrads, post-baccs, and grad students. Submit a poster, talk, data blitz, or workshop abstract by July 15.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Everyone at #APS26BCN wants to talk to Thea McAfee about her work exploring if living more in line with one’s interpersonal values predicts or is predicted by changes in symptoms, the alliance, and personality in BPD Compass! @psychscience.bsky.social

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If you missed her at ABCT, SCP, and NASSPD, *now*’s your chance to catch Layla Wahaidi at #APS26BCN! She looked at which values were most important to BPD Compass patients at baseline & how the strength of the alignment between values & behaviors changed over time + with BPD symptoms 👀 Poster 23!

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Happening *now* at #APS26BCN! Maya Deutch (poster 131) found that: - Patients in BPD Compass who used skills more frequently reported more severe symptoms BUT - When patients used skills more effectively than normal, this uniquely predicted session-to-session reductions in BPD symptoms

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

*Everyone* wants to know how we can use intensive longitudinal data to advance predictive models of mental health outcomes! #APS2026BCN @psychscience.bsky.social

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

At #APS2026BCN, @eikofried.bsky.social runs to another talk on a project led by Marieke Schreuder & Rayyan Tutunji showing that baseline self-report measures explained 15-30% of the individual variability in average EMA emotions & motivations; the most important predictors were optimism-related 🤩

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

At #APS2026BCN, @eikofried.bsky.social notes biologists have different classification systems for the same animals that don’t always agree with one another. Instead, specific components of animals correlate based on functioning/environmental affordances/etc. And so many great animal pics + puns 🐒

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is the horror cherry on top of the egregious fraud, waste, and abuse sundae. DOGE fired the people who send NIH money to research labs—which is a complicated process—so now even more labs are going to go under. All while Jay Bhattacharya goes on a podcast and says no NIH funding was cut.

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

At @nasspd.bsky.social, Elizabeth Duraney found no reductions in BSL scores over an 8-week DBT IOP but a significant increase in DBT skill use and sig negative associations between mindfulness & interpersonal effectiveness with weekly BSL scores

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I need to get better at cross-posting (but check us out on IG @mattlabatosu!) Last weekend, our lab manager Alex Barnhill made her first trip to Chicago for her first solo conference at ADAA to present her poster on cognitive change as a mediator of cognitive therapy for anxiety! Such a star 🌟

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Some HUGE names in this year’s Rising Stars! @cassie-boness.bsky.social! @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social! @dpmoriarity.bsky.social! @emoriebeck.bsky.social! @ajwright.bsky.social! Iony Ezawa! Heather Davis! Aaron Reuben! Even more! Congratulations, everyone 🤩

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

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Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters

This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Shoutout to Katie Daniel for letting me share a cool project on non-regulation she led 🙌🏻

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

How do we best communicate @affectscience.bsky.social?? Jonathan Gratch, Kristen Lindquist, & Karl Niklas advocate seeking out formal communications training. Jonathan Gratch notes in an interview that you don’t have to answer the question asked but use it as a prompt for what you want to say

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Luis Flores found that the combination of reappraisal and handholding led to greater reductions in negative affect and negative self-beliefs than either strategy alone @affectscience.bsky.social

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What is loneliness and what can we do about it?? @affectscience.bsky.social Anita Restrepo showed that undergrads who were lonelier worked harder for others than less lonelier undergrads (but still worked harder regardless of loneliness when working for themselves) regardless of gain/loss framing

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Karen Smith @kesmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Check out our symposium on translational approaches to loneliness and emotion tomorrow at 9:45am! @affectscience.bsky.social @mattsouthward.bsky.social

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Nick Jacobson shows us how we might *think* we could use AI to develop a good mental health app @affectscience.bsky.social However, therapy transcripts aren’t the most enlightening 😅 Shoutout to Nick for doing the hard work to generate an efficacious chatbot! home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/03...

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

. @jenncveilleux.bsky.social throws down the gauntlet at the @affectscience.bsky.social emotional acceptance preconference panel with a proposed model of willingness suggesting acceptance is NOT a regulatory strategy by itself b/c it’s a full sitting-with of emotions

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Vilgot Huhn @vilgothuhn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

🎉 I just published my second paper! Woo! In psychotherapy trials we often see that symptoms reduce between screening and start of treatment. A plausible idea about that is that patients self-refer when their fluctuating symptoms are extra bad. We checked! (we tried to check) //

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Not just spontaneous remission: Time-dependent and independent effects in pre-intervention symptom reduction

Psychological symptoms tend to change over time, even in the absence of clinical intervention. For example, self-ratings are often higher at screening…

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/02/2026

When the higher education sector is organized, we have the power to stop the Trump administration's campaigns against American universities We are proud of our members and allies at UCLA who successfully blocked Trump from extracting $1.2 billion from UCLA over alleged civil rights violations.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A couple of years ago, I read a paper with a title like “a questionnaire that may actually measure psychological flexibility (maybe)” but I can’t find it now. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

@quantitude.bsky.social Do you have any go-to references for the ubiquity of the salsa (low/med/high) pattern in LPA/LCA to incorporate into reviews of papers that use LPA/LCA? (Bonus points if you know of anything that might help authors distinguish if there really are classes or it's a dimension)

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

1/ Our paper years in the making is finally out! TL;DR even very strong effects (d=1.00) can be attenuated by sampling from populations where there is variability in their likelihood of natural improvement (e.g., mild depression cases remitting on their own) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Effects of patient response pattern distributions on comparisons of psychosocial treatments for major depressive disorder

The pharmaceutical industry has paid more attention to potential variability in depressed patients' ability to benefit from antidepressants vs. placeb…

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We had an end of semester holiday/cookie-decorating party and turned it into a holiday card! ❄️

A team of research assistants, lab managers, and grad students around a table framed by pine branches with the message "Happy holidays from mattlab!" above them.

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

At @abctnow.bsky.social, Rutgers’ Ellen Wittler found that undergrads who were more depressed demonstrated a stronger momentary association between tiredness and sadness, suggesting they might be experienced more similarly by those folks 🥱😥

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Huge congratulations to all the @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social poster presenters at @abctnow.bsky.social this year! 📊📈

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ABCT Personality/Personality Disorder SIG @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Did somebody say...happy hour? Join us at 8:30pm on Friday 11/21! Scan the QR code below to reserve your spot! Kick back after a long day of conference-ing and enjoy food, drinks, and more at Pier 424 Seafood Market! We can’t wait to hear about your ABCT adventures 🥳

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ABCT Personality/Personality Disorder SIG @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Looking for a rundown of P/PD-related events for ABCT weekend? We’ve got you covered 😎 T-3 days! 🎉

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

BUTTONS. ARE. BACK. Find any @abct-ppdsig.bsky.social member this week at @abctnow.bsky.social in NOLA to get your FREE button(s) to show off your true personality! 📸 credit to Thea McAfee, Alex Barnhill, & Hana Nip

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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🍁Fall🍂 for Columbus this grad school application season!

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