Benjamin Katz

I appreciate your consideration and think the context is so critical. When “OCD” is casually used to describe quirks or traits like being meticulous etc. it can diminish the real distress and impairment associated with the disorder

When “OCD” is used as an adjective, it trivializes and invalidates the real suffering and courage of people living with this serious and debilitating condition.

📣 New Pub 📣

We captured 30-day emotion intensity & dysregulation data from EMA & examined in relation to cortisol (from hair) during the same period. Emotion intensity & hair cortisol levels were significantly associated among women with high (but not low) emotion dysregulation.

Thank you to the welcoming graduate students in @stresslab.bsky.social (@hodiana.bsky.social + a few Blueskyless folks!) for curating this lovely waiting area outside my office.

Grateful to belong to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social’s phenomenal team 🤗

In addition to posting plants and puppies, I also mentor students interested in personality pathology. My lab is recruiting a graduate student in clinical or personality psychology for Fall 2026. So please send folks my way. Feel free to share! Thanks.

Strong Ground Check out this great listen on Audible.com. #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown returns with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership. In a time when uncertaint...

This is good.

www.audible.com/pd/B0DVCZZTF...

Awesome series of EMA talks chaired by STRESS Lab postdoc @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social and lead by STRESS Lab alum (Emmanuel Thomas and Alexa Raudales) and current members (Noam Newberger)

So proud of Alexa Raudales for being the recipient of the @istss.bsky.social Outstanding Student Achievement Award

STRESS Lab is @istss.bsky.social Come meet us and see some of our current work!

Huge congratulations to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social and @heatherschatten.bsky.social, along with the whole team, on this new R01!!

Can’t wait to support and contribute to this important work ahead with @stresslab.bsky.social!

Congratulations, Reagan!! 🥳👏🏼 this is a big deal!

Proud to empower our community through naloxone distribution on IOAD. Community engagement is more than research; it's action. @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social (and many others!)

URI receives first-ever NIH T32 award to launch transdisciplinary biomedical research training program KINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 3, 2025 – The University of Rhode Island has received its first-ever National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Predoctoral Training Grant, marking a major milestone in URI’s growt...

Big news! @universityofri.bsky.social just secured its first-ever NIH T32 grant!

This T32 will bring together Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, and Life Sciences to train the next generation of scientists to tackle complex health challenges like addiction.

www.uri.edu/news/2025/09...

Lovely new neighborhood views ☺️

Special thanks to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social, @bfeinsteinphd.bsky.social, & @stresslab.bsky.social co-authors (Noam Newberger and Stephen Coutu) for collaborating on this paper!

These findings are preliminary and need to be replicated using longitudinal designs. However, findings point to potential intervention and prevention implications.

More frequent lifetime occurrences of sexual orientation-related victimization were indirectly associated with greater past-month posttrauma RSDBs via greater trauma symptoms due to discrimination, and, in turn, greater emotion dysregulation.

Specifically, we tested a model examining the serial roles of trauma symptoms due to discrimination and emotion dysregulation in the association between sexual orientation-related victimization and posttrauma RSDBs.

Building on this descriptive paper, our study aimed to investigate culturally-specific and nomothetic risk factors of posttrauma RSDBs in a sample of 139 trauma-exposed sexual minority adults.

Earlier this year, @nicoleweiss.bsky.social and I published a paper characterizing the rate of past-month posttrauma reckless/self-destructive behaviors (RSDBs) among trauma-exposed sexual minority adults.

New paper published in Psych Trauma:

Sexual Orientation-Related Victimization and Posttrauma Reckless and Self-Destructive Behaviors among Trauma-Exposed Sexual Minority Adults

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This grief is palpable *and* will open space to embrace the changes to come in the field. At least that’s what I keep telling myself 🙃

Our trans health study was terminated by the government – the effects of abrupt NIH grant cuts ripple across science and society The losses include millions of dollars the NIH has already spent on research that will no longer generate results, and the next generation of scientists whose work has been cut short.

Important piece by Drs. @jaepuckett.bsky.social and Paz Galupo

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Thank you for everything, Brian 💛

Thank you, I appreciate your kind words 🙂

I’m grateful to officially be Dr. Benjamin William Katz in a few more weeks. Even more grateful for the incredible support of my mentors, family, colleagues, and friends who helped me get to this point.

For many reasons, including the relentless attacks on science and academia, it’s been challenging for me to access joy lately.

And yet, I know how important it is to savor moments like this.

More than ever, scientists must amplify evidence-based work. Captured some of our scientists-in-training sharing their research @universityofri.bsky.social College of Health Sciences Research Night.

📣 Newly posted position to support several of our grants 📣

We will conduct an initial review of applications on 5/1. This is perfect for someone who is looking for research experience prior to applying to PhD programs in Clinical Psychology.

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