Aidan Wright

YouTube video by HiTOP Using HiTOP in Research

We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo

We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback

Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨

Excellent detailed intro paper on open scholarship in clinical psychology by some of my favourite authors on the topic, including @drlynam.bsky.social @dsbarra.bsky.social @jnfrltackett.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social and others. Perfect paper to turn into an intro lecture!

Pretty excited about this one. In this paper, we discuss the replication/credibility crisis, the factors that contribute to it, and clinical psychology's slow (really slow) progress in dealing with it. We offer a competency-based fraemwork for improving our training of future scholars.
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Spotted in Ann Arbor

Apropos of nothing, remember that polygraphs (i.e., lie detector tests) are so unreliable as to be inadmissible as evidence in federal court.

Me presenting at a lectern in the Crystal room at the Biltmore hotel

Presenters at the interpersonal SRP symposium

Me and Aidan in the Crystal conference room at the Biltmore in front of a projector

Me and my friends at the Biltmore hotel in front of glass doors

Honored to present my finished master’s thesis in a symposium at #SRP2025 this weekend with Jessica Hamilton, Jasmine Mote, Renata Botello, and Dan Fulford!

@sydadams.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social
@jmote.bsky.social

Congrats!

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I will confidently assert that smash style burgers are really the only kind of

In n out regional, we don’t got it. But I went to 5 guys the other week super excited, hadn’t been in years, but felt the meat quality was noticeably poorer than shake shack. Maybe it was a one off, but definitely had that thought.

I forgot you’re an Arby’s guy

If only there was a dashboard to dial in these evals

Apropos of nothing, if I was an overpriced chain burger chain, I’d make my soda cheap…on par or cheaper than McDonalds or something like that…so people would then think, “these burgers must be so expensive bc they’re awesome,” not, “I can’t believe how overpriced this place is”

But I don’t care what you think, it really is the best overpriced chain burger joint

That’s not possible. But that’s also not the point, we’d need to know more.

Yeah, so I’ve had this thought about online reviews and teaching before, but what prompted it tonight was I saw my local shake shack got a 3.5 review, and I thought, this is impossible, I don’t know if the reference group people are using is other shakeshacks or all restaurants

I doubt that was me. Though I do love to say it.

I am for sure the person who started, “Let’s get rickledy pickledy!”

Different sampling populations maybe. But also I always want to filer out the reviews that feature service prominently when I’m doing take out.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. I must have seen that before.

It strikes me that a good context or example for getting people to understand many key measurement principles (reference group, anchoring, sample bias, maybe even reliability and validity) is online reviews

Either that or issue us all cattle guards

It’s the worst spot, but a much broader issue plaguing all crosswalks near campus.

I’d support widespread deployment of crossing guards.

They could repurpose the guards who kept the diag safe last year. A better use of funds for sure.

I take it you don’t drive within 5 blocks of campus much?

At last, the untamed chaos of the undergraduate wolverine’s perilous dance across the painted stones will be subdued!

European Conference on Personality, Edinburgh, 2026

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25.
Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

🚨 Spread the word! We're (w/ @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aleksakaurin.bsky.social) organizing a special issue at PD:TRT focused on innovations for measuring context in ambulatory assessment studies of personality pathology. We'd love for you (yes, you) to submit a proposal (deadline Nov. 14th):

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This special issue will be a BANGER!

Consider submitting your work linking context and dynamics to personality pathology.

Feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

Just posting this again. If you or someone you know is looking for a tenure-track position please submit your application. Review is ongoing, but you should submit as soon as possible.

Perhaps. But we definitely differ on whether we think the field had the complexity of personality figured out in 1990 or not.

Ha. I was thinking more about the dimension underlying whether people lie to themselves or not. But works your way too I guess.

I know. I think this difference of assumptions is a reliable difference between us based on many conversations over the years. And I think it’s some sort of dimension.