What Three Years of Stand-Up Comedy Taught Me About Personality Science Before I was a clinical psychology researcher, I was a stand-up comedian.

The interpersonal situation framework describes a dynamic, unfolding context where perception, construal, affect, motivation, and behavior cycle between self and other. It also describes every open mic I ever did. Here, I map CIIT onto my experience.

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This was so interesting, thanks for putting it together.

Love my ember mug. I did notice when I hooked up 2 mugs it gets confused about which is which. Opening the app before adding the liquid helps.

Glad you enjoy it.

APA email providing a link to a certificate recognizing peer review efforts

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You got me, APA.

Just reviewed a paper that heavily involved circular statistics. Luckily no circular logic.

1. Sends a shared excel sheet for others to complete
2. Receives multiple emails that the sheet is not shared
3. Fix and then forget the correct way to share a file
4. Repeat until the end of time

The ecce homo mural, with questionable choices in the restoration process.

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I just got an email from a colleague that asked “do you think you could send me 1-2 sentences by the end of the week”. So that is how low the bar is for me in terms of responding to people on time, that this was an honest question.

I am once again looking up the difference between farther (physical distance) vs further (figurative distance) for an email I’m sending.

Hey folks: Check out this grad student-led, interdisciplinary, virtual conference being held in April.

Abstract submissions due end of Feb

Sooner Rather Than Later: Precrastination Rather Than Procrastination - David A. Rosenbaum, Lisa R. Fournier, Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Dawn M. McBride, Robert Rosenthal, Kyle Sauerberger, Rachel L. VonderH... Putting things off as long as possible (procrastination) is a well-known tendency. Less well known is the tendency to attempt to get things done as soon as poss...

Ah yes, precrastination.
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First journal review of 2026 is complete. Of course it was due in mid December.

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Unfortunately I’ve heard we have no control over who lives, who dies, and who tells our stories.

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Admin processing the paperwork.

Congrats!!

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Mean girl references allowed in lectures.

It’s a great article.

This time of year…it’s the checkbook.

Luna eating the training your dog is fun and easy book.

Common security check screening on research gate. It requires the complex task of checking a box to promise that you are a human. Much like the NEO-PI-3 validity questions that literally just ask you if you answered honestly.

Spoken like a person who recently tried to download an article from ResearchGate.

Any chance you could report how that general overconfidence trait is associated with gender?

I have a prediction, and I’m very confident about it.

Currently in a debate with a copy editor who suggests I can’t use the term inflexibility to describe personality disorder because the DSM uses that term and it may constitute copyright infringement.

The irony is not lost on me.

I’m finally catching up with my inbox from the fall and looking through months worth of journal alerts. Some really interesting work you all have been doing!

Book cover of fusion of psychiatry and social science, by Harry stack Sullivan.

Reminds me of this psychologist who used the double horse as a personal symbol.

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Yea I sometimes wait to introduce an acronym until the part in the paper where I start using it a lot so the readers don’t have to remember some random acronym from 2 pages back.

The Psychological Self as Actor, Agent, and Author - PubMed The psychological self may be construed as a reflexive arrangement of the subjective "I" and the constructed "Me," evolving and expanding over the human life course. The psychological self begins life as a social actor, construed in terms of performance traits and social roles. By the end of childho …

Yea this makes sense and allows for that complexity. I wonder what you think of the McAdams work on self as actor agent and author? This public vs private sc is central in actor to agent stage. But I’m wondering if you see the author element as necessary or able to fit into your model?

Imagine a person pushing a friendship away despite wanting a closer connection to them. But growing intimacy requires a vulnerability they are uncomfortable with.

So different cross-currents of motives, all mainly self focused, at different levels of awareness. What would healthy pf look like?

I like this perspective. Though I see optimal PF as more of an integration of self focused perspectives and attending to others, as well as knowing when to weight one more.

How does this approach capture conflicting motives, with some below a persons awareness?

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Does the Seinfeld theme song count?