Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD

OSF seems to be down so here is a google doc. Shoutout to @benji700.bsky.social for telling me docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Some reflections on my work from an interview with APA www.apa.org/topics/depre...

5/ It's interesting to compare the d = 0.07 effect we found with adults vs. d = 0.30 with college students. I wonder whether there an age interaction here (that would be crazy hard to detect) or if it's something else.

In any case, we want to do more stepped care work with SSIs as step 1!

This is a figure that shows changes in depression scores on the PHQ9 questionnaire which ranges from 0 - 27. The COMET-SSI treatment beat an enhanced attention control (EAC). the differences start at week 2 and become pronounced and significant at weeks 4 and 8 post-intervention

4/ We find small (d~0.30) effects on depression and anxiety (see below). The effects on positive emotions and well-being are smaller and not significant at this N but they're in the expected direction. The results were not sensitive to how we handled missing data.

The selection of comparators for randomized controlled trials of health-related behavioral interventions: recommendations of an NIH expert panel To provide recommendations for the selection of comparators for randomized controlled trials of health-related behavioral interventions.The National I…

3/ In this study, we used a waiting list+attention control, a very weak control but appropriate given what we know about this SSI plus the null findings. We randomized students to complete more questionnaires to match intervention time OR the COMET SSI.
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Efficacy of an Unguided, Digital Single-Session Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms in Web-Based Workers: Randomized Controlled Trial Background: The Common Elements Toolbox (COMET) is an unguided digital single-session intervention (SSI) based on principles of cognitive behavioral therapy and positive psychology. Although unguided ...

2/ COMET has elements of CBT and positive psych. It seems acceptable to university students. A trial in the UK found it effective for depression, though those results were sensitive to how missing data were handled. In a large (n=828) study with adults, we found NOTHING😀 www.jmir.org/2023/1/e45411/

1/ New collab from @sadcatlab.bsky.social, OSU, UPenn, and UMSL! This is a multi-site RCT (N=453) comparing a free digital single session intervention (SSI) for students: COMET. TL; DR COMET works for depression and anxiety, less so for well-being/positive emotions
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It may be an unfunded fellowship rn

I don’t have the money right now but what I have is a bad attitude and willingness to make a difference <3

You know how people make named student fellowships about certain things like "the Beck fellowship" and it's for cognitive therapy for depression?

I want to make the "Lorenzo-Luaces" fellowship but the only requirement is you have a bad attitude that you refuse to change at least in the next 5 yrs

Taylor Swift wants to block Cathay Home 'Swift Home' trademark Her team argued that a bedding firm's designs showed similarities to her trademarked signature.

Taylor love you but the US government has literally used your music to promote its treatment of immigrants maybe ask them about that

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“When I am dead, know that many times, I have kissed & cryed over this" is my favorite

Women remain underrepresented in leadership, particularly in traditionally masculine work settings. At the same time, the visibility of this imbalance has led to growing calls for diversifying leadership. This research examines how both men and women contribute to the preservation or disruption of gender inequality in masculine organizational contexts. Men remain the gatekeepers of change—deciding who rises to the top and under what conditions—while women face the strategic dilemma of fitting in by downplaying inequality (supporting the status quo, sometimes called ‘queen bee behaviour’) or ‘rocking the boat’ by advocating social change (challenging the status quo). Across five experimental studies (total N = 887), we examined how evaluators assessed male and female leadership candidates who either supported or challenged the status quo. Results revealed that although men favoured female over male candidates, they consistently preferred women who reinforced the status quo over those who advocated equality. By contrast, male candidates who supported the status quo were penalized, and female evaluators showed no such preferences. These findings highlight subtle mechanisms through which gendered power dynamics are maintained, underscoring both the strategic trade-offs women must navigate to advance and the conditional nature of men's support for gender equality.

Women Leaders

"Women are expected to promote gender equality and show communal behaviour, yet those who do so...are less likely to be selected for leadership."

Derks et al. (2026). Don't rock the boat! Do men prefer women leaders who support the status quo?

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It’s totally possible to comprehend the promise of LLMs (e.g., I use them in my research) without buying into the hype. I also suspect in research we’re seeing enormous publication bias where people are trying stuff with LLMs but it’s not working so it’s not being reported

Ok so *I* obviously know there reason but, for the rest of the class, why do people sometimes send PPTs as PDFs ?

Also how is a 4-day week/work-life balance hurting anyone? The three problems here are (1) fascism, (2) that Democrats are not actually about progressivism, and (3) that they have also not taken the rise of fascism seriously. You could take it seriously AND promote better standards of living

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data.

PLEASE SHARE!!

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"a causal mediation analysis" of change from baseline to end of treatment predicting change from end of treatment to 1 year follow up :P

LUMA Energy responds to Bad Bunny’s performance amid criticism over PR blackouts Bad Bunny alluded to Puerto Rico’s struggles with blackouts during his Super Bowl performance, prompting the territory’s energy provider to respond.

Blaming this on solar panels and the previous administrations is ridiculous. Those *are* the roots and consequences of the problems. Many people (e.g., my mom) turned to solar out of desperation not environmentalism. It’s been almost 9 years since Maria.

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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

I think it’d be a good system if we agreed that you can pick up a specific “kids these days” starting at age 35 and you get one every 10 years up to a max of 4. I’m pretty strongly considering doing “they don’t look before they cross the streets.” It’s a pretty harmless one. May do music as my #2

Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

I don’t even blame her because I can’t dance salsa to save my life and if I had to imitate it there would be some of that hand action

Gay Halloween will be interesting this year because you just know someone is going as “Gaga’s salsa hands during the Super Bowl performance”

I’m going to say it again for those in the back… Kamala Harris owes us absolutely nothing!!!

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

NEW YORK POST Edition (CA LOG IN Metro Long Island Politics World N US News US NEWS Elon Musk's brother no longer on Burning Man board as Epstein ties revealed By Nina Joudeh Published Feb. 5, 2026, 8:24 p.m. ET 24

US elite institutions be as ethical as Burning Man challenge

via @henryburke.bsky.social

Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

JD Vance was just ruthlessly booed at the Olympics during the Opening Ceremony when he was shown on the screen. But you would never know by watching the broadcast on NBC.