Rayyan Tutunji

Being from the global south and living in the west has been an exhausting exercise in dealing with double standards the past three years...

distracted boyfriend meme. A man is checking out a woman behind him while holding his girlfriend's hand. The girlfriend is staring in disbelief at her boyfriend. The text 2FA appears over the woman being checked out, the text me appears over the man, the text putting phone away to avoid distractions appears over the girlfriend

Putting your phone away to avoid distractions is much more difficult in the 2FA era.

@rayyantutunji.bsky.social showing at #SAA2025 that wearable data (EPA) is not enough to predict mental well-being (R2 = 0.01). My bet is more on timing (triggering) surveys compared to leaving out surveys.

Impressed by the commitment to correct validation (not even touching test set until later)!

Word of advice this holiday season: Avoid playing Cards Against Humanity with your parents lest you hear them say things you can't unhear. #christmas #CardsAgainstHumanity

IDF confession

IDF confessions

IDF confessoons

This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

Liam Egan @liamhegan Academia is like if all the people who were uncool in high school formed their own high school

*whisper* printed shirts

Attending a protest against massive cuts to higher education in the netherlands today. #stopdebezuinigen #denhaag

Finally, special shout out to my coauthors @nessa-ikani.bsky.social and non-BS Jana Vrijsen and Noa Magusin (n/n)

Increased memory accuracy of previous mood states in depressed patients in daily life - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Increased memory accuracy of previous mood states in depressed patients in daily life

More contextual research can help explain these findings a bit better, but you can also find the article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally, we checked whether participants' mood at recall influenced answers, and found this only in the never-depressed group. This shows the importance of context in measuring bias. but also the idea of only negative bias in depression may be inaccurate: perhaps its depressive realism? (4/n)

We also asked them to try remembering what their mood was during pervious timepoints to see how mood memory may differ, expecting depressed patients to report more negative memory of mood, and less positive compare to the never-depressed group ...(3/n)

An example is our recent paper on emotional memory in depression, where we followed up depressed, remitted, and never-depressed patients in daily life to see whether there is indeed a negative memory bias, and decreased positive bias. Using EMA, we asked the three groups to rate their mood...(2/n)

Wow! Just woke up to a lot of new followers, and not sure why, but feels like a good time to reintroduce myself. I'm a stress researcher with an interest in real-life dynamics and combining different methods (EMA, MRI, wearables)... (1/n)

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Our new preprint shows how to estimate internal consistency reliability in EMA data:

➡️n~1150, 3 months data, 4 scales
➡️6 nomothetic & idiographic methods
➡️2 timescales (4/day & 1/week)
➡️2 languages (ENG vs NL)
➡️separation of between & within person reliability.

#psychscisky #stats

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I used to think pigeons were the worst urban birds, until I moved to a coastal city and discovered seagulls. Society's true menace.

New preprint by @bsiepe.bsky.social & our WARN-D lab.

We collected information on sleep, tiredness & stress with both EMA and sensor data, and try to find out to which degree these are associated contemporaneously in a large dataset (n~800) with many timepoints (t~360).

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No Evidence of Reliability Across 36 Variations of the Emotional Dot-Probe Task in 9,600 Participants - Irene Xu, Eliza Passell, Roger W. Strong, Elizabeth Grinspoon, Laneé Jung, Jeremy B. Wilmer, Lau... The emotional dot-probe task is a widely used measure of attentional bias to threat. Recent work suggests, however, that subtraction-based behavioral measures o...

Paper alert: across 10k participants & 36 versions of the emotional dot probe task, task *reliability* cannot be distinguished from 0 (!).

Raises very serious questions about the literature (how did so many find positive relations between this task and other variables).

#PsychSciSky

Journals are really getting brave with these damn two-week review deadlines...

#Academia #Publishing

Walking into work today after the election results came out in the #Netherlands be like...

Imo, I think it comes down to what you expect stimuli to do. If you're interested in the stimulus driven activity, and not sustained activity (think oddball vs nback), an impulse function should be enough. Although consider modeling RT in this case: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Of course, this work was done with a wonderful team, of whom only @fladd.bsky.social has made it here so far! n/n

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Overall, wearables offer some added value that may recover signal from EMA noise, but more work is needed to examine these effects at a larger scale. Thanks for making it this far, heres a link to the paper and a cat gif. www.jmir.org/2023/1/e39995/
#ESM #EMA #psychology #science

Finally, we wanted to see whether wearables offer any added value with respect to stress detection compared to EMA alone. While EMA models did better, combining both measures improved predictions! Moreover, idiographic approaches (LOBO) vastly outperformed nomothetic ones (LOSO). 4/n

So we did a time resolved analysis and saw that momentary arousal went up with stress...we end up seeing that arousal is of course not valence specific. Experiencing fewer positively valent emotions in the stress/exam week resulted in on average lower arousal 3/n

We first tried seeing how affect and physiological signals such as HR and skin conductance change in response to an ecological stressor. Oddly enough, we saw that arousal actually decreased during an exam week, which from the stress perspective of arousal was odd 2/n

Haven't posted here yet since joining, so here it goes: I am a psychologist/cognitive neuroscientist with a focus on developing predictive models and connecting lab and real-life assessments. An example is my first PhD Paper, where we use lab-based arousal measures for real-life stress detection 1/n

I think this is great for reviewing and reading papers!

It is a messy season that's for sure