Laura Bringmann 🟥

What a week! After 5 days, the #mitnb workshop has come to an end. We had a keynote on time scales and two workshops on careless responding and reliability. The central part of the workshops were the hackathons. We had super diverse hackathons, all designed to assess measurement in #ESM. (1/4)

Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions This survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity.

1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Meeting the Bare Minimum: Quality Assessment of Idiographic Temporal Networks Using Power Analysis and Predictive-Accuracy Analysis - Yong Zhang, Jordan Revol, Ginette Lafit, Anja F. Ernst, Josip Razu... The network theory of psychopathology inspired clinicians and researchers to use idiographic networks to study how symptoms of an individual interact over time,...

From my master’s thesis to my first PhD project — excited to share that this work (together with @jordanrvl.bsky.social, @ginettelafit.bsky.social, Anja Franziska Ernst, Josip Razum, Eva Ceulemans, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social) is now published in AMPPS!

Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

A new publication from my PhD project on model selection for nonstationary time-series data is out, co-authored with an amazing team (Anja Franziska Ernst, @ginettelafit.bsky.social , Ward B. Eiling, @bringmannlaura.bsky.social)!

Link: doi.org/10.1111/bmsp...

On the first day of December, we’re excited to announce that abstract submission for the #SAA2026 Conference in Vienna is now open! Instead of sending a letter to the North Pole, send us your abstract! We look forward to your contributions
🔗 univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/
@ambulatory-assessment.org

Any recent (or old too is fine) literature or review on most common stated reason for presenting to therapy or psychiatric treatment?

I don't just mean the diagnoses people get, I mean the presenting complaint. Anything?

Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.

Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳

Participants of the MITNB workshop, where we stand outside in a group of around 40 people

1st day of #MITNB meeting at @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social. Excited for the week ahead, where we'll tackle measurement issues in #ESM, e.g. modeling processes across timescales, building a formal theory on measurement, and evaluating statistical assumptions in #ESM data.
Go teamwork <3

🚨 New preprint: We compared 13 methods for detecting momentary careless responding in the WARN-D data (206k+ obs.). Tutorials guide you through each method. The takeaway? Diverging results, inherent subjectivity (to varying degrees), and a clear need for further validation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...

New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

Simulate Data from a DAG and Associated Node Information Simulate complex data from a given directed acyclic graph and information about each individual node. Root nodes are simply sampled from the specified distribution. Child Nodes are simulated according...

I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

We're searching for a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology here at the University of Arizona! Come to Tucson-- great place to live and work! 🌄🌵🏀 @uarizona.bsky.social

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Experts with theoretical traditions, researchers experienced in approaches to theory construction, educators and policymakers work on the first steps toward creating a mature subfield of theoretical psychology. bit.ly/4nLOWoE @annemscheel.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @jmbh.bsky.social

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?

Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

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Does your smartwatch say you’re stressed? It may often be wrong Consumer grade smartwatches may not be as accurate as promised when measuring tiredness or stress. That conclusion is drawn by researchers Björn Siepe and Eiko Fried based on a comparison between smar...

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Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months).

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Blog posts | ESM Item Repository

New blog post 📣 by @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social's @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on six things you can do with your ESM items apart from your main, substantive analyses. Check it out here: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#M... #ESM #OpenScience #Measurement

Cool perspective on depression recurrence

>19,000 observations, n=37 discontinuing anti-depressants

Recurrence in ~1/3rd preceded by early warning signals in affect

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Smit et al. @mahelmich.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @eveliensnippe.bsky.social

2 weeks left to apply to join #HPGVienna @univie.ac.at as senior scientist. More information ⬇️ #PsychJob #PhDJob #HealthPsych

(PDF) On worms, mirror neurons and explaining human behavior PDF | A key challenge for psychological theorizing is: At what level(s) should we look for the best explanations and predictions of human behavior? The... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

What is more useful for explaining human behavior, neuroscience or folk psychology? In this new book chapter, co-authored with Laura Bringmann, we argue for the latter. Featuring mirror neurons, tiny worms, and Steve buying a banana! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Great question, we hope to do this every year or every other year!

I wrote a blog post to celebrate 10 years of loo package 🎉 (R package implementing fast Pareto smoothed importance sampling cross-validation and many other useful methods for cross-validation)

Want to learn about dynamic modeling for daily diary, experience sampling, ecological momentary assessment data? 😎

Register for our online course ‘Modeling the dynamics of intensive longitudindal data’ which starts in October 2025! 🤩

utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

How do people decide how they feel? Response Processes in ESM Studies The Experience Sampling Method (ESM), a technique to study emotions in daily life, is booming among researchers and clinicians. To justify its use, valid measurements are crucial, but recently concern...

We asked people to reflect on this at each EMA beep for 25 days using open text boxes (100 answers/person). We also conducted 4 interviews in the same time. Currently still coding but comparing with previous ratings or events happens far less often that literature suggests. See design osf.io/md9xa/

Folks, it's time to submit your papers to PCI Psychology. Here is our invitation to you, taken from our editorial osf.io/preprints/ps...

Say you have a simple multilevel model: y ~ 1 + (1 | group).

What references are there to say (or contend with) the mean of the group-level means (group-level intercepts) is the same as the population mean (population-level intercept)?

I very much appreciate @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social's openness about challenges in studying markers for careless responding and how to address them live while collecting data - among them lots of issues in dealing with participants' digital footprints #SAA2025

Really happy that @leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social presented the results of our mixed-methods study uncovering response processes in ESM studies 📱.

Take-away: people are very inconsistent in how they come up with their answers. Talking to participants in key! 🔐 #SAA2025

Very exciting to see the work from @katiehoemann.bsky.social at #SAA2025! Participants were able to voice record a description of events. Katie clustered these over many different topics. 2 fun ones:
- Complaints about rain (study was in Belgium 😅)
- Complaints about the study itself (ESM...)

What an insane crowd at the #SAA2025 m-Party (also sublime dance moves)! 💃🪩🕺🏼

#EMA researchers know how to party! 👊🙏