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Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now.

"Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities Abstract Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).

Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve.

A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals). Illustrated are 1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals 2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and 3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?

Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

This paper offers a set of recommendations for establishing strong experimental methods for both original research and replications in psychology

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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...

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🌍 Glad to see our paper out!
How researchers in developing countries & other resource-constrained contexts (can) practice #OpenScience, with free tools, training, success stories, & more.

🔓 doi.org/10.1177/2515...
🛠 osf.io/gu7v4

More in this thread by @hcp4715.bsky.social 👇 #AcademicSky #PsychSky

🤔 How can we study #consciousness between people, at the social level? 🧠✨ New #preprint co-led by Anne Monnier & Lena Adel: “Now is the Time: Operationalizing Generative Neurophenomenology through Interpersonal Methods” 🧵(1/3)

Basic Income Pilot Project / Study results What does a universal basic income really achieve? Find the results of the first long-term German study here.

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings.

www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

We have 115 people registered so far and the early bird rates only last another 12 days! We've made it as cheap as we can*, so if you want 3 days of amazing body image talks, sign up fast!

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Photograph of a stout wet black bug with dozens of tan-colored eggs on its back, some of them deflated after emergence. The bug is standing on a gray stone.

Happy Father's day as well to all the bug dads. Male water bugs, Belostomatidae, carry their partner's eggs around on their backs until they hatch, making sure the temperature and oxygen levels are acceptable, and the predators are at bay.

Hi! I registered but joined late because I got the time mixed up. Will the recording be shared? 🙏

The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training Abstract. Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes—like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.—w...

A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them.

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direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Teaching developmental biology to drive social change: Pedagogy that challenges biologically deterministic views on phenotypic variation Discrimination against groups of people based on socially-normed phenotypic variations is commonplace in many societies. The stigmatized phenotypic va…

Paxson (2025): "Science has contributed to... discrimination through biological essentialism, either by assigning specific undesirable biological characteristics to socially-normed... groupings or... assigning a genetic basis for these phenotypic differences." 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological, and Computational Model of the Sense of Reality An intriguing aspect of the human mind is our knowledge that our perceptions may be false. Our frequent exposure to non-veridical perceptions such as those found in dreams, illusions and hallucination...

🚨 New preprint! How do we know what is real? so...
"Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological & Computational Model of the Sense of Reality" is out!
The result of 4 years of incredible teamwork👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I created this reading list on theory in psychology a while back, so it probably needs an update! Would love any recommendations for papers to include – maybe I can turn this into a syllabus of sorts.

PDF of this reading list here: williamngiam.github.io/reading_list...

How far right uses thinness to radicalise women and girls The far right has normalised much of its ideology within mainstream politics – and ‘body fascism’ is part of that

"The far-right, then, is a thin supremacist movement. This is known as ‘body fascism’"
www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right...

A figure depicting responses to the question “How are body signals related to your mental health”, including both themes and example quotes. Broad themes included: (1) location of bodily sensations; (2) when sensations occur; (3) psychological symptoms and factors; (4) intensity and frequency of sensations, and (5) lifestyle factors.

Workshop contributors had a variety of initial thoughts in response to the question: “how are bodily signals related to your mental health?” This was conducted prior to any detailed information about the aims of the workshop, or the field's perceived notions of interoception. 🧵4/n

Toward Meaningful Networks: How Qualitative Research Can Inform Idiographic Assessment and Personalized Care | Request PDF Request PDF | Toward Meaningful Networks: How Qualitative Research Can Inform Idiographic Assessment and Personalized Care | With the aim of personalized care, an idiographic framework and network-bas...

Now published online in Qualitative Psychology!🎉 Our argument for #qualitative and #mixedmethods research as powerful means to validate the meaningfulness of idiographic assessment aimed at personalized care.
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Full text here 👇
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The Cell Type Knowledge Explorer allows anyone to explore the diversity and complexity of the mouse, human, and non-human primate brain.

🧠📈 Explore this free and open resource at: knowledge.brain-map.org/celltypes

#BICCN #studyBRAIN #BrainAwarenessWeek

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15TH APRIL 2025 PERSPECTIVES IN BODY IMAGE: AN INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 2025 16-18th KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Anne Becker, Harvard University Professor Tracy Tylka, Ohio State University Scope of abstracts: Perceptual, affective and cultural perspectives are all welcome. Organising committee: Prof Lynda Boothroyd, Dr Elizabeth Evans, Dr Vani Kakar, Dr Catherine Preston & Dr Hannah Lewis Administrative support: Dr Gemma Cornetti LEARN MORE about the conference. Submit Your Abstract HERE. 🌍 Low-cost registration & free for students from low- & middle-income countries!

We're excited to announce a new *online* conference on body image and appearance pressures/ideals!

Low cost, easy access, dual-language abstracts.
Share far and wide and come and join us in September!

Conference website:
lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...

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Whether you're beginning your PhD journey or you are a senior researcher, it's your go-to resource collection to simplify academic life, just like we wished for during our PhDs. It's also a dynamic, ever-evolving, community-driven resource! 📚

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📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!

📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de

Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social

#interoception

Body and self: a dialogue between philosophy and neuroscience Join us for the next BRNet seminar with Ana Tajadura-Jiménez and Adrian Alsmith.

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Join the next #BRNet Seminar:
💭 Body and Self: A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Neuroscience with @anatajadura.bsky.social & Adrian Alsmith.
📅 Jan 17, 2025
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Sonido Amazónico Listen to Sonido Amazónico on Spotify. Los Wembler's de Iquitos · Song · 2008.

also my father’s side is from Iquitos land of ayahuasqueros and psychedelic music

open.spotify.com/track/4Dd06g...

Psychology in Latin America This contributed volume is a real who is who in Latin American psychology. Edited by the most well-known psychology researcher alive in the region, the book presents a comprehensive panorama of psycho...

if someone is interested

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

There has been some progress in education and scientific discipline, but there's still so much to do. For now, we can only imagine a better future for the region and the curious, talented minds interested in the interactions between body, behavior, and society.

It would also contribute to the ethics of its usage and respect for the traditional practices of native Amazonian communities.

This and many other possibilities come to my mind.

Probably, the ancestral knowledge of ayahuasca studied with scientific methods from the perspective of young indigenous researchers would bring clear insights about how DMT interacts with our body, sense of consciousness, and spirituality.

As a Peruvian, I think our cultural perspectives could contribute a lot to the now popular studies of consciousness, psychedelics, and the notion of the self and others.