Chelsea Boccagno

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Work in the field of suicide prevention?

Come into contact with those bereaved or affected by suicide?

If so, Suicide Bereavement UK's international hybrid conference in Manchester on the 25th Sept is a must.#sbukconf25
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Community. ✨ The mission lives on.

APA leads a coalition of 76 organizations fighting for science and health! Check it out!!!
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2024 Cohort Reflects on First Year of APS Editorial Fellowship The first cohort of editorial fellows share their experiences and advice for future fellows.

The first cohort of APS Editorial Fellows share their experiences and advice for future fellows.

Read thoughts from Iván Carbajal, @chelseaboccagno.bsky.social, Leyla Loued-Khenissi,Kongmeng Liew, and Aishwarya Rajesh.

I put some more work into the suicide research feed for the new year.

Ahh, didn't know you were over here on bluesky! Sorry for not tagging ya :). It was awesome getting to work with & learn from you through this work. Cheers to it finally being in print -- & to hopefully many more chats re: perception & beauty in the future!

Seeing and Feeling Associate Professor of Psychological Science Dan Graham’s most recent research explores the connections between what people see and how they feel about what they’re looking at.

& see here for a great summary from Hobart & William Smith (Dan Graham's institution), written by Andrew Wickenden: www.hws.edu/news/2025/se...

Huge shout-out to Colin for the incredible computational feat he led!

Since then, I've also learned a ton about computational aesthetics from my fellow co-authors, who are rigorous experts in this space & just wonderful people in general: Dan Graham & Ed Vessel. Great early birthday present for me -- & for Colin, who shares my birthday!

This paper is particularly meaningful for me b/c Colin & I have been chatting about affect, emotions, & aesthetics since year 1 of grad school--w/ me coming at it from an affective science angle, & Colin from a computational aesthetics angle. We sought to merge these lits here.

We looked @ 3 aspects of affective experience: valence, arousal, & beauty. Broadly, we found that machines that got 0 training on emotion can predict considerable variance in human ratings of affect (53%, on average). What does it mean?! See the paper for a whole lot more :)

We used 180 deep neural networks trained only on vision tasks to identify whether these models--despite never having been trained on emotion--can predict how humans report feeling when seeing different images (art, landscapes, etc.).

Excited to see this paper, led by powerhouse Colin Conwell, finally out! In this work, we wanted to understand the puzzling relationship between seeing & feeling:
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People worldwide tend to believe that their societies are more meritocratic than they actually are. We propose the belief in meritocracy is widespread because it is rooted in simple, seemingly obvious causal–explanatory intuitions. Our proposal suggests solutions for debunking the myth of meritocracy and increasing support for equity-oriented policies.

Why is the belief in meritocracy so pervasive?

New article argues that the dose–response schema for causes and effects may encourage us to believe that what we get out of life depends on what we put in:

"More effort = more success!"

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ABCT Awards - Membership - ABCT - Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies The ABCT Awards Program recognizes and salutes individuals for their contributions to the field of behavioral and cognitive therapy and the institutions that have helped to train many of these very pe...

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I aim to do this every time 😅 for me it’s solely my effort to control the stress of airport procedures. One time when I was rapidly stacking bin after bin, a TSA agent told me I should work there. Highlight of my airport experiences 🙌

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I created a feed for people who are interested in suicidology, or research on suicide, self harm, and related topics. It also tends to pick up other public reports, like newspaper articles, and job postings, which feels like more of a feature than a bug.

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thanks so much!

thanks for making this! Could I be added if there's room?

Oliver Sacks = forever one of the most brilliant minds & writers we’ll ever have. After the recent publication of his letters (which I can’t stop reading), I’m brought back to when I first discovered his writing. I dream of living the life he did.

Maybe we should train ChatGPT to talk like him ;).

Opinion | The Oliver Sacks I Knew and Loved Once Saw Himself as a Failure I was Oliver’s partner for the last six years of his life. What I learned from reading a forthcoming volume of his letters surprised even me.

“I have all the disadvantages, as I have all the advantages, of being a Non-Establishment, Non-Established, person—I rove freely and widely;…but I have no department, no courses, no colleagues, no help, no ‘position’ (and for good measure no ‘security,’ and almost no ‘means’).” —Oliver Sacks in 1976

Digital mental health interventions for the treatment of depression: A multiverse meta-analysis The varying sizes of effects in published meta-analyses on digital interventions for depression prompt questions about their efficacy.A systematic sea…

Are digital interventions for depression effective?

We ran 3,638 meta-analyses on 125 RCTs (32,733 participants) to find out.

Effect sizes ranged from small to medium (Hedges’ g = 0.16–0.74), with guided interventions & LMICs showing greater benefits.

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thank you so much Sarah!

thank you so much!

I'd love to be added :) thank you!

Are causes of mental disorders in the person or in the environment? » Eiko Fried Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff

Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person.

eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...

Would love to be added!