Aleksa Kaurin

Seven Symptoms Over Nearly 4,000 Days: Item-Level Variability in the Psychometric Properties of Daily Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Drinkers - Kevin M. King, Dahyeon Kang, Megan E. Schu... People experience symptoms of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in their daily lives, including more impairment-based symptoms (e.g., hazardous use, interpersonal pro...

I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data.

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New study out! These results show how our personality is infused in everything we do, even down to our mundane, everyday experiences and passing thoughts.

Issue 62, Volume 1 is out at Developmental Psychology!

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Developmental Methods in the Majority World

The issue brings together work spanning multiple approaches, all grounded in the local context.

@apajournals.bsky.social

Last week, we lost our dear friend, colleague, and mentor, Cord Benecke, who passed away at the age of 60. We will never forget you, Cord! 💛 www.uni-kassel.de/fb01/en/depa...

“The illusion that a scientist has a valid and complete explanation tends to be magnified when the data is well described by mathematical and computer simulation models due to the precision of such models, and their ability to predict well; prediction does not imply causality...”

Yale Psychology is accepting applications for the Susan Nolen-Hoeksema postdoctoral fellowship! Open to a broad range of areas in psychology, and applicants should identify 1 or more potential faculty mentors.

Apply by Feb 1, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/178435

Many think LLM-simulated participants can transform behavioral science. But there's been a lack of accessible discussion of what it means to validate LLMs for behavioral scientists. Under what conditions can we trust LLMs to learn about human parameters? Our paper maps the validation landscape.
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Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org!
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Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️
#PsychSciSky #DevPsy
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Long-term effects of pregnancy and childbirth on sleep satisfaction and duration of first-time and experienced mothers and fathers AbstractStudy Objectives. To examine the changes in mothers’ and fathers’ sleep satisfaction and sleep duration across prepregnancy, pregnancy, and the pos

I maintain that this is an excellent benchmark for d-type effect sizes:

Sleep satisfaction & duration declined with childbirth & reached a nadir during the first 3 months postpartum, with women more strongly affected (satisfaction d = -0.79, duration minus 62 min, d = -0.90)>

Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.

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Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
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We are beyond excited to announce that abstract submissions are now open for #SAA2026, which will be hosted by @univie.ac.at in early August next year. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions. More info: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/subm...
@ambulatory-assessment.org

Capturing dynamic fear experiences in naturalistic contexts: An ecologically valid fMRI signature integrating brain activation and connectivity Enhancing our understanding of how the brain constructs conscious emotional experiences within dynamic real-life contexts necessitates ecologically valid neural models. Here, we present evidence delin...

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Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms

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This year explaining regression to the mean took forever but I’m sure next year will be better.

Armut - "Unsichtbare Diskriminierung" - Seeck warnt vor tief verankertem Klassismus Aus der Wissenschaft der Sozialen Arbeit kommt die Forderung nach mehr Gehör für Menschen, die Armut oder prekäre Lebenslagen erleben. Klassismus sei weiter eine der zentralen, aber öffentlich am weni...

Es ist richtig, Klassismus - also die Benachteiligung und Diskriminierung aufgrund von Klasse - zu kritisieren. Aber das darf niemals das eigentliche Problem überdecken: Dass wir in einer Klassengesellschaft leben, in der die einen die anderen ausbeuten - was nur durch Klassenkampf zu ändern ist.

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

In our rejoinder, we argue 1) Dark terminology isn't used responsibly as BL et al. claim, 2) the term can be replaced with a more sensible and scientific one, 3) data support our position (Stanton et al., 2025), and 4) popularity ≠ importance. @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social

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New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments.

🧪 #psychscisky #statssky

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Very excited to see this out from @hitop-system.bsky.social! It really seems like these are two literatures poised to advance each other. Looking forward to reading this with my lab.

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...

Statistical evidence in psychological networks - Nature Human Behaviour Psychometric network models have become increasingly popular in psychology and the social sciences. Huth et al. show that a large proportion of reported network findings are based on weak or inconclusive evidence inviting caution when interpreting results.

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017.

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Great study! A general implication is that when we infer effects of retrospectively measure variables on outcomes, we’re largely just seeing the effects of how people are currently feeling.

📣 New Pub 📣

We captured 30-day emotion intensity & dysregulation data from EMA & examined in relation to cortisol (from hair) during the same period. Emotion intensity & hair cortisol levels were significantly associated among women with high (but not low) emotion dysregulation.

YouTube video by HiTOP Using HiTOP in Research

We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo

We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback

Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Finally, after 21 years, an expression of concern has been issued for the publication of Study 329 by the journal where it appeared.

If you haven't heard about this scandalous study, see here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_329

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What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model | PNAS Authorities, from parents of toddlers to leaders of formal institutions, use punishment to communicate disapproval and enforce social norms. Ideall...

‼️ Recent work by Setayesh Radkani, Joshua Tenenbaum & Rebecca Saxe:

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model

Wrote for @psyche.co about disinhibition – the trait that brings chaos and frustration, but can also (sometimes) spark charm and boldness. Check it out!