Philipp Herzog

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.

#PsychSciSky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Many fall for AI-generated junk online" — youth demand social media ban for people above 40.

Excellent headline by a German satire magazine.

Out of sight, out of mind? High discrepancy between observer- and patient-reported outcome after routine inpatient treatment for depression Divergent outcomes of treatment for depression occur regularly, but often go undetected by clinical judgment alone. To date, no comprehensive studies …

Any royalty re: title directly to my bank account, please. 🙃
Congrats, Mareike! 👏🏻

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Out of sight, out of mind? Intersession experiences as protective and risk indicators of suicidal ideation in the context of outpatient treatment Suicidal ideation is a central clinical risk in psychotherapy. Patients’ engagement with therapy between sessions, captured by intersession processes (ISP), may be particularly informative for unde...

update: here it is! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #psychotherapy #suicideprevention

🚨OUT NOW IN COGNITION AND EMOTION🚨:

Happy to share a new open access paper about an experimental Trigger Warning study led by Hannah Willems - a brilliant PhD student I have the privilege of supervising. 💫

Get your free copy here👇🏻:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#TriggerWarning #Trauma

New paperAlert! We show that generative AI can quantitatively assess personality from brief, open-ended text—with surprising accuracy. 🧠✨

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Postprint (pending mod approval): osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Interview and self-report measures of personality disorder criteria are not structurally equivalent. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Communicating Medical Numbers To the Editor Dr Zikmund-Fisher and colleagues1 highlight several important caveats regarding the presentation of numbers in medical communication and provide thoughtful suggestions for clinicians on ...

🎉 Happy to share a Letter with @rief01.bsky.social in @jama.com: We argue that clinicians should be aware of framing effects when communicating likelihoods. Eg, patients perceive "1 in 10 have side effects" as more concerning than "9 in 10 do not have side effects". jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me.

🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026
Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning)

⬇️ Call for Papers
tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self The recent exceptional growth in the number of special issues has led to the largest delegation of editorial power in the history of scientific publishing. Has this power been used responsibly? In thi...

PISS journals 😂
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

It’s nice to see radical behaviorism and psychodynamics - both massively underrepresented in many psychology programs btw - agree on core assumptions about personality functioning. This preprint by @kimberlyjgilbert.bsky.social argues for the psychodynamic framework.

osf.io/rg3zn/overview

Review of Professor Philipp Herzog's visit to ULiège A specialist in cognitive and behavioral clinical psychology at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, he has joined the Laboratory of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (PsyNCog).

My research stay as @unigr.bsky.social Guest Professor @universitedeliege.bsky.social : it was truly an honor and pleasure for me working with Prof. Sylvie Blairy's team - merci! 🙏🏻👇🏻

www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_205351...

A critical review of methodological quality in functional neuroimaging studies on dissociative identity disorder Background: Dissociative identity disorder remains contested. The debate hinges on whether memories carry over between identity states and whether those states are truly distinct, but most evidence...

"On current evidence, functional imaging across identity states does not support firm claims about identity fragmentation or inter identity amnesia, nor does it decide between trauma based and sociocognitive accounts."

Followers of a certain trauma/DID superstar will not like this…

I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.

1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.

While I don't agree with much of the framing, trials like this show that many care systems could profit from more fine-grained stratified care. Not everyone will profit from BA delivered by paraprofessionals, but it will surely take some pressure of waitlists…

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025

My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

Does structured, psychometrically based feedback discussion cause improvements of the therapeutic alliance? A single-case experimental study Routine outcome monitoring and feedback (ROM) systems have been established to enhance therapeutic outcomes, prevent drop-outs and facilitate data-driven personalization in psychotherapy. However, ...

🔥 New paper, led by my PhD student @selindem.bsky.social: preregistered single-case experimental study showing the positive impact of using the GPNS feedback system on the therapeutic alliance.

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Must We Always Go Idiographic? - Cognitive Therapy and Research Purpose While psychological change processes are increasingly assumed to be “non-ergodic”, prompting a shift toward idiographic approaches, the assumption of ergodicity is often accepted a priori…

Must We Always Go Idiographic? Information-Theoretic Approaches to Testing Structural Ergodicity in Temporal Symptom Networks buff.ly/1ATccXl #CBTworks #PBT #clinpsych

✨Wunderbare Neuigkeiten: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fördert unser neues Netzwerk SNEPP – das Scientific Network for Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy!

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

"You asked for truffle pasta, we gave you a microwave burger"

Only seen this paper this morning but I have emphasize how much this is a fantastic work ! I had a urge to go through this paper (too quickly unfortunately) and it was…wonderfull !!! The paper is open access so few quotes from the discussion that was music to my ears !!!

Another paper in our effort to get folks to stop routinely testing interactions. This time from the angle of stability. Led by @andrew-cast.bsky.social with help from @vizecolin.bsky.social, @jdmiller.bsky.social, @davidbaranger.bsky.social, and me. Forthcoming in AMPPS.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Great work, Tim! 👏🏻
Thanks for including me!

🔔NEW PAPER ALERT🔔👇🏻

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Must We Always Go Idiographic? - Cognitive Therapy and Research Purpose While psychological change processes are increasingly assumed to be “non-ergodic”, prompting a shift toward idiographic approaches, the assumption of ergodicity is often accepted a priori rath...

🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT

What is currently being done to ensure that shared variance (i.e., symptoms) is not constantly confused with shared etiology (i.e., causes) in dimensional models of psychopathology? Asking because I read a certain preprint.

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...

A Tutorial on Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification Using Conformal Prediction - Tim Kaiser, Philipp Herzog, 2025 Statistical prediction models are ubiquitous in psychological research and practice. Increasingly, machine-learning models are used. Quantifying the uncertainty...

Open Access Paper published by @psychscience.bsky.social 🔗:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Finally out in AMPPS🚨:
Proud to share a new tutorial (led by the fabulous @tkaiser.science 💫) on conformal prediction - a model-agnostic, distribution-free method for generating prediction intervals with guaranteed marginal coverage. 🔮

#PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

A randomized controlled trial testing the effects of sequential psychotherapy in depression: Changing therapist, or both therapist and method? This study examined the effectiveness of sequential psychotherapy strategies for adults with major depressive disorder who did not respond to an initi…

Does changing the therapist and/or method after non-response lead to better outcomes? Not according to this RCT.