@chelseaboccagno
T32 Post-doc @ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Mass General Hospital | Self-injury/suicide, self & emotion, & causal inference | Clinical science PhD @ Harvard Psych | First gen, Bronx bred 🏳️🌈
Preparing this talk gave me an opportunity to reflect on what lessons I've learned from psychology's replication crisis and credibility revolution, and what advice I would have for other fields. We've come a long way!
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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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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!
& 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!"
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Hi all! The ABCT Graduate Student Research Grant provides up to $1,000 to support graduate student research! 💰The deadline is Monday, March 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. Check out the ABCT Awards webpage for more information: www.abct.org/membership/a...
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.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#suicideresearch
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 ;).
“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
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.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
thank you so much Sarah!
thank you so much!
I'd love to be added :) thank you!
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...