Kasey Stanton
@kstanton.bsky.social
Psychology researcher and professor at the University of Wyoming. Transdiagnostic Approaches to Personality and Psychopathology Lab. Research interests in clinical assessment and diagnosis, measurement, mood, & more!
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
We're excited this is out! Thanks to the author teams for a range of great contributions and to the reviewers who assisted with this process. The second part of this special issue will be released in November.
Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment.
Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social
Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social
Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We're excited this is out! Thanks to the author teams for a range of great contributions and to the reviewers who assisted with this process. The second part of this special issue will be released in November.
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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...
▶️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...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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...
▶️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...
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I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
Clinical Science
Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology offers graduate programs in cognitive, clinical, developmental, and quantitative psychology, joint doctoral programs in peace studies and in computer science / en...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
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When we measure personality multiple times in a study, does it matter if we ask people about their personality *in general* or *since the last time point*?
Turns out: yes!
We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Turns out: yes!
We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tb94v_v1🧵
October 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
When we measure personality multiple times in a study, does it matter if we ask people about their personality *in general* or *since the last time point*?
Turns out: yes!
We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Turns out: yes!
We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
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September 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
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APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas!
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
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August 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas!
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas!
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
www.apa.org
August 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
APA call for editorial fellowships, including for Psychological Assessment. Please checkout Psych Assessment if you have interests in clinical assessment, measure development, psychometrics, or related areas!
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
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Absolutely shook to learn I’ve been awarded the 2025 Distinguished Early Scientific Career Contributions by the Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Absolutely shook to learn I’ve been awarded the 2025 Distinguished Early Scientific Career Contributions by the Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social
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I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
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Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
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August 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
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I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836
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July 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836
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Re-upping for the weekday crowd-
Choosing between syndrome/diagnosis vs. symptom focused mental health research is a false dichotomy
New paper arguing how we can, and should, consider how risk/resilience/treatment factors can be uniquely + simultaneously associated with both levels of specificity
Choosing between syndrome/diagnosis vs. symptom focused mental health research is a false dichotomy
New paper arguing how we can, and should, consider how risk/resilience/treatment factors can be uniquely + simultaneously associated with both levels of specificity
First paper from my lab @upenn.edu (open access) @ Biological Psychiatry w/ @emilyrperkins.bsky.social +@keananjoyner.bsky.social
We discuss the need to falsify theories of biology predicting syndromes vs. syndromes in ways that allow both to be true 🧵1/10
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We discuss the need to falsify theories of biology predicting syndromes vs. syndromes in ways that allow both to be true 🧵1/10
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
June 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Re-upping for the weekday crowd-
Choosing between syndrome/diagnosis vs. symptom focused mental health research is a false dichotomy
New paper arguing how we can, and should, consider how risk/resilience/treatment factors can be uniquely + simultaneously associated with both levels of specificity
Choosing between syndrome/diagnosis vs. symptom focused mental health research is a false dichotomy
New paper arguing how we can, and should, consider how risk/resilience/treatment factors can be uniquely + simultaneously associated with both levels of specificity
Reposted by Kasey Stanton
Sometimes when I talk to intervention scientists about #measurement #psychometrics I get the argument “even if this questionnaire has bad psychometrics, everyone else in my field uses it and I want to be able to compare my results with theirs”. Let’s talk about how that is a misunderstanding 🧵
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May 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Sometimes when I talk to intervention scientists about #measurement #psychometrics I get the argument “even if this questionnaire has bad psychometrics, everyone else in my field uses it and I want to be able to compare my results with theirs”. Let’s talk about how that is a misunderstanding 🧵
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Check out our forthcoming viewpoint article in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science in which we argue that it is well past time to abandon the term 'dark' to describe antagonistic traits. w/ @jdmiller.bsky.social and @drlynam.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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May 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Check out our forthcoming viewpoint article in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science in which we argue that it is well past time to abandon the term 'dark' to describe antagonistic traits. w/ @jdmiller.bsky.social and @drlynam.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Just published in JoPACS!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40323898/
What is urgency and how should we best assess it in the moment? A thread 🧵 1/n
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40323898/
What is urgency and how should we best assess it in the moment? A thread 🧵 1/n
Uncovering urgency in daily life: Testing a novel method for assessing emotion-impulsivity co-occurrence in momentary data - PubMed
Impulsivity is a personality trait with broad health implications. Urgency is a facet of impulsivity defined as the tendency to engage in rash action when experiencing strong emotions. Thus, as define...
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May 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Just published in JoPACS!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40323898/
What is urgency and how should we best assess it in the moment? A thread 🧵 1/n
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40323898/
What is urgency and how should we best assess it in the moment? A thread 🧵 1/n
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Our newest pub is out! Here, we used EMA to examine the moment-to-moment association between drinking and subsequent problems, and if emotional functioning changed the strength of this prospective relationship among a hazardous drinking sample of young adults. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
May 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our newest pub is out! Here, we used EMA to examine the moment-to-moment association between drinking and subsequent problems, and if emotional functioning changed the strength of this prospective relationship among a hazardous drinking sample of young adults. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Reposted by Kasey Stanton
Take this brief survey on how mental health stakeholders (students, researchers, clinicians) learn about HiTOP
(@hitop-system.bsky.social) - also including common challenges & misconceptions.
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Please share to help improve HiTOP education! 💡
(@hitop-system.bsky.social) - also including common challenges & misconceptions.
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Please share to help improve HiTOP education! 💡
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April 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Take this brief survey on how mental health stakeholders (students, researchers, clinicians) learn about HiTOP
(@hitop-system.bsky.social) - also including common challenges & misconceptions.
csufull.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share to help improve HiTOP education! 💡
(@hitop-system.bsky.social) - also including common challenges & misconceptions.
csufull.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share to help improve HiTOP education! 💡
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Feels like an especially strange time to be sharing about work, but I'm super proud of @karalink.bsky.social for writing this important paper for health service psychologists on reducing stigma and enhancing care for people who use alcohol! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reducing Stigma and Enhancing Care for People Who Use Alcohol - Journal of Health Service Psychology
Alcohol use is common and associated with varying degrees of harm. Heavy alcohol use can lead to the development of an alcohol use disorder (AUD). The stigma and discrimination that people with AUD of...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Feels like an especially strange time to be sharing about work, but I'm super proud of @karalink.bsky.social for writing this important paper for health service psychologists on reducing stigma and enhancing care for people who use alcohol! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New special issue out in PDTRT on externalizing psychopathology. Co-led by R. Waller, E. Verona, @drlynam.bsky.social and me. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Introduction is free to download. Check it out!
psycnet.apa.org
January 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New special issue out in PDTRT on externalizing psychopathology. Co-led by R. Waller, E. Verona, @drlynam.bsky.social and me. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Introduction is free to download. Check it out!
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First paper from my lab, led by a wonderful and bright PhD student, Penny Peng! 🥹 Check it out!
Where does attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder fit in the psychopathology hierarchy? A symptom-focused analysis.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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APA PsycNet
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December 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
First paper from my lab, led by a wonderful and bright PhD student, Penny Peng! 🥹 Check it out!
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new viewpoint article forthcoming at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science with
@cassie-boness.bsky.social
Thinking Beyond Substances: Why Behavioral “Addiction” Research must Move past Substance Use Disorder Paradigms
osf.io/preprints/ps...
@cassie-boness.bsky.social
Thinking Beyond Substances: Why Behavioral “Addiction” Research must Move past Substance Use Disorder Paradigms
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 25, 2024 at 6:21 PM
new viewpoint article forthcoming at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science with
@cassie-boness.bsky.social
Thinking Beyond Substances: Why Behavioral “Addiction” Research must Move past Substance Use Disorder Paradigms
osf.io/preprints/ps...
@cassie-boness.bsky.social
Thinking Beyond Substances: Why Behavioral “Addiction” Research must Move past Substance Use Disorder Paradigms
osf.io/preprints/ps...