Shirley Wang
@shirleybwang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Yale | Capturing & modeling the complex dynamics of psychopathology
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Shirley Wang
@shirleybwang.bsky.social
· Oct 29
Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology
This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.
jamanetwork.com
Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
Reposted by Shirley Wang
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
Apply by Feb 1, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/178435
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December 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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
Apply by Feb 1, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/178435
Reposted by Shirley Wang
(1/9)
New year, new preprint alert!! 🤩🚨
We provide new evidence linking intolerance of uncertainty and death anxiety in religious/spiritual individuals.
Link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇
#deathanxiety #intoleranceofuncertainty
New year, new preprint alert!! 🤩🚨
We provide new evidence linking intolerance of uncertainty and death anxiety in religious/spiritual individuals.
Link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇
#deathanxiety #intoleranceofuncertainty
January 1, 2026 at 9:04 PM
(1/9)
New year, new preprint alert!! 🤩🚨
We provide new evidence linking intolerance of uncertainty and death anxiety in religious/spiritual individuals.
Link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇
#deathanxiety #intoleranceofuncertainty
New year, new preprint alert!! 🤩🚨
We provide new evidence linking intolerance of uncertainty and death anxiety in religious/spiritual individuals.
Link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇
#deathanxiety #intoleranceofuncertainty
Reposted by Shirley Wang
Cool study in JAMA Psychiatry confirms what many have suspected for a while: PHQ (depression questionnaire) instructions are widely misinterpreted by patients. It is unfortunate that a questionnaire as shitty as PHQ-9 has become so ingrained & ubiquitous
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions
This survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity.
jamanetwork.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Cool study in JAMA Psychiatry confirms what many have suspected for a while: PHQ (depression questionnaire) instructions are widely misinterpreted by patients. It is unfortunate that a questionnaire as shitty as PHQ-9 has become so ingrained & ubiquitous
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reposted by Shirley Wang
They will use every opportunity:
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she is directing a pause in a 'diversity immigrant visa' program after it was revealed that the suspect had entered the U.S. through it."
Note: no change in gun policy.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she is directing a pause in a 'diversity immigrant visa' program after it was revealed that the suspect had entered the U.S. through it."
Note: no change in gun policy.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Brown University shooting live updates: Suspect, also accused of killing MIT professor, is found dead after manhunt
Follow live updates about the suspect accused in the Brown University shooting and an MIT professor's death days later, according to law enforcement officials.
www.nbcnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
They will use every opportunity:
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she is directing a pause in a 'diversity immigrant visa' program after it was revealed that the suspect had entered the U.S. through it."
Note: no change in gun policy.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she is directing a pause in a 'diversity immigrant visa' program after it was revealed that the suspect had entered the U.S. through it."
Note: no change in gun policy.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Reposted by Shirley Wang
Together with Don Robinaugh & a large team of interdisciplinary researchers, we just published a preprint on this topic: the importance of collaborations across disciplines to move forward mental health science. I hope you'll find it interesting, took a few years!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Together with Don Robinaugh & a large team of interdisciplinary researchers, we just published a preprint on this topic: the importance of collaborations across disciplines to move forward mental health science. I hope you'll find it interesting, took a few years!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Shirley Wang
Our university press team asked me a few questions in regards to the new chair on Mental Health & Data Science. I sketch a bit of a vision on the importance of transdisciplinary work, and some obstacles to overcome.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Transdisciplinary work is fantastic, but requires dedicated efforts from all sides to understand each other’
Eiko Fried has been appointed professor of Mental Health & Data Science. This combined chair neatly fits the view that understanding complex mental health issues require the integration of statistical...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Our university press team asked me a few questions in regards to the new chair on Mental Health & Data Science. I sketch a bit of a vision on the importance of transdisciplinary work, and some obstacles to overcome.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Reposted by Shirley Wang
Hegseth. Patel. Bongino. And now Bhattacharya ("too busy podcasting").
When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.
But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.
When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.
But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.
And this will drive him *crazy*.
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Hegseth. Patel. Bongino. And now Bhattacharya ("too busy podcasting").
When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.
But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.
When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.
But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.
So excited to see this out - huge congrats @depressionlab.bsky.social @margaritap.bsky.social @gudruneisele.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social & Josip Razum!!
1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions
This survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity.
jamanetwork.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So excited to see this out - huge congrats @depressionlab.bsky.social @margaritap.bsky.social @gudruneisele.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social & Josip Razum!!
Reposted by Shirley Wang
1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions
This survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity.
jamanetwork.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reposted by Shirley Wang
From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk:
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
@actlab.bsky.social
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
@actlab.bsky.social
Taking Action Seriously in the Brain: Revealing the Role of Cognition in Motor Skills
Samuel McDougle, a CNS 2026 YIA recipient, studies both how people build motor skills through mental functions like “motor working memory."
www.cogneurosociety.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk:
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
@actlab.bsky.social
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
@actlab.bsky.social
Reposted by Shirley Wang
Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?
Reposted by Shirley Wang
Today is the 13th anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, which resulted in 26 deaths, 20 of them 6 and 7-year-olds.
That we did not limit access to guns after Sandy Hook, once and for all, makes the deaths at Brown University all the more heartbreaking. We must end this now.
That we did not limit access to guns after Sandy Hook, once and for all, makes the deaths at Brown University all the more heartbreaking. We must end this now.
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today is the 13th anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, which resulted in 26 deaths, 20 of them 6 and 7-year-olds.
That we did not limit access to guns after Sandy Hook, once and for all, makes the deaths at Brown University all the more heartbreaking. We must end this now.
That we did not limit access to guns after Sandy Hook, once and for all, makes the deaths at Brown University all the more heartbreaking. We must end this now.
Check out two new preprints from the lab!
First, led by @leilyb.bsky.social: when people rate a 6/10 on suicidal urge severity, what does that mean? And is it the same across people and across time? We use LLMs to examine the content & consistency of suicidal thoughts, in two longitudinal samples.
First, led by @leilyb.bsky.social: when people rate a 6/10 on suicidal urge severity, what does that mean? And is it the same across people and across time? We use LLMs to examine the content & consistency of suicidal thoughts, in two longitudinal samples.
New preprint alert🚨
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
Examining the Content and Consistency of Suicidal Thoughts using Large Language Models: https://osf.io/8jx4u
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Check out two new preprints from the lab!
First, led by @leilyb.bsky.social: when people rate a 6/10 on suicidal urge severity, what does that mean? And is it the same across people and across time? We use LLMs to examine the content & consistency of suicidal thoughts, in two longitudinal samples.
First, led by @leilyb.bsky.social: when people rate a 6/10 on suicidal urge severity, what does that mean? And is it the same across people and across time? We use LLMs to examine the content & consistency of suicidal thoughts, in two longitudinal samples.
Reposted by Shirley Wang
Examining the Content and Consistency of Suicidal Thoughts using Large Language Models: https://osf.io/8jx4u
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Examining the Content and Consistency of Suicidal Thoughts using Large Language Models: https://osf.io/8jx4u
Reposted by Shirley Wang
New preprint alert🚨
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
Examining the Content and Consistency of Suicidal Thoughts using Large Language Models: https://osf.io/8jx4u
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New preprint alert🚨
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:
What do these numbers mean?
In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.
More info ⬇️
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
Apply by Feb 1, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/178435
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December 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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
Apply by Feb 1, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/178435
Reposted by Shirley Wang
New preprint alert! (1/5)🌟
I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others.
Summary⬇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others.
Summary⬇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
New preprint alert! (1/5)🌟
I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others.
Summary⬇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others.
Summary⬇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Shirley Wang
🔥🔥SAVE THE DATE!!🔥🔥
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
Computational Psychiatry Conference
New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)
www.cpconf.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🔥🔥SAVE THE DATE!!🔥🔥
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
Reposted by Shirley Wang
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
Reposted by Shirley Wang
Really interesting, brief ideas paper. Clearly relevant to treatment research-- the mechanism by which you leave an illness state is unlikely to just be the opposite of the mechanism by which you entered it (can see how this might apply to e.g. SSRIs in depression).
Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology
This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.
jamanetwork.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Really interesting, brief ideas paper. Clearly relevant to treatment research-- the mechanism by which you leave an illness state is unlikely to just be the opposite of the mechanism by which you entered it (can see how this might apply to e.g. SSRIs in depression).
Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology
This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.
jamanetwork.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
What an incredible resource for the field! Thanks & congrats to @bsiepe.bsky.social and the whole team!
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 7:37 PM
What an incredible resource for the field! Thanks & congrats to @bsiepe.bsky.social and the whole team!
In some personal news...I got married last weekend to my best friend & love of my life! It was truly the most magical weekend filled with endless love, laughter, joy, and happy tears 🥹💛
September 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
In some personal news...I got married last weekend to my best friend & love of my life! It was truly the most magical weekend filled with endless love, laughter, joy, and happy tears 🥹💛