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Intriguing case study on the potential of integrating hypnotherapy with CBT for treating PTSD. Definitely worth a look for clinicians! #hypnotherapy #PTSD #mentalhealth
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May 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The engagement of psychology with complementary medicine: A critical integrative review
Amidst the global rise in complementary medicine (CM) use for mental health, a substantial number of clients consulting a psychologist also utilise at…
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May 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Study identifies brain areas altered during hypnotic trances
By scanning the brains of subjects while they were hypnotized, researchers at the School of Medicine were able to see the neural changes associated with hypnosis.
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May 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Association Between Sunlight Exposure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Special Population Without Sunlight in Work
In recent years, mental health problems have become the most serious social problems worldwide. Past studies have proposed that some links exist between sunlight and mental health; however, relevant s...
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May 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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May 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Intriguing exploration of how cognitive psychology is reshaping medical education research. Definitely worth a look! #meded #cognitivescience #learning
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How cognitive psychology changed the face of medical education research
In this article, the contributions of cognitive psychology to research and development of medical education are assessed. The cognitive psychology of learning consists of activation of prior knowledge...
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May 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Exercise for Mental Health
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May 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A systematic review highlighting the link between excessive digital technology use and negative psychological/emotional outcomes in adolescents. A crucial read for anyone working with or raising teens in the digital age. #DigitalWellbeing #AdolescentMentalHealth
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Frontiers | Psychological and Emotional Effects of Digital Technology on Digitods (14–18 Years): A Systematic Review
BackgroundThe use of smartphones and other technologies has been increasing in digitods aged 14–18 years old. To further explain this relationship and explor...
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May 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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May 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This research with Chinese-English bilinguals explores how language can change perception, personality and thinking. 🤔 #bilingual #identity #languageandmind

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(PDF) Does Language Affect Personality Perception? A Functional Approach to Testing the Whorfian Hypothesis
PDF | OBJECTIVE: Whether language shapes cognition has long been a controversial issue. The present research adopts a functional approach to examining... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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May 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The claim. ​​This study <The impact of vergence and accommodative therapy on reading eye movements and reading speed. Gallaway M and Boas MB. Optom Vis Dev 2007;38(3):115-120.> establishes that accommodative and vergence therapy can result in improved reading speed and eye movements even in the absence of ocular motility therapy. This is documented through objective computerized tools for monitoring changes in eye movements, thereby assisting in understanding the effects of vision therapy on reading efficiency. Ida Chung, OD, FCOVD, FAAO, President the College of Optometrists in Vision Development https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjo/article/view/511/366 The facts. “Establishes” is a pretty strong word to describe a study of six people aged 11 to 24, with no control group and no masking, that the authors themselves describe as “providing preliminary data”. The claim. ...no published study to date has established causality between phonological awareness and a reading disorder. Ida Chung, OD, FCOVD, FAAO, President the College of Optometrists in Vision Development https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjo/article/view/511/366 The facts. “The evidence in these areas suggests that, in most cases, phonological skills deficiencies associated with phonological coding deficits are the probable causes of the disorder rather than visual, semantic, or syntactic deficits, although reading difficulties in some children may be associated with general language deficits.” Vellutino, F. R., Fletcher, J. M., Snowling, M. J., & Scanlon, D. M. (2004). Specific reading disability (dyslexia): What have we learned in the past four decades?. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 45(1), 2-40.
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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We are so proud of our colleague Laurent Rossier who published an article about the effects of hypnotic suggestions on sleep. Don’t miss it ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#article #journal #psychology #research #hypnosis #suggestion #sleep #internationaljournalofclinicalandexperimentalhypnosis
February 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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"Power to Detect What?"

"All analyses have high power to detect some (large) effects and low power to detect some (small) effects."

BlueSky Authors: @rogerthegs.bsky.social @tcarpenter.bsky.social @neillewisjr.bsky.social

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#Methodology #Psychology #Stats 🧪
In the wake of the replication crisis, social and personality psychologists have increased attention to power analysis and the adequacy of sample sizes. In this article, we analyze current controversies in this area, including choosing effect sizes, why and whether power analyses should be conducted on already-collected data, how to mitigate the negative effects of sample size criteria on specific kinds of research, and which power criterion to use. For novel research questions, we advocate that researchers base sample sizes on effects that are likely to be cost-effective for other people to implement (in applied settings) or to study (in basic research settings), given the limitations of interest-based minimums or field-wide effect sizes. We discuss two alternatives to power analysis, precision analysis and sequential analysis, and end with recommendations for improving the practices of researchers, reviewers, and journal editors in social-personality psychology.
February 14, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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Excited to see our paper, "Where Are the Values? A Systematic Literature Review on News Recommender Systems" (doi.org/10.1145/3654...), selected as a #TORS EIC Featured Article for 2024!

Great collaboration with @kfvanes.bsky.social 🚀📚

#ACMTORS #RecSys #News #vales #EXDIGIT #PLUS #UniSbg
TORS EIC Selected 2024 Featured Articles ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems Co-Editors-in-Chief Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS) publishes high quality papers that address various aspects of recommender systems research, from algorithms to the user experience, to questions of the impact and value of such systems, on a quarterly basis. The journal takes a holistic view on the field and calls for contributions from different subfields of computer science and information systems, such as machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, web-based systems, data science and big data, and human-computer interaction. Moreover, interdisciplinary research works are welcome as well. Such works may either be based on insights from related fields, e.g., marketing or psychology, or apply recommendation technology in novel application areas. Recommender Systems TORS EICs are pleased to announce the following 2024 Featured Articles: Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis Where Are the Values? A Systematic Literature Review on News Recommender Systems Revisiting Bundle Recommendation for Intent-aware Product Bundling Towards a Causal Decision-Making Framework for Recommender Systems Assessing the Impact of Music Recommendation Diversity on Listeners: A Longitudinal Study
February 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Today in the History of Psychology (10th February 1933), Edward Thorndike's classic article 'A Proof of the Law of Effect' outlining the notion that a behavioral response is strengthened in the presence of a satisfying after-effect stimulus was published as a special paper in the journal Science. Thorndike's ideas concerning the "law of effect" played an important role in the development of learning theory, most notably as a foundation for B.F. Skinner's work on operant conditioning.
February 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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What an honor to work on this viewpoint w Drs. Daisy Singla & Vikram Patel—now open-access in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology!

TL;DR—
*SIMPLIFY treatments, eg single-sessions
*DIVERSIFY workforce, eg task sharing
*DEPLOY digital tools for global impact

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Picture of title of journal article by Singla, Schleider & Patel, called "Democratizing Access to Psychological Therapies: Innovations and the Role of Psychologists"
October 4, 2023 at 5:59 PM
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I am so excited that my article on "Harnessing music psychology and music therapy to support social and emotional development in children" will be published in the journal of the Chartered College of Teaching on the 15th of May in print and digital formats. 🎶❤️ #MusicMatters
April 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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😴 Lack of sleep fuels conspiracy beliefs?

New research links poor sleep quality with increased belief in conspiracy theories. The study suggests that better sleep could help reduce susceptibility to misinformation.

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#SciComm 🧪 #SleepScience #Psychology
Investigating the link between sleep quality and belief in conspiracy theories - Daniel Jolley, Iwan Dinnick, Lauren Burgin, Sophie Ryan, Olivia Morgan-Finn, Samuel Muncer, 2025
Two studies examined the link between sleep quality and conspiracy theory beliefs, as well as the underlying mechanisms. In Study 1 (n = 540), participants with...
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March 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I found this blog post interesting.

The research found 3 themes relating to loneliness in chronic illness.

It then mentions a writing exercise one can do to analyse these in your own situation.

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#chronicillness #Spoonielife #hiddenillness #Spoonies
Psychology Today logo Katie Willard Virant MSW, JD, LCSW Katie Willard Virant MSW, JD, LCSW Chronically Me Chronic Illness The Link Between Loneliness and Chronic Illness A recent study explores the intersection between loneliness and chronic illness. Posted April 15, 2025 Reviewed by Margaret Foley Share on FacebookShare Share on TwitterTweet Share on BlueskyShare on Bluesky Share on LinkedInShare Share via EmailEmail Key points Heightened loneliness is linked with chronic illness. A recent study identifies three themes related to loneliness and chronic illness. Thinking about these themes in our own lives can help us identify how loneliness affects us.
April 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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May 2024 @KidneyNews Patient Perspective on Mental Health and Kidney Disease @ASNKidney https://www.kidneynews.org/view/journals/kidney-news/16/5/article-p23_15.xml
December 9, 2024 at 5:28 AM