Benji Kaveladze
benji700.bsky.social
Benji Kaveladze
@benji700.bsky.social
Postdoc at Dartmouth, studying how to help everyone struggling with mental health get access to high-quality support that they resonate with.
📧: benjamin.t.kaveladze@dartmouth.edu
We randomized 7,505 American adults experiencing depression to one of the 12 SSIs or a control.

Nearly all SSIs boosted agency and hope for improvement immediately (Cohen's ds ≤ 0.37). However, only two significantly reduced depression four weeks later (ds = 0.14 and 0.15).
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New preprint! A Crowdsourced Megastudy of 12 Digital Single-Session Interventions for Depression in American Adults

What's the best way to help someone overcome depression with just 10 minutes of their time online? We ran a trial (n=7,505) testing 12 diverse interventions.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Thanks to my terrific co-authors, @arkaghosh024.bsky.social, @carterfunkhouser.bsky.social, @stephenschueller.bsky.social, and @jschleiderphd.bsky.social

And shout out to @psychscience.bsky.social for being leaders on open science.

Non-paywalled version of the paper here: osf.io/preprints/os...
August 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Child Mind Institute is running an interesting competition for students to create digital solutions for healthier tech use and win up to $5,000. Open to high school, college, and grad students in California. Learn more and apply: childmind.org/science/appl...
January 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM