Oscar Lecuona
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Oscar Lecuona
@oscarlecuona.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at @UCM_Psico
https://linktr.ee/oscar.lecuona

#mindfulness | #nonmonogamous | #networkanalysis | #psychometrics | #metascience
@oscarlecuona@fediscience.org

Spiral out, keep going.
Congrats to the team and the enormous amount of work!
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Some figures illustrating volume of literature by each strength. Perspective/mindfulness has the strongest ratio of survival, while kindness and gratitude have the most raw volume of RCTs.
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Key findings: Yeah, there is some robust evidence on that, for perspective/mindfulness, gratitude, kindness, hope, and humor. The rest do not have enough quality.
In general, literature must improve on methods, well-being needs to be measured more and better (more eudaimonic measurements please)
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The distinction has been around for 5/6 years, along with direct/exact reps and systematic reps. Further reading: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My take: Balance generalizability and replicability. Conceptuals maximize the first at the cost of the second, exacts do the opposite
What is replication?
What is replication? This Perspective article proposes that the answer shifts the conception of replication from a boring, uncreative, housekeeping activity to an exciting, generative, vital contribut...
journals.plos.org
August 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What about conceptual replication?
August 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
That's the thing, been saying this in mindfulness research a lot. Getting a low/med/high or better/meh/worse is basically mapping a continuous thing obscured as discrete, but people desperately want "person-based" and "personalized" thingies
August 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM