I needed a whole skeet to list all of our superstar authors! Thanks to this amazing team

Chris Conway
Katerina Rnic
Angela Santee
@hannahrsnyder.bsky.social
Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn
Kate Harkness
Joelle LeMoult
@querbylab.bsky.social
Kate Stroud
David Dozois
@jhamiphd.bsky.social

Abstract:

If you cannot access the advance online version of this, the most recent version of the preprint is available in the link below:

doi.org/10.31219/osf...

One hope is that the paper provides scholars with useful information for designing experimental studies focused on understanding suicide. We have provided detailed supplemental tables that describe the images and where to obtain them, along with suicide ratings (how much they depict suicide).

If our images do not adequately capture the construct we think they're evoking, then making strong inferences about specific, suicide-driven processes is inappropriate. Fortunately, Lily has now compiled evidence for the construct validity of a relatively large set of suicide images.

Lily addressed a disarmingly simple question: do stimuli we use in experimental suicidology look "like suicide" to participants? This is critical because we use images to make inferences about cognitive-affective responses people may have to suicide, and to test hypotheses based in suicide theories

Abstract