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Simone Cheli
@scheli.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist
St. John's University
www.simonecheli.com
My presentation at the Auburn University Workshop on “Personality and Its Disturbances in Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence". Thanks to organizers: Peter Zachar, Anna Sterna, Marcin Moskalewitz.
Are all disorders interpersonal? - Simone Cheli
My presentation at the Montgomery workshop on Personality and Its Disturbances in Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence
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October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A complex and refined algorithm that doesn't even consider the possibility of psychosocial treatments... even just as a supplement to pharmacological ones.
INTEGRATE: international guidelines for the algorithmic treatment of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental illness involving multiple symptom domains and is often associated with substantial physical health comorbidities. Guidelines exist, but these tend to be country-specific and...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Love it! @science.org confirms that we are not as special as we tell ourselves!
The contagious buzz of bumble bee positivity, and when snow crabs vanish
On this week’s show: Predicting the fate of snow crabs under climate change, and observing the spread of bumble bee “emotions”
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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If you're teaching about lifespan personality development, and you want to include Bleidorn + colleagues (2022) meta-analysis, I made some prettier plots than the ones in our paper. (Y axis is cohen's d)

(Alternately, if you've never read our paper, check out these plots!)
September 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social)

To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...
September 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Past trade-offs as humans adapt ed to extremes, future mismatch as stability will arise.

A very cool evolutionary tale on pastoralism, kidney and water stress.

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Trade-offs and human adaptation at the extremes
Genomic analyses of Turkana pastoralists identify variants that increase water retention
www.science.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Personality Disorders and Human Evolution: An Integrative Meta-synthesis

Our preprint is freely available on OSF.

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OSF
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August 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Forced Hospitalization Increases Suicide and Violent Crime
by Peter Simons

Proponents claim involuntary treatment is necessary to reduce suicide and crime, but new research shows that it actually doubles the risk of these outcomes.
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Forced Hospitalization Increases Suicide and Violent Crime
Proponents claim involuntary treatment is necessary to reduce suicide and crime, but new research shows it doubles the risk of these outcomes.
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August 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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9/22

In Chapter 9 Simone Cheli & Martin Brüne suggest that both temperamental and developmental components of personality progressively shape autopoietic processes in accordance with the theory of evolution and, especially, Life History Theory.

Link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
July 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Il 20 luglio del 1925 nasceva Frantz Fanon, una figura che sfugge a definizioni semplici e lineari.

Fu uno psichiatra profondamente critico con la psichiatria del suo tempo. Ispirò rivoluzionari e indipendentisti di varie generazioni, dall'Irlanda all'Algeria alla Palestina.
July 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Part of the Phil Trans special issue "Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds", edited with @ellileadbeater.bsky.social.

Thanks to co-authors Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social & @shoalgroup.bsky.social and all the special issue contributors.

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929
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June 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Is it me or are these presidents talking about war in a way that is more and more like Peter Sellers?

youtu.be/zZct-itCwPE?...
Dr. Strangelove - Peter Sellers - "An astonishingly good idea"
YouTube video by David RF
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June 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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1/ Can AI be conscious? My Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article on ‘Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Call for Commentary Proposals - Conscious artificial intelligence and biological
Call for Commentary Proposals - Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism
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June 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
My invited lecture at the symposium on personality pathology from an evolutionary perspective. 64th Mind & Brain Congress in Pula.

Martin Brüne, Darko Marčinko and I discussed how to evolutionarily inform psychotherapy and psychiatry for personality disorders.

www.simonecheli.com/2025/06/01/e...
Evolution and Personality - Simone Cheli
My presentation at the 64th edition of the Mind and Brain congress in Pula. I reviewed the research of our Personality and Evolution Lab.
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June 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.
May 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Treatments for ClusterA personality disorders are feasible, safe and possibly effective.

In a new meta-analyis we disprove a common and pernicious hypothesis about these patients not being eligible for treatments.

doi.org/10.1037/per0...
APA PsycNet
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March 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐎𝐧𝐞: 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞-𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 (1/3)
Although OCPD has the highest prevalence (6.5%) among personality disorders, there are no treatment guidelines. We only have data from one RCT in which a group CBT was tested in reducing depressive symptoms.
February 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
And I think of Woody Allen. Yesterday a comedy, today not so much.

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Dictator
YouTube video by Blazing Catfur
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February 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Some of our members have submitted a letter to Meta protesting their revised policy on hateful conduct that now allows allegations of mental illness on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity

You can read the letter and list of signatories here: www.hitop-system.org/letter-to-meta

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Letter to Meta
Letter from some of the HiTOP membership (signatories listed) to Meta, protesting their revised policy on hateful conduct that permits allegations of mental illness on the basis of sexual orientation ...
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February 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create

Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro explores what this means for our approach to mental healthcare in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM