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hrcowan.bsky.social
Clinical psychology researcher focusing on self and identity, personality and well-being in the development of serious mental illness.
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Do people living with schizophrenia in Michigan feel that they are in control of their actions & the outcomes of those actions? Dr. Cowan is using lab-based measures & life story interviews to capture real world relevance in people’s lives. Full story here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

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Wisdom

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Raffi is doing such amazing work helping to shed light on the premorbid period. It was a rewarding experience having the opportunity to work with him and the NAPLS group on this one. @hrcowan.bsky.social academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

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Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

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Testing addiction theories at home People with alcohol use disorder, but with no desire to stop drinking, report changes in subjective experience during drinking that refute the hedonic allostasis theory of addiction. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

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Preparing my first-day-of-class slides on AI policies, and I asked ChatGPT to generate infographics of key course concepts. My favorite is this Lovecraftian nightmare summarizing "biological models of psychopathology" (aka, the Bream Chemistry of Psychopallogy)

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you

submitted 129 days ago • 47 comments

New commentary in American Psychologist with the legendary @jadler.bsky.social on posttraumatic growth: why all parts of it can use some revision (like those suggested by others in this issue!), and why it's a fool's errand to predict PTG before it happens. doi.org/10.1037/amp0... (open access!!)

submitted 130 days ago • 3 comments

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

submitted 130 days ago • 62 comments

I have a joke about internship applications, but I can't afford to send it. (But seriously this is absurd and removes any relief from actually finally finishing these apps. How did people also manage in-person interviews???)

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A warm welcome to Dr. Raffles Cowan (@hrcowan.bsky.social), our new assistant professor in the Clinical Science research area! Dr. Cowan’s research lies at the intersection of clinical science & personality psych. Get to know Dr. Cowan more here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

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Also, East Lansing is a great place to live! (if you like nice views out your lab window and an affordable cost of living and that sort of thing) More info about the program and applications here (3/3) psychology.msu.edu/programs/cli...

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Grad students are welcome to focus more on the quantitative side (e.g., factors, clusters, MLM, NLP), the qualitative side (e.g., narrative identity, thematic analysis), or a mix of both. Interested? Join us for a virtual info session Sept 30 (2/3) psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud...

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

I’m recruiting a grad student this fall!! Join me at the @msupsychology.bsky.social Risk, Resilience, & Recovery Lab, where we add personality, development, life narratives, self, identity, and personal meaning into crunchy structural & longitudinal models of serious mental illness. (1/3)

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