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tkaiser.science
Psychotherapy researcher. Psychological methods postdoc at the Freie Universität Berlin. Currently working on causal learning and attribution methods. More: https://linktr.ee/tkaiser_science
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Mentalization-based treatment for antisocial personality disorder in a forensic population shows promising results in this RCT: less clinician-rated aggression in the treatment group.

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Jan Böhmermann explains the problems with our German "Verganenheitsbewältigung" in a video for the @nytimes.com.

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lol

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Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!

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We’re going in 🤓

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Teaching a clinical psych bachelor intro course. Most of my students learned that schizophrenia is 'due to a dopamin problem', depression is 'because of serotonin', and that the gut microbiome 'causes' anxiety disorders. I'm so disheartened about the state of psych textbooks.

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NEW PAPER🗣️: #Negative effects of two different psychotherapy programs (CBASP vs. MCT) for #depression - happy to see more evidence for this understudied clinical phenomenon!👇🏻 #AcademicSky #PsychSky #PsychSciSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Am 22. Februar gehen wir gemeinsam gegen die Kürzungspolitik und für eine solidarische Finanzierung unserer Stadt auf die Straße. Wir lassen uns nicht gegeneinander ausspielen!

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Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.

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Quasi-experimental Causal Inference Q: Participants selected 1 of 2 active treatments for depression. We have pre- and post-intervention scores on depression, and we would like to compare the 2 treatments at post. 1/3

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Purple hat therapy: "an intervention that combines evidence-based treatment components with a new component of questionable scientific plausibility". ( From a chapter by @everosenfeldphd.bsky.social and Carmen McLean)

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Für Julian Rubel ist ein zentrales Anliegen der Dialog zwischen Praxis und Forschung. Wir würden uns über Ihre/Eure Unterstützung bei der Kammerwahl in Niedersachsen freuen, um den Dialog zu fördern! Interesse mehr über uns zu erfahren? praxisschafftwissen.wixsite.com/nids/%C3%BCb...

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God I wish tech bros would just let the market decide on things like this instead of trying to funnel trillions of tax money into AI.

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"Dieses Auto ist eigentlich entworfen für einen anderen Planeten, für ein neues Grenzland." - Lars Weisbrod

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The "magic" in statistical techniques is mostly in their assumptions.

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Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use? We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time. Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion! 🧵 👇

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Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump... - excellent coverage 👏

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Call for nominations! I know many great people who would do a wonderful job in this position. I also probably don't know many great people who would do a wonderful job as well-- help spread the word! Happy to answer questions about EiC at AMPPS with @psychscience.bsky.social . tinyurl.com/ykpzvp7e

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PEOPLE ASSUME THERE CAN BE NO CAUSATION WITHOUT CORRELATION BUT LIKE IF YOU PRESS THE GAS PEDAL IN YOUR CAR AND YOU GO UPHILL THEN SPEED AND GAS PEDAL ARE UNCORRELATED BECAUSE THE SPEED DOESNT CHANGE RIGHT? ALSO IF YOU CONDITION ON A COLLIDER

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Yeah nowadays the first question is "but what if an LLM will replace that"

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Very cool work on depression symptom dynamics in JoPaCS pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38271054/

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Special issue on causal mediation analysis in single case experimental designs.

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Reviewing "effectiveness trials" in psychotherapy

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Wir sind zutiefst bestürzt über den schrecklichen Vorfall bei einem ver.di Demo-Zug heute in #München! Unsere Gedanken sind bei den Verletzten und ihren Angehörigen. Aktuell liegen keine gesicherten Informationen über die Hintergründe des Vorfalls vor. #BlueKita #BlueLZ

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About 63 copies of "Comprehensive Clinical Psychology" should suffice

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