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View article: Text Psychometrics: Assessing Psychological Constructs in Text Using Natural Language Processing
Text Psychometrics: Assessing Psychological Constructs in Text Using Natural Language Processing Open
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP). Yet when used to assess psychological constructs in text, they are generally not evaluated for the types of validity, reliability, and standardization typi…
View article: Between- and within-person relations between treatment modules and symptom improvements across six randomized controlled trials
Between- and within-person relations between treatment modules and symptom improvements across six randomized controlled trials Open
Objective: Most youth psychotherapies contain multiple treatment elements; little is known about their relative effectiveness. We assessed symptom improvements associated with treatment elements, represented by modules within modular psych…
View article: Identifying therapeutic characteristics of digital social media narratives about suicide: a mixed methods investigation
Identifying therapeutic characteristics of digital social media narratives about suicide: a mixed methods investigation Open
Recently, we found adults who received digital bibliotherapy featuring lived-experience narratives related to suicidal thoughts and behaviors reported lower suicidal thoughts, mediated by increased social connectedness and optimism. This s…
View article: Comparing Utterance Types and Contents in the Input to Blind and Sighted Infants
Comparing Utterance Types and Contents in the Input to Blind and Sighted Infants Open
Blind infants cannot acquire information about the world using vision, which may make it more difficult to connect words they hear to referents that, for sighted infants, are readily visually available. We ask whether, in light of this, ca…
View article: Cross-sectional differences of physical and psychosocial measures in low back pain according to pain chronification risk groups
Cross-sectional differences of physical and psychosocial measures in low back pain according to pain chronification risk groups Open
Objective: To investigate whether low-back-pain patients classified based on the risk of pain chronification (low, medium, high) differ in psychosocial and physical function measures, and whether these subgroup differences are moderated by…
View article: Text Psychometrics: Assessing Psychological Constructs in Text Using Natural Language Processing
Text Psychometrics: Assessing Psychological Constructs in Text Using Natural Language Processing Open
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP). Yet when used to assess psychological constructs in text, they are generally not evaluated for the types of validity, reliability, and standardization typi…
View article: Text Psychometrics: Assessing Psychological Constructs in Text Using Natural Language Processing
Text Psychometrics: Assessing Psychological Constructs in Text Using Natural Language Processing Open
Natural language processing (NLP) has advanced tremendously thanks to innovations in large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. However, when these technologies are used to assess psychological constructs in text, they are generally n…
View article: Text Psychometrics: Assessing Psychological Constructs in Text Using Natural Language Processing
Text Psychometrics: Assessing Psychological Constructs in Text Using Natural Language Processing Open
Natural language processing (NLP) has advanced tremendously thanks to innovations in large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. However, when these technologies are used to assess psychological constructs in text, they are generally n…
View article: Longitudinal Changes in T1w/T2w Estimates of Cortical Myelin with Age and Pubertal Timing
Longitudinal Changes in T1w/T2w Estimates of Cortical Myelin with Age and Pubertal Timing Open
Puberty may regulate changes in sensitive period plasticity during adolescence. Experience-dependent myelination is a mechanism that may underlie such changes in plasticity. Intracortical myelin can be indirectly indexed by the ratio of T1…
View article: Development of operational decision support tools for mechanized ski guiding using avalanche terrain modeling, GPS tracking, and machine learning
Development of operational decision support tools for mechanized ski guiding using avalanche terrain modeling, GPS tracking, and machine learning Open
Snow avalanches are the primary mountain hazard for mechanized skiing operations. Helicopter and snowcat ski guides are tasked with finding safe terrain to provide guests with enjoyable skiing in a fast-paced and highly dynamic and complex…
View article: A quantitative module of avalanche hazard – comparing forecaster assessments of storm and persistent slab avalanche problems with information derived from distributed snowpack simulations
A quantitative module of avalanche hazard – comparing forecaster assessments of storm and persistent slab avalanche problems with information derived from distributed snowpack simulations Open
Avalanche forecasting is a human judgment process with the goal of describing the nature and severity of avalanche hazard based on the concept of distinct avalanche problems. Snowpack simulations can help improve forecast consistency and q…
View article: Social Contexts Requiring Adjudication between Self- and Peer-Interest Differentially Alter Risk Preferences Across Adolescence
Social Contexts Requiring Adjudication between Self- and Peer-Interest Differentially Alter Risk Preferences Across Adolescence Open
Adolescence is a period of escalated rates of risk taking and a dynamic social landscape with peers taking on an important role in shaping one’s decisions. Choosing to engage in risk rarely impacts only the decision maker, but also those a…
View article: Development of operational decision support tools for mechanized ski guiding using avalanche terrain modelling, GPS tracking, and machine learning
Development of operational decision support tools for mechanized ski guiding using avalanche terrain modelling, GPS tracking, and machine learning Open
Snow avalanches are the primary mountain hazard for mechanized skiing operations. Helicopter and snowcat ski guides are tasked with finding safe terrain to provide guests with enjoyable skiing in a fast-paced and highly dynamic and complex…
View article: A large-scale validation of snowpack simulations in support of avalanche forecasting focusing on critical layers
A large-scale validation of snowpack simulations in support of avalanche forecasting focusing on critical layers Open
Avalanche warning services increasingly employ snow stratigraphy simulations to improve their current understanding of critical avalanche layers, a key ingredient of dry slab avalanche hazard. However, a lack of large-scale validation stud…
View article: Is There a Place for Cognitive Restructuring in Brief, Self-Guided Interventions? Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session, Digital Program for Adolescents
Is There a Place for Cognitive Restructuring in Brief, Self-Guided Interventions? Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session, Digital Program for Adolescents Open
Internalizing symptoms declined comparably for Think and Share participants. Consequently, future research should examine whether encouraging youths to share their feelings produces symptom improvements, and whether a single-session, self-…
View article: Robust Estimation of Polychoric Correlation
Robust Estimation of Polychoric Correlation Open
Polychoric correlation is often an important building block in the analysis of rating data, particularly for structural equation models. However, the commonly employed maximum likelihood (ML) estimator is highly susceptible to misspecifica…
View article: Developmental emergence of complex prosocial motives and their influence on risky decision making
Developmental emergence of complex prosocial motives and their influence on risky decision making Open
Humans hold beliefs about others’ preferences, which can inform a range of decisions including those involving risk. However, the accuracy of these beliefs, and the weight placed on our own preferences versus someone else’s for a decision …
View article: Year-Long Digital Phenotyping and Natural Language Processing of Daily Voice Diaries Reveal Affective and Behavioral Signatures of Real-World Life Stress
Year-Long Digital Phenotyping and Natural Language Processing of Daily Voice Diaries Reveal Affective and Behavioral Signatures of Real-World Life Stress Open
Experiencing stressful life events has been associated with poor mental health outcomes, but less is known about daily stressful events’ more proximate impacts on daily behavior and affect. Here we leverage mobile and wearable technology a…
View article: How beliefs around peers’ risk preferences get incorporated into adolescents’ decision making
How beliefs around peers’ risk preferences get incorporated into adolescents’ decision making Open
Underlying various routes to peer influence on risky choices is the assumption that individuals have beliefs around their peer’s preferences which are incorporated in their choices. However, much is unknown about the accuracy of these beli…
View article: International stability and change in explicit and implicit attitudes: An investigation spanning 33 countries, five social groups, and 11 years (2009–2019)
International stability and change in explicit and implicit attitudes: An investigation spanning 33 countries, five social groups, and 11 years (2009–2019) Open
Whether and when explicit (self-reported) and implicit (automatically revealed) social group attitudes can change has been a central topic of psychological inquiry over the past decades. Here we take a novel approach to answering these lon…
View article: Precision Assessment of Real-World Associations Between Stress and Sleep Duration Using Actigraphy Data Collected Continuously for an Academic Year: Individual-Level Modeling Study
Precision Assessment of Real-World Associations Between Stress and Sleep Duration Using Actigraphy Data Collected Continuously for an Academic Year: Individual-Level Modeling Study Open
Background Heightened stress and insufficient sleep are common in the transition to college, often co-occur, and have both been linked to negative health outcomes. A challenge concerns disentangling whether perceived stress precedes or suc…
View article: A quantitative module of avalanche hazard—comparing forecaster assessments of storm and persistent slab avalanche problems with information derived from distributed snowpack simulations
A quantitative module of avalanche hazard—comparing forecaster assessments of storm and persistent slab avalanche problems with information derived from distributed snowpack simulations Open
Avalanche forecasting is a human judgment process with the goal of describing the nature and severity of avalanche hazard based on the concept of distinct avalanche problems. Snowpack simulations can help improve forecast consistency and q…
View article: Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones
Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones Open
Puberty plays an important mechanistic role in adolescent physical, brain, psychological, and behavioral development, but remains difficult to measure with precision. Using the large, sociodemographically diverse, longitudinal Human Connec…
View article: Precision Assessment of Real-World Associations Between Stress and Sleep Duration Using Actigraphy Data Collected Continuously for an Academic Year: Individual-Level Modeling Study (Preprint)
Precision Assessment of Real-World Associations Between Stress and Sleep Duration Using Actigraphy Data Collected Continuously for an Academic Year: Individual-Level Modeling Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Heightened stress and insufficient sleep are common in the transition to college, often co-occur, and have both been linked to negative health outcomes. A challenge concerns disentangling whether perceived stress precedes or su…
View article: Machine Learning Based Linking of Patient Reported Outcome Measures to WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Activity/Participation Categories
Machine Learning Based Linking of Patient Reported Outcome Measures to WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Activity/Participation Categories Open
Background: In the primary and secondary medical health sector, patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are widely used to assess a patient’s disease-related functional health state. However, the World Health Organization (WHO), in its r…
View article: Race and ethnicity moderate the associations between lifetime psilocybin use and crime arrests
Race and ethnicity moderate the associations between lifetime psilocybin use and crime arrests Open
Introduction Psilocybin use has been linked to lowered odds of crime-related outcomes across a host of observational studies. No studies have investigated how these associations may differ among those of different races and ethnicities. Me…