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PhD candidate @PsychPrinceton | formerly @Cambridge_uni | mental health, emotions, social media, language(s) | @danniesbrain on TikTok/Insta | he/they🇷🇴🏳️‍🌈

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Dan Mirea

2 months

🚨New Preprint 🚨 You might imagine that people with depression are less sensitive to rewards. But…maybe not on social media! Across three Twitter datasets (over 17 million tweets from 7736 Twitter users), we find that depressed individuals show *higher* sensitivity to social

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Dan Mirea

1 year

Do you want to use GPT for text analysis in R? @steverathje2 and I filmed a 15-min tutorial on using the GPT API to perform text analysis tasks (e.g. sentiment analysis or emotion detection) in R.

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How to use GPT for text analysis in R

A brief tutorial on how to use GPT, the LLM underlying the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, to analyze psychological constructs (such as sentiment an...

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3 years

So excited to announce that, starting this fall, I'll be pursuing a PhD at @PsychPrinceton with @yael_niv , delving deeper into computational psychiatry! Yay! 🥳🔎🧠

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1 year

Had so much fun at #cpconf2023 last weekend! I presented early work suggesting that people with depression might be more sensitive to social media likes (with @yael_niv & @ErikNook ). Thanks to the organizers and all the attendees for super interesting discussions!

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2 years

If you’re at @SOBP , come check out my poster about the relationship between how people group their experiences and psychiatric symptom dimensions. With @yael_niv , @yeonsoon_shin and the late @sarahdubrow . T153, today, between 5:30-7:30 pm!

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Dan Mirea

2 years

Gave my first conference (data blitz) talk today! I can now confidently say that both anxiety and excitement scale with the number of attendees #CPC2022

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2 years

Presenting my work on latent-cause inference & psychiatric symptom dimensions today at #RLDM2022 . Stop by poster 176 if you’re interested in computational psychiatry! W/ @yael_niv @yeonsoon_shin @sarahdubrow

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7 months

Excited to present my work titled “Individuals with depression show heightened sensitivity to social media rewards” at my first @SPSPnews ! I’m giving a data blitz as part of the Psych of Tech preconference + a poster in Session A today! Come say hi if you’re around #SPSP2024

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Dan Mirea

6 months

Check out our updated GPT for text analysis paper!

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Steve Rathje

6 months

We have updated our pre-print on using GPT for text analysis. Our most exciting new finding: GPT-4 Turbo (the updated GPT-4 model released this January) is even better than the prior version of GPT-4 at detecting psychological constructs in text:

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Our paper on GPT for text analysis is finally out in @PNASNews ! We showed that GPT can detect different psychological constructs in different types of online text data across 12 languages. More recent versions were more accurate, particularly for lesser-spoken languages.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD

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Many fields—including psychology, sociology, communications, political science, and computer science— use computational methods to analyze text data. We find that the all versions of #GPT are capable of accurately detecting various psychological constructs in text across 12

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1 year

New work co-led by @steverathje2 and me: we find that GPT can detect psychological constructs in text across many languages, outperforms many popular text analysis methods, and may be a good multi-purpose tool for psychological text analysis

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Steve Rathje

1 year

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 Is GPT the future of psychological text analysis? We test GPT’s (3.5 and 4) ability to detect psychological constructs in text across 12 languages, finding that it’s superior to many existing methods of automated text analysis

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Dan Mirea

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This is based on our recent paper showing that GPT is an effective text analysis tool in multiple languages.

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Steve Rathje

1 year

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 Is GPT the future of psychological text analysis? We test GPT’s (3.5 and 4) ability to detect psychological constructs in text across 12 languages, finding that it’s superior to many existing methods of automated text analysis

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Dan Mirea

7 months

Highly recommend!! Come join us at Princeton

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈

7 months

🚨We're hiring a lab manager!🚨 We're looking for a stellar post-bacc interested in studying emotions, supporting lab infrastructure, and building community. Please spread the word! See links in 1st comment for our mission and culture. Review starts 3/1! ..

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Dan Mirea

5 years

Happy, proud and humbled to have graduated yesterday with a double First in both my MSci and BA! I am grateful to all the people who shouted at me “You can do it!” at times when I didn’t believe in myself anymore. *you can sort of see my head in the second picture*

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Trinity College Alumni

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Wonderful to watch @TrinCollCam graduands processing along Trinity Street with friends and family, before lining up to enter Senate House @Cambridge_Uni . What a moment! #Graduation2019

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2 years

Cambridge: “shall I interest you in an MA degree you’ve done nothing for apart from being alive for 6 years since starting your BA?” Dan: 😩🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 (especially as it means catching up with my UK besties)

@RuxandraTeslo

Ruxandra Teslo 🧬

2 years

My favorite bois @DanMirea4 & @steverathje2 are here!!! And we are contributing to the fall of Western Civilization by yassifying Cambridge

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1 year

Excited for @affectScience ! 🤩

@LogicEmotionLab

Logic of Emotion Lab

@LogicEmotionLab

1 year

@LogicEmotionLab is pumped for @affectScience ! 🥳Learn more about our work on valence ratings, social media, and emotion differentiation, regulation, reappraisal, & development! @HennaVartiainen @ErikNook @claire_whiting @DanMirea4 @RaziaSahi @talvaldivia

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@RuxandraTeslo low neuroticism + high conscientiousness = übermensch

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Since depression is associated with lower reward sensitivity in the lab, you would expect the same on social media, right? Quite the opposite! We consistently found that depression was associated with heightened reward sensitivity - participants with (more severe symptoms of)

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There has been a lot of debate recently about how social media use affects mental health. Past studies have found effects that are small on average, and highly variable between individuals. The interplay between social media and mental health appears to be complex and

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Dan Mirea

2 years

Thanks @xiaosigu and @dr_rick_adams for organizing a great conference/course blend!

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These quantified social media rewards might be preferentially sought by people with mental health vulnerability as a compensatory mechanism for less real-life social reward. At the same time, the variability in these rewards could be detrimental to mental health.

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Dan Mirea

2 months

Thank you to my excellent advisors - @yael_niv and @ErikNook - and our collaborators from across the Atlantic - Claire Gillan ( @neurekaApp ), @J_Mildner and @sean_w_kelley .

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Dan Mirea

5 years

So excited to participate in the International Linguistics Olympiad 2019 as a volunteer! Throwback to high school when I would represent mother #Romania in this contest 🇷🇴🇷🇴 @IOLing_official 🇰🇷

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Dan Mirea

3 years

So proud! 🥰

@steverathje2

Steve Rathje

3 years

Now In Press at Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! With @zakijam and @leorhackel , we show across three field experiments (n = 1622) that seeing live theatre improves empathy, changes socio-political attitudes, and leads to prosocial behavior.

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4 years

One of the best things that have come out of this 🦠 situation (so far)

@MiShee54

Michelle Sheehan

4 years

Cambridge University Press has just made all 700 textbooks currently available in HTML format on Cambridge Core free to access until the end of May to assist readers during the Covid-19 outbreak. This also includes 58 textbooks in Language and Linguistics.

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2 months

Our results contrast with findings that depression is associated with blunted reward sensitivity. This might boil down to the key difference in setting - people with depression might appear less sensitive to artificial rewards in lab tasks, but in reality may be more sensitive

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We leveraged three large-scale datasets of Twitter posting data (over 17 million tweets total) linked with mental health information. The datasets varied in (1) size, (2) how the data were collected and (3) the depression measure used. We defined “reward sensitivity” in this

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Dan Mirea

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The causal direction - whether depression leads to higher social media reward sensitivity, or social media reward sensitivity constitutes a risk factor for depression, or both - remains to be established in future work.

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Dan Mirea

5 years

This is fun: Primary school: zoologist? astronomer? actor! Middle school: physicist? chemist? Early high: definitely biologist Middle high: maybe doctor Late high: oh maybe linguist actually... Uni: still biologist Uni: ...okay but computational Uni: neuro 💜

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Katy

5 years

Enjoying this thread so: Early primary: palaeontologist / ballerina Late primary: egyptologist / astrophysicist Early high: something sciencey, maybe dr/vet Late high: ew no patients, just science College: biology Uni: developmental biology / genetics / let me stay in science

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The mechanism we focused on was differential sensitivity of individuals to social rewards, such as likes, shares or followers. Past work showed these rewards reinforce posting behavior, as predicted by reinforcement learning models. At the same time, a rich body of literature

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2 years

This is my work with @yael_niv , @yeonsoon_shin and @sarahdubrow that will hopefully be a paper very soon

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Dan Mirea

2 years

So proud of Dr. Steve!!! 💜🤓

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Steve Rathje

2 years

Thank you @Sander_vdLinden for being such an incredible supervisor!! And Jamie Druckman & @leedewit for all the thoughtful questions in the PhD Viva. & Congrats @RakoenMaertens !! I am Dr. Steve now 🤓

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1 year

@steverathje2 @RouxCaroline @jayvanbavel Ultimately, using GPT for private data should be included in IRB protocols and judged by the IRB for risks vs. benefits like other study components.

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Dan Mirea

5 years

I don't usually read popsci, but this time I went on a little spree - can't wait to read these all 🤩

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Dan Mirea

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In the paper, we show that there are large individual and dataset differences, which might be explained by differences in the overall receipt of likes. Nonetheless, the effect of depression is *robust* across datasets (despite the different populations and depression measures

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Dan Mirea

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This work also establishes a mechanistic link between depression and a specific feature of social media platforms - the social rewards, which deviate from real life rewards in that they are (1) quantifiable and (2) more variable due to algorithms that create “virality”.

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Dan Mirea

2 months

Here's the link to the preprint:

Depression is associated with higher sensitivity to social media rewards

The interaction between social media use and mental health is of great public health concern. Studies so far, largely employing self-reported measures of social media use, have produced inconclusive...

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Dan Mirea

1 year

@JiinJung3 @PrincetonSPIA @PsychPrinceton yayyy welcome!!! excited to hang out in the department soon

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Dan Mirea

1 year

@theotheredmund @steverathje2 We also tried giving GPT examples to improve its performance (known as ‘few-shot learning’). You can find more details in the paper, but we essentially found the results were variable and performance didn’t always increase over the ‘zero-shot’ case (no examples)

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Dan Mirea

4 years

the fans want to see april!

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Steve Rathje

4 years

How did language on Twitter change from February to March? I created a comparison word cloud to examine the popular words on United States Twitter in February (Blue) vs. March (Red). As you can see, things changed very fast...

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Dan Mirea

5 years

@siminadragos26 @JackBicker Well done!!! (I empathise with a lot of that)

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Dan Mirea

5 years

@siminadragos26 or when you think the supposedly wonder underdog candidate (who is actually p shady) will obviously get into the second round but doesn't #babeletotcupsdvoteaza

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Dan Mirea

2 years

@ErikNook congrats!!

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Dan Mirea

1 year

@theotheredmund @steverathje2 Regarding temperature, we fixed it to 0 to get GPT’s most likely output. It would be really interesting though to run it with higher temperature (more exploration) and look at the variance in the responses, and compare that with human variance!

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Dan Mirea

1 year

@MattMotyl @jayvanbavel @steverathje2 Thank you! 😊

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Dan Mirea

3 years

@marcelomattar you've just set a new standard for an amazing week! congrats!!!

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Dan Mirea

1 year

@theotheredmund @steverathje2 Thank you!! Yes, we experimented a bit with prompts on a subset of the sentiment and discrete emotions data. One thing we found is that GPT works much better if you ask it to provide numbers rather than full labels for a classification task.

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Dan Mirea

2 years

@RuxandraTeslo I want to answer just to see the results but that would mess up the data since we’re OG besties 👀

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Dan Mirea

2 months

@ErikNook You're too kind!! 😊 So glad that I've been able to work with you on this and so grateful for your support and always-super-helpful feedback

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Dan Mirea

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Also, check out our Youtube tutorial if you want to get started with GPT for text analysis!

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Dan Mirea

1 year

Do you want to use GPT for text analysis in R? @steverathje2 and I filmed a 15-min tutorial on using the GPT API to perform text analysis tasks (e.g. sentiment analysis or emotion detection) in R.

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2 years

@AlexandraBisia Haha they didn't have a choice, it was single-track 😅 but you're sweet as always!!!

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Dan Mirea

5 years

I wonder how the negative impact on mental health (53% have intended to seek help, 33% actually have) compares with other job sectors

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1 year

@andreea7b @MIT @MITEngineering Congrats!!! 🤩

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Dan Mirea

5 years

@SharadPandian @steverathje2 Yes it was intellectually oppressive! although between the two of us I’m the linguist 😎

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Dan Mirea

5 years

@mariahdonnelly9 @tcddublin Congraats 💜

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Dan Mirea

2 years

@huwbris Thank you, yours too! Still thinking about that counterintuitive apathy finding

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Dan Mirea

3 years

@steverathje2 Thanks Stevie! 😊

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Dan Mirea

4 years

@ManuelaBoatca @siminadragos26 Mulțumim mult!

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Dan Mirea

3 years

@statwoodpsych @PsychPrinceton @yael_niv thanks Stats, likewise! ☺️

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Dan Mirea

1 year

@emollick Thank you @emollick ! Such a great summary of our results, as are all your tweets!

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Dan Mirea

4 years

@steverathje2 hahaha missed a great opportunity

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2 years

@efosterhanson @SwatPsychology Congrats!!!!! 🥳🥳

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Dan Mirea

2 years

@RuxandraTeslo fair hahaha! eu nu postez nimic 🤓

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7 months

@Violet_Tufts @SPSPnews Thank you! 💜

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Dan Mirea

5 years

interesting application of network theory and evidence that same-sex attraction is not socially-influenced

@NAChristakis

Nicholas A. Christakis

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Same-Sex Sexual Attraction Does Not Spread in Adolescent Social Networks (2015). Although both sexual activity (OR=1.79) & desire to have a romantic relationship (OR=2.69) may spread from person to person, attraction to same sex partners did not (OR=0.96)

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Dan Mirea

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@marcelomattar @Trinity1546 Thank you and thanks for being a great supervisor!

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Dan Mirea

2 years

@CFCamerer For sure, and I actually think I love giving talks!

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3 months

@ang3linawang @CornellInfoSci @cornell_tech @StanfordHAI @sanmikoyejo Huge congrats!!! 💜

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Dan Mirea

1 year

@azandisarietta @steverathje2 Great suggestions, thank you!!

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Dan Mirea

5 years

@AlexandruZanca but it’s a pretty fundamental finding from the 80s - I’m pretty sure we learned about this in high school - Vox just tries to reproduce basic human experiments to help explain their results to people, which I think is a nice initiative

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3 years

@Rachel_Bedder @PsychPrinceton @yael_niv a lot of recursive excitement here 🤩

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5 years

@SharadPandian Congrats!!!

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@Rachel_Bedder @michaelbrowni19 Congrats!!! 🍾 you’re a 🌟

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1 year

@simongerman600 Someone conflated Austroasiatic (Vietnamese, Khmer) with Austronesian (Indonesian, Tagalog etc.). Completely different language families.

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Dan Mirea

4 years

Proud of CUP for the initiative and I hope more big publishers/providers of online education will join the trend - including academic journals!

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3 years

@angelaradulescu @sinaiCCP That's amazing, bravo!!!

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6 months

@NawenuweD Yes, of course, just click on the link above!

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Dan Mirea

4 years

Thoughtful & well-written article by @steverathje2 on how people react to different kinds of 'common enemies' and how internet might change our natural response to this one

@steverathje2

Steve Rathje

4 years

Some thoughts on the current crisis for @PsychToday . Hopefully, we can find ways to come together during this difficult time.

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Dan Mirea

3 years

@JSDaniels97 @PsychPrinceton @yael_niv Thanks!! 😊 And yay, congratulations to you too!! 🤞🏼for our cohort to start in person

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Dan Mirea

4 years

Everyone: the UK can't possibly make a worse decision than Brexit Corona: *hold my beer* At least they can interfere with each other so we might see some good coming out of this

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The Guardian

4 years

Pressure to delay Brexit talks as coronavirus crisis grows

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Dan Mirea

5 years

These data confirm basically all the worries I have had while deciding to pursue a research career

@wellcometrust

Wellcome

5 years

Researchers speak out in the largest ever survey of #ResearchCulture . It's time for change, and everyone can help #ReimagineResearch 👉 See the results and help decide what happens next:

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@RuxandraTeslo to me it’s just giving Cambridge satchel 😅 i have trouble distinguishing between exemplars

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@siminadragos26 yasss! the teenage love triangle songs make me cry like I used to listening to Red/Speak Now 😢😭 i was a bit skeptical at first but it really is a beautiful album beginning to end

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@rawxrawxraw @JonHaidt Thank you for sharing our preprint! I just posted a Twitter thread breaking it down if you're interested:

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Dan Mirea

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🚨New Preprint 🚨 You might imagine that people with depression are less sensitive to rewards. But…maybe not on social media! Across three Twitter datasets (over 17 million tweets from 7736 Twitter users), we find that depressed individuals show *higher* sensitivity to social

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@marcelomattar @UCSanDiego Congrats, very happy for you!

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@woah_ish @RuxandraTeslo the answer is ✨therapy✨

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