I love this paper, @strategist! It goes beyond clinical trials and talks about how clinicians can acquire the firm conviction that what they are...
I'd like to add one more here: d. Situational factors People who make it to Dr. Vallings clinic probably went to an enormous amount of trouble...
I think so too, @Inara. And there's something else, something linked to the differences in social/political values between the US and Europe. A...
Great! Now can ask all the wrong questions and get nonsense answers at a much finer level of resolution than ever before! No, to be fair. It's...
Its amazing what you can get published in this area. It would never occur to me to submit this "study" for publication, because there's a flaw...
:rofl::laugh::rofl::laugh:!!! Here's how the article begins. I'm not making this up, it really starts like this! It gets funnier. In their...
Russ Poldrack is a big figure in the neuroimaging world, and has lots of sophisticated insights to offer. There are a lot of books out there on...
PACE was pre-registered - but in my view, pre-registration doesn't count for anything unless you stick to the protocol you pre-registered. Which...
Its quite confusing. Pre-registration means just that you made your protocol available publicly before you collected/analysed the data. You might...
Absolutely, in my view (and this is my area of expertise), 99% of our mental operations are unconscious. That remaining 1% that you are aware of...
That's right. The oft cited zebras/horses quote applies more to Freud/psychology/psychiatry than to any other domain. A dream about a train going...
I think the difference is that the core of psychology is methodology. That's the bulk of a psychologist's body of knowledge and also their...
I think you're too kind, @sTeamTraen! It is implicit even in an "exploratory" study that some thought went into choosing the independent...
That too, @Adrian! We know there are a lot of very general factors that influence people's reports of their past. These include: Demographic...
I also noticed that they did not include gender in their regression models. One would expect "sexual harassment" to be more commonly reported by...
Fair enough. I guess if you feel depression is a good metaphor for your bodily state, then it could be useful to express that. As long as you're...
Thanks for taking the time to report back to us, @TrixieStix. Its really helpful, because if even one of us recognises something in your...
Yes, me too! Anything that lowers that barrier to starting something new is a good thing!
The built in dictation in the Mac is really good, and works with your own word processing software, so you can see the words you say being typed...
But then its not depression, is it? Do bears go into depression in the winter? I don't think anyone would say that.
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