Peer-Reviewed Study Suggests Trigger Warnings May be Harmful
A Scientific Experiment
A new study appearing in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry suggests that trigger warnings may foster vulnerability rather...
Psychological Network Analysis is Not a Predictive Method
The Amazing Capacity of Vision
Most of the time, I talk with other clinical psychologists. However, every once in a while, I get the...
Bootstrapping bridge centrality using the bootnet package
In network science, analyzing centrality is the primary method for determining node importance. There are many different types of centrality, and the appropriateness...
A brief tutorial on the networktree package
Psychological network analysis is a valuable tool for understanding the relationships among components of mental disorders, personality traits, or other psychological variables.
But what...
Updates in networktools 1.2.1
Version 1.2.1 of R package ‘networktools’ just went live on CRAN, and it comes with some very useful updates!
Repulsion
The most exciting change is...
Why idiography can’t save us
The Move to Idiography
I have sensed a shift towards criticizing and rejecting cross-sectional analyses in favor of within-person longitudinal analyses. Peer reviewers seem...
SOC: The problem with poverty
As I’ve been having trouble writing lately, mainly because my stress levels have been so high, I’m experimenting with stream of consciousness writing...
Melbourne 2015: Spotlight on Street Art
One of the things I’ve always loved about Melbourne is the assortment of street art that decorates its streets, alleys...
How forgotten victims of emotional abuse are building new support networks...
Home comfort. (Shutterstock)
Written by Ria Poole, Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Two women are murdered every week in the UK as...
Update: A wound up ball of stress and negative energy
Sorry I’ve been absent lately. Life has become something quite unbearable and has not, in any way, lent itself to heartwarming, inspirational blog...