🎉🎉New preprint from graduate students Lily Martin and Ning Yeo! The piece focuses on better understanding / classifying suicide ideation content, and examines how endorsed content is distributed across key aspects of social identity.

Comments/feedback are welcome!

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2025-2026 lab photo! We have a great group, and it’s a privilege to work alongside these scholars. 🤩

I'm pleased to share our latest preprint authored by PhD student Ning Yeo! 🎉🎉The piece is entitled: "Development and Initial Validation of the Response to Suicidal Ideation Inventory (RSII)". Please reach out with questions and/or feedback. We hope this measure is useful!

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The BEST part of the lab directing thing is working with incredible students and trainees. My students have built a supportive and affirming lab culture while conducting and publishing great work. Learn more about the lab below. #PsychSciSky

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I’ll be recruiting a new graduate student member to our lab this cycle. I am reviewing applications for our clinical, cognitive-neuroscience, or developmental area. The FAQ below describes the lab’s research foci and answers common questions. Reposts appreciated!

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Update on stress gen methodological consensus paper.

Come for the thread, stay for the preprint! Lead author Dr Lisa Starr describes the consensus guidelines we developed to help improve the quality and rigor of stress generation research.

I highly recommend reading this before you design your next stress gen project.

We’re hiring an Assistant Prof in psychology who will join our clinical area.

I’m chairing the search - please reach out with any questions.

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I needed a whole skeet to list all of our superstar authors! Thanks to this amazing team

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If you cannot access the advance online version of this, the most recent version of the preprint is available in the link below:

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🎉Our recently-accepted paper is now available online! 🎉"Examining the Relation Between Negative Healthcare Experiences and Suicide Ideation in Transgender and Non-binary Adults" (First author: Savie Edirisinghe) is live at PSOGD. Link: doi.org/10.1037/sgd0...

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One hope is that the paper provides scholars with useful information for designing experimental studies focused on understanding suicide. We have provided detailed supplemental tables that describe the images and where to obtain them, along with suicide ratings (how much they depict suicide).

If our images do not adequately capture the construct we think they're evoking, then making strong inferences about specific, suicide-driven processes is inappropriate. Fortunately, Lily has now compiled evidence for the construct validity of a relatively large set of suicide images.

Lily addressed a disarmingly simple question: do stimuli we use in experimental suicidology look "like suicide" to participants? This is critical because we use images to make inferences about cognitive-affective responses people may have to suicide, and to test hypotheses based in suicide theories

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I'm excited to share that the latest paper from my lab "An examination of the construct validity of experimental suicide images among young adults" (first author: graduate student Lily Martin) was accepted at SLTB. Link to preprint below:

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Our article "Identity pathology and emptiness as novel predictors of suicidal ideation" is available open access in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior! Brianna Meddaoui tested whether key personality disorder features prospectively predicted ideation severity.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39825626/

Our latest article, "Suicide ideation severity and oculomotor avoidance of suicide-related stimuli which is now in press at Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Led by graduate student Emilia Sherifi, we used eye tracking to test tenets of the Cognitive Theory of Suicide.

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Please check out this interesting and important new paper from the COVID-19 Mental Health Workgroup, led by Mary Blendermann. The piece unpacks longitudinal associations among constructs pertinent to understanding anxiety symptoms.

As a bonus: it’s been great to learn from this team.

Our lab’s latest paper - led by co-first-authors Brooke Nancekivell (former UG student) and Lily Martin (PhD student) is now available. We examined risky decision making in the context of criticism, and its association with recent NSSI. Check it out. 👇

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Hey applicants! I’m reviewing applications for the clinical psychology Ph.D program at the U of Rochester for Fall 2025 admissions! If you’re interested in life stress, emotions, depression, and how they all come together, I may have the lab for you.

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Why and for whom is the transition to adulthood a risk period for depression and anxiety, and how can we help emerging adults thrive?

Reposting for the Monday morning crowd