David A. Sbarra
@dsbarra.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist. Professor of Psychology. Editor of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. All views are personal, expressed as a private citizen.
Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social
📢 Join our upcoming Registered Reports webinar!
Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your research! We will cover the following topics:
- Two-stage review explained
- Tips for Stage 1 protocols
- Common author challenges
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Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your research! We will cover the following topics:
- Two-stage review explained
- Tips for Stage 1 protocols
- Common author challenges
Register now: https://ow.ly/R6yH50Xptt0 #RegisteredReports #Webinar
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to Do Research and Get Published - How to Write & Review Registered Reports. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This webinar will provide an overview of the Registered Reports format, a publishing model designed to improve transparency and reproducibility in scientific research. The session will cover the structure and purpose of Registered Reports, including the two-stage submission and review process. Presenters will discuss how to develop a Stage 1 protocol, what reviewers typically evaluate at Stage 1 and 2, and common challenges encountered by authors and reviewers. The webinar is intended for researchers, editors, and reviewers who are working with or considering Registered Reports.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social
Found this gem of a paper in the AMPPS archives on using containers in psychological science. What's a container, you ask? Read on...
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Found this gem of a paper in the AMPPS archives on using containers in psychological science. What's a container, you ask? Read on...
Just when you were getting used to the term preregistration... New paper at AMPPS calling for improved terminology in the field and better alignment with TOP 2025 . journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Just when you were getting used to the term preregistration... New paper at AMPPS calling for improved terminology in the field and better alignment with TOP 2025 . journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Call for Commentary articles at AMPPS! We recently accepted a "Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal Level Theory" (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and are soliciting Commentary articles on this paper.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Call for Commentary articles at AMPPS! We recently accepted a "Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal Level Theory" (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and are soliciting Commentary articles on this paper.
The Arizona Daily Star ran a great story on @uarizona.bsky.social's decision not to sign the compact for academic excellence. I especially loved this quote
October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Arizona Daily Star ran a great story on @uarizona.bsky.social's decision not to sign the compact for academic excellence. I especially loved this quote
If you do online data collection, this paper is worth checking out! I especially like the access to the codebook, which helps operationalize best practices: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you do online data collection, this paper is worth checking out! I especially like the access to the codebook, which helps operationalize best practices: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3
Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3
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October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3
APCS (www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/)-- the Academy-- is a major training organization in clinical psychological science. We worked with the Academy's leadership team to craft this letter and to encourage programmatic self-study in open science training. Let's get to work!
October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
APCS (www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/)-- the Academy-- is a major training organization in clinical psychological science. We worked with the Academy's leadership team to craft this letter and to encourage programmatic self-study in open science training. Let's get to work!
We're searching for a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology here at the University of Arizona! Come to Tucson-- great place to live and work! 🌄🌵🏀 @uarizona.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE)
The candidate will be
expected to build and sustain an externally funded, nationally recognized
research program, provide effective instruction at the...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We're searching for a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology here at the University of Arizona! Come to Tucson-- great place to live and work! 🌄🌵🏀 @uarizona.bsky.social
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Reposted by David A. Sbarra
Reposted by David A. Sbarra
Apropos of recent open science conversations - this paper is an awesome primer for grad students and faculty who want to learn more: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Easing Into Open Science: A Guide for Graduate Students and Their Advisors
This article provides a roadmap to assist graduate students and their advisors to engage in open science practices. We suggest eight open science practices that novice graduate students could begin ad...
online.ucpress.edu
October 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Apropos of recent open science conversations - this paper is an awesome primer for grad students and faculty who want to learn more: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Reposted by David A. Sbarra
I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.
October 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.
Rigorous science is transparent science.
New paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.
The Open Science Movement and Clinical Psychology Training: Rigorous Science is Transparent Science: https://osf.io/s46wd
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Rigorous science is transparent science.
A Faustian bargain- it’ll never end well. These schools must together to oppose this “compact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
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October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A Faustian bargain- it’ll never end well. These schools must together to oppose this “compact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
US-based 2025 NSF GRFP Competition is severely reduced, with dramatic exclusions added in the dark. Here's a petition you can sign. Please consider signing and circulating. Also see: jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
US-based 2025 NSF GRFP Competition is severely reduced, with dramatic exclusions added in the dark. Here's a petition you can sign. Please consider signing and circulating. Also see: jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
Great news-- @felixthoemmes.bsky.social to be the next EiC at AMPPS! See below for information about joining his team.
Excited to share that I’ll be the incoming Editor of AMPPS. My first priority is building a diverse team of Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. If you’re interested, DM me or add your name via this super simple survey.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Great news-- @felixthoemmes.bsky.social to be the next EiC at AMPPS! See below for information about joining his team.
We have a great new paper taking stock of transparency reporting in the MRI/fMRI literature... "Results call for recentering transparency in reporting practices in MRI and fMRI studies, with direct implications for study generalizability." doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We have a great new paper taking stock of transparency reporting in the MRI/fMRI literature... "Results call for recentering transparency in reporting practices in MRI and fMRI studies, with direct implications for study generalizability." doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
A Practical Guide to Specifying Random Effects in Longitudinal Dyadic Multilevel Modeling - Kareena S. del Rosario, Tessa V. West, 2025
Analyzing over-time dyadic data can be challenging, particularly when using multilevel models with complex random-effect structures. In this tutorial, we discus...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Obvious preregistered hypothesis: soon most all psych science will involve AI in some form. You'll get ahead of the curve with this paper is about "Transformer Architecture" (also a good band name) and how embeddings operate within a NLP workflow. Really nice! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
From Embeddings to Explainability: A Tutorial on Large-Language-Model-Based Text Analysis for Behavioral Scientists - Rudolf Debelak, Timo K. Koch, Matthias Aßenmacher, Clemens Stachl, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming research in psychology and the behavioral sciences by enabling advanced text analysis at scale. Their applications...
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September 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Obvious preregistered hypothesis: soon most all psych science will involve AI in some form. You'll get ahead of the curve with this paper is about "Transformer Architecture" (also a good band name) and how embeddings operate within a NLP workflow. Really nice! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Outstanding new paper on machine learning at AMPPS-- hit the virtual stands this summer. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Bridging Traditional-Statistics and Machine-Learning Approaches in Psychology: Navigating Small Samples, Measurement Error, Nonindependent Observations, and Missing Data - Rosa Lavelle-Hill, Gavin Smi...
In recent years, machine learning has propagated into different aspects of psychological research, and supervised machine-learning methods have increasingly bee...
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September 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Outstanding new paper on machine learning at AMPPS-- hit the virtual stands this summer. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
This was a true mess with a ton of AI-generated word salad slop being submitted as preprints. The field owes these moderators a huge thanks for all the work and energy! 🙏👏
PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky
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What is PsyArXiv? PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is an open preprint archive designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the…
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September 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This was a true mess with a ton of AI-generated word salad slop being submitted as preprints. The field owes these moderators a huge thanks for all the work and energy! 🙏👏
On the anniversary of 9/11, I’m struck by how little discussion links yesterday’s tragic act of political violence with the attacks 24 years ago. To me, the throughline is clear: bin Laden sought to divide America, draw us into costly wars, and erode social cohesion. We are living in that long game.
September 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
On the anniversary of 9/11, I’m struck by how little discussion links yesterday’s tragic act of political violence with the attacks 24 years ago. To me, the throughline is clear: bin Laden sought to divide America, draw us into costly wars, and erode social cohesion. We are living in that long game.
Excellent paper alert!!!
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025
Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...
journals.sagepub.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Excellent paper alert!!!
Please share far and wide! The Psychology Department at the University of Arizona is recruiting a new Director for our Behavioral Health Clinic. The Clinic Director is a core member of our clinical faculty who helps lead clinical training in our program.
Director, Psychology Clinic
Provision of clinical training and supervision to clinical
graduate studentsCoordination and administration of day-to-day BHC
operationsFacilitating c...
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September 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Please share far and wide! The Psychology Department at the University of Arizona is recruiting a new Director for our Behavioral Health Clinic. The Clinic Director is a core member of our clinical faculty who helps lead clinical training in our program.
Reposted by David A. Sbarra
I am pleased to announce that our APA accredited Counseling Psychology program at Colorado State University has officially transitioned to an APA accredited Clinical Psychology program, adopting the clinical science training model. psychology.colostate.edu/clinicalscie...
Psychological Clinical Science – Department of Psychology | CSU
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August 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I am pleased to announce that our APA accredited Counseling Psychology program at Colorado State University has officially transitioned to an APA accredited Clinical Psychology program, adopting the clinical science training model. psychology.colostate.edu/clinicalscie...