We randomized 7,505 American adults experiencing depression to one of the 12 SSIs or a control.

Nearly all SSIs boosted agency and hope for improvement immediately (Cohen's ds ≤ 0.37). However, only two significantly reduced depression four weeks later (ds = 0.14 and 0.15).

So awesome — congrats!! 🥳🥳🥳

This makes me so so bloody happy to hear, Tom!!!! 🥳🥳

Also, welcome to Bluesky! It's been a while -- hopefully catch you at a conference or some catch up soon!

But yeah, if you're still using mean bias scores then your goose is cooked (which so much of the prior lit did).

When I get manuscripts to review that still to this day use mean bias scores, my immediate reaction is YIKKKEEESSSSS.

For measuring how attentional processes for emotional information may be biased in psychopathology? Probably not. I prefer a 2x2 free viewing task, though that is more about preferential allocation of attention. Still TONS of room for improvement but the dot-probe task *itself* isn't unreliable

modeled bias scores (a la Vanessa and co's work), and attention bias variability outcomes from the dot-probe tend to have solid reliability. A task similar to the dot-probe by Ben Grafton and co, the dual-probe task, also has good reliability.

Now is the dot-probe task the optimal approach 2/

Hesitant to wade too far into this topic (could go on for days) but it's not the task that has poor reliability per se but traditional mean RT bias scores; the outcome of subtracting two highly correlated variables will always have terrible reliability. Trial-level bias scores, computationally 1/

Hey Anthony, any chance I could get added? On the clinical practice side it’s mostly supervision and training these days but still trying to keep my clinical skills sharp!

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, my friend!

@mcmullarkey.bsky.social Honestly really worth revisiting our ultra brief intensive Tx for anxiety 😤😤😤 The results seemed so promising and I really am curious how far they can go… 👀👀

Hey Vera! Any chance I could get added? Thanks so much for putting this pack together 🙏🏼

Congrats!!! 🎉🎊

Congrats to you both!!! Immensely well-deserved 🎉🎉🎉

Hey Miri, thanks so much for creating this awesome starter pack! 🔥🔥 Any chance I could get added? 🙏🏼 Hope all has been well!