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🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🔬 Clinical Psych PhD student @UVA • @NIMHgov #F31 fellow • @BarnardCollege & @MGHPsychiatry Alum • she/hers

Charlottesville, VA
Joined January 2020
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So excited to chair my first symposium, From Theory to Application: Formal Computational Modeling in Clinical Psychology, at APS 2025 with these amazing researchers! 🥳 @PsychScience @KyraCEvers @EmmaRToner @ShirleyBWang and Don Robinaugh
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Beyond thrilled to have been rewarded an #F31 from #NIMH! My F31 aims to formalize a psychosocial theory of loneliness using agent-based modeling and differential equation modeling. Huge thanks to my mentors, collaborators, family, and friends!
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Beyond grateful to share that I’ll be joining the faculty @MedicineUVA as an Assistant Prof in @cbhtuva this August! I’m excited to bring my focus on emotion reg & digital mental health to help those managing the stress of living with cancer.
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🚨New method alert🚨 link.springer.com/article/10… People switch between using many different emotion regulation strategies over time. But how do we quantify the extent to which people switch between these ER strategies throughout their daily life? A 🧵:
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🚨 New preprint (and my first first-authored paper)! 🚨 Here are some highlights: 🧵
Social anxiety and concordance in emotional responses across levels of evaluative threat zpr.io/sjAP2QTNUtPB
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7/8 Future work should focus on identifying the time scale on which different emotion components operate and using analytical approaches that allow for the modeling of time-dependent relationships among components.
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8/8 Thanks so much to @mlarraz20, @TeagueRHenry, @jkmaccormack, @MehdiBoukhechba, @TeachmanBethany, and Twitterless collaborators Lihua Cai and Laura Barnes!
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1/ Many are fairly asking why there's a push for retracting old conversion therapy research. So here, I did your homework for you. Take a few minutes and buckle up. Here's how old behavioral conversion therapy research still impacts people today:
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There are more states in the US that allow conversion therapy than those that protect LGBTQ youth from it. In 2019, the Williams Institute estimated that almost 700,000 LGBT adults in the US were subjected to conversion therapy. williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e…
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I present Bad Straits: Connecting Isles of Clinical Psychological Science & Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric Below are several articles co-authored by David H. Barlow within the conversion therapy realm. Retraction appropriate? Hey you decide! I'm tired. Link: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Are you interested in early warning signals and tipping points? Then you might enjoy our paper, now published in Psychological Methods @AnToniPichler @cika_arta @ABacilieri Preprint format: psyarxiv.com/5wc28 Journal format: psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-…
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Mental disorders are complex phenomena, and to understand them we need formal theories Now out in Psych Methods we argue why this is the case & show what role empirical data and statistical models play in informing theory psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-… @jonashaslbeck @BorsboomDenny
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Now out in Current Opinion in Psychology: our review of the literature on the causal systems (aka network) approach to Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) and recommendations for future research! Full text available here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1dmPw…
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I'm especially excited about the prospect of studying the psychological experience of prolonged grief within the broader context of our social networks, and hope to continue this work in the future!
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