Postdoc @Yale incoming AP @HarvardPsy | context, flexibility, affective psychopathology and resilience to stress/trauma
Mark Shuquan Chen
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The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf
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Across daily diary and EMA designs, we used the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity index to directly assess ER–context covariation. Contrary to the assumption that variability is good, switching strategies predicted higher distress and psychopathology when the context was stable.
Most research on emotion regulation (ER) flexibility doesn't directly measure context. It just assumes that variability in ER strategies reflects flexibility. But is that actually true?
Huge thanks to Prof. Jutta Joormann and collaborators! I am grateful to the three reviewers who have offered very constructive feedback that has improved the manuscript!
Dylan Gee, PhD
📢 New Publication Alert at JoPaCS! Many studies use variability as a proxy for flexibility across domains. Using emotion regulation as an example, we show that variability decoupled from context can be harmful volatility. Variability ≠ Flexibility. 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
Excited to share that I’ll be starting my PhD in Clinical Psychology at @umassamherst.bsky.social, joining @katieleedg.bsky.social's lab! Grateful for the support from all my mentors. Also thrilled to announce that I was nominated for and have been awarded the Spaulding Smith Fellowship!
Mark Shuquan Chen
So, if you're at #APSBCN (this the right hashtag?), come through on Friday for a great set of talks from ECRs on different ways of integrating social contexts within Psychopathology research.
Talks from @shayanasadi.bsky.social @markschen.bsky.social @awiglesworth.bsky.social and Teresa Vargas!
It was such a joy to present alongside these folks at APS! I am beyond impressed by the work my early career peers are producing. 🤩 See below for a very brief sneak peak of my talk!
This has broader implications beyond ER for how we study flexibility in behavior, cognition, and physiology. Using variability as a stand-in for flexibility can be misleading if context isn't modeled simultaneously. Context is the 🔑
