JOB ALERT 🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Join our NIA-funded collaboration with Northwestern (@ekgraham22.bsky.social) studying social isolation, loneliness, and cognitive aging. Come work with us in beautiful Ithaca! Review of applications begins immediately: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31543
Anthony D. Ong
New paper led by SJ Shao in @commspsychol.nature.com. Across 20 days of EMA (5x daily), momentary loneliness prospectively predicted heightened social threat perception and social withdrawal. Trait loneliness amplified loneliness–rejection coupling and social disengagement @emoriebeck.bsky.social
In #ESM / #EMA, how you ask “How do you feel right now?” shapes your data.
Sliders 🎚️, smileys 🙂, drawing trajectories 📈, or emotion wheels 🎡: they all capture something different.
We break down 5 approaches (and their trade-offs) in a new #m-path blog: m-path.io/blog/high-fi...
Using ecological momentary assessment and multilevel time-series models, we quantify loneliness inertia and its links to perceived social threat and social behavior, identifying dynamic patterns that ...
New paper with Sijing Shao in Emotion on affective inertia—why it’s harder to measure than it looks, and what to do about it. Thanks to Pete Koval for thoughtful comments.
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with @kvanbogart.bsky.social @ekgraham22.bsky.social @emoriebeck.bsky.social Zoe Hawks
In @jamanetworkopen.com: “Social asymmetry" predicts CVD, COPD, and mortality over 13.6 yrs in 7,845 older adults. Those lonelier than expected given their social connections were at greatest risk. w/ Pei Qin, @ekgraham22.bsky.social, @andrewsteptoe.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...