When we get far enough into a research area, the limitations of the established methods and measures for newer hypotheses come more clearly into focus. In these moments, it’s exciting for us to contribute new research designs, validate new technologies, and create and test new measures so that we and others can rigorously explore these new ideas.
Southward, M. W., *Kushner, M. L., *Stumpp, N. E., *Cecil, S. E., *Maynard, C. J., *Barnhill, A. K., *Buchenberger, V. J., & Sauer-Zavala, S. (in press). The importance of specifying the time period in repeated measures of personality assessments. Psychological Assessment.
📝 Open code: https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/gznav
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Steppan, M., Zimmermann, R., Fürer, L., Southward, M. W., Koenig, J., Kaess, M., Kleinbub, J. R., Roth, V., & Schmeck, K. (2024). Machine learning facial emotion classifiers in psychotherapy research: A proof-of-concept study. Psychopathology, 57(3), 159–168.
https://doi.org/10.1159/000534811
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🔑 Daniel, K. E., Moulder, R. G., Southward, M. W., Cheavens, J. S., & Boker, S. M. (2024). Stability and spread: Transition metrics that are robust to time interval misspecification. Journal of Behavioral Data Science, 4(1), 19–44.
https://doi.org/10.35566/jbds/daniel
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Nauphal, M., Curreri, A. J., Cardona, N. D., Meyer, E. R., Southward, M. W., & Sauer-Zavala, S. (2023). Measuring emotion regulation skill use during treatment: A promising methodological approach. Assessment, 30(3), 592–605.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211063229
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🔑 *Stumpp, N. E., Southward, M. W., & Sauer-Zavala, S. (2023). Do you see what I see? Researcher-participant agreement on single-item measures of emotion regulation behaviors in borderline personality disorder. Assessment, 30(1), 102–110.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211044216
📝 Open code: https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/xbfap
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Linthicum, K. P., Southward, M. W., & Schleider, J. L. (2022). Open science in clinical psychology. In G. J. G. Asmundson & M. Noel (Eds.), Comprehensive clinical psychology (2nd ed.; pp. 63–76). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818697-8.00165-5
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🔑 Southward, M. W., & Sauer-Zavala, S. (2022). Dimensions of skill use in the Unified Protocol: Exploring unique effects on anxiety and depression. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 90(3), 246–257. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000701
📝 Open code: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cftqs
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Dimensions of Skillfulness & Use Scale (DSUS)
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Unified Protocol Skill Use Scale (UPSUS)
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Southward, M. W., & Linthicum, K. P. (2020, November). Opening the toolbox: Expanding access to clinical psychological science through open science. Panel discussion conducted at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Philadelphia, PA.
📝 Open science resources inspired by the panel: https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/68vms
*Haines, N., Southward, M. W., Cheavens, J. S., Beauchaine, T., & Ahn, W.-Y. (2019). Using computer-vision and machine learning to automate facial coding of positive and negative affect intensity. PLoS ONE, 14(2), Article e0211735.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211735
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