Program: Methodology

Methodology Flash Talks
Flash Talk
Thursday May 25, 2023
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Speakers: Christopher Fisher, Sylvia Kauer, Joye Swan, Janet Trammell, Kelsie Forbush, Yiyang Chen, Trevor Swanson, Cynthia Siew, Kelsey Hagan, Danielle Chapa, Jenna Tregarthen, Jennifer Wildes, Kara Christensen, Lijuan Wang, Zhiyong Zhang, Lingbo Tong, Carl Falk, Joshua Starr, Richard Davidson, Raquel Tatar, Tammi Kral

Innovations in Improving the Validity of Ecological Momentary Assessment
Symposium
Friday May 26, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:50 AMEcological Momentary Assessment (EMA) is on the rise in many areas in psychology. Current measurement practices are best described as a “free-for-all”. The validity of measurement is largely unexplored, threatening inferences of many findings. In this symposium, we tackle the topic of EMA validation from theoretical, statistical, and empirical perspectives.
Speakers: Eiko Fried, Dominique Maciejewski, Madelyn Frumkin, Alberto Jover Martinez, Björn Siepe, Tak Tsun Lo

Network Psychometrics: New Advances of Exploratory Graph Analysis and Related Methods
Symposium
Friday May 26, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:50 AMThis symposium focuses on developments and advances in Exploratory Graph Analysis and related techniques, all part of the new Network Psychometrics field. The presentations will show new fit indices for hierarchical/bifactor structures, new methods to detect redundant items, new measurement invariance techniques, and the new Bayesian Exploratory Graph Analysis method.
Speakers: Hudson Golino, Dingjing Shi, Alexander Christensen, Laura Jamison

Embracing Complexity in Psychological Science
Symposium
Friday May 26, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:50 AMPeople are complicated. Luckily for psychology, there are whole suites of methodological tools tailored to the study of complex phenomena already developed and applied in other fields. Here, four scientists with diverse topical expertise showcase how they have successfully applied these tools to their own cutting-edge work in psychological science.
Speakers: Matthew Vanaman, Don Robinaugh, Elizabeth Page-Gould, Jiin Jung

Leveraging Technology in Predictive Modeling: Promises and Challenges
Symposium
Friday May 26, 2023
2:30 PM - 3:50 PMAs technology has exploded over the past several decades, densely sampled and multimodal data have become increasingly common in psychological research. In this symposium, we will discuss new opportunities for prediction of clinically meaningful outcomes using densely sampled data, as well as future directions for this area of research.
Speakers: Madelyn Frumkin, Zoë Hawks, Nicholas Jacobson, Emorie Beck, Laneé Jung, Luciana Fonseca, Elizabeth Grinspoon, Irene Xu, Roger Strong, Shifali Singh, Naomi Chaytor, Laura Germine, Ruben Van Genugten, Daniel Schacter, Jacob Greenberg, Ziqi Xu, Jingwen Zhang, Justin Zhang, Saad Javeed, Chenyang Lu, Wilson Ray, Thomas Rodebaugh, Zoe Hawks, Stacey Scott, Daniel Mroczek, Eileen Graham

Linguistic Patterns of Social Biases Spanning Conversations, Social Media, Healthcare, and History
Symposium
Friday May 26, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:20 PMNatural language processing (NLP) provides a window into how biases about social groups manifest in real-world settings. Speakers will present work using NLP tools to identify biases in (1) conversations, (2) social media communities, (3) healthcare, (and (4) historical texts, yielding methodological, empirical, and theoretical insights into consequential social phenomena.
Speakers: Tessa Charlesworth, Michael Yeomans, David Markowitz, Ashwini Ashokkumar

Putting the Advances in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS): The Latest of the Greatest
Invited Symposium
Saturday May 27, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Speakers: David Sbarra

New Developments in Ecological Momentary Assessment
Invited Symposium
Saturday May 27, 2023
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM

Within and Between Live!
Invited Symposium
Saturday May 27, 2023
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
Speakers: Sara Hart, Jessica Logan

Minding Your Measurement: Practical Measurement in Psychology
Invited Symposium
Saturday May 27, 2023
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Understanding Causal Mediation Analysis
Invited Symposium
Saturday May 27, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

New Methods for Analysis of Nonlinear Systems from Intensive Longitudinal Data
Symposium
Sunday May 28, 2023
9:00 AM - 10:20 AMTheories of psychological systems often acknowledge nonlinearity by arguing from first principles. Data from intensive longitudinal designs using smart devices are now available. Four new methods for estimating and testing nonlinear dynamical systems from time series data will be presented and discussed using psychological examples.
Speakers: Steven Boker, Katharine Daniel, Kyle Husmann, Robert Moulder, Elena Martynova

Measurement Considerations in Psychological Research
Symposium
Sunday May 28, 2023
9:00 AM - 10:20 AMThis symposium comprises four talks highlighting measurement decisions that researchers are tasked with when conducting psychological studies. These talks address issues of: response format selection, reliability calculation, choice of measurement model, and the role of measurement in replication research. Presenters will explain the measurement challenges and offer solutions.
Speakers: Brooke Magnus, Jessica Flake, Xijuan (Cathy) Zhang, Oscar Olvera Astivia

Integrating Methods and Tools for Intensive Longitudinal Data across Areas of Psychology
Symposium
Sunday May 28, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:50 AMMany areas of psychology have worked to overcome the challenges associated with collecting and leveraging intensive longitudinal data (ILD). However, these advances are often siloed within subdisciplines. This symposium seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and the cross-pollination of ILD methods by bringing together researchers from different areas.
Speakers: Jeffrey Girard, Eiko Fried, William Woods, Christina Ralph-Nearman

Methodological Advances in the Evaluation of the Effects of Physical Punishment and Alternative Disciplinary Tactics
Symposium
Sunday May 28, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:50 AMThree statistical methods (regression-based meta-analysis, change-score meta-analysis, regression controlling for five previous outcome scores) yielded trivial (if any) effects of spanking on multiple child outcomes. Of five disciplinary responses evaluated, open-handed spanking was the best predictor of reductions in aggression. Positive tactics were the best predictors of increased social competence.
Speakers: Robert Larzelere, Marjorie Gunnoe, Christopher Ferguson, Joshua Pritsker