APS
2025 APS Annual Convention
Daring to Discretize: Probabilistic Approaches to Capturing Categorical Psychological Processes to Advance Clinical Action
Measuring and modeling psychological phenomena as discrete components yields novel, clinically actionable insights into how psychological processes unfold over time (e.g., quantifying frequency and duration). In this symposium, we present research that uses probabilistic methods to characterize discrete psychological phenomena (e.g., emotion states, behavioral avoidance).
Chairs & Discussants
- Esther HoweChair
University of California, Berkeley - Claire CusackCoChair
University of Louisville (Kentucky, USA)
Presentations
- Applying Finite Mixture Models and Hidden Markov Models to Examine Associations between Discrete Emotion States and Dichotomous Avoidant Behaviors Claire Cusack, Emmeke Aarts, Aaron Fisher
- Within-Day Dynamics of Posttraumatic Stress SymptomsEsther Howe
- Stress Reactivity during Cognitive Testing: Physiological Evidence for Habituation Deficits in Generalized Anxiety DisorderKelly Dombek, Aaron Fisher
- Establishing Minimally Sufficient Conditions Reduces the Complexity of Symptom Presentations in DSM DisordersAaron Fisher
