Nate Phillips
UGA Clinical Psych PhD student. Interested in personality, externalizing behaviors, open science, and methods.
- Happy to share that this has just been accepted over at Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment w/ @vizecolin.bsky.social, Kate Collison, Michael Crowe, @drlynam.bsky.social, & @jdmiller.bsky.social
- UPPS-P Impulsivity, Momentary Affect, and Gambling: An Experience Sampling Method Study: osf.io/sghqb
- Tl/dr: Most estimated effects did not meet our preregistered sig. threshold, except Lack of Premeditation showed a robust, positive association with time spent gambling. Within-person momentary affect variables’ relations with gambling behaviors were weak and varied considerably among participants
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsThe Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsThis paper is now out in print: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... TLDR still holds.
- Newly accepted RR (Stage 2) at Clinical Psychological Science reporting on the state of Open Science Training in clinical psychology programs from @kaelavantil.bksy.social, @nphillips36.bsky.social, @vvveradu.bsky.social, Leigha Rose, @jdmiller.bsky.social, and me. 1/13 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsExcited to share a Registered Report in J. of Personality looking at the “perils of partialing” – led by the Bluesky-less Leigha Rose with @drlynam.bsky.social and me. (1) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsWe just preprinted a huge meta-meta-analysis examining the effects of exercise on cognition, memory, and executive function In short - 2239 effect sizes - extreme between-study heterogeneity - extensive publication bias - some subgroup/exercise-specific effects More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsVery useful table of insufficient examples vs. best-practices for statistical reporting! Will definitely point some of my colleagues to it! 📈
- Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Massive and important undertaking by @andrew-cast.bsky.social, @drlynam.bsky.social, and co in estimating when interaction effects stabilize in linear regression Tldr: Under realistic conditions for psych research, N = 3,800
- Another paper in our effort to get folks to stop routinely testing interactions. This time from the angle of stability. Led by @andrew-cast.bsky.social with help from @vizecolin.bsky.social, @jdmiller.bsky.social, @davidbaranger.bsky.social, and me. Forthcoming in AMPPS. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/8
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsWhen do interaction/moderation effects stabilize in linear regression?: osf.io/35t84
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsExciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology! If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here: Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/... OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Love to see a registered report that reinforces why the registered report is such a valuable tool
- #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MetaScience New study in AMPPS: Clinical psychologists favour statistically significant results. (presumably true in all fields, I'd say. Bias against null findings) journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsInteractions are difficult to detect in field studies as they are typically tiny--very small to start with and made smaller by the joint unreliabilities of the components. Here, we find some but the contribution to explained variance is negligible. Call off the search. It is not worth the effort.
- 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 | "Although interaction effects were detected, they were small and practically negligible in their explanation of variance in externalizing behaviors" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsPretty excited about this one. In this paper, we discuss the replication/credibility crisis, the factors that contribute to it, and clinical psychology's slow (really slow) progress in dealing with it. We offer a competency-based fraemwork for improving our training of future scholars. 1/2
- The Open Science Movement and Clinical Psychology Training: Rigorous Science is Transparent Science: osf.io/s46wd
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsRigorous science is transparent science.
- New paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsNew paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.
- The Open Science Movement and Clinical Psychology Training: Rigorous Science is Transparent Science: osf.io/s46wd
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsJust accepted from @vizecolin.bsky.social and myself. We coded Open Science practices (preregistration, RRs, open data, and open code) from 2021 to 2024 in two personality disorder journals (JPD, PDTRT) and three personality journals *JOP JRP, and EJP). osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/5
- Reposted by Nate Phillips𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 | "Although interaction effects were detected, they were small and practically negligible in their explanation of variance in externalizing behaviors" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsThis imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsEver stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsFor those interested, here is a link to a new power paper: Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods. yifengquant.github.io/Publications...
- Really appreciate the authors’ efforts to differentiate these practices. I’ve definitely seen the term “preregistration” used to describe each of these three (registration, protocol, analysis plan) in isolation of one another, so it’s great to have a framework to address these jingle-jangle issues
- "Preregistration" lumps three distinct practices into one: - Study registration - Protocol - Analysis plans (SAPs) To advance open science, it's critical that we distinguish them. 🌟 🌟 Now in-press paper from Evan Mayo-Wilson, @seangrant.bsky.social, David Moher, me: osf.io/preprints/me...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsWe don't really think one will be able to cleanly divide the personality disorders from Axis I disorders. We argue (following Lilienfeld's writing on psychopathology's distinction from normality) that it is a Roschian construct such that there won't be an easy way to cleave PDs from other disorders.
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsFor another perspective... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37523287/
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsOver 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
- Let us know what you think!
- Question for my open science peeps! @nphillips36.bsky.social and I are working on a lit review where we’re coding whether or not manuscripts have open data. How should we handle cases where authors provide links to big, “open” datasets? In some of these cases, the data are hidden behind so much…
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsQuestion for my open science peeps! @nphillips36.bsky.social and I are working on a lit review where we’re coding whether or not manuscripts have open data. How should we handle cases where authors provide links to big, “open” datasets? In some of these cases, the data are hidden behind so much…
- Reposting for the morning crowd — recs would be appreciated!
- For the quanty folks: Any go-to readings comparing approaches to modeling nonlinearity? Seeing more on splines, fractional polynomials, etc., but struggling to find clear head-to-head comparisons or discussions of tradeoffs.
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsFinal vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
- It's a good time to be an antagonism researcher (because of this issue and for the many other reasons)
- Reposted by Nate Phillips@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer.. Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years. (See Bauer 2007)
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsLooooong past time. Tbh, I can’t believe this needs to be said.
- It is past time to abandon the term “dark” as a descriptor of antagonistic traits. A new viewpoint by @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsA *null* result I'm very proud of! Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout. None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result! Paper: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsThe field has to accept that there is no good science without transparency. Transparency does not guarantee good science but only transparent science can be good (i.e. credible).
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsAs expected, RFK Jr. was lying during his confirmation hearing and now is ratfucking the vaccination system in the US. The vast majority of the public does not want this and yet again it’s clear that the Republican administration does not serve the electorate.
- "No study reached the sufficient sample size to detect a medium effect"
- No meta-analytic effect of tDCS cortical stimulation on aggression (k = 25, power = 33%). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsI can’t think of a presidency that has done more open and undeniable damage to this country, and the wider world, in such a short space of time, than this one. Shocking, despicable:
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsThis should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.
- sorry, link: www.yahoo.com/news/america...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsExcited to see Leigha Rose's thesis in print at CPS. Tested whether psychopathic traits change over 10 years in middle-later life. Little evidence of change across domains. When traits did change, they were correlated with changes in health/functioning. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsCheck out our forthcoming viewpoint article in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science in which we argue that it is well past time to abandon the term 'dark' to describe antagonistic traits. w/ @jdmiller.bsky.social and @drlynam.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsExtremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsCrystal Palace have done it. They have won their first ever major trophy. Oliver Glasner's side beat Manchester City 1-0 in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Selhurst Park's immortals. #FACupFinal
- Reposting this for the morning crowd. Any recs would be very appreciated!
- Question for the hive mind: @courtlandhyatt.bsky.social and I are conducting a scoping review that requires us to download all articles published in multiple academic journals over several years. Anybody know of a way to do this that doesn't require us to individually download each article?
- Question for the hive mind: @courtlandhyatt.bsky.social and I are conducting a scoping review that requires us to download all articles published in multiple academic journals over several years. Anybody know of a way to do this that doesn't require us to individually download each article?
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsWorld leaders in traumatic stress have written this editorial to express concerns about the global impact of what is happening in U.S., how decisions are impacting exposure to and consequences of trauma www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ejpt.bsky.social @istss.bsky.social @estss.bsky.social
- Happy to see this one now online: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Check it out and let us know what you think!
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsPaper now in print: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... tl;dr - undergrads' data are no better nor worse when taking surveys at home rather than in person (data from both contexts require scrutiny).
- ✨In Press at Psych Assessment✨ (w/ @ashghosh22.bsky.social, Leigha Rose, @nphillips36.bsky.social, @drlynam.bsky.social, @jdmiller.bsky.social) osf.io/w95qr/ This one's for the methodology heads... 🧵 [1/5]
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsProud to share this new meta-science article—our analysis of 255 preclinical opioid addiction studies highlights a pressing need for better transparency and reproducibility. Big thanks to Justine Blackwell and @alexh.bsky.social – it was an honor working with you on this project! :)
- Alarming results in our new metascience article. NO cases of study preregistration and NO cases where authors shared their analysis code, across all 255 articles we found using animal models of opioid addiction from 2019-2023 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Nate Phillipswell said, @jdmiller.bsky.social. I find the resistance to transparency the most disturbing and damning thing about our field. I get the feeling that we can have your undisclosed researcher degrees of freedom only when we pry them from your cold dead fingers.
- Really dig this paper and kudos to the authors on a methodologically rigorous, transparent evaluation of a widely used measure of social cognition across nine (!) existing datasets. Well worth checking out
- Great to see this officially published over at PDTRT w/ coauthors Leigha Rose, @drlynam.bsky.social, and @jdmiller.bsky.social! Here's the link for those interested: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
- For those interested in psychopathy and its assessment, our meta-analytic review of the Elemental Psychopathy Assessment's nomological net has been accepted for publication at PDTRT! A big thanks, as always, to my coauthors: Leigha Rose, @drlynam.bsky.social, and @jdmiller.bsky.social
- Here is the working link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsI can't really see any downsides to sharing code -- it's very simple and many concerns that apply to data sharing don't apply at all -- so I really hope we can get that number up all the way, until it's just a no-brainer.
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsNew preprint! Ever heard that personality doesn't change? Do you believe that? (you shouldn't) Using data from an online survey (n = 887) & eight longitudinal datasets (n = 166,971), we compared perceived vs. actual lifespan changes in personality and 20+ individual differences (1/8) osf.io/ytmxp
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsAn important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsNew little one from @nphillips36.bsky.social, Leigha Rose, and @jdmiller.bsky.social and me. I like this paper for three reasons. First, it demonstrates that NAR, PSY, and MACH are each multidimensional and can be understood as configurations of basic FFM traits. 1/3
- Happy to share our little paper now in press at Journal of Personality Assessment. Tl/dr: Psyc, Mach, and Narc are multidimensional constructs best understood as amalgamations of basic traits. If you treat them as unidimensional, you obscure what they represent and lose lots of predictive power
- Pathological personality traits and self-reported managerial leadership. A comparison of the Dirty Dozen and Five-Factor Model - Antagonistic Triad Measure: osf.io/h7jgs_v1/
- This paper demonstrates this empirically across leadership outcomes. Big thanks to my coauthors: Leigha Rose, @drlynam.bsky.social, and @jdmiller.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsMy first blog post! In which I advance the case that if you're like me and believe aggression research can be a net positive for the world, then you should care a lot about making sure aggression research is rigorous and replicable. A few points I didn't make in the post:
- www.israsociety.com/ni-corner-bl... nicely written, @courtlandhyatt.bsky.social!
- Awesome blog post from @courtlandhyatt.bsky.social on the moral imperative of conducting methodologically rigorous research in the study of aggression. Check it out!
- www.israsociety.com/ni-corner-bl... nicely written, @courtlandhyatt.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsThis latest issue of JPCS has so many great papers!
- Excited to see our (@nphillips36.bsky.social, @drlynam.bsky.social) viewpoint on unethical research practices is now published at J. of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39964511/
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsIn this commentary, we contend that p-hacking (undisclosed data practices aimed at achieving statistical significance) and HARKing (presenting post hoc hypotheses as though they were made a priori) are unethical according to APA guidelines. 1/2 Here is a free print version: osf.io/nu3bs
- Excited to see our (@nphillips36.bsky.social, @drlynam.bsky.social) viewpoint on unethical research practices is now published at J. of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39964511/
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsExcited to see our (@nphillips36.bsky.social, @drlynam.bsky.social) viewpoint on unethical research practices is now published at J. of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39964511/
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsEngraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsOne of my favorite recent lab papers. Asks a question I hear folks talk about behind the scenes but had been largely ignored empirically. Favorite part - told my wife about the study once and she said "I thought your lab studied interesting things." lol But, for assessment nerds, this is like candy.
- ✨In Press at Psych Assessment✨ (w/ @ashghosh22.bsky.social, Leigha Rose, @nphillips36.bsky.social, @drlynam.bsky.social, @jdmiller.bsky.social) osf.io/w95qr/ This one's for the methodology heads... 🧵 [1/5]
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsBut folks should still have validity/quality checks. Although the two conditions yield valid data at the same rate, neither yields 100% valid data.
- Reposted by Nate Phillips✨In Press at Psych Assessment✨ (w/ @ashghosh22.bsky.social, Leigha Rose, @nphillips36.bsky.social, @drlynam.bsky.social, @jdmiller.bsky.social) osf.io/w95qr/ This one's for the methodology heads... 🧵 [1/5]
- Really enjoyed reading this paper. Authors provide a very thoughtful explanation of the often-overlooked impact that secondary parameter values have on the power of the focal inferential test when it’s embedded within a complex model Well worth checking out!
- On difficulties with power analysis using complex statistical models @ AMPPS Cole, @abitantegeorge.bsky.social , Kan, Liu, Preacher, & Maxwell. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsShit’s so bad the American Bar Association has made a statement
- Reposted by Nate PhillipsThe good news from this study is that clinical PhD students say they like learning about open science and want more of it. The bad news is many programs are failing to incorporate it in their various teaching streams.
