In recent years, network analysis has been applied to identify and analyse patterns of
statistical association in multivariate psychological data. In these approaches, network …

Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of global disease burden, but there has
been limited progress in understanding the causes of and treatments for these disorders. In …

Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

Meehl argued in 1978 that theories in psychology come and go, with little cumulative
progress. We believe that this assessment still holds, as also evidenced by increasingly …

For almost half a century, Paul Meehl educated psychologists about how the mindless use of
null-hypothesis significance tests made research on theories in the social sciences basically …

Statistical network models describing multivariate dependency structures in psychological
data have gained increasing popularity. Such comparably novel statistical techniques …

How to model cross-lagged relations in panel data continues to be a source of disagreement
in psychological research. While the cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) was the modeling …

The applied social science literature using factor and network models continues to grow
rapidly. Most work reads like an exercise in model fitting, and falls short of theory building …

Mental disorder classification provides a definitional framework that underlies applied
clinical and research efforts to understand, assess, predict, prevent and ameliorate the …

It is common practice in correlational or quasiexperimental studies to use statistical control to
remove confounding effects from a regression coefficient. Controlling for relevant …