@NigelJaffe

Clinical psych PhD student at Penn State. NSF GRFP fellow. McLean Hospital TEDY Lab. Psychotherapy, personality, emotion

 Boston, MA
Joined June 2021
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Congrats to lab member @hadarfisher and her new paper showing that emotion rigidity (assessed via EMA) in youth predicts future depressive symptoms over a 2 year follow-up.
hadar fisher@hadarfisher17 Jul 2025
🚨New paper on emotion rigidity as a risk factor for future depression now out in BRAT! Thanks to @ChrisWebbPhD, @DiegoPizzagalli, and the awesome Tedylab team, @NigelJaffe , KristinaPidvirny, and @AnnaTierney8 for wonderful teamwork! 🙌 Free50d access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRqe…
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🚨New paper on emotion rigidity as a risk factor for future depression now out in BRAT! Thanks to @ChrisWebbPhD, @DiegoPizzagalli, and the awesome Tedylab team, @NigelJaffe , KristinaPidvirny, and @AnnaTierney8 for wonderful teamwork! 🙌 Free50d access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRqe…
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🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @JAMANetworkOpen on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology. w/ @hadarfisher and linked to excellent paper by @WhitneyRingwald @aidangcw & team. Link -> tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e
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Check out our thoughts on the growing use of passive sensing for digital phenotyping. In this commentary, we reflect on excellent work by @WhitneyRingwald et al., who use a large, clinically heterogeneous sample to examine assoc. bw passive sensing and domains of psychopathology.
Christian Webb@ChrisWebbPhD3 Jul 2025
🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @JAMANetworkOpen on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology. w/ @hadarfisher and linked to excellent paper by @WhitneyRingwald @aidangcw & team. Link -> tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e
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Very excited about this preprint, and grateful to our team!
hadar fisher@hadarfisher13 Jun 2025
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Can we track therapeutic change outside the clinic? In a new preprint, we explored whether digital tools - smartphone sensors📱 and LLM (GPT-4o) 🤖- can track daily-life activation in adolescents receiving Behavioral Activation (BA) therapy for anhedonia.
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New paper out from the lab led by @hadarfisher and @NigelJaffe using smartphone sensors tracking activity levels and LLMs applied to teen text data to track activity levels in behavioral activation
hadar fisher@hadarfisher13 Jun 2025
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Can we track therapeutic change outside the clinic? In a new preprint, we explored whether digital tools - smartphone sensors📱 and LLM (GPT-4o) 🤖- can track daily-life activation in adolescents receiving Behavioral Activation (BA) therapy for anhedonia.
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This means we can use digital tools to provide therapists with objective, real-time measures of therapeutic progress, potentially personalizing treatments and improving outcome.
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·       ⏰ While LLM ratings predicted immediate daily emotional changes (more positive, less negative affect), passive sensors (places visited (↑), time at home(↓))predicted weekly improvements in depression and anhedonia.
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✅ Both LLM-derived activation and passive sensing features (places visited ↑, time at home ↓) correlated significantly with self-reported activation—supporting their convergent validity.
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📢New paper out today. We collected continuous passive smartphone and wrist-worn actigraphy data for 1-year in individuals w/ serious mental illness to try to predict their negative emotional states w/ @JustinBakerMD, Boyu Ren and team 1/n nature.com/articles/s41398-0…

Personalized prediction of negative affect in individuals with serious mental illness followed...

Translational Psychiatry - Personalized prediction of negative affect in individuals with serious mental illness followed using long-term multimodal mobile phenotyping

nature.com
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I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
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I recently co-authored an article examining the local impacts of cuts to health research funding in Western MA. This research not only supports critical advancements for public health but also drives millions in economic activity across the region. theshoestring.org/2025/05/09…

Attacks on health research could cost local economy millions

Trump’s cuts to science funding would have big impacts for researchers, patients, and public health, too.

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Are you a person of color interested in using a mindfulness app to improve your mental wellbeing? You can earn up to $140 for participating in this study. Help us make these apps better for people like you! Eligibility: redcap.link/gjmdtwjc Please participate and share 🤓
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1/7 Excited to share our new study "Using Natural Language Processing to Track Negative Emotions in the Daily Lives of Adolescents"! researchsquare.com/article/r…. We combine NLP and machine learning to monitor moment-to-moment mood changes in teens from their daily text.

Using Natural Language Processing to Track Negative Emotions in the Daily Lives of Adolescents

Tracking emotion fluctuations in adolescents’ daily lives is essential for understanding mood dynamics and identifying early markers of affective disorders. This study examines the potential of...

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Thrilled to share that our symposium- "What do you mean, what do I mean? Revisiting specification across research stages"- was accepted to @PsychScience 2025! 🥳 @ukeleily @Noah_van_Dongen @BUamplab @JnfrLTackett #APS25DC
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Simon M. Li@SimonMLsml14 Feb 2025
Thrilled to co-chair a symposium with @YutongZhu_1999 on Emotion Regulation in Context: Variability, Goals, and Strategies across Temporal, Situational, and Cultural Dimensions at @PsychScience, with Tabea Springstein, @SophiaCapellini, Audrey Hey, and discussant Casey Brown!!
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Yeahhh! Join us for great discussions on contextualizing emotion regulation @PsychScience! #APS25DC
Simon M. Li@SimonMLsml14 Feb 2025
Thrilled to co-chair a symposium with @YutongZhu_1999 on Emotion Regulation in Context: Variability, Goals, and Strategies across Temporal, Situational, and Cultural Dimensions at @PsychScience, with Tabea Springstein, @SophiaCapellini, Audrey Hey, and discussant Casey Brown!!
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Happy #TraineeTuesday !! For our first #TraineeTuesday we would like to highlight the work of @_gabsilagan. Gabs is a 4th-year graduate student in clinical psychology at Fordham University. Her program of research focuses on short- and long-term changes in personality-related
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Thrilled to partner with the @ABCTStudentSIG for the third annual student research symposium in May! Who’s planning to submit? We can’t wait to learn about your work!☺️
ABCT Student Special Interest Group@ABCTStudentSIG25 Jan 2025
🚨 CALLING ALL UNDERGRADUATE, POST-BACC, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS! The ABCT Student SIG is excited to announce that we are now ACCEPTING PROPOSALS for our third annual Student Research Symposium! Check out the thread below for more info on this FREE & VIRTUAL event!
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🚨 CALLING ALL UNDERGRADUATE, POST-BACC, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS! The ABCT Student SIG is excited to announce that we are now ACCEPTING PROPOSALS for our third annual Student Research Symposium! Check out the thread below for more info on this FREE & VIRTUAL event!
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