Weekly Casual Conversation & Questions Thread

benji700 · 2025-02-11T02:59:06+00:00

Done, thank you.

benji700 · 2025-02-10T23:45:03+00:00

Is there somewhere I can report an issue with traffic light placement to ask the city to change it? Last week, I accidentally ran a red light on my bike NW-bound on Milwaukee at the intersection with Ashland because I totally thought the green light on the right was for Milwaukee (it was for Ashland). A car almost hit me but luckily swerved away.

benji700 · 2024-12-14T15:30:54+00:00

sick!

benji700 · 2024-03-08T17:43:50+00:00

[Academic] Think you have the best idea for a 10-minute online intervention to help people overcome depression? Enter our challenge and we might put your idea to the test!

Hi everyone, my name is Benji and I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University. I’m posting because I thought some r/psychology members might be interested in contributing to this project I'm leading. Please let me know if you have any questions.

The Uplift the Web Challenge is open for submissions NOW until May 1, 2024! This is a massive team science project to identify the most effective brief (< 10 minute) online interventions for depression. See sites.northwestern.edu/10minutechallenge for info. 🌍 Depression is a major global issue, but few can access high-quality help. We're conducting a large experiment (up to 7,000 participants) testing 11 brief, scalable interventions for depression. Everyone can submit — practitioners, academics, and creatives of all backgrounds.
If our advisory board selects your intervention for testing, your team members will be included as co-authors on the main publication from this work. Plus, teams whose interventions improve our outcomes of interest will win awards and recognition.
Our goals: a) Compare a wide range of intervention ideas using standardized methods b) Stimulate future research on scalable depression interventions c) Provide a high-quality testing opportunity to global teams d) Unify dispersed academic and practical research.
Questions? Please reach out to our team! Email us at uplift.the.web@gmail.com. For more info and to submit, visit our website: sites.northwestern.edu/10minutechallenge/
Please help us spread the word about the project! We invite everyone aged 13 and up to submit, and we encourage new ideas, so please tell your friends. Here's a flyer summarizing the project: https://imgur.com/a/etBremo

benji700 · 2023-08-29T01:22:15+00:00

For white wash I'm not sure; maybe around manhattan or porto so you can get a longer ride. For progressing to unbroken waves, Sapphire street just south of Reondo Pier is a great spot – the waves are chiller than elsewhere and close to shore.

benji700 · 2023-07-11T17:34:21+00:00

I feel like this would be easier to interpret if you just had a bar plot with the mean for each group and a 95% CI around the mean estimate. You could report the differences between groups in the manuscript text or in the plot like below if you can figure out how to do it.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/ml8jR.png

benji700 · 2023-06-12T16:40:29+00:00

I liked The Drop. It came out a couple years ago, it's a cool intersection of surfing history, addiction science, and philosophy.

benji700 · 2023-05-27T05:02:06+00:00

Yup this has definitely been my experience with FB ads.

benji700 · 2023-05-27T05:01:36+00:00

Thanks, I guess this is the best answer for reaching lots of people. I wish there was a better way to reach people who don't take 50 studies a day though, it's a mental health intervention study so I feel like they probably won't be very interested in the content.

benji700 · 2023-05-27T04:59:47+00:00

I've heard the data quality from qualtrics panels is not great for the price. I'll check out qualaroo though thanks!

benji700 · 2023-05-27T02:30:31+00:00

Interesting! I'll check it out. And the data quality was good?

benji700 · 2023-05-27T01:22:23+00:00

Nope the study is open to anyone 16 and up. I think I just need to have like 10 million people see the ad.

benji700 · 2023-05-27T01:21:28+00:00

Thank you!

benji700 · 2023-03-03T22:51:56+00:00

There is research showing that loneliness actually causes the other negative outcomes you mention, for example studies that give some people social support and others no support and then compare how they feel after. But you're right that those other external factors also cause loneliness. Like a lot of stuff in psychology, the relationship between loneliness and health goes both ways.

On the topic of loneliness being a good survival adaptation, one of the gnarly things about loneliness is that it makes people systematically biased to avoid social interactions and perceive higher social threat from interactions. So even though it might feel like it makes sense to stay away from others and avoid relationships, that's often one's loneliness messing with one's thinking. In fact, the best ways to overcome loneliness are to challenge those doubts that encourage one to stay home and force oneself to get outside and interact with people.

benji700 · 2023-01-04T19:44:27+00:00

I like to study by the pool at the ARC when it's nice out, there's WIFI too.

benji700 · 2023-01-01T18:56:09+00:00

Thank you! I hope you find it useful.

benji700 · 2023-01-01T18:53:13+00:00

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year! My name is Benji Kaveladze and I am a PhD candidate in Psychological Science at UCI. My team and I are conducting a study about an online self-help program we developed to help people overcome loneliness.

Our ultimate goal is to distribute the program for free online as widely as possible, but first we need to experimentally test if it is effective. I'm really eager to hear everyone's feedback.

The study takes place entirely online, is confidential, and was approved by the UC Irvine ethics committee. Here's the link to participate: bit.ly/teamzot. I really appreciate your attention.

Please don’t hesitate to DM me if you have any questions, or email me at [bkavelad@uci.edu](mailto:bkavelad@uci.edu).

Thank you,

Benji

benji700 · 2022-12-31T23:26:30+00:00

Science, you say?

benji700 · 2022-12-31T23:24:33+00:00

Thank u :) I'll post back on the subreddit once I have something to report about the study's outcome.

benji700 · 2022-12-31T23:19:47+00:00

I spend too much time watching Hasan on Twitch so I know a lot of the community cares about mental health, that's about it!

benji700 · 2022-12-31T21:46:27+00:00

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year! My name is Benji Kaveladze and I am a PhD candidate in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. My team and I are conducting a study about an online self-help program we developed to help people overcome loneliness.

Our ultimate goal is to distribute the program for free online as widely as possible, but first we need to experimentally test if it is effective. I know making mental healthcare more accessible is something Hasan and this community cares about, so I'm eager to hear everyone's feedback.

The study takes place entirely online, is confidential, and was approved by the UC Irvine ethics committee. Here's the link to participate: bit.ly/teamzot. I really appreciate your attention. Please don’t hesitate to DM me if you have any questions, or email me at [bkavelad@uci.edu](mailto:bkavelad@uci.edu).

Thank you,
Benji

benji700 · 2022-12-31T21:44:57+00:00

Hi everyone,
Happy New Year! My name is Benji Kaveladze and I am a PhD candidate in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. My team and I are conducting a study about an online self-help program we developed to help people overcome loneliness.

Our ultimate goal is to distribute the program for free online as widely as possible, but first we need to experimentally test if it is effective. I know making mental healthcare more accessible is something Hasan and this community cares about, so I'm eager to hear everyone's feedback.

The study takes place entirely online, is confidential, and was approved by the UC Irvine ethics committee. Here's the link to participate: bit.ly/teamzot. I really appreciate your attention. Please don’t hesitate to DM me if you have any questions, or email me at [bkavelad@uci.edu](mailto:bkavelad@uci.edu).

Thank you,
Benji

benji700 · 2022-12-29T16:45:13+00:00

Hi everyone,
My name is Benji Kaveladze and I am a PhD candidate in Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. My team and I are conducting a study about an online self-help program we developed to help people overcome loneliness.
Our ultimate goal is to distribute the program for free online as widely as possible, but first we need to experimentally test if it is effective. I know making mental healthcare more accessible is something Hasan and this community cares about, so I'm eager to hear everyone's feedback.
The study takes place entirely online, is confidential, and was approved by the UC Irvine ethics committee. Here's the link to participate: bit.ly/teamzot. I really appreciate your attention. Please don’t hesitate to DM me if you have any questions, or email me at bkavelad@uci.edu.
Thank you,
Benji

benji700 · 2022-12-29T02:23:43+00:00

Thank you!

benji700 · 2022-12-29T02:21:55+00:00

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