Amanda Ferguson

Clinical Psychologist and Researcher @mrccbu @cambridge_uni || Research Fellow @DarwinCollege || studying emotions, mental health, and tech || she/her 🌈

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFerg00]

🚨New preprint with coauthors @__GeorgiaTurner and @OrbenAmy. In this very brief piece, we present our framework for understanding social uncertainty in online social environments (like social media). Here are the main points. [1/5] https://t.co/r8uAvc04mP

[Katy Tam @KatyYYTam]

Now online! https://t.co/8nX1CtCiAF

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFerg00]

Come join our team!! Many opportunities available at the moment 👏

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFerg00]

@GDepow Late to the party here - but I’m sure you rocked it!

[Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht]

🚨🚨 New preprint🚨🚨

The Kindness Machine: AI Outperforms Expert Humans in Expressing Compassion

Led by the Twitterless (X-less?) Dariya Ovsyannikova, a superb undergraduate in my lab, and @vicoldemburgo

https://t.co/7CeTQPrRKw

[Camilla Nord @camillalnord]

In the past couple years my lab has gone down a rather wild new road of metabolic computational psychiatry...

We wondered: what if one of the reasons metabolic and mental health disorders go hand-in-hand is because they share common neurocognitive signatures?

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFerg00]

@thepsychologist @RuthBPauli @SCAN_Lab @IntiBrazil @TobiasUHauser This link is broken for me - I'm wondering if you have another way to access this paper? It sounds really interesting!

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFerg00]

🚨Join our amazing team! Great opportunity for someone who is quantitatively inclined and interested in mental health research.

[Nat Wilson @wilsnat]

I’m hearing folks say liquor privatization won’t matter because businesses pay taxes on sales.

Unfortunately that’s not true. LCBO generates revenue-not just tax proceeds-that make up that $2.5B. Loblaws isn’t going to hand over their profit to fund healthcare and education.

[Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht]

🚨🚨New preprint alert🚨🚨

The Fable of State Self-Control

With Brent Roberts @BrentWRoberts

https://t.co/gBvgWVshP8 /1

[Hot Docs Cinema @HotDocsCinema]

Tomorrow (June 20), don't miss the Author Talks event with neuroscientist Dr. @NormanFarb and clinical psychologist Dr. @ZindelSegal to celebrate the release of their book Better in Every Sense!

🎟️ Get your tickets now: https://t.co/DcUc0J6TIW

[Katy Tam @KatyYYTam]

Now in press at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

With @minzlicht , we found that people fast-forward and switch between videos to avoid boredom, but paradoxically, this makes them more bored.

https://t.co/aXYTqSngH4

[Amira Skeggs @AmiraSkeggs]

🚨New preprint with co-author @OrbenAmy. In this paper, we introduce a framework for social media interventions and explore their potential to improve wellbeing (particularly for adolescent users). https://t.co/rue1LvX1QY

[NormanFarb @NormanFarb]

Thrilled to chat with @SharonSalzberg on her podcast with @zindelsegal about the role of #senseforaging in contemplative practice.
I am grateful for the discussion on the distinction between intention and outcome as we delve into our senses. Check it out!
https://t.co/725303Xfnt

[Zindel Segal @zindelsegal]

Thanks @danbharris for venturing into the sensorium with me and @NormanFarb on https://t.co/DqwIWcozYZ. Appreciated your realism about the effort behind maintaining a meditation practice and openness to novel access points such as sense foraging.

[Amira Skeggs @AmiraSkeggs]

Currently recruiting! Do you know any 16-20 year olds who want to take part in social media research? We are looking for 10 adolescents to join our paid advisory panel in June! @mrccbu

[Georgia Turner @__GeorgiaTurner]

📳Get paid to participate in our research about smartphone use! 📳
Please share with anyone you know aged 18-22 who might be interested, and email [email protected] if you have any questions :)

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFerg00]

Very excited for this one. Led by the brilliant @__GeorgiaTurner, we use a reinforcement learning framework to shed light on how we build - or fail to build - social connections in the digital age.

[Georgia Turner @__GeorgiaTurner]

🚨New preprint!🚨 in this Review we explore how the computational framework of Reinforcement Learning can help us understand social media use and its wellbeing outcomes, and even inform mental health interventions:
https://t.co/KV75iBIdqL

[Georgia Turner @__GeorgiaTurner]

We are looking to commission a paid illustrator/graphic designer who can help us make academic diagrams/figures look amazing, we would be grateful for any recommendations!

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFerg00]

@GDepow @YorkUniversity @UofT Congrats Greg!! 🙌👏🤩