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Ggplot2, PubMed citation frequency and DSM-IV Axis I disorders by year
Introduction In an earlier post I used ggplot2 to plot publication count by year for different psychotherapy orientations. I’m using an updated version of that R-code in this post to plot publication...
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Does mindfulness aid insight problem solving? New study suggest so
Insight problems These are problems that typically generate an eureka effect (a sudden “aha!” outburst) when they get solved. They often require the testee to think outside the box in order to solve...
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Mindfulness and pain: new research review hints at unique mechanism for pain...
Tweet Introduction Even though the effectiveness of mindfulness to reduce pain has been proven in numerous empirical studies its efficacy still remain unclear. Meaning that the effectiveness of...
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The (Un)disputed Champion of Psychotherapy – Clinical psychologists and their...
Tweet Clinical Psychologists Theoretical Orientations 1960–2010 A recent study by Norcross & Karpiak (2012) looked at survey data from members of APA Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology)....
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Meditation, mindfulness, and executive control: results from a new EEG study
Tweet Introduction It’s not really surprising that meditation might aid in executive control, since the act of meditation is basically an exercise in executive control. Take mindfulness, for example, I...
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Short R script to plot effect sizes (Cohen’s d) and shade overlapping area
Tweet Introduction to effect sizes Many times you read in a study that “x and y were significantly different, p p-values. Effect sizes, in this case, are metrics that represent the amount of...
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Further evidence that mindfulness meditation might bolster creativity
Tweet Image credit Introduction I recently wrote an article about if mindfulness could aid in insight problem solving. The problem with the study, I referenced to in my article, was that it did not...
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More PubMed data mining: looking at top 20 CBT journals
Tweet Introduction Continuing from what I wrote in my article An R Script to Automatically download PubMed Citation Counts By Year of Publication, I’ve now looked at article counts for journals. I did...
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Effect of sample size on the accuracy of Cohen’s d estimates (95 % CI)
Tweet Introduction I’ve been incredibly busy the last month, amongst other things I’ve moved about 400 miles from Umeå, in the north of sweden, to Stockholm. However, I’ve been working a lot with R and...
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Cognitive behavior therapy outperformed psychodynamic therapy on all outcomes...
Tweet Introduction The dodo bird verdict is the long held belief by some researchers and clinicians that all psychological interventions produce the same outcome. The proponents of this theory often...
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