Choosing prediction over explanation in psychology: Lessons from machine learning

T Yarkoni, J Westfall - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychology has historically been concerned, first and foremost, with explaining the causal
mechanisms that give rise to behavior. Randomized, tightly controlled experiments are …

Anxiety and resilience in the face of natural disasters associated with climate change: A review and methodological critique

S Chen, R Bagrodia, CC Pfeffer, L Meli… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, climate change-related natural disasters, such as hurricanes,
floods, and droughts have become increasingly frequent and severe, impacting the …

Extending the minority stress model to understand mental health problems experienced by the autistic population

M Botha, DM Frost - Society and mental health, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Research into autism and mental health has traditionally associated poor mental health and
autism as inevitably linked. Other possible explanations for mental health problems among …

Lung adenocarcinoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma cancer classification, biomarker identification, and gene expression analysis using overlap** feature …

JW Chen, J Dhahbi - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Lung cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world. Two of the most common subtypes,
lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), have drastically …

The impact of social distancing during COVID-19: A conditional process model of negative emotions, alienation, affective disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder

Y Zhu, L Zhang, X Zhou, C Li, D Yang - Journal of affective disorders, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The social distancing during COVID-19 is likely to cause a feeling of alienation,
which may pose a threat to the public's mental health. Our research aims to examine the …

[PDF][PDF] Risk prediction models for post‐operative mortality in patients with cirrhosis

N Mahmud, Z Fricker, RA Hubbard, GN Ioannou… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims Patients with cirrhosis are at increased risk of postoperative mortality.
Currently available tools to predict postoperative risk are suboptimally calibrated and do not …

Identifying predictors of university students' wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic—a data-driven approach

C Liu, M McCabe, A Dawson, C Cyrzon… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed risks to public mental health worldwide.
University students, who are already recognised as a vulnerable population, are at elevated …

Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries

F Azevedo, T Pavlović, GG Rêgo, FC Ay, B Gjoneska… - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic
and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health …

Back to the basics: Rethinking partial correlation network methodology

DR Williams, P Rast - British Journal of Mathematical and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Gaussian graphical model (GGM) is an increasingly popular technique used in
psychology to characterize relationships among observed variables. These relationships are …

Cross-validation: A method every psychologist should know

M De Rooij, W Weeda - Advances in Methods and Practices …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Cross-validation is a statistical procedure that every psychologist should know. Most are
possibly familiar with the procedure in a global way but have not used it for the analysis of …