please can you guys provide me a simplified notes for psychological assessment with examples huhu I'm having a hard time studying 😭😭😭😭

I'm currently pursuing MSc in Counselling Psychology from IIPR Bengaluru. Within a month, I need to submit my research proposal (quantitative). Concept note submission is done and my guide asked if I can actually manage to collect data from 100 people (50 officially diagnosed and 50 self identified). I'm trying to look at Masking, Loneliness and Identity distress among Autistic Adults. Do you think that a sample of 100 is manageable?

I also have a few questions and thoughts regarding the ethics. If you are a researcher or a mental health professional, and if you have time to talk to me about ethics, please do comment!

Yo, I hands down love love research and I really love evolutionary psychology, what is a good/feasible/relevant research topic that would be selected in PhD apps in Indian University (like Nimhans). If you ask me to abandon the field due to lack of feasibility and problems with data collection while studying evolutionary problems, I know and I've already abandoned it but I really want to know in general if people have interesting ideas for research.

I am a research mentor, so it'll be fun discussion to try to see limitations and strengths of topics and relevant designs to study them.

Hi everyone! i’m in the second year of my undergrad and volunteering with a charity that teaches underprivileged children after school, providing tutoring. The organisation asked the psych kids to work with a few of the kids and “assess” them over a week so the organisation can better help them. I’ve established a pretty good rapport with the kids over three days and know quite a lot about them. I was wondering if there were any tests i could administer to better understand them. I was also hoping for general ideas on the matter bcs i’m a little lost now. Thank
you!!

Hi everyone! I’m an architecture student, and for my thesis I would like to explore how architecture and public spaces could be improved for people with anxiety, phobia, agoraphobia ...

In your experience, what features of the built environment can cause discomfort or anxiety for these people? What specific changes in architecture or public spaces could help them feel safer and more comfortable?

Any advice, research, or useful resources would be greatly appreciated.

One thing I wanted to get clearer in my marshmallow-test video was what the statistical controls actually tell us.

In Watts et al., the waiting–achievement association shrank by about two thirds after combined background, home-environment and early-skill adjustment in the main subgroup. That subgroup was children whose mothers hadn’t completed college. It wasn’t an income-only adjustment.

There’s a real interpretation question here. Some of those variables could be shared influences on both waiting and later achievement. Early skills could also overlap with the abilities a child uses to manage the waiting task. Accounting for them asks what waiting adds beyond those skills.

The Doebel et al. commentary discusses this issue, and another preregistered analysis of the same cohort reported links with later behavioural outcomes. Different analyses of that cohort shouldn’t be counted as independent replications, btw. The shorter task ceiling also matters when comparing it with the original studies.

I made a 7:26 explanation for The Confound. How would you explain the choice of controls to someone who only knows the popular version of the test?

Sources:

- Watts et al. (2018): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6050075/

- Doebel et al. (2020), methodological commentary: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619839045

- Michaelson & Munakata (2020), same-cohort reanalysis: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619896270

Hi everyone!

I’m an undergraduate student currently working on my thesis which explores the motivations for people to choose AI chatbots as an alternative to traditional psychotherapy.

I am currently looking for 10 participants to take part in an interview for this research.

Who can participate?

- If you are aged 18 or above

- If you have previously attended traditional therapy and have consciously chosen to use an AI chatbot as an alternative.

What you can expect:

A one-on-one interview lasting approximately 45 to 60 minutes (conducted online via Zoom or Google Meets).

All responses will be kept strictly anonymous in the final study and any resulting reports.

The interview will be voice-recorded solely for transcription and analysis, and only with your explicit consent.

If you fit the criteria and are interested in sharing your experiences to help contribute to this research, please send me a direct message (DM) or comment below, and I will follow up with more details.

Thank you so much for your time! :)

Hello, can you fill my questionnaire, happy to swap! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxWf8L7nUu1LOfsZT9OZYVHOOPee9Lawn-bJM7Ws42xAEtww/viewform?usp=header

Hello! I am a psychology undergraduate student in Romania, currently writing my thesis in clinical psychology on how personality disorder traits influence response distortion / dissimulation.

I am considering operationalizing dissimulation either as faking good (social desirability / defensiveness) or faking bad (symptom overreporting). Most studies I found using the PID-5 adopt an experimental simulation design: they administer the instrument under standard instructions and subsequently under a coached/faked scenario (instructing participants to present themselves in an overly favorable light or to deny pathology).

My initial idea was to compare a clinical sample against a non-clinical sample to examine group differences in dissimulation tendencies. However, I have struggled to find empirical studies using this exact between-groups design.

Could you suggest relevant literature or recommend a more feasible methodological approach? Should I stick exclusively to a clinical sample, or is a comparative / dimensional design better suited for an undergraduate thesis?"

I am a beginner and i know a bit of basic psychology

Hello! I'm a high school student creating a teen-friendly neuroscience blog called Teen Brain Explorer.

I'm developing an educational project about sleep and memory. I'd like to explore a short word-recall experiment in which participants complete a memory task and, if appropriate, a follow-up test the next day. I'd hope to analyze anonymous scores and explain the findings and limitations in a blog article.

Would your community allow a student-led project like this to recruit participants? I would be especially interested in whether participation by minors is permitted and what requirements I should meet before posting.

I will follow your community rules and obtain appropriate guidance and permissions before collecting data.

Thank you for your time!

NO AI WAS USED IN RESEARCH

Hi! I’m an undergraduate student currently working on our research, and I’d like to ask for advice regarding our questionnaire.

Our questionnaire has two independent sections that measure different constructs:

Behavior - 5-point Likert scale

(Never-Always)

Perception - 6-point Likert scale

(Strongly Disagree-Strongly Agree)

These are separate constructs, and we are not planning to combine them into one overall score or compare/correlate the two scales. We simply want to analyze and interpret each section separately.

So my question is: is it statistically/methodologically acceptable to have different Likert scales in different sections of the same questionnaire, when the sections measure independent constructs and each section has its own separate computation and interpretation?

Thank you!

Hi! I’m an undergraduate student currently working on our research, and I’d like to ask for advice regarding our questionnaire.

Our questionnaire has two independent sections that measure different constructs:

Behavior - 5-point Likert scale (Never-Always)

Perception - 6-point Likert scale (Strongly Disagree-Strongly Agree)

These are separate constructs, and we are not planning to combine them into one overall score or compare/correlate the two scales. We simply want to analyze and interpret each section separately.

So my question is: is it statistically/methodologically acceptable to have different Likert scales in different sections of the same questionnaire, when the sections measure independent constructs and each section has its own separate computation and interpretation?

Thank you!

Hi everyone! I am Akash a 4th year undergrad psychology student of Central University of Karnataka i am trying to develop a scale related to academic shame. Please take about 10 minutes to fill this form.

https://forms.gle/JNonSY2piELSTZQh7

Who can fill it: Anyone aged 18 or above

Your answers are anonymous and only for academic use.

Thank you so much for your help!

I am starting my thesis work for my masters, and its a very comprehensive study and now the number of items across 4 variables in a parallel mediation study has come upto 79 items. This is mainly because I'm using 2 questionnaires to measure 2 aspects of my DV. Should I modify and reduce my no. of items because I'm looking at atleast 150-200 participants for this.

I’m an undergraduate Psychology student looking for a research topic that I can work on seriously for the next year.

I’m trying to find something that is:

\- Relevant to a real issue

\- Specific and manageable

\- Researchable with existing literature/methods

\- Actually original — not just another overstudied topic with a different population

I’m especially interested in cognitive psychology/neuroscience, biopsychology, consciousness, perception, memory, metacognition, or Indian psychology, but I’m open to other directions.

I’m looking for those undernoticed everyday psychological phenomena or unanswered questions that could lead to a genuinely interesting study.

If you’re a researcher/PhD student/psychology student, how would you go about finding a research question like this? Any direction, resources, or areas worth exploring would really help.

Anyone interested in Heinz Kohut's writings about the dynamic interplay between the narcissistic leader and the strivings of the Group Self to overcome historical narcissistic wounds( blows to self esteem) by attaching to the leader's omnipotence and grandiosity ? They feed off one another, and each donates the emotional blood needed for a symbiosis survival pattern of the participants. Alice Miller, and others in the past have written about this from different analytic perspectives. Any feedback comments, questions welcome, please.

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I’m an undergraduate Psychology student looking for a research topic that I can work on seriously for the next year.

I’m trying to find something that is:

Relevant to a real issue

Specific and manageable

Researchable with existing literature/methods

Actually original — not just another overstudied topic with a different population

I’m especially interested in cognitive psychology/neuroscience, biopsychology, consciousness, perception, memory, metacognition, or Indian psychology, but I’m open to other directions.

I’m looking for those undernoticed everyday psychological phenomena or unanswered questions that could lead to a genuinely interesting study.

If you’re a researcher/PhD student/psychology student, how would you go about finding a research question like this? Any direction, resources, or areas worth exploring would really help.

Hello! I am a doctoral student at National University conducting an IRB-approved research study about the experiences of adults who grew up with a sibling diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. My dissertation focuses on the experiences of the often-overlooked “shadow siblings,” siblings whose childhood and family experiences may have been shaped by having a brother or sister with a chronic illness.

I am especially interested in understanding how these experiences may have influenced:

🧠 Emotional and psychological adjustment
💙 The relationship with their sibling with CF
🌱 Identity and experiences in adulthood

You may be eligible if you:

• Are 18 years of age or older
• Grew up with a sibling diagnosed with cystic fibrosis
• Lived with that sibling for at least two years during childhood

The study involves a confidential 45–60-minute interview about your childhood experiences, sibling relationship, emotional adjustment, and identity development in adulthood.

Participation is voluntary. If you are interested, please email me at a.cardenas6281@student.nu.edu. To protect your privacy, please do not share personal or medical information in the comments.

Please feel free to share this post with someone who may be eligible. Thank you for helping bring attention to the experiences of siblings in families affected by cystic fibrosis.

I'm currently an active-duty service member transitioning out in less than two years, and I'm working through my Bachelor's in Psychology. My ultimate goal is to become a Clinical Psychologist or a Licensed Professional Counselor (via a Master's in Counseling + clinical hours if I decide to bypass the doctorate).

I'm looking to connect with a peer (accountability "gym buddy") or an experienced mentor who shares a high-level growth mindset.

If you're a Peer, I'm looking for someone who:

*

Is actively in school pursuing a Psych/Counseling degree-it doesn't matter if you are just starting out, halfway through, or finishing up your last year, as long as you're in the grind. Bonus points if you are active-duty or a veteran!

* Has an entrepreneurial mindset-someone who wants to spread mental health awareness while building a business, diving into real estate/Airbnb, or writing books.

* Wants to keep each other disciplined, bounce business ideas around, and stay locked in on our goals.

If you're a Mentor, I'm looking for a Counselor or Clinical Psychologist who:

* Can provide insight on navigating the transition from a Bachelor's straight to a Master's/Doctorate.

Can share advice on the reality of doing clinical hours versus running a private practice or independent business.

Whether you want to grind together weekly or you're a professional willing to let me pick your brain, drop a comment or send me a DM!