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Hello!
I'm finishing up my dissertation now and am on the US post-doc market in clinical psychology so I'd appreciate any leads.

My interests are reinforcement sensitivity, depression/anxiety, and LGBTQ+ mental health.

Shameless thread of recent accomplishments below:

 First of all, feel free to visit my website at https://t.co/DK3AaqgRJ4 for my CV and online lectures and articles. Here are twitter threads about some of them from this past year
Here's a meta-analysis on bipolar disorder and reinforcement sensitivity theory:
https://t.co/3hjvSNL8qO
Here's a meta-analysis on depression, anxiety, and reinforcement sensitivity theory:
https://t.co/LmVYrCEbXA
Here's a new tool for implicitly measuring personality:
https://t.co/HBrx0W2pFR
Here are two video interviews on my research about depression and anxiety during COVID-19, and about peer review:
https://t.co/Ja69M7uOK1
Here's a thread about a conference on LGBT+ and Orthodox Judaism that I chaired (Hebrew with English subtitles):
https://t.co/rv5LTcYfaV
Here's a clinical lecture I gave on psychotherapy among Orthodox Jewish LGBT+ people:
https://t.co/RhTNBbycL0
Here's an award that I won for my theoretical work in LGBT+ mental health:
https://t.co/E3dfknk2oL
Oh, also I bake and love baking-related puns:
https://t.co/3OCB9M3wJp
https://t.co/ga3U4xyrO6

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