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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Alexis Whitton: How artificial intelligence-enhanced adaptive trials can accelerate personalised mental health treatment research
DESCRIPTION:Dr Alexis Whitton (UNSW)\nAbstract\nIn the face of escalating rates of depression among young people\, effective and scalable treatments are urgently required. Although a range of different interventions have been found to be effective\, the pivotal question is Which treatments yield the greatest benefit\, and for whom?\nThis talk explores a new approach to answering this question\, describing the potential of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven adaptive trials to deliver more efficient and personalised treatments. Compared to traditional randomised controlled trials\, AI-driven adaptive trials require fewer participants\, reach a conclusion earlier\, and can identify interactions between intervention effects and individual characteristics\, making them a powerful trial design for personalised treatment research.\nThe ’Vibe Up’ trial is the first application of AI-driven adaptive trial methodology in digital psychological therapy research. Over 12 sequential ‘mini-trials’\, >1200 university students with elevated symptoms of depression\, anxiety and stress were allocated to receive one of three digitally-delivered psychological or behavioural therapies – mindfulness\, physical activity\, sleep hygiene – or an ecological momentary assessment control. AI-driven response adaptive randomisation was used to optimise allocation of participants to each trial arm. Over the 12 sequential mini-trials\, an underlying mathematical model learned which intervention was most effective for individuals with different symptom profiles. Results indicated that treatment effects differed significantly between subgroups of individuals\, supporting a personalised treatment approach. Importantly\, treatment effects estimated by the AI model were found to differ from the clinical predictions made by an independent sample of mental health clinicians.\nThis talk will distil key insights gained from the Vibe Up study\, and spotlight the potential of AI-driven adaptive trials in personalising scalable interventions for common mental health conditions.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-alexis-whitton-how-artificial-intelligence-enhanced-adaptive-trials-can-accelerate-personalised-mental-health-treatment-research/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Tim Slade: The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use: an overview and deep dive
DESCRIPTION:Prof Tim Slade (USYD)\nAbstract\nThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use promotes excellence\, innovation and collaboration by bringing together world-leading researchers\, clinicians\, people with lived experience and community to share skills\, synergise data\, harness new technologies and trial innovative programs to prevent and treat mental and substance use disorders. This talk will provide a brief overview of the centre\, it’s major activities and some exciting projects planned and currently underway. I will then focus more specifically on one of our epidemiology projects\, a prospective observational cohort study tracking the young adult outcomes of those supplied alcohol by their parents. Parental supply of alcohol is a relatively common practice in Australia\, believed by some parents to be an effective means of teaching their children to drink responsibly. Contrary to this common belief\, research suggests that parental provision of alcohol to adolescents is associated with elevated risk of subsequent alcohol use severity and problems. What remains unclear is what mechanisms connect parental supply of alcohol to later alcohol-related harms. In a critical step toward identifying prevention targets\, this study used causal mediation analysis\, employing robust methods to minimise risk of bias\, to test potentially causal mediators of the relationship between parental supply of alcohol and subsequent harms among adolescents. The implications of the findings for prevention of alcohol related harms will be discussed.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-tim-slade-the-matilda-centre-for-research-in-mental-health-and-substance-use-an-overview-and-deep-dive/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Rebecca Collie: Motivational Drivers of Social-Emotional Competence
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Rebecca Collie (UNSW)\nAbstract\nDecades of research underscores the significance of student motivation for promoting positive academic outcomes. Now\, growing awareness is emerging regarding the role of motivational drivers in shaping social-emotional outcomes. In this talk\, Associate Professor Rebecca Collie will discuss the role of one motivational driver\, perceived social-emotional competence (perceived-SEC). Perceived-SEC reflects an individual’s sense that they can enact socially and emotionally competent thoughts\, behaviors\, and emotions (Collie\, 2020). Emerging research is demonstrating that perceived-SEC is linked with important social\, emotional\, and academic outcomes. Rebecca will discuss her recent research looking at perceived-SEC among students\, as well as in relation to occupational outcomes among teachers.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-rebecca-collie-motivational-drivers-of-social-emotional-competence/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Professor Sally Andrews Memorial Lecture on Cognitive Psychology: Prof Susan Hespos: Origins of concepts: what infants can tell us about human cognition
DESCRIPTION:Prof Susan Hespos (Western Sydney University)\nAbstract\nHuman cognition is striking in its brilliance and adaptability. To gain an understanding of our species’ extraordinary cognition we investigate the origins and development of these abilities in infants. How do infant’s initial abilities change with experience\, and what conditions foster or impede learning? Answers to these questions shed light not only on infants and children\, but on people in all cultures because these abilities develop early and never go away. I will present data on what preverbal infants understand about objects\, substances (like liquid or sand)\, and the processes they use to compare events. These factors underlie the everyday cognition for people of all ages\, in all societies. By starting with babies\, researchers gain insights into infants themselves and into older children’s prodigious capacities for learning. These insights form the foundation that guide our thoughts and actions as adults. Characterizing these cognitive processes could have a transformative impact on artificial intelligence by enabling machines to ‘learn’ in the same way we do.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-professor-sally-andrews-memorial-lecture-on-cognitive-psychology-prof-susan-hespos-origins-of-concepts-what-infants-can-tell-us-about-human-cognition/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Daniel Bennett: Take the money and run: investigating the decision to ‘cash out’ of a risky bet
DESCRIPTION:Dr Daniel Bennett (Monash University)\nAbstract\nContemporary sports-betting products offer a raft of novel in-play betting features designed to incentivise customer engagement. Among these\, one prominent feature available on most interactive betting platforms is ‘cash out’. The cash-out feature allows customers who have wagered on an event to forgo their stake in the event prior to its conclusion in exchange for a (discounted) early payout. In spite of its ubiquity in the world of sports betting\, it remains unknown how and why bettors use this feature\, as well as whether the mere availability of a cash-out option affects betting behaviour. In this talk I will report the results of several recent experiments using a novel experimental gambling task in which participants were offered the option to cash out of their risky bets. Briefly\, results suggest (a) that the availability of a cash-out option may incentivise participants to place larger wagers\, and (b) that individual differences in use of the cash-out feature are associated with inter-individual differences in self-reported impulsivity in unexpected ways. Although I will focus on the application of these findings to gambling\, they also have bearing on a broader class of financial decisions\, namely those in which the owner of a risky asset must weigh the guaranteed immediate returns of selling the asset against the potential costs and benefits of retaining it into the future.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-daniel-bennett-take-the-money-and-run-investigating-the-decision-to-cash-out-of-a-risky-bet/
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