Psychological Research Methods
Department of Psychology
University of Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 525 6870 (secretary)
Email Jolanda Kossakowski
Academic webpage Jolanda Kossakowski
Supervisors
Prof. Han L. J. Van der Maas & Dr Lourens J. Waldorp
Project
The PsychoGraph: Developing a Seismograph for Psychology
What if we can predict the onset of psychopathologies, like a seismograph predicting upcoming earthquakes? The purpose of this project is to develop a system that assesses the risk of the onset of MDE and gives guidelines to prevent it. The proposed project is founded on three pillars. The first subproject involves estimating dynamic networks in combination with a stochastic process on that network. The focus of the second subproject is to determine those essential parts of a network’s dynamics for phase transitions: we look for network parameters that drive an entire network’s behaviour. Lastly, subproject 3 focuses on developing a method that lets us control individual nodes and edges in the network, with control meaning that we can drive a network into a desired state within finite time.
Financed by
UvA & Yield
Period
1 October 2015 – 15 May 2020