Publications

Mirea, D.-M., Hull, D.T., Nook, E.C. (in prep). Linguistic synchrony between clients and their therapists predicts alliance and treatment outcomes in large-scale digital psychotherapy.

Mirea, D.-M., Shin, Y.S., DuBrow, S., Niv, Y. (in prep). Individual differences in latent-cause inference map onto transdiagnostic dimensions of mental health.

Mirea, D.-M., Mildner, J.N., Kelley, S.W., Gillan, C.M., Nook, E.C.*, Niv, Y.* (submitted). Depression is associated with higher sensitivity to social media rewards. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4ynbc.

Mirea, D.-M., Chandrasekhar, D., Niv., Y. (submitted). Stage 1 Registered Report: Social media reward sensitivity as a risk factor for depression. As part of the Instagram Data Access Pilot for Wellbeing Research organized by the Center for Open Science and Meta.

Coles, N.A., Perz, B., Behnke, M., Eichstaedt, J. C., …, Berwian, I. M., Chiu, J. C., Mirea, D.-M., Nook, E. C., Vartiainen, H. I., Whiting, C., et al. (submitted). Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model the physiological basis of affective experience. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/j9gbx.

Mirea, D.-M., Nook, E.C., Niv, Y. (2025). Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.07.009

Rathje, S.*, Mirea, D.-M.*, Sucholutsky, I., Marjieh, R., Robertson, C., Van Bavel, J.J. (2024). GPT is an effective tool for multilingual psychological text analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (34), e2308950121.

Mirea, D.-M.*, Shin, Y.S.*, Dubrow, S., Niv, Y. (2024). The ubiquity of time in latent-cause inference. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 (11): 2442–2454.

Mirea, D.-M., Martin-Key, N.A., Barton-Owen, G., Olmert, T. et al. (2021). The impact of an online psychiatric assessment on the mental health and wellbeing of participants presenting with depressive symptoms: longitudinal observational study. JMIR Mental Health, 8(2), e23813.

Martin-Key, N.A., Mirea, D.-M., Olmert, T., Cooper, J.D. et al. (2021). Towards an extended definition of major depressive disorder symptomatology: digital assessment and cross-validation study. JMIR Formative Research, 5(10):e27908.

Tomasik, J., Han, S.Y.S., Barton-Owen, G., Mirea, D.-M., Martin-Key, N.A., et al. (2021). A machine learning algorithm to differentiate bipolar disorder from major depressive disorder using an online mental health questionnaire and blood biomarker data. Translational Psychiatry, 11(1), 1-12.

Queiroz, R.M.L.*, Smith, T.*, Villanueva, E.*, Marti-Solano, M., Monti, M., Pizzinga, M., Mirea, D.-M., et al. (2019). Comprehensive identification of RNA–protein interactions in any organism using orthogonal organic phase separation (OOPS). Nature Biotechnology 37(2), 169-178.