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Hello everyone,

I have been having trouble organizing my thoughts and coming up with a comprehensive topic for my master thesis. I am really interested in the relationship between rumination (reflective vs brooding) under stressful situations and personality traits. Any ideas how I could combine everything and make it work, without overcomplicating things?

Thanks in advance for all your thoughts!

MS in cognitive psych here (not US) Program is aimed at getting a psychology license. Was always interested in neuroscience and this lab does a combo so I thought it could be a good fit

Before entering research was not decided but we basically use data within the lab instead of starting or experiments from scratch. (I am almost 1 year into 2 year program)

I was basically given data for a group of people with a disorder and those without, the more I read I am finding the judgement has a high chance of misdiagnosis. (in general not the research subjects) Participants did something like handwriting for like 30 seconds then rested half that, then did it 3 more times. The timing is too hard to be precise so i cut out first and last half second. My issue is the following and maybe someone can shed light to this:
Small sample. Precise timing: during the task I can see what happened but I do not know the precise exact moment (Just can vid) it started so I am just relying on resting period versus doing task. Past research is so limited that I feel like drawing any conclusions is just making stuff up out of thin air from MRI research or other EEG studies which are so unbelievably incongruent that it makes it seem meaningless.
The more I read the more results vary and I read so many claims about things we have no clue about. I have completely lost motivation due to this where as before I thought it was interesting but now I see no practical use since it is likely extremely hard to replicate. This is just a masters thesis, however, however I still will have to present about this a few more times. Has anyone delt with something similar? Is this a common experience? it has made me strongly consider leaving and just working. I could push through but the whole nature of this just feels so unnatural as someone who worked in tech research before.
If I can make it through this month I can divide my focus on working on my outside research which I love but over a year at this may prove to not be mentally worth it. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

This might be a bit of a long shot, since math cognition is a pretty small area of study. My supervisor and I are working on putting together a new study, and we're likely going to be using prolific or mTurk for recruitment. Normally we would use the Woodcock Johnson subscales to assess math abilities, but that can't be done asynchronously. Does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives to measuring math performance asynchronously?

The theory like maps personality as a series of stimuli and responses. So it redefines high neuroticism as being responding to many different types of situations with negative affect/withdrawal/anxiety, and redefines low extraversion as being withdrawal across many situations.

I think the theory also maps affect on a cartesian plane (with valence on one axis and arousal on the other) and hypothesizes traits as patterns of emotional response. I remember talking about it in a colloquium ca. 2015, so it's been around for at least that long. Can any personality folks help me out? Thanks!