Postdoc – Center for Urban Mental health, Amsterdam UMC and UvA
Hey, I’m a postdoc at the Urban Mental Health, Amsterdam UMC and UvA. I did my PhD at the psychological methods group, UvA, where I worked in the Theory Methods Lab and the Center for Urban Mental Health. Before that, I was to have received a multitude of perspectives through my three educations: philosophy (BA), cognitive science (BA), and psychology (Research MA).
My primary interest are applying quantitative methods (complexity science and data science) to study how cities shape well-being. I try to keep up with developments in quantitative methods and peer-review, and am active in the complexity community where I help organise the Winter Workshop on Complexity Science and the Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate change.
Feel free to contact me through mail: adam.finnemann [at] gmail [dot] com
Finnemann, A., Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., & van der Maas, H. L. (2021). The theoretical and statistical Ising model: A practical guide in R. Psych, 3(4), 593–617.
Finnemann, A., Huth, K., Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., & van der Maas, H. (2024). The urban desirability paradox: UK urban–rural differences in well-being, social satisfaction, and economic satisfaction. Science Advances, 10(29), eadn1636.
Finnemann, A., van den Ende, M. W. J., Huth, K., & Sloot, P. M. A. (2022). No robust relation between larger cities and depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(2), e2118943118.
Finnemann, A., Borsboom, D., Waldorp, L., Marsman, M., & van der Maas, H. (2024). A theory construction methodology for network theories in psychology. OSF Preprint.
Finnemann, A., Freichel, R., van der Maas, H., Borsboom, D., & Wiers, R. (2026). Accumulation of psychological problems in UK cities: A quantile regression approach. Cities, 170, 106630.
Finnemann, A., Skjerdingstad, N., Speyer, L. G., Zavlis, O., Bartoš, F., Wiers, R., … (2025). Urban–rural differences in anxiety and depression in the UK, New Zealand, and Norway. Journal of Affective Disorders, 119601.
van Dongen, N., van Bork, R., Finnemann, A., Haslbeck, J., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Borsboom, D. (2024). Productive explanation: A framework for evaluating explanations in psychological science. Psychological Review.
Koelen, J. A., Mansueto, A. C., Finnemann, A., de Koning, L., van der Heijde, C. M., Vonk, P., … (2022). COVID-19 and mental health among at-risk university students: A prospective study into risk and protective factors. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 31(1), e1901.
Bartoš, F., Sarafoglou, A., Godmann, H. R., Sahrani, A., Klein Leunk, D., Gui, P. Y., Finnemann, A., … (2025). Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips. Journal of the American Statistical Association.
van Dongen, N., Finnemann, A., de Ron, J., Tiokhin, L., Wang, S. B., … (2022). Many modelers. PsyArXiv.
Hoekstra, R. H., Epskamp, S., Finnemann, A. T., & Borsboom, D. (2023). Unlocking the potential of simulation studies in network psychometrics: A tutorial. PsyArXiv.
Wiers, R. W., Urban Mental Health Researchers, Bozhar, H., Bruining, H., Finnemann, A., … (2025). Debate: Urban versus rural environments – which is better for mental health? The one good thing about a small town… Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 30(2), 189–191.
van Dongen, N., Finnemann, A., de Ron, J., Tiokhin, L., Wang, S., … (2025). Practicing theory building in a many modelers hackathon: A proof of concept. Meta-Psychology, 9.
Is Academic Acceleration Leaving Peer Review in the Dust?
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Generalised additive models and geom_smooth()
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Prevalence of LLM use in science
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Probabilistic Network Models and the Role of Euler’s number
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Constructing network theory using probabilistic network models
International Meeting of Psychometric Society (IMPS), Prague, Czechia.
Workshop: Theory development in psychology
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), Nairobi, Kenya.
An Urban Desirability paradox? A large-scale study of UK urban psychology
Re-inventing the City Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Detecting psychological inequality using quantile regression
EACLIP × Centre for Urban Mental Health Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Constructing network theory using probabilistic network models
IOPS Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
An Urban Desirability paradox? A large-scale study of UK urban psychology
International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Copenhagen, Denmark.
An Urban Desirability paradox? A large-scale study of UK urban psychology
Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP), Aarhus, Denmark.
An Urban Desirability paradox? A large-scale study of UK urban psychology
Association for Psychological Science (APS), Washington, U.S.
An Urban Desirability paradox? A large-scale study of UK urban psychology
Conference on Complex Systems, Mallorca, Spain.
An Urban Desirability paradox? A large-scale study of UK urban psychology
IOPS Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.