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Finally, Annick de Paepe will present "Encouraging causal thinking in applied health research with causal Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)", covering the question of how (health) psychologists can study causality.

DAGs are a great tool, both to become aware of your assumptions & to transparently communicate them to other researchers.

Also, they're quite easy to use - though supporting your assumptions can be challenging. Which is an asset of the method, not a drawback

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