A.T.K. (Adam) Finnemann MA MSc
PhD candidate
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Developmental Psychology
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
Postal address
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Postbus 15916
1001 NK Amsterdam
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Profile
I am affiliated with the Theory Methods Lab and Centre for Urban Mental Health. At the Theory Lab, we think of theory development as a skill that can be learned akin to how statistical expertise is taught. I’m particularly interested in how tools and concepts from "complexity science" can help psychological researcher reason about their system of study. With the Center for Urban Mental Health, I apply theory construction tools to the relationship between city life and well-being, social, and economic satisfaction.
Expertise and research fields
- Complexity
- Networks
- Theory development
- Urban psychology
- Environmental psychology
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Research
- Large scale empirical studies of urban-rural differences in well-being, social satisfaction, economic satisfaction, and mental health
- Theoretical modelling of urban dissatisfaction and urban inequality
- Ising type models as tools for theory development in psychology
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Teaching & PhD supervision
Recently, I’ve supervised BA-theses on the use of social media scraping and detecting non-linear trends in the data.
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Publications
2025
van Dongen, N., van Bork, R., Finnemann, A., Haslbeck, J. M. B., van der Maas, H. L. J., Robinaugh, D. J., de Ron, J., Sprenger, J., & Borsboom, D. (2025). Productive Explanation: A Framework for Evaluating Explanations in Psychological Science. Psychological Review, 132(2), 311-329. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qd69g, https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000479 [details]
2024
- Finnemann, A., Huth, K., Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., & van der Maas, H. (2024). The urban desirability paradox: U.K. urban-rural differences in well-being, social satisfaction, and economic satisfaction. Science Advances, 10(29), Article eadn1636. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn1636 [details]
2022
- Koelen, J. A., Mansueto, A. C., Finnemann, A., de Koning, L., van der Heijde, C. M., Vonk, P., Wolters, N. E., Klein, A., Epskamp, S., & Wiers, R. W. (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), Article e1901. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1901 [details]
2021
- Finnemann, A., Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2021). The Theoretical and Statistical Ising Model: A Practical Guide in R. Psych, 3(4), 593-617. https://doi.org/10.3390/psych3040039 [details]
2025
- Wiers, R. W., Urban Mental Health Researchers, El Marroun, H., Bockting, C., & Krugers, H. (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. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12771 [details]
2024
- van Dongen, N., van Bork, R., Finnemann, A., Haslbeck, J. M. B., van der Maas, H. L. J., Robinaugh, D. J., de Ron, J., Sprenger, J., & Borsboom, D. (2024). Productive Explanation: A Framework for Evaluating Explanations in Psychological Science. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qd69g [details]
2023
- Bartoš, F., Sarafoglou, A. S. G., Godmann, H. R., Sahrani, A., Klein Leunk, D., Gui, P. Y., Voss, D., Ullah, K., Zoubek, M. J., Nippold, F., Aust, F., Vieira, F. F., Islam, C.-G., Zoubek, A. J., Shabani, S., Petter, J., Roos, I. B., Finnemann, A. T. K., Lob, A. B., ... Wagenmakers, E. M. (2023). Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips. (pp. 1-12). ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.04153
2022
- Huth, K. B. S., Finnemann, A., van den Ende, M. W. J., & Sloot, P. M. A. (2022). No robust relation between larger cities and depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(2), Article e2118943118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118943118 [details]
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van Dongen, N., van Bork, R., Finnemann, A., Haslbeck, J. M. B., van der Maas, H. L. J., Robinaugh, D. J., de Ron, J., Sprenger, J., & Borsboom, D. (2025). Productive Explanation: A Framework for Evaluating Explanations in Psychological Science. Psychological Review, 132(2), 311-329.