Brent W. Roberts
Personality Psychologist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Author of the Pigee blog (https://t.co/X2G93lcJGz); I use twitter to curate not condone
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Dodgy incentives make for bad science
A system in which journals publish mainly just the exciting results is a problem, writes Jason Murphy in a new book.
Assessing the size of the affordability problem in scholarly publishing
For many decades, the hyperinflation of subscription prices for scholarly journals have concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed as the latest potential...
P: The Online Newsletter for Personality Science
P: The Online Newsletter for Personality Science
Brent W. Roberts
@RickCarlsson @GordPennycook see here
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Brent W. Roberts
@wgervais @GordPennycook Thought about that. In 2011: "Any subsequent study that directly replicates the method and analyses used in the original set of studies, regardless of the results, will be published. The subsequent studies will be linked to the original study."
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Calculating and visualizing error bars for within-subjects designs
What this post is about Creating data Creating a violin plot (with wrong errors bars) Creating another plot (with error bars that’re still wrong) The last plot (this time correct) What this post is about Personally, I find violin plots with error...
Meta-analyses of positive psychology interventions: The effects are much smaller than previously reported
For at least four decades, researchers have studied the effectiveness of interventions designed to increase well-being. These interventions have become known as positive psychology interventions (PPIs). Two highly cited meta-analyses examined the...
Can Psychological Traits Be Inferred From Spending? Evidence From Transaction Data - Joe J. Gladstone, Sandra C. Matz, Alain Lemaire, 2019
The automatic assessment of psychological traits from digital footprints allows researchers to study psychological traits at unprecedented scale and in settings...
Thoughts on The Policy Relevance of Personality Traits
My random thoughts on the PCC American Psychologist Piece and Uli's Blog
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'Better to Be Born Rich Than Smart': Education Must Answer for Systemic Inequality
The great sorting of the most talented young people into haves and have-nots starts early and continues into young adulthood, writes Anthony P. Carnevale.
Slow-Form Journalism (with Daniel Engber)
Journalist Daniel Engber joins Mickey and Yoel to talk about the evolving state of science journalism, including what he hopes are lasting improvements. He also talks about his own reporting on the replication crisis in psychology and concussions in...
Flux of life
Developmental cognitive neuroscience is flourishing but there are new challenges and new questions to be asked. I argue that we need a bigger picture …