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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Unpublished data from Stanley Milgram's experiments cast doubt on his claims about obedience
An analysis of previously unpublished data raises serious questions about Stanley Milgram's landmark obedience experiments. The findings, which have been ...
Pathways Linking Childhood Personality to Later Life Outcomes
Dispositional characteristics are associated with important life outcomes across the lifespan, often predicting those outcomes decades in advance. Evidence demonstrates that personality characteristi...
Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development by Nikita Melnikov, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, Maria Micaela Sviatschi :: SSRN
We study the effects that two of the largest gangs in Latin America, MS-13 and 18th Street, have on economic development in El Salvador. We exploit the fact tha
Educational note: types of causes
Abstract. We explore the different types of causes that are commonly investigated by epidemiologists. We first distinguish between causes which are events (inc
Martinis named vice chancellor for research and innovation
Susan Martinis is the new vice chancellor for research and innovation at Illinois, having served as interim vice chancellor for research since 2017.
Robust Findings in Personality Psychology
Scientific personality psychology has had a bit of a renaissance in the last few decades, emerging from a period of deep skepticism and subsequent self-reflection to a period where we believe ther…
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Brent W. Roberts
Robust findings in Personality Psychology. A group of us curated an initial list of robust findings in personality science. The list is open to comment, voting, and updating-if you feel we missed something, we’ll post it and let others vote on it too.
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Replication of Nozaradan, Peretz, Missal, and Mouraux (2011)
Replication of Nozaradan, Peretz, Missal, and Mouraux (2011)
We are soliciting participation in a multi-lab conceptual replication and extension of the Journal of Neuroscience 2011...
Optimal Planned Missing Data Design for Linear Latent Growth Curve Models
Abstract: Longitudinal data collection is a time-consuming and cost-intensive part of developmental research. Wu et al. (2016) discussed planned missing (PM) designs that are similar in efficiency to complete designs but require fewer...
Stanford professor who changed America with just one study was also a liar
Stanford psychology and law professor David Rosenhan could transfix an audience in a crowded lecture hall with just a few words. “What is abnormality?” he would ask undergraduate students, his deep…
Danielle Navarro: Science, statistics and the problem of "pretty good inference"
In March 2019, the Interacting Minds Centre organised a Workshop on Open Science. The purpose of this workshop was to move beyond some of the more general is...
Psychologists confront impossible finding, triggering a revolution in the field | CBC Radio
In 2011, American psychologist Daryl Bem proved the impossible. He showed that precognition — the ability to sense the future — is real. His study was explosive, and shook the very foundations of psychology. Contributor Alexander B. Kim in Vancouver...
Childhood adoption and mental health in adulthood: The role of gene-environment correlations and interactions in the UK Biobank
Being adopted early in life, an indicator of exposure to early life adversity, has been consistently associated with poor mental health outcomes in ad…
NAEP blog - The Great Divergence: Growing Disparities Between the Nation’s Highest and Lowest Achievers in NAEP Mathematics and Reading Between 2009 and 2019
NAEP blog - The Great Divergence: Growing Disparities Between the Nation’s Highest and Lowest Achievers in NAEP Mathematics and Reading Between 2009 and 2019