PsychBrief
Psychology (educational psychology), stats, metascience, & philosophy of science. #Rstats. Open scholarship.
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PsychBrief I strongly agree with the benefits of team-based scientific work and I think this preprint from , , , , & provides an excellent overview of it 85d
Open qualitative research resource and ideas collection
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Open science is just as important for qualitative data as it is quantitative data. Here are a collection of resources to help encourage these practices.
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PsychBrief Qualitative research is a valuable way to gain insight into a phenomenon, people's experiences, etc. Improving its rigour by encouraging open science practices is just as important for this research as quant. So I've collected resources & guidance to help 182d
Reflections on culture change towards open science
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A few recent talks have discussed how the culture of academia is shifting towards open science. But where does that leave Early Career Researchers?
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PsychBrief Recent #metascience conferences have made me reflect on culture change and how people (especially ECRs) are impacted by this. I wrote a short post exploring this: How do you think we change the culture? What is already being done to shift things? 216d
Join conversation
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PsychBrief Valuable talks this morning about fraud, research quality, & publication/citation bias this morning from , , . Join for this afternoon at: Recording and/or slides will be up on #korc20 223d
RIOT Science Club
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Piloted in June 2018 and established in February 2019, The RIOTS Club initiative is entirely early-career researcher-led. It was founded by myself, which I c...
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PsychBrief Valuable talks this morning about fraud, research quality, & publication/citation bias this morning from , , . Join for this afternoon at: Recording and/or slides will be up on #korc20 223d
Does everything come in twos? Problems with dual-process theories
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Dual process theories (Kahneman & Tversky's famous Type 1 and Type 2 thinking) are extremely popular. But what is the evidence for them?
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PsychBrief Dual process theories e.g. Type I & Type II thinking, are very popular. So presumably they have a very strong theoretical and empirical foundation? Right? Maybe not... Latest post exploring how my confidence was shaken in this ubiquitous idea 245d
King's Open Research Conference
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You are invited to join an interdisciplinary conference to help engender a shift toward practicing Open Research
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PsychBrief Excellent free conference on open science with great speakers including 247d
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PsychBrief Psychology research may be able to provide insight during a crisis, but a lot of the research isn't high quality enough to know. Having a scale to give guidance as to how ready research is to help in a crisis is valuable 261d
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PsychBrief Mathematical psychology allows presentation of ideas in ways that can be applied in novel situations, as well as theory development Thought-provoking preprint from . 296d
Summary of a critical discussion of preregistration and Registered Reports
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I'm grateful I was invited to the Cambridge ReproducibiliTea session to talk about preregistration and Registered Reports. This is a summary of our chat.
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PsychBrief Preregistration & Registered Reports: what are they, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and how are they used? Discussion at the Cambridge ReproducibiliTea meeting last week (summary here): Thanks again for inviting me to chat about this! 328d
Should we clean out the file drawer?
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Cleaning out the file drawer is an idea that has been floating around on twitter, but is it feasible? What does it mean for past studies? Is there a way in which we could get a sense of how many studies are in file drawers? Also, we discuss writing...
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PsychBrief Interesting and fun discussion around letters of recommendation and how to empty the file drawer. Well worth a listen from 337d
85: GWAS big teeth you have, grandmother (with Kevin Mitchell)
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We chat with Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin) about what the field of psychology can learn from genetics research, how our research theories tend to be constrained by our research tools, and his new book, "Innate".
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PsychBrief Finally got around to listening to this episode with about genetics. It is very very good 338d
Social Justice Can Be a Clout Game: Here's How to Avoid It (Leftist Analysis)
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PsychBrief Great to see a discussion of Contra's work. I think work by and regarding cancel culture is worth watching and sharing & & . 364d
What is "Callout Culture" and is it BAD? | Many Peters³⁰
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PsychBrief Great to see a discussion of Contra's work. I think work by and regarding cancel culture is worth watching and sharing & & . 364d
Cancel Culture, or Capitalist Culture? | Many Peters⁶⁸
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PsychBrief Great to see a discussion of Contra's work. I think work by and regarding cancel culture is worth watching and sharing & & . 364d
Avoid Cohen’s ‘Small’, ‘Medium’, and ‘Large’ for Power Analysis
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One of the most difficult and important decisions in power analysis involves specifying an effect size. Researchers frequently employ definitions of small, medium, and large that were proposed by Jacob Cohen. These definitions are problematic for...
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PsychBrief Why we should no longer use Cohen's recommendations for effect sizes for power analyses: Short and thought provoking article from Correll et al. 365d
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PsychBrief Making qualitative research more open is important and has some different issues compared to quantitative. has some good papers on this ( & ). Does anyone have any good references? All suggestions appreciated. 380d
Should we retire nominal, ordinal, interval, & ratio levels of measurement?
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All psychology students are taught is levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval, & ratio. But are they useful? Should we retire them?
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PsychBrief Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. These levels of measurement are everywhere in psychology and are the foundation for many statistical analyses. But are they as essential as they are often presented? New blog post 380d
Episode 28 - Jade Pickering and Marta Topor
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Episode 28 - Jade Pickering and Marta Topor This time we are joined by the amazing Jade Pickering (@Jade_Pickering) and Marta Topor (@MartaTopor). Jade and Marta share their own ReproducibiliTea ex
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PsychBrief Super interesting episode with and on systematic reviews for psychology. Best of luck with the project, really looking forward to seeing the results PS super cool that Jade called in from a submarine! 405d
On the interpretation of removable interactions: A survey of the field 33 years after Loftus
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In a classic 1978 Memory &Cognition article, Geoff Loftus explained why noncrossover interactions are removable. These removable interactions are tied to the scale of measurement for the dependent variable and therefore do not allow unambiguous ...
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PsychBrief Eye-opening paper from , Kryptos, Criss, & Iverson Plus an analysis showing many psychologists are not aware of this and as such can make unwarranted conclusions. 414d