Julia Rohrer
Well-being & personality psych, currently on maternity leave. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined!
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Causal Mediation Programs in R, Mplus, SAS, SPSS, and Stata
(2020). Causal Mediation Programs in R, Mplus, SAS, SPSS, and Stata. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Ahead of Print.
On the origin of psychological research practices, with special regard to self-reported nostril width
The longer I have been in psychological research, the more I wonder about why we do things the way we do. Why do we sometimes get all fancy about some aspects of statistical modeling (e.g., imputation of missing values on a high performance cluster...
Data Colada Seminar Series - Data Colada
A weekly online seminar series on behavioral research (more details in Colada[86] announcing it: .htm). Everybody is welcome. Subscribe to get email reminders with links to talks (this mailing list is independent of the blog's; you need to...
The Taboo Against Explicit Causal Inference in Nonexperimental Psychology - Michael P. Grosz, Julia M. Rohrer, Felix Thoemmes, 2020
Causal inference is a central goal of research. However, most psychologists refrain from explicitly addressing causal research questions and avoid drawing causa...
The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics
Video summary of "The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics" by Dr Amy Orben, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science (2020): Read the paper here: ...
The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics - Amy Orben,
Widespread concerns about new technologies—whether they be novels, radios, or smartphones—are repeatedly found throughout history. Although tales of past panics...
Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample
Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that...
Unbefristete Stelle T-VL14 Entwicklungspsychologie
veröffentlicht am 07.07.2020 Seite 1 / 2 An der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Pilosophische Fakultät I , Institut für Psychologie, ist zum 01.September 2020 die unbefristete Stelle einer*eines Wissenschaftlichen...
Boba: Authoring and Visualizing Multiverse Analyses
Multiverse analysis is an approach to data analysis in which all "reasonable"
analytic decisions are evaluated in parallel and interpreted collectively, in
order to foster robustness and transparency. However, specifying a multiverse
is demanding...
Women’s pain, it seems, is hysterical until proven otherwise – Elizabeth Barnes | Aeon Essays
Women’s pain is often medically overlooked and undertreated. But the answer is not as simple as ‘believing all women’
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Julia Rohrer
“The situation leads to what I call a stigma double-bind, produced by 2 separate axes of bias: ‘women are hysterical’ & ‘psychiatric illness isn’t real’. It borders on impossible to combat one area of stigma without inadvertently reinforcing the other.”
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The Ongoing Accomplishment of the Big Five
by a literal banana I have been trying to understand the “Five Factor Model of personality, for
Mis-allocated scrutiny
In the current system of pre-publication peer review, which papers are scrutinized most thoroughly? In this blog post, I argue that scrutiny is mis-allocated: the average number of pre-publication reviews (and reviewer effort) a manuscript has...
Racial Disparities in Police Use of Deadly Force Against Unarmed Individuals Persist After Appropriately Benchmarking Shooting Data on Violent Crime Rates - Cody T. Ross, Bruce Winterhalder, Richard McElreath,
Cesario et al. argue that benchmarking the relative counts of killings by police on relative crime rates, rather than relative population sizes, generates a mea...
NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog
So, I kind of deleted the blog. Sorry. Here’s my explanation. Last week I talked to a New York Times technology reporter who was planning to write a story on Slate Star Codex. He told me it w…