New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth.
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On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.
Measurement issues are everywhere in psychology — nice to see @thomastalhelm.bsky.social digging into one of the field’s most classic cultural psychology scales:
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"a ‚significant' p-value between 0.01 and 0.05 should be interpreted with the expectation that the effect is exaggerated by more than 50% (median 1.56) and that an exact replication has about a one-in-three chance of also being significant."
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Spencer and MJ’s project is now out! Let me say something about the study, why it is important to me personally, and why I think it is important given what is happening right now at NIH and how science there is being disrupted or suppressed. 1/N (N = 19) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"This is why accepting that half of research is not true is unreasonable, because almost no avenue of inquiry will ever be abandoned."
Vertical collectivism is one of the most-cited collectivism scales in psychology, with over 3,000 citations since its creation. I argue that it is the…
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In this blog post I will analyse the arguments that Dr. Amy Cuddy provided in a blog post “The "Power Posing Was Debunked" Myth: What the Re...
Individuals vary considerably in their ability to recognize faces. Such variability may in part reflect individual differences in exposure to faces ba…
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Ten years after the ASA told us to stop misusing p-values, we're still arguing about thresholds. Erik van Zwet and colleagues did something different: they asked 23,000 clinical trials what a p-value ...
@manybabies.org in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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key feature of model is FAIR² Data Article, a peer-reviewed publication format describing a single dataset. The intention is to give datasets a level of scholarly recognition comparable to conventional research articles
Hu Chuan-Peng
Daniel Lakens
FAIR² Data Management has big ambitions and shows real promise. But with early adoption limited, some crucial questions remain open.
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Labs are teaming up to run a host of huge projects that aim to bring rigour to cognitive science.
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible.
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After noticing another (significant!) drop in data quality this morning, I saw that Prolific is now recommending that participants be paid $48/hr
Stephen Curry
Carl Quintanilla
A poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science. #metasci
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Brynn Sherman
Recently, (recommended) prices at @joinprolific.bsky.social have doubled. Simultaneously, data quality and collection speed seem to have gone down noticeably (especially speed). Are others having this experience?
These changes make the platform significantly less viable for our lab.
