Associate Prof at VCU. Experimental psychologist. Aggression scientist. Dad.
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David Chester
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The amount of times I hear:
"I'm going to have to deviate from my preregistered analysis so what's the point?"
or
"preregistration limits my creativity"
To which my responses are, "yes but it's informative to know where and why you deviated" and "get out of my office now" respectively.
It's nice to see some pushback, like this rejoinder, against the use of behavioral economics tasks to measure aggression, as they were "designed to study economic competition" and have not been validated as meaningful proxies of antagonistic and aggressive behavior. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
Really looked around LinkedIn for the first time in a while and holy cow, the amount of pro-AI posts and posts/pics explicitly made with AI (and absent any critique of doing so) tells me that it will never be the social media place for me.
A team of isolated crew of folks in Antarctica saw declines in individual well-being and team cohesiveness over time, which corresponded to *more* time spent in physical proximity to others --- which is nearly opposite what we see in non-isolated environments. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
She also stated that the critics of this literature "should answer for what followed" and boy howdy is that not the way we should talk about people we have scholarly disagreements with. www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-...
Cuddy's new post claiming that power posing still has a robust evidentiary basis relied upon a literature review that "may have in part been generated by automated tools" and a result in which "the effect was in the opposite direction of the hypothesis." daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval...
New Shiny app that helps diagnose missing data patterns and examines the implications of different handling techniques under varying conditions of missingness davidmoreau.shinyapps.io/DataPatch/.
Interesting ways that affective prediction errors are similar to and differ from other prediction errors. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
Every scholarly area needs a measure repository like this.
