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Debunking and Discovery in Social Psychology

Dec 12, 2015

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in academia, social psychology

My new essay is up at Medium.

Is social psychology self-correcting?

Oct 20, 2015

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in academia, scientific validity, social psychology

I have a new essay up at Heterodox Academy discussing the claim that science is self-correcting. I also dig a bit more into what we mean by “bias”. As a reminder, Heterodox Academy is a motley crew of scholars concerned about ideological conformity and intolerance in modern academia. We’re privileged to have Jon Haidt, Steven…

Are minorities throttling their efforts?

Oct 15, 2015

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in academia, social psychology

I offer some 3 am musings on the possibility. Historic comments from the years this site was hosted on Weebly MikeR10/15/2015 02:56:07 pm Interesting article. I don’t know how to make it better, but I know from my own confusion that the title is confusing. I had to read a few paragraphs before I understood that…

Evolutionary psychology must be constrained by evolutionary biology

Oct 9, 2015

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in Social Science

I wrote this essay last night after reading about survival-relevant memory research (within the broader affective memory paradigm.)

New article in Pacific Standard

Oct 6, 2015

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in ideological bias, Social Science, viewpoint diversity

Angela Chen wrote a nice article on our BBS paper over at Pacific Standard Magazine. The article digs into some specific issues that have not been discussed before in general media, like bias in how we measure openness to experience and other variables.

The Leon Project

Oct 4, 2015

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in social psychology

This is the biggest thing I’ve been working on this year. Read about it here.

Muslim Presidents

Sep 27, 2015

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in Uncategorized

My new essay on Muslim Presidents is up at Medium. Historic comments from the years this site was hosted on Weebly Sheri10/1/2015 09:48:56 am Ben Carson said he would be okay with a Muslim president if that individual swore to uphold the Constitution and denounced Sharia law. That is not really the same thing as…

Heterodox Academy

Sep 22, 2015

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in ideological bias, viewpoint diversity

I’m happy to announce Heterodox Academy. We are a group of scientists and scholars, mostly in the social sciences, who have come together to advocate more intellectual diversity in academia. We include Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, Charlotta Stern, Dan Klein, Jarret Crawford, Lee Jussim, Scott Lilienfeld, April Kelly-Woessner, Gerard Alexander, Judith Curry, and many others.…

Needless suffering / call a Mexican

Sep 20, 2015

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in academia, reflections

I recently heard a story that reminded me of how much graduate students can suffer. Some graduate students out there suffer enormously and needlessly because of unprofessional and untrained mentors. To be fair, scientists in academia wear lots of hats. They typically have to do all these things: Unfortunately, faculty tend not to have any…

What I’ve learned researching the emotion of envy

Sep 4, 2015

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in social psychology

My empirical work has mostly focused on the emotion of envy. I have a lot of data that I need to publish. I’ve been frozen lately by a sort of methodological crisis and metamorphosis. I started thinking about a number of validity issues after working on the BBS paper, and I couldn’t move forward with…

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