José Duarte, PhD

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  • Sweet things

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    Latent Class Modeling: I’m pretty sure this is the future. It’s a much more powerful, higher resolution method than linear correlation and its derivatives. The whole issue of frog jumping I talked about in an earlier post is eliminated by attending to different profiles of participants, which LCM does. Non-narcissistic self-esteem: It would be extremely…

  • SPSP; data

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    I love SPSP, the conference for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, the flagship professional organization for social psychology. It always messes me up, in a good way. Conferences and colloquia are pleasantly unpleasant for me. They’re extremely generative. Whatever a researcher is talking about always sparks a cascade of ideas for me. This…

  • Hot off the presses

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    These two new papers in JPSP are extremely interesting: Finkel, Eastwick, and Reis: “Best research practices in psychology: Illustrating epistemological and pragmatic considerations with the case of relationship science.” In recent years, a robust movement has emerged within psychology to increase the evidentiary value of our science. This movement, which has analogs throughout the empirical…

  • Envy, social comparison, non-envy

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    My empirical work focuses on envy, particularly it’s benign and malicious forms. I was inspired by van de Ven, Zeelenberg, and Pieters (2009). The Dutch language has separate words for benign and malicious envy, which helped frame their research. Malicious envy: hostility toward the target, appraisal that the disparity is unfair, low confidence in one’s…

  • On fraud

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    I’ve never had to think about scientific fraud until the last few months. It’s been an interesting journey. I’ve got a paper coming soon that focuses on this issue. I’m of two minds about the need to think about it. It raises interesting ethical and epistemological questions, and I’m deeply interested in both ethics and…

  • Structure of Malpractice 1: The Frog Jump

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    Here is a tiny preview of upcoming methodological work relevant to recent events: The Frog Jump You have two survey variables: Variable 1: ABVariable 2: CD AB: A and B are opposites sharing a 4-point scale (2 pts for A; 2 pts for B)CD: C and D are opposites sharing a 4-point scale (2 pts…

  • Methods

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    Let’s say you want to find out what climate skeptics think and why they think it. What’s a better method? 1. Find a registry on the blogosphere where climate skeptics have laid out their views in some detail, and how they came to those views, as well as their educational and professional backgrounds. Read these…

  • Men and women should be the same size

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    For years I’ve thought it’s ridiculous that women are smaller than men. There’s no reason why we should just accept this. Embodied cognition is an endlessly interesting area of research. I don’t know what’s been done on the condition of chronic smallness with respect to other beings, mates, authorities, and so forth. The fact that…

  • Give me your racists, sexists, and homophobes

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    Marquette’s decision to strip Professor John McAdams of tenure is a disgrace and may influence my long-term plans with respect to the intellectually craven environment that is American academia. A key pivot point for this story is that a student in a philosophy class was concerned about the tolerance for dissent in that class on…

  • Significance

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    I was struck by this quote from a Forbes piece on the secondhand smoke research. “there’s no such thing as borderline statistical significance. It’s either significant or it’s not.” It’s attributed to a journalist named Christopher Snowdon (I don’t know who that is.) It’s false, and I think it’s important for us to convey a…