José Duarte, PhD

Category: academia

  • Debunking and Discovery in Social Psychology

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    My new essay is up at Medium.

  • Is social psychology self-correcting?

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    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?

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    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…

  • New article in Pacific Standard

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    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.

  • Heterodox Academy

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    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

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    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…

  • Scientific American column on Duarte et al

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    Research psychologist Piercarlo Valdesolo wrote a nice guest column on our BBS paper over at Scientific American. Scientific American doesn’t let me comment on their website, rejecting it as spam, even on a new account. This has been true for months – I’m not sure what’s triggering the spam flag. Maybe length. I’ve pasted a…

  • Thoughts on Gelman comment

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    I posted this comment in reply to Andrew Gelman’s post on his website. Neil Gross and Gelman have submitted a Comment to our upcoming BBS paper. I’ll have a lot more to say about our paper in the coming months, especially when it’s officially published:——————————————————————————————————————– Hi Andrew, Thanks for your Comment. A few thoughts:1) We…

  • 37.5%

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    I don’t think I fully processed the implications of the Inbar and Lammers data. 37.5% of social psychologists in their survey explicitly reported a willingness to discriminate against conservative job candidates. These are people who chose the midpoint or higher, where the midpoint was Somewhat inclined to favor a liberal vs. conservative candidate. The 37.5% figure…

  • 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…