Category: Social Science
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Is social psychology self-correcting?
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…
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Are minorities throttling their efforts?
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…
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Evolutionary psychology must be constrained by evolutionary biology
I wrote this essay last night after reading about survival-relevant memory research (within the broader affective memory paradigm.)
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New article in Pacific Standard
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.
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What I’ve learned researching the emotion of envy
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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Minors, Lewandowsky, and Ceremonial Ethics
The Lewandowsky, Gignac, and Oberauer paper in PLOS ONE has been substantially corrected. I had alerted the journal last fall that there were serious errors in the paper, including the presence of a 32,757-year-old in the data, along with a 5-year-old and six other self-reported minors. The paleoparticipant in particular had knocked out the true…
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ISPP
I’m giving a talk at the International Society of Political Psychology conference on July 4 in San Diego. From the program: Sa4.8 Two Views of Views of Political Bias in Social Science ResearchRoom: Gaslamp 3Section: New Theoretical and Methodological Developments Liberal bias or status bias? Studying psychologists as a social group.*Michal Bilewicz, University of Warsaw How…
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Ideologically-fueled research
In my comment on Piercarlo Valdesolo’s excellent Scientific American guest column on our paper, I wrote up some points that deserve separate post. I’ll expand on these issues in journal publications. Some people come into social psychology with a political agenda – their research and careers are driven by left-wing ideology. A common pattern is…