José Duarte, PhD

Category: Social Science

  • 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…

  • Spending money on experiences instead of objects makes you happier

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    This is a popular idea, has gotten good coverage, most recently in FastCo. Leaf Van Boven has been doing great work on this for years. (He was Gilovich’s graduate student – the FastCo article quotes Gilovich a lot because it’s based on a new review article by Gilovich & Kumar.)One of the things I want…

  • p-values banned

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    This is so refreshing. The Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology has banned p-values. And confidence intervals. Their reasons are extremely good reasons, and well-articulated. I forgot to stress this point explicitly in the recent essay on the Lewandowsky fraud, but descriptive statistics always trump inferential. A p-value has no inherent substantive meaning, nor…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…