José Duarte, PhD

Category: social psychology

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • New Yorker article

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    The New Yorker has a nice article about our BBS paper on the lack of intellectual diversity in social psychology. I cringe a bit at the title: Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans? This was never about political parties, and the lack of diversity goes much deeper than even political philosophy (conservative, liberal, libertarian — that…

  • Your mileage may vary

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    This is great work: “As expected, across these experiments, the researchers found that the more people smiled, the happier they reported being. But only some people. Surprisingly, for a section of the population, smiling actually reduced well-being. The more these people smiled, the less happy they were. This is like finding that there are some diners who, after consuming a…

  • Reality is what it is

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    Quick but important point of clarification… Someone sent me this paper as a presumed example of bias or invalid research: Eidelman, Scott, Christian S. Crandall, Jeffrey A. Goodman, and John C. Blanchar. 2012. “Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38 (6): 808–20. (Link) I don’t see anything wrong with it. I…