Debunking and Discovery in Social Psychology
Most reported social-psych findings fail replication. Debunking false claims is not second-class science; it clears a path when originals bury nulls.
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The Leon Project
The Leon Project would warehouse social-science data and tagged hypotheses for live meta-analysis. Pooled samples could test effects in minority groups.
Read Article →What I’ve learned researching the emotion of envy
Recalled envy episodes beat canned lab inductions. Sister-to-sister rivalry is a raw elicitor. Measure the emotion by function, not just the everyday word.
Read Article →37.5%
Inbar and Lammers: 37.5% of social psychologists would discriminate against conservative job candidates. On committees that rate is likely career-ending.
Read Article →New Yorker article
Konnikova’s New Yorker piece frames the BBS paper as anti-Republican bias. The deeper problem is one academic subculture’s assumptions in methods.
Read Article →Reality is what it is
Unflattering findings about conservatives are not automatically invalid. Reality is whatever it is; Eidelman et al. looks methodologically clean.
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