Nearly 12 yrs after Registered Reports were first introduced in the neuroscience community, and after being disinterested in RRs for many years under previous editors, it's good to see Nature Neuroscience finally offering them. Change comes slowly but it comes. nature.com/articles/s4159…

When we look at change of a construct over time, we can do a growth curve/multilevel model using observed scores of items. This assumes the measured behaviors reflect the construct in the same way over time, but behaviors may also change its meaning over time. For example, (1/5)

S6E01 Growth as a Predictor? Back to School with Ethan McCormick buzzsprout.com/639103  To start Season 6, we catch up with Ethan McCormick (now at U. Delaware) to discuss growth factors as predictors of distal outcomes — and how pretty much everything came out unexpectedly.

Pro-Environmental Behavior (PEB) is often used as an ☂️umbrella term to summarize a variety of behavioral indicators. With the coming study we provide a framework to systemize the landscape of PEB. We reviewed 6,380 indicators of PEB from 858 studies. 🧵

New paper! The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Check a novel interactive platform hosting 1,239 originals paired w/ replication findings forrt-replications.shinyapps.io/fred_explorer. Published in Journal of Open Psychology Data led by Lukas Röseler doi.org/10.5334/jopd.1…

BREAKING! @FrancescaGino's ridiculous defamation lawsuit against Data Colada from last year has been dismissed by the court! This is an important victory.. if this had been allowed to move forward it would have had a chilling effect on whistleblowers! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

Thanks to everyone who supported us, both emotionally and financially. Thanks to our schools for the generous financial support. And thanks to our amazing lawyer, Jeffrey Pyle. We never felt alone in this, and we never felt like we had to stay silent. Thank you.

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The gold standard personality framework in academia in the Big Five system. A big advantage it has over other systems is that it assigns you a score on each trait. Like the other systems, we see the traits are close to normally distributed, which for the Big Five is expected:

Going to be teaching about survey item writing next week in class, can you all share with me your most hated/absurd/invalid items? Knowing the source would be great and the reason!

Out now: The Effects of the 2020 BLM Protests on Racial Bias in the United States journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Correct. So what are your favorute resources for understanding linear algebra (ideally with examples focused on machine/learning and statistics)?

🚨SIX-year postdoc in Vienna at the SCAN-Unit!!!! I cannot recommend this position, the team, Claus Lamm, and Vienna enough! You would be applying for my old position, so please feel free to reach out with questions scan-psy.univie.ac.at/news-media/new…

Are all immigrant groups equally allowed to influence the majority culture? Our research says no. Perceptions of warmth, competence, & morality make some groups seem more indispensable, leaving others excluded from shaping mainstream culture. Full article: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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