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Like me, do you constantly question the measurement assumptions underlying psychological research? Is your first thought in the morning "I'm pretty sure Likert scales aren't normally distributed variables?" If so, do we have a new paper for you: arxiv.org/abs/2305.13444

Today MOBI hosted a great virtual discussion series led by Danika Wagner from Ellen Bialystok’s Lifespan Cognition and Development lab at York University. We discussed her article: Does Language Entropy Shape Cognitive Performance? A Tale of Two Cities.

1/ Thrilled to share recent work with xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen), Josh Tenenbaum, and Sydney Levine, titled "When it is not out of line to get out of line: The role of universalization and outcome-based reasoning in rule-breaking judgments"! 🧵

Found a kindred spirit at #icml2023 #feelthelearn

The authors of research papers have no obligation to share their data and code, and I have no obligation to believe anything they write. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/09/10/the…

We know that many scales are #ordinal and not #interval. But have you ever 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 this ordinality? Here you can see a 5-point Likert scale (on trust in science and vaccination) and how the jump from 4 to 5 is much bigger than the jump between previous levels.

My notebook used to look like this when I was designing my stimuli for my studies on moral decision making and reading 😂

Likert scores are not integers and they cannot be subdued by pretense. Stop pretending and meet me in the warm 3rd circle of stats hell and learn about ordered categorical models. Lecture: youtube.com/watch?v=VVQaIk…

Making slides for a talk tomorrow — This is a prompt to talk about the importance of showing problems in implementiing Bayesian workflows, not just successes

Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!

I'm excited to share this new preprint with Rebecca Saxe: We find that knowing about an existing social relationship can drastically change people’s expectations and evaluations of generosity. (1/11) 📄osf.io/preprints/psya…

I'm thrilled to share that our Delphi paper is officially published today at Nature Machine Intelligence after almost four years of hard works from all my amazing collaborators (a quite insane timeline considering the rapid AI world)! Special thanks to the unwavering support of my advisor,

Luk, G., Hernández-Rivera, E., Tarín, K., Chen, D., Jang, M., & Titone, D. (2025). Math attitudes and verbal memory in multilingual younger adults. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. doi.org/10.1037/cep000…

🍫 ⚠️ Do you use subjective rating scales in your research (with extremities like negative-positive, true-false, correct-incorrect, fake-real, etc.)? If so, this paper is very relevant 🔥 Preprint: researchgate.net/publication/39… 1/7

Experimental Philosophy UMich Concept Lab Pascale Willemsen Vlasta Sikimic What's the "normal" number of calls per day people receive from their mother? And what's the "reasonable" number? Daniel Martín found FASCINATING patterns in such judgments of frequency, averages, normality, and ideals. Follow for the publication alert: researchgate.net/profile/Daniel…