New paper from Sydney Health Literacy Lab about our health literacy editing tool, led by Dr Julie Ayre: formative.jmir.org/2023/1/e40645. Most health info is too complex for the average person to understand, so this tool helps you simplify it. Try it at: shell.techlab.works Sydney Health EMCR

New post! Are representative samples redundant at best? Julia Rohrer investigates 3 scenarios: estimating a prevalence, estimating a causal effect in an experiment, and estimating a causal effect (or a correlation!) in an observational study. the100.ci/2023/03/07/non…

New post! "PNAS is Not a Good Journal (and Other Hard Truths about Journal Prestige)," in which I decry our ridiculous reliance on the impact factor, poke fun of the Nature Industrial Complex, and note how metascientists reinforce prestige hierarchies. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/pnas-is-not-…

Evaluating research is hard. Kimberly Quinn @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social, simine vazire, and I developed a tool (seaboat.io) to help reviewers identify threats to the validity of empirical research with the help of 50+ experts. Here’s our preprint introducing it! [1/7] psyarxiv.com/fc8v3

Psychology Faculty Overestimate the Magnitude of Cohen’s d Effect Sizes by Half a Standard Deviation, from Brendan A. Schuetze & Veronica X. Yan Brendan Schuetze Veronica Yan @veronicayan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/collab…

🧠📚New paper alert!📣 We've just published a study in American Psychologist that examines how well psychological scientists and the general public predicted societal changes during the pandemic.🦠🌍💡 Check it out: doi.org/10.1037/amp000…

If you're doing teaching evals this term you might consider sharing this interactive tool w your students first; it scrapes ratemyprofessor & sorts terms by gender, with profoundly dark results shorturl.at/inABO

Do #COVID19 vaccines keep working over time? Read our plain language summary of the latest update to our living evidence profile mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-s…

New article published in The Conversation Canada by MBMC members Nana Wu Keven Joyal-Desmarais Simon Bacon In the face of more than 763 million infections, COVID-19 vaccination was deemed crucial in the fight to end the pandemic. theconversation.com/the-first-line…

Multiple regression is not an oracle that spits out the total causal effects of each explanatory variable. Adding variables can hurt as much as it can help, whether a study is observational or experimental. elevanth.org/blog/2021/06/1…

1/ One day everyone will recognize #selectionbias due to a #collider and the world will be a better place. This time observational studies found a higher risk of omicron reinfection after a 3rd dose of #COVID19 vaccine. As usual, alarms went off. Can you see the obvious bias?

We often talk about the need for a #ProcessEvaluation in a trial (especially in trials of more complex interventions). But what is a Process Evaluation and what does it aim to do? 1/8 #MethodologyMonday #58

Psychological safety is key to changing attitudes. Feeling psychologically safe can make people more open-minded, increase introspection, and decrease defensive processing. It can lead to attitude change, even without any attempt at persuasion  frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

👏IBTN 2024 - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Now accepting poster abstract submissions for the IBTN Conference. Submit by January 26 Share your work with the international behavioural medicine community! Prizes for best student poster. ibtnetwork.org/conference/abs…

New paper! I propose that asking students to write conceptual replication research proposals may be a useful way to get them thinking about a) (feminist) epistemology and methods, and b) open science, reproducibility, and research robustness psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-24…

New article in Nature Portfolio Communications Psychology Why do we stigmatize "me-search"? Why are disabled and other minoritized researchers so underrepresented in psychology? The answers to these two questions are connected and offer a solution. #WEIRDPsychology nature.com/articles/s4427…

Fantastic presentation this afternoon from our newest member of staff Mei Yee Tang - (welcome to Psychology at Leeds Leeds Health & Social Psychology Research Group!) - great overview of Mei’s applied research, including massive review (116 trials) of social norms interventions for hcps …plementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Writing a paper about intervention #optimization and want to make sure you're citing the MOST (ha!) up to date thinking? Look no further: annualreviews.org/content/journa… nyupublichealth CADIO d3center

Do you study tailored behaviour change interventions? How about personalized approaches to persuasion? Consider submitting to our special issue at Cogent Psychology: spr.ly/6019gR0bT Submissions will be open until 31 December 2024 #BehaviourChange

🚨We're thrilled to announce our upcoming workshop on Multilevel Modelling in R with the amazing Dr. Erin Buchanan 🎉✨ The workshop is FREE & will take place online on 18th August. We're grateful to SIPS (Account Archived - See Bio) for making this possible. Register here: forms.gle/zR7SUQkm1VQ3CN…