February 17, 2018 / Leave a comment
On New Year’s Eve 2016, Mariah Carey had a…notable performance in which she had difficulties rendering the songs “Emotions” and “We Belong Together”. She roared back on New Year’s Eve 2017, sparking the first meme of 2018. Alas, it is unlikely that the field of psychophysiology will un-mangle its measurement of emotions with reflexes in […]
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December 3, 2017 / Leave a comment
This post is long; the links below will take you to potential topics of interest. BEHIND THE SCENES: Call your IRB & delegate | Justify your statistical decisions ON THE GROUND: Promote your study | Involve the media | Lead with helpful resources | Listen to community reps | Give results back to community | […]
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August 11, 2017 / Leave a comment
The current culture of science thrives on peer review – that is, the willingness of your colleagues to read through your work, critique it, and thereby improve it. Science magazine recently collected a slew of tips on how to review papers, which give people getting started in the process of peer reviewing some lovely overarching […]
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September 8, 2016 / 1 Comment on 50 years of Star Trek: best episode and reflections on autism
The 50th anniversary of the TV show Star Trek‘s first broadcast is today. It was a formative franchise for me growing up, informing many of my first ideas about space exploration, heroism, and a collaborative society. Debates redound about the best episode of the series. However, I agree with Business Insider’s choice of the episode […]
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September 2, 2016 / Leave a comment
UPDATE 20190820: This post led to this paper in the special issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology about increasing replicability, transparency, and openness in clinical psychological research. In it, we describe a two-dimensional continuum of registration efforts and now describe preregistrations as those that occur before data are collected, coregistrations as those that occur […]
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