Was great to chat to Lucy and Ellie about the things I get up to at the University of Winchester in their podcast!

As always, got to talking about effective measurement and open science practices - and how these things help us understand applied issues.

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Excited to receive my copy of the new Corr and Krupić personality textbook - where I contributed to the last two chapters. Focusing on blending the philosophy of why we collect data and the practical implications (and the problematic history of this!)

When in Vienna… time to hit the Freud museum & café! Picked up some good books

(and saw some questionable inclusions of other pop psych books on the shelves)

We’re at the Service Children’s Progression Alliance 2024 Conference on Inspiring Impact.

So much important work today - and how we support those doing the work to
gather credible and rigorous evidence of what works to support families.

Say hi if you’re here!

Great to be at the Armed Forces Covenant conference today.

We’re talking about the work we’re currently doing and new developments with the SCiP Alliance to enhance:
📝research rigour,
📊data analysis,
➡️impact for the service families sector.

Learning a lot from today!

Learning a lot at this workshop on analysing complex systems data in behavioural dynamics. The things that can be done with automated recognition of video footage is moving so quickly today.
Sharing some of our work on dyadic+ datasets later on!

At @royalsociety today for a broad-science discussion about the promises and piftfalls of preregistration.

Lots of familiar faces on the programme, and name outside psych I’m keen to hear from too!

C/o pessimists archive.

The long tradition of addiction creation…

We end by identifying how this could get better - more 1) coding variation within complex stimuli rather than controlling, 2) letting participants tell us what they think rather than constraining them, 3) making sure we don’t blur ‘can’ and ‘do’ theories

And 4) atomisation of target people where there is focused study on parts but not wholes of people.
This leads to big theory concerns where research into 1) bias and everyday consequences and 2) social differences we study based on these methods are shakier for it

However, at the same time, there are methodological choices made that limit the information richness of the typical paradigm. 1) inadequate stimulus sampling and diversity is still very common, 2) constrained responses with methodological limitations, and 3) no consideration of context.

In this paper we first praise good practices as a response to the credibility crisis - 1) large, open databases, 2) international collaborations like PSA, and 3) reproducibility papers.
These are all well represented in this area for credibility checks

Excited to have our paper included in this special issue “Reflections on the Credibility Revolution in Social and Personality Psychology” where we praise reliability and generalisability efforts in first impressions but ask at what cost to validity and theory?

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FRIENDs lab did some pilot work for our next fun project - place your bets, does poker facilitate self-other knowledge agreement? (The places Realistic Accuracy Model research leads…)