Lorne Campbell
@lornejcampbell.bsky.social
Relationship science, open and reproducible science. Western University, Psychology (social, personality, methods/stats).
In the final grad class I taught there were 3 groups. 1 did not want to follow up with their project when class finished, 1 is revisiting their paper, and 1 just had paper accepted at Meta Psychology. List of grad student authors:
• Somer Schaffer
• Samantha Jones
• Megan Lindloff
• Malvika D’Costa
• Somer Schaffer
• Samantha Jones
• Megan Lindloff
• Malvika D’Costa
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In the final grad class I taught there were 3 groups. 1 did not want to follow up with their project when class finished, 1 is revisiting their paper, and 1 just had paper accepted at Meta Psychology. List of grad student authors:
• Somer Schaffer
• Samantha Jones
• Megan Lindloff
• Malvika D’Costa
• Somer Schaffer
• Samantha Jones
• Megan Lindloff
• Malvika D’Costa
This group of student focused on research suggesting that oral sex is an infidelity detection mechanism. They found an error in original research as well, so that was exciting. List of grad student authors:
• Rebecca Koessler
• Negar Mohammad Vali Samani
• Nicolyn Charlot
• Rebecca Koessler
• Negar Mohammad Vali Samani
• Nicolyn Charlot
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This group of student focused on research suggesting that oral sex is an infidelity detection mechanism. They found an error in original research as well, so that was exciting. List of grad student authors:
• Rebecca Koessler
• Negar Mohammad Vali Samani
• Nicolyn Charlot
• Rebecca Koessler
• Negar Mohammad Vali Samani
• Nicolyn Charlot
This group of students was interested in research on personality in the workplace. List of grad student authors:
• Lynden Jensen
• Carolina Patryluk
• Poornima Vinoo
• Lynden Jensen
• Carolina Patryluk
• Poornima Vinoo
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This group of students was interested in research on personality in the workplace. List of grad student authors:
• Lynden Jensen
• Carolina Patryluk
• Poornima Vinoo
• Lynden Jensen
• Carolina Patryluk
• Poornima Vinoo
In the next class, a few years later, there were three group projects. This project focused on women's body image and self-compassion. List of grad student authors:
• Jaclyn Siegel
• Katarina Huellemann
• Courtney Hillier
• Jaclyn Siegel
• Katarina Huellemann
• Courtney Hillier
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In the next class, a few years later, there were three group projects. This project focused on women's body image and self-compassion. List of grad student authors:
• Jaclyn Siegel
• Katarina Huellemann
• Courtney Hillier
• Jaclyn Siegel
• Katarina Huellemann
• Courtney Hillier
There was a theme in this class--many grad students interested in recent research (at the time) linking SES to greed and unethical behaviour, including this group. List of grad student authors:
• Alexa Clerke
• Matthew Brown
• Callista Forchuk
• Alexa Clerke
• Matthew Brown
• Callista Forchuk
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There was a theme in this class--many grad students interested in recent research (at the time) linking SES to greed and unethical behaviour, including this group. List of grad student authors:
• Alexa Clerke
• Matthew Brown
• Callista Forchuk
• Alexa Clerke
• Matthew Brown
• Callista Forchuk
This next group looked at an older study, the famous "playboy centrefold" study where men apparently experienced reductions in love for their romantic partner after viewing playboy centerfolds. List of grad student authors:
• Rhonda Balzarini
• Kiersten Dobson
• Kristi Chin
• Rhonda Balzarini
• Kiersten Dobson
• Kristi Chin
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This next group looked at an older study, the famous "playboy centrefold" study where men apparently experienced reductions in love for their romantic partner after viewing playboy centerfolds. List of grad student authors:
• Rhonda Balzarini
• Kiersten Dobson
• Kristi Chin
• Rhonda Balzarini
• Kiersten Dobson
• Kristi Chin
Another group was also interested in research on SES, this time linking SES to greed. List of grad student authors:
• Anjana Balakrishnan
• Paolo Palma
• Joshua Patenaude
• Anjana Balakrishnan
• Paolo Palma
• Joshua Patenaude
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Another group was also interested in research on SES, this time linking SES to greed. List of grad student authors:
• Anjana Balakrishnan
• Paolo Palma
• Joshua Patenaude
• Anjana Balakrishnan
• Paolo Palma
• Joshua Patenaude
The second class had enough students for 4 groups. This group focused on research re SES and empathy. List of grad student authors:
• Sarah Babcock
• Yixian Li
• Vanessa Sinclair
• Clint Thomson
• Sarah Babcock
• Yixian Li
• Vanessa Sinclair
• Clint Thomson
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The second class had enough students for 4 groups. This group focused on research re SES and empathy. List of grad student authors:
• Sarah Babcock
• Yixian Li
• Vanessa Sinclair
• Clint Thomson
• Sarah Babcock
• Yixian Li
• Vanessa Sinclair
• Clint Thomson
The first class had only 4 students (slow intake year), 3 of them from our business school. They worked together on attempting to replicate research on taking time to "smell the roses". Grad student authors:
• Scott Connors
• Mansur Khamitov
• Sarah Moroz
• Claire Henderson
• Scott Connors
• Mansur Khamitov
• Sarah Moroz
• Claire Henderson
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The first class had only 4 students (slow intake year), 3 of them from our business school. They worked together on attempting to replicate research on taking time to "smell the roses". Grad student authors:
• Scott Connors
• Mansur Khamitov
• Sarah Moroz
• Claire Henderson
• Scott Connors
• Mansur Khamitov
• Sarah Moroz
• Claire Henderson
Gonna dust off the little green books...
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Gonna dust off the little green books...
Almost 9 years ago! Time flies. Had a great few weeks in Wellington, NZ.
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Almost 9 years ago! Time flies. Had a great few weeks in Wellington, NZ.
Maybe measure effect size in Courics?
October 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Maybe measure effect size in Courics?
New ad for an open rank position in Psychology at Cornell. That Human Bonding course seems very popular! May be a good fit for a relationship scientist out there. Below is a snippet of the job ad.
October 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New ad for an open rank position in Psychology at Cornell. That Human Bonding course seems very popular! May be a good fit for a relationship scientist out there. Below is a snippet of the job ad.
Check out the ToC. The symposium did not run every year, or every other year, but there were 12 of them. Me and Jennifer LaGuardia organized the 12th one (The Science of the Couple) held at Western in 2009. Big conferences are fun but I like the focus on ideas in these smaller ones.
September 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Check out the ToC. The symposium did not run every year, or every other year, but there were 12 of them. Me and Jennifer LaGuardia organized the 12th one (The Science of the Couple) held at Western in 2009. Big conferences are fun but I like the focus on ideas in these smaller ones.
Does anyone remember "The Ontario Symposium" series? The 1st one was hosted at my Uni (U of Western Ontario) in 1978 (book pub'd in 1981). Originally put together by Tory Higgins (Western at the time), Mark Zanna (Waterloo), and Peter Herman (U Toronto). Jim Olson took over from Higgins at Western.
September 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Does anyone remember "The Ontario Symposium" series? The 1st one was hosted at my Uni (U of Western Ontario) in 1978 (book pub'd in 1981). Originally put together by Tory Higgins (Western at the time), Mark Zanna (Waterloo), and Peter Herman (U Toronto). Jim Olson took over from Higgins at Western.
Blue skies and still water
August 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Blue skies and still water
Students trying to get that last spot in fall courses
August 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Students trying to get that last spot in fall courses
Happy to be in Visegrad, Hungary at the “Sydney Symposium for Social Psycholgy” hosted by Joe Forgas to present this work and other ideas related to the development of trust in relationships (focus this year is on trust in general).
July 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy to be in Visegrad, Hungary at the “Sydney Symposium for Social Psycholgy” hosted by Joe Forgas to present this work and other ideas related to the development of trust in relationships (focus this year is on trust in general).
Happy Canada Day. This pic of Georgian Bay taken from Cape Chin along the Bruce Trail (Ontario).
July 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Happy Canada Day. This pic of Georgian Bay taken from Cape Chin along the Bruce Trail (Ontario).
Our paper is now out: Trust in Close Relationships Revisited. All the buzzwords: bifactor modelling, invariance testing, construct, and a few others. Joking aside, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social is a very skilled and careful data wrangler/analyst while also able to relate theory and data. 👇
June 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Our paper is now out: Trust in Close Relationships Revisited. All the buzzwords: bifactor modelling, invariance testing, construct, and a few others. Joking aside, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social is a very skilled and careful data wrangler/analyst while also able to relate theory and data. 👇
Results: r between love and trust equally high for those in younger dating rel't's (exc. dating) and married ppl. Mean score of trust was high for ppl at all rel't stages (lower for ppl cas dating). 7 point scale with 8 items = 32 as midpoint; so, high trust (only sep/divorced ppl had low trust).
May 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Results: r between love and trust equally high for those in younger dating rel't's (exc. dating) and married ppl. Mean score of trust was high for ppl at all rel't stages (lower for ppl cas dating). 7 point scale with 8 items = 32 as midpoint; so, high trust (only sep/divorced ppl had low trust).
They cobbled together items addressing trust from other existing scales (see first image). They boiled it all down to 8 items for their final scale. No complex factor structure for this construct: just 8 items. This paper is also the most cited paper for each author (just like with Rempel et al). 👇
May 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
They cobbled together items addressing trust from other existing scales (see first image). They boiled it all down to 8 items for their final scale. No complex factor structure for this construct: just 8 items. This paper is also the most cited paper for each author (just like with Rempel et al). 👇
5 years before Rempel et al there was Larzelele & Huston (1980). They argued that trust is obviously important in relationships, particularly romantic relationships. Always mentioned as important but rarely a focus of research on its own. They discussed why trust should be studied and made a scale 👇
May 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
5 years before Rempel et al there was Larzelele & Huston (1980). They argued that trust is obviously important in relationships, particularly romantic relationships. Always mentioned as important but rarely a focus of research on its own. They discussed why trust should be studied and made a scale 👇
But check out the participants used to create this new scale: data from 47 long-term dating couples (94 ppl) assessed at 1 time point. Data treated as independent. Ok it was 1985 but I think some measurement ppl on here have thoughts. This paper still cited as evidence for validity of the scale. 👇
May 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
But check out the participants used to create this new scale: data from 47 long-term dating couples (94 ppl) assessed at 1 time point. Data treated as independent. Ok it was 1985 but I think some measurement ppl on here have thoughts. This paper still cited as evidence for validity of the scale. 👇
They created items to tap each of three factors that make up trust (according to their perspective). Started with these 26 items. After analyses (more on that next) they ended up with 17 items. Some researchers use all 26 items, some 17 items, some a handful of items; like a buffet really. 👇
May 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
They created items to tap each of three factors that make up trust (according to their perspective). Started with these 26 items. After analyses (more on that next) they ended up with 17 items. Some researchers use all 26 items, some 17 items, some a handful of items; like a buffet really. 👇