Category science

RIP #7: Positivity Offset

(Originally posted January 2, 2024) New year, new RIP! I hope that everyone has had a wonderful holiday season, and I’d like to kick the year off with something positive. Well, in a manner of speaking, I’d like to kick…

RIP #6: Integration

(Originally posted November 14, 2023) Here’s the trouble with how we think about measuring abstract psychological things that go beyond the physical processes of nervous system functioning — none of these psychological things are uniform, let alone unified into actual unitary constructs. Much of the time,…

RIP #5: A Science of Behavior

(Original posted October 23, 2023) I know, I know… you’ve all been sitting around, nothing to do, waiting with baited breath for another psychology paper to read. Wait no more! It’s time for another RIP! As a bit of history,…

Formal Treatment

“But his protest is not likely to be heard. For the prestige of statistics and scientific methodology is enormous. Much of it is borrowed from the high repute of mathematics and logic, but much of it derives from the flourishing…

On Being Interdisciplinary

Just over a decade ago, I left one Ph.D. program to join another. I was working on a lot of traditional questions in Psychology, and approaching them in relatively traditional ways — nothing about it was especially satisfying to me.…

RIP #4: Asking Questions

(Originally Posted September 27, 2023) The weather is getting chilly, we’re all back in the daily grind and — for me — it brings back vivid memories of sitting in old classrooms in various psychology buildings at the beginning of…

RIP #3: The Big Five and Life Outcomes

(Originally posted August 30, 2023) What’s that you say? You’re ready for another RIP? Well, let’s do it! For RIP #3, I want to share a major paper in personality psychology that (I find) most people outside of personality psych…

RIP #2: Clark and Watson (1995)

(Original posted July 31, 2023) As an early graduate student, most (perhaps all) of my research involved mapping some type of in-lab behavior (responding to cognitive probes, movement behavior, etc.) to self-report questionnaires of individual differences. I did studies on…

RIP #1: The Beginning

(Originally Posted on July 17, 2023) Hey gang! I’d like to bring to life a fuzzy thought that has been bouncing around my head for the past few weeks — infusing the lab with the perspectives/lessons that I’ve internalized over…