Before I dive into my thoughts, I want to openly acknowledge my longstanding involvement with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. I’ve been deeply engaged in its development and daily operations for well over a decade at this…
Note: This post is part of the “classic” RIP series, which is described in this initial post for context. (Originally posted February 5, 2024) Psychology, as a discipline, tends to go through waves of “big” and “small” thinking. Whenever it…
Note: This post is part of the “classic” RIP series, which is described in this initial post for context. (Originally posted January 2, 2024) New year, new RIP! I hope that everyone has had a wonderful holiday season, and I’d…
Note: This post is part of the “classic” RIP series, which is described in this initial post for context. (Originally posted November 14, 2023) Here’s the trouble with how we think about measuring abstract psychological things that go beyond the physical processes…
Note: This post is part of the “classic” RIP series, which is described in this initial post for context. (Original posted October 23, 2023) I know, I know… you’ve all been sitting around, nothing to do, waiting with baited breath…
“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…
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.…
Note: This post is part of the “classic” RIP series, which is described in this initial post for context. (Originally Posted September 27, 2023) The weather is getting chilly, we’re all back in the daily grind and — for me…
Note: This post is part of the “classic” RIP series, which is described in this initial post for context. (Originally posted August 30, 2023) What’s that you say? You’re ready for another RIP? Well, let’s do it! For RIP #3,…
Note: This post is part of the “classic” RIP series, which is described in this initial post for context. (Original posted July 31, 2023) As an early graduate student, most (perhaps all) of my research involved mapping some type of…
