RIP #1: The Beginning
Note: This post is part of the “classic” RIP series, which is described in this initial post for context. (Originally Posted on July 17, 2023) Hey gang! I’d like to bring to life a fuzzy thought that has been bouncing…
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Ryan’s Important Papers (RIPs) — A Prelude
There’s the old adage of “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” I don’t think that that’s true, exactly, but I appreciate the spirit of the idea. I love science, and I love…
The Bedrock of Human Experience
“Although these points of view do reflect the prevailing empirical climate of our times, they fail to express more than a small part of the value of personal documents for social science. Properly used, such documents anchor a discipline in…
On Being a Peer Reviewer, and on Being a Semi-sentient Potato-like Creature from the 6th Dimension
In science, we virtually never deal in absolutes. Especially in Psychology and the social sciences, we are exceedingly careful to acknowledge that virtually every aspect of the mind, mental life, and the human condition is insanely multi-determined, and there is…