Tag Ryan’s Important Papers

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,…

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…