Adjunct Associate Professor of Behavioral Science | University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Social psychology etc.
Along with many other psychologists, I’ve been closely following (and participating in) the ongoing discussion about finding ways to effectively improve the shortcomings in our field’s research methods. Given that the Stapel fraud case was an important spark to these discussions, I read Yudhijit Bhattacharjee’s article, The Mind of a Con Man, in this week’s New York Times Magazine with great interest.
Read MoreAn update on Simonsohn's recently posted paper in which I discuss one of the techniques used to confirm Simonsohn's suspicions of fraud. The results of the analysis make it clear that the data was not generated by real subjects.
Read MorePart 2 of my two-part series on conceptual replication: how conceptual replication can prevent us from replicating our mistakes with a look back at the history of Cognitive Dissonance Theory.
Read MoreHere is the short commentary that I wrote about conceptual replication for the May issue of The Psychologist. It explains why conceptual replication is integral to social psychology research and why it can seem strange to people in the hard sciences.
Read More- The Guardian
July 24, 2014
P. Thagard and A.D Nussbaum (2014). Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 43-53.
- The New York Times
May 1st, 2015