Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! Practical Reform in Social Psychology

The cake we can (1) have, and (2) eat! If you have been following recent headlines in the social sciences then you are aware that the field ...

Science Utopia (Continued): Methods Integrity Workshop

"Winter is coming." --Ned Stark/Greg Francis On Friday afternoon I attended a seminar in methods integrity in research ( here ). T...

Science Utopia: Some Thoughts About Ethics and Publication Bias

Science Utopia, next exit Psychology's integrity in the public eye has been rocked by recent high profile discoveries of data fabricatio...

Behind the Scenes of Psychological Research: What Does the Future Hold?

Since starting this blog, I’ve told you about interesting and hopefully useful research findings. But today I wanted to take a step back an...

More Authors or Less Authors?

source In my brief time in research I have written journal articles authored by as few as two people and as many as six people. Many of thos...

Friday Fun: One Researcher's P-Curve Analysis

It's Me! Two weeks ago when PYM was at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology , I went to a symposiu...

The Bachelor: A modern-day replication of the Stanford Prison Experiment?

Bachelor Ben and his ladies. In 1971 a group of Stanford researchers led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted what became a famous stu...

Is Graduate School a Ponzi Scheme?

A couple of years ago, this article ran in the Economist . In the article, the author takes the point of view that the pursuit of a PhD deg...

Friday Fun: Breaking News! Correlation Does Not Equal Causation

Man and IPhone pictured in loving embrace ( source ) Right now I am teaching a personality psychology class and we are talking about researc...

Friday Fun: A Look Back At The Milgram Experiment

In 1963, Stanley Milgram published perhaps the single most important piece of research in the history of social psychology. His Behavioral ...