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...

When Good is Bad and Bad is Good: Beyond "Positive" Psychology

What is the prescription for optimal living? The burgeoning field of positive psychology appears to have many of the answers: We should be ...

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 Difficulties of Scientific Writing (An Update)

Writing is so hard! When I was a young graduate student, with one publication to my record, I ambitiously wrote a piece for the Association ...

Friday Fun: Are you a good "mind-reader"? Take the test!

Can you read my mind? Do you think this guy is: (a) playful (b) comforting (c) irritated (d) bored Being able to "mind-read" is a ...

Psi Your Mind?

source Earlier this year, Daryl Bem, a Professor at Cornel University, published a paper on Psi phenomena (also known as psychic phenomena)....