In creating the CHILDES database, Brian MacWhinney has made a pioneering contribution to Open Science, way before sharing data was commonplace. In this piece we provide a brief introductory overview of the database to honour his efforts: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thrilled to see Adam Gamoran nominated to lead the Institute of Education Sciences! An outstanding and visionary choice! www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve as key leaders in his administration: Ben
Social Psychology at the University of Virginia is hiring at the Assistant Professor level!! We're open to all social psych research areas. Please spread the word! #socialpsyc#PsychSciSkyapply.interfolio.com/152802psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...
Our fall semester starts today! I've decided to share the “thrival” guide I created for my intro cogpsych class. I had put off creating this for weeks, but I’m glad I did it, b/c it helped me crystallize my vision for the course. Hopefully, students will find it useful, too! #CogSci#CogSciSci
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Here's a paper that explains the difference between standard errors and standard deviations: bmj.com/content/331/...www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential uncertainty (i.e., the precision of statistical estimates) compare...
I wonder about tenure letters. When there is NOT a Covid impact statement in the file, but you know that the type of research a person does was severely affected by Covid (eg, lab shutdowns, in-person experiments moved to online), is it reasonable/ appropriate to mention this in a tenure letter?
Ger, Wermelinger, de Ven & @moritzdaum.bsky.social#DevPsychSky#infancypapersdoi.org/10.1111/infa...
Adults and infants as young as 4 months old orient to pointing gestures. Although adults are shown to orient faster to index-finger pointing than other hand shapes, it is unknown whether hand shapes ....
UW-Madison is hiring 2 social psychologists! * 1 tenure-track position (deadline: 9/15/24) * 1 tenured/open rank position (deadline: 10/8/24) More info here: psych.wisc.edu/psychology-d... Please share widely!
Always surprised by how sad I feel about the loss of a familiar tree — even one that I had not realized I loved! (This one was on a neighbor’s property but overhanging ours, so I appreciated its shade and the birds that would visit it.) 😢