🙌 Our paper on "Natural Experiments: Missed Opportunities for Causal Inference in Psychology" just got accepted in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS). Thanks to @mp-grosz.bsky.social@dingdingpeng.the100.ciosf.io/preprints/ps...
The University of Toronto Department of Psychology (downtown campus) is searching for an Assistant Professor in Personality or Social Psychology. The position is a Tier II Canada Research Chair. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I have a new working paper w/Ivan Badinski, Amy Finkelstein, & Matt Gentzkow! We use a "movers" design to study the role of physician practice intensity for widely-documented geographic variation in healthcare spending The punchline? Doctor sorting matters a lot! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s3tci...
Cool work dissecting errors in self-reported information in uk biobank. How this relates to study participation and can we correct for it? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences
We should collect our phenotypes twice, either from the same person or the other time from an informant knowing the participant well.
I appreciate this preprint below by Sommet et al. for several reasons. 1️⃣ First of all, it offers an intuitive taxonomy of 12 well-studied 2x2 interactions in psychological science. 2️⃣ It highlights how underpowered most of the recent work in #socialpsyc is due to the power miscalculations!
Now I'm here, I may as well plug our new paper on the non-independence of nations! 🌏 So happy for this to finally be published open-access at Nature Communications. Worth a read if you're thinking of including any cross-national analyses in your next project!
Nations are connected in many ways, yet cross-national analyses often assume they are independent. Here, the authors show that previous studies may not have sufficiently accounted for this non-indepen...
Endel Tulving has died this week. A giant in the field. He will be missed although his work will remain. I’m doing some mental time travel, remembering meeting him and teaching his work. Imagining how I will teach his work in the coming academic year.
