Let’s hypothesize that eating ice cream cured depression, and that this effect was mediated by the sensory pleasure derived from…
While reviewing papers, I’ve noticed some boilerplate that keeps creeping up in the “Limitations” sections of studies using cross-sectional, observational…
Earlier this year, I went through an academic existential crisis in which I questioned whether the field of research I’m…
This blog post is going to argue that science would profit if we all suffered more (not less!) from impostor…
Update, December 12th 2018: You can now find a manuscript summarizing the project on PsyArXiv, “Putting the Self in Self-Correction.”…
[Update: After this post had been published, Uli Schimmack and I had a quick chat and Uli was very surprised…
A bit more than a month ago, I arrived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to spend my summer working with some…
TL;DR: What’s an age-effect net of all time-varying covariates? The sound of one hand clapping. Recently, we submitted a paper…
Scroll to the very end of this post for an addendum.[1]If you only see footnotes, you have scrolled too far. Reading…
Psychology is fucked. I’m not going to reiterate the whole mess because it already has been aptly summarized in Sanjay…