Measurement Schmeasurement
TL;DR This post summarizes our recent APS symposium entitled “Measurement Schmeasurement” (feat. Jessica Flake, Mijke Rhemtulla, Andre Wang, and Scott Lilienfeld); provides a brief history of how it came to… Read more »
Reflections on APS 18: open science, transparency, and inclusion
APS 2018 — the conference of the Association for Psychological Science — ended a few days ago. Although this was my fifth APS in a row, it was a very… Read more »
7 Sternberg papers: 351 references, 161 self-citations
Robert Sternberg, editor-in-chief of Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS), published 7 papers in PoPS in the last 2 years. The papers contain 351 references; 161 of these references (46%) are… Read more »
Academia: trapped in the upside down of publishing
TL;DR: this post explains the basics of academic publishing; highlights several severe problems; discusses the recent activities of the American Psychology Association (APA) targeting psychological researchers; suggests some ways forward;… Read more »
Assistant professor, APS rising star, and some papers
Three brief personal updates. After living in 6 countries in the last 12 years; after affairs and short relationships with Ludwig Maximilian’s University Munich, Free University Berlin, University of Michigan,… Read more »
All mental disorders are brain disorders … not.
TL;DR: Mental disorders are commonly defined as “brain disorders” in the literature, and the current funding structure in psychiatry and clinical psychology is strongly based on this notion. At least… Read more »
Summary of my academic 2017
Below you find a summary of my 2017 academic year, inspired by a recent blog post by Alexander Etz who concluded: I don’t see these kinds of period recap posts… Read more »
Create your collaborator network in R
I created a collaborator network last year in R, but based that on an excel input file that I created manually, and edited the names using Inkscape. Funny doing it… Read more »
Becoming a journal editor in 15 minutes: a 3-step tutorial
To boost your academic career, early career researchers should consider picking up at least one associate editor position for a scientific journal. After all, spending countless hours on administrative duties… Read more »
When small samples are problematic
A few days ago, Richard Morey started a discussion on Twitter arguing that small samples are not inherently problematic. In the interesting discussion that ensued, I kept thinking about clinical… Read more »
academia.edu might be lying to you
I received this email a few days ago from academia.edu. And honestly, this screenshot might just say all there is to say about this topic, in which case I’d like… Read more »
Are we asking too much? A list of competencies people expect me to have
Working between disciplines is exciting, and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way. Psychology has become much more interdisciplinary in recent years, and there was a discussion today… Read more »
The tone-police police, rude dudes, & how to be social on social media
TL;DR: The tone-police police on social media must take responsibility for silencing early career folks in psychological science debates on social media. I also talk about rude dudes, a dinner… Read more »
Supplementary materials fail
A few months ago, we published a new paper (PDF). For the 3 figures in the manuscript, we created some adjacency matrices that we wanted to be fully reproducible, so… Read more »
New paper: “What are psychological constructs?”
One of the fundamental shortcomings of the empirical psychological literature on mental disorders, personality aspects, intelligence, or emotions is that there is a lack of depth regarding the discussion what… Read more »