The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) hosted their third annual conference in Grand Rapids MI a few days ago. This blog provides a summary and some collected… Read more »
When I started my new job at Leiden University, I decided to send around news every now and then about the world of psychology, clinical psychology, open science, and meta… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »