Research & Theory:
The January issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science (the same journal that gave us the alien IAT) has some really interesting, and short, review articles. Unfortunately, they're only available with a subscription, but for those of you who...
Posted on February 11, 2008 2:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jeremy Dean of PsyBlog is doing another online study, this time on emotions, and he needs participants. So if you have about 10 minutes, and you'd like to participate in some real live research, click here and follow his instructions....
Posted on May 1, 2007 11:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The stuff in this post at the Social Science Statistics Blog is seriously cool. Data representation in faces (in the post, the data represented is baseball stats -- go Braves!). From the post: Chernoff faces are a method introduced by...
Posted on November 11, 2006 12:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you're not reading the Columbia University stats blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, you're missing a lot of great stuff. For example, today's post by Andrew Gelman discusses the paper "Forecasting House Seats from Generic Congressional Polls"...
Posted on October 23, 2006 8:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Every once in a while I run across a paper that I have no idea what to make of. That happened earlier today, when I read a paper titled "Does television cause autism?" by Waldman, Nicholson, and Adilov (you can...
Posted on October 16, 2006 5:44 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's been some hubbub recently over a study by Gerber and Malhotra (you can get a copy in pdf here), which shows a couple things. First, political science journals don't publish many articles that report negative (null) results, but instead...
Posted on September 20, 2006 3:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The literature on robot navigation is huge, and summarizing it would be difficult, if not impossible, but I thought I'd provide a few examples of papers you can read on robots that utilize ant-like navigational mechanisms. Franz, M.O., Schölkof, B.,...
Posted on July 1, 2006 2:13 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm going to play biologist for a moment, and talk about a species other than humans or nonhuman primates. First, imagine that you're about 10 mm long, a couple mm high, and you're stuck in the middle of the...
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Posted on June 30, 2006 9:10 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post that was pretty critical of the current state of Experimental Philosophy. In the post, I focused on the work of Joshua Knobe, not because his work is the worst Experimental Philosophy has...
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Posted on June 16, 2006 10:27 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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