Malte Elson @maltoesermalte Twitter profile

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Malte Elson

@maltoesermalte

4 years

#StatsTwitter whenever someone asks how to perform a certain type of analysis in SPSS.

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2 years

Super excited about my new paper in PNAS

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@StuartJRitchie @lakens @BTSlNTRO @dingding_peng @annemscheel MFW I discovered this was actually an entire series

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My grant proposal got accepted. Completely unrelated, I now believe peer review is a fair and efficient system to judge scientific quality.

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A Timeline of psychology's replication crisis 2011: A precognition paper is published in JPSP. 2012: p-hacking is everywhere. 2013-2017: Nothing replicates. 2018: The Twitter account of a cookbook lectures one of the most prolific social scientists on research methods.

Joy of Cooking

@TheJoyofCooking

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(THREAD) Inspired by @stpehaniemlee ’s new piece, we have decided to share this. We have the dubious honor of being a victim of @BrianWansink and Collin R. Payne’s early work.

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Time: passes Psychologists: but what's the mechanism?

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Absolutely delighted to have received this award for the third year running, which would not have been possible without Elson (2021ab), Elson & Elson (2021), and Elson et al. (2021)

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Malte Elson

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2 years

Very excited that I will join @unibern next year as professor for Psychology of Digitalisation. If you're looking for a PhD or Postdoc position in meta science, privacy and IT security, or technology effects - or a combination thereof - please get in touch!

The 100% CI

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The 100% CI is installing “Tenure” ██████░░░░░░ 50%

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@JoshuaGrubbsPhD False consensus effect. Weird, I thought everybody knew that

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We've come a long way. But not as far as model 89.

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1 year

New paper with @ianhussey , @TaymAlsalti and @rubenarslan . We show that most measures are only used once or twice, with no tendency to agree on gold standards. This is a serious barrier to cumulative science, and leads to lots of papers without meaningful progress.

Communications Psychology

@CommsPsychol

1 year

If psychological measures are used only once or twice it threatens the credibility of research @maltoesermalte , @ianhussey @taymalsalti @rubenarslan propose guidelines to ensure that psychological measures are standardized and unlike toothbrushes, reused.

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10 years ago we conducted a large CATI study on media use in Germany. Participants were asked to name their favourite game. The interviewers themselves were not necessarily familiar with games at all, so instead they wrote down hilarious stuff like Butterworld and Call of Beauty:

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TIL. The "history of psychology" part of my lecture course is slowly becoming a 90 minute epic on the Stroop task.

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Me: Hmm... seems a bit over the top to buy Adobe Creative Suite just to edit and cut my recorded lecture. Me, five hours later:

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Tschüssikowski, @ruhrunibochum ! 😥 Grüezi mitenand, @unibern ! 😁

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@nicebread303 @chrisdc77 To me the frustration was never with being rejected, but trying to exist in a system that is overtly a meritocracy and covertly a casino.

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Reviewer #2 (round 1): Please change your hypotheses so they better fit the overall narrative. We: No. You never reformulate your Hs after seeing the data. R #2 (round 2): Oh so you're biased against exploratory research. Reject. We have come a long way. But not as far as lot D.

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did... did a dolphin write this?

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I tell my graduate students and RAs that if they're working 60 hours per week they they can take off 20 hours of the next because that's how overtime works.

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I tell my graduate students and post-docs that if they’re working 60 hours per week, they’re working less than the full professors, and less than their peers.

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When the data are in and the professor needs to blame someone for all the nonsignificant results.

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Hero @annemscheel asks Fiske to address "methodological terrorism" in front of #dgps2016 audience

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2 years

Have you always wondered what kind of data you get when asking the same question twice? Not any longer!

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Social norms are probably the most powerful predictor of expressions of prejudice. An analysis of 105 social groups found that the normative appropriateness of prejudice was highly correlated with expressions of prejudice (r = .96!) via @ChrisCrandall19

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Suppose we have data set (Xᵢ,Yᵢ) with n points. We sort the Xᵢ and Yᵢ values independently. In my mind this completely destroys our data. But my RA says he gets "better regressions most of the time" when he does this. I have a feeling he is deceiving himself.

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Researchers splitting a sample into groups by an observed variable, then doing significance tests on group differences in the same variable

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Ich sehe unter #ichbinhanna viele hoffnungsvolle Stimmen zur Bedeutung des Urteils des Bundesarbeitsgerichts zur Zeiterfassung für (Jung-)Wissenschafter:innen. Ich befürchte, verpflichtende Dokumentation ohne weitere Maßnahmen wird die prekäre Situation eher verschlimmern. /1

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I am beyond excited to run the seminar "Replications and Reform Movements in Psychological Science" together with @ianhussey this fall. We cover the antecedents, consequences, and debate around the replication crisis in psychology.

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2 years

This investigation RE: plagiarism in a dissertation takes a bizarre turn, in which the supposedly plagiarised source, a 400-page book (including a preamble by Elena Ceaușescu!), turns out to be a forgery, purposely created to damage the researcher.

Plagiatsverdacht gegen Münchner Professor nimmt erstaunliche Wende

Im Juli hatten Plagiatsexperten dem Rechtsmediziner vorgeworfen, bei seiner Doktorarbeit geschummelt zu haben. Nun gibt es Zweifel.

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3 years

Auch #IchbinHanna 's Chef. In meiner Arbeitsgruppe sind 3 WiMis ohne Aussicht auf Entfristung, denn: ich bin selbst auch Hanna mit einer Juniorprofessur ohne Tenure Track. 1/5

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I am Francesca Gino's former RA.

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9 major German universities (in the state of Badem-Württemberg) terminate their contracts with Elsevier:

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6 years

In case you ever feel the job market dynamics in academia are completely arbitrary and opaque, I'll have you know that a friend of mine was asked in a private sector job interview which traffic sign she would choose if she had to be one.

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Social psych classics be like

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6 years

Sent a data request to authors of a 2013 multi-study paper. Turns out the studies were from from 2005, one author has retired and the other left academia years ago. They sent data, analysis scripts, stimulus materials, and lab notes within 48 hours.

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Slow clap

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6 years

Honestly don't understand how we ended up here again: Underpowered study that doesn't follow its own preregistration protocol gets published in JPSP, conclusions based on non-preregged one-tailed p = .051, paper is reported on widely and mostly uncritically.

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@jessesingal

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Me in BPS Research Digest A re-replication of a psychological classic provides a cautionary tale about overhyped science via @researchdigest

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Grad students receiving feedback on a draft by their advisor

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6 years

Accepted at AMPPS: "A unified framework to quantify the credibility of scientific findings" with @eplebel @RandyJMcCarthy @briandavidearp @wolfvanpaemel

A Unified Framework to Quantify the Credibility of Scientific Findings

Societies invest in scientific studies to better understand the world, and attempt to harness such improved understanding to address pressing societal problems. Published research, however, can only...

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4 years

My intro to psych research methods class covers legen... wait for it...

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4 years

I like to imagine that whoever maintained the "Timeline of psychology" on Wikipedia, after @BrianNosek et al published RP:P, went outside to have a smoke, stared at the sunset, and just never returned to their desk.

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1 year

The script of the first episode got leaked, and it looks like it's going to be an absolutely spectacular show. Definitely going to watch!

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@CFCamerer

1 year

#behavioralscience Twitter. NBC has a show scheduled for fall “The Irrational” based on Prof Dan Ariely studies & life (IMDB lists him as a writer) NBC says “The NBC drama is based on Dan Ariely’s novel Predictably Irrational” Novel?

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Has there ever been a better time to post this?

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2 years

Our older daughter is teaching herself to "write" by randomly combining letters she knows. My wife: You have to show this to your father. D (anxious): Why, is it a bad word?

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9 years

Every Psych Science article

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7 years

Times when social scientists are concerned about measurement validity: 1) Someone else has a higher h-index 2) Student evaluations are in

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3 years

I'm all in favor of data sharing, even mandatory where possible, but I've now repeatedly seen datasets on @OSFramework that expose research participants to unknown risk and substantial opportunities for abuse by not removing identifiers.

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2 years

Delighted to see that I had over 5000 self-citations in a 2-month period on Google Scholar to take me over 125,000 self-citations and an h-index of 170. Big thanks to all my co-authors @ShuhBillSkee @dingdingpeng @rubenarslan @jivory @faridanvari , but mostly me @maltoesermalte

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New paper from the lab, together with @darahallinan and Franziska Boehm from @FIZKarlsruhe ! We provide general practical guidance to psychological researchers for creating GDPR-compliant consent forms.

Information Provision for Informed Consent Procedures in Psychological Research under the GDPR: A...

Psychological research often involves the collection and processing of personal data from human research participants, and there is a norm that informed consent should be obtained before such...

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Data Colada

@DataColada

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Colada98 - Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty

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7 years

Requested data as a reviewer. Editor declines, says I can only ask for data if I "detect irregularities." #Catch22PeerReview

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3 years

Very grateful to @dfg_public to approving the grant proposal "Standardization of Behavior Research Methods" led by @rubenarslan and myself as part of the priority program @meta_rep . What are our plans for the next three years, besides finding better soccer metaphors? 1/10

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Was mir in der Diskussion um das WissZeitVG bislang gefehlt hat: obskure 2000er-Popkultur-Referenzen #IchbinHanna , wie ich mich beweg in mei'm Büro, Hanna! Eine von vielen. Überarbeitet. Hanna. Ich weiß, dass ich übertrieben Hanna bin. Warum bin ich nicht geblieben? 1/8

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(befristete)

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chancen

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Hey @Neuro_Skeptic , I met one of your relatives in Norrköping today! He says "Hmm!"

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Conceptual replication

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When you had the same research idea, but your application is lacking relevance.

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Short answer: No. Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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A half-million people download papers from Sci-Hub every day. Is that so wrong?

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That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange journals even death may die

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"I need a p of .038, stat!"

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Everyday we stray further from god

Dr. Oetker Pizza DE 🍕

@DrOetkerPizzaDE

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Es ist wahr. Ab dem 01.04. ist die #Fischst äbchenpizza (links im Bild), belegt mit Original Käpt’n @igloDeutschland Fischstäbchen, als limitierte Edition im Handel erhältlich. Kein Scherz, versprochen. Teilt die frohe Kunde.

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Sci Hub, but with Google Scholar's search engine. Amazing.

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are... are you alright, predatory journal spambot?

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For what it's worth, I do not consider the revocation of the junior author's PhD a "payoff". It is one of the rather unfortunate events in this long and tiring story.

Retraction Watch

@RetractionWatch

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Although their efforts ultimately paid off — the paper was retracted, and the first author lost her PhD — @maltoesermalte and @patmarkey also paid a price.

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The future* is bright** *2024-2027 **for Psychological Science

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Congratulations, @siminevazire ! #psychtwitter #psychologicalscience

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"Dude was so clueless that he copied an entire article he’d written, then edited that article, never remembering that he he already published it two years ago."

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Who would be able to tell from this graph that loneliness at school was not actually measured in 2006 and 2009?

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High school students around the world got lonelier between 2012 and 2019. @jean_twenge and I found this in PISA data, and looked at what global trends correlated. Only smartphone & social media adoption. With links to larger reviews:

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Psychologists send letter to the APA complaining about psychologists engaging in unethical practices in tech companies for profit: 🤔

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On whistleblowing in science

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ME: I'd like to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments, and submit this substantially revised of our manuscript. REVIEWER #2 :

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Me: It's like people only do things because they get paid. And that's just really sad. @JASPStats : Free mug? Me:

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When methodological flexibility is not the exception, but the norm: The case of laboratory aggression research

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My commitment to reproducible research: increase reliability of peer review with this amazing evaluation tool.

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Researchers: Lowering the standards of evidence to p < .005 will make p-hacking much harder. Me (laughing):

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To me the main story here is not whether this study provides credible evidence for the ego depletion hypothesis, but that only preregistration allows us to even discuss the discrepancy between protocol and report. With the conventional mode, we'd be completely in the dark!

Brian Nosek (@[email protected])

@BrianNosek

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A critique of the follow-through for these preregistrations for ego depletion investigations:

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Der Verweis darauf, man könne ja Überstunden abfeiern, ist wertlos bis zynisch, je nach Lesart, wenn durch Befristung, etwa im WissZeitVG, eigentlich gar keine Zeit dafür ist, frei zu haben. Insofern: ich befürchte für die Wissenschaft null bis negative Effekte /6

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Ich hab schon Schwierigkeiten Korrelation und Kausation auseinanderzuhalten, bitte sagt mir nicht, dass es noch was drittes gibt.

Bericht aus Berlin

@ARD_BaB

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"Ich habe eine Frage, warum sie das Wort Manipulation benutzen?" – "Dann nehmen sie doch einfach 'Korrelation'".

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Ob das für die Qualifikation so ideal ist? Ich möchte meine eigene Situation nicht mit den Dauerkurzverträgen anderer gleichsetzen. Verantwortung für ECRs zu haben ohne eigene Dauerperspektive ist eben nur ein weiterer absurder Auswuchs der Stellenplanung in der Wissenschaft 5/5

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yeah sex is cool, but have you ever written a successful grant proposal

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I'm man enough to admit when I was wrong about something, so I'll go on record saying that behavioral science can indeed be very useful to fight COVID.

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Methods in psychology, unraveling the mysteries that all started with Wilhelm Wundt -- WUNDT!

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For today's session, we had students read @BrianNosek et al. (Scientific Utopia II) and Shu et al. (Signing at the top), without telling them it had been retracted. We asked them for applications of the techniques from the latter to achieve the goals of the former. /1

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I am beyond excited to run the seminar "Replications and Reform Movements in Psychological Science" together with @ianhussey this fall. We cover the antecedents, consequences, and debate around the replication crisis in psychology.

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Have I gone too meta?

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Open Diffix, a very powerful tool to anonymize structured data, making them shareable without restriction, is now available for desktop!

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The Comedy Wildlife Photo Award 2017 finalists will not disappoint you.

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MFW someone says they never heard about the replication crisis but also that their stuff is "really, really rigorous"

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R für Einsteiger

@RfuerEinsteiger

3 years

Wird auf jeden Fall in der nächsten Auflage erwähnt!

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Using figures in your publications? Here's how to make sure they're reusable & citable by others and yourself

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@maltoesermalte

6 years

Very happy to announce this support & promotion scheme for @RegReports by JMP and the Media Psych Division: 1. Submit a Registered Report to JMP until May 31, 2019 2. Present your work in an RR Panel at #MediaPsych19 in September 19 3. Compete for financial support for your study

Media Psychology

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Detailed information regarding Pre-Registered Reports Panel at the Media Psychology 2019 Conference can be found here: #MediaPsych19 #ST

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Close replication

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When your love for R is matched only by your love for proprietary file formats.

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On the other hand, accessing @APA articles through @Sci_Hub guarantees access.

American Psychological Association

@APA

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Accessing @APA articles through authoritative sources guarantees authenticity and accuracy

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Nothing is as uplifting as my jar of fortune cookies with actual JPSP paper titles

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Writing this paper

Julia Rohrer

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New preprint out now! We discuss assumptions underlying mediation, moderation & their combination. Come for the stupid subheadings, stay for the causal inference mess! With @PHuenermund @rubenarslan @maltoesermalte

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We've seen lots of arguments about the causes of psychology's replication crisis: incentive structures, mindlessness, statistical inaptitude. But what if the key to such meta-scientific questions was inside of us all along: THE BRAIN! (1/12)

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Momentan machen alle Überstunden und alle wissen es. Aber wenn erstmal rechtsverbindlich dokumentiert ist, dass es (scheinbar!) gar kein Problem gibt mit Arbeitsverhältnissen in der Wissenschaft, wird der Reformwille sinken. /5

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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should