The big data special issue from the Psychonomic Society’s Behavior Research Methods is particularly timely. Big data is becoming increasingly prevalent in behavioural sciences and it is arguably transforming many areas of research. However, this change is not one that was planned or designed by scientists. Advances in technology and digital records mean that governments, […]
Statistics and Methodology
HARRIS: Well, there was a failure of—of states to—to integrate— BIDEN: —No, but— HARRIS: —Public schools in America. I was part of the second class to integrate, Berkeley, California Public Schools almost two decades after Brown v. Board of Education. BIDEN: Because your city council made that decision. It was a local decision. HARRIS: So, […]
(This post was co-authored by Thomas L. Griffiths). Since Wilhelm Wundt established the first university psychology laboratory over 100 years ago, relatively little has changed in how we gather data in psychological science. Technology and statistical methods have evolved, but experiments are still run primarily by individual brick-and-mortar laboratories, test specific hypotheses, and rely on […]
(This post was co-authored with Rob Goldstone). Like many other scientific disciplines, psychological science has felt the impact of the big data revolution. This impact arises from the meeting of three forces: Data availability, data heterogeneity, and data analyzability. Availability. Consider that for decades, researchers have relied on the Brown Corpus of about 1 million words, […]
The goal of cognitive science is to understand how the mind works. It is a peculiar aspect of this quest that cognitive science often seems to be as much about computers and software as it is about the human mind: There is an intriguing parallelism between developments in computer science and affiliated fields on the […]
Meet Amy, Rich, and George. They are participants in your study on the detectability of an English pea among a set of sugar snap pea distractors. All participants work diligently and quickly and yield the following results: Amy responds within 422 milliseconds on average, with an accuracy of around 88%. Rich is a little slower […]
“They began three and a half centuries ago,” writes Gernsbacher (2018, p. 403). They can delight us or frighten us, teach us and confuse us, intimidate us or encourage us. They are the base unit of productivity and the currency of academic prestige and advancement. “They,” of course, are scientific journal articles. The professional academic […]
The following guidelines were adopted in 2012 and were updated in 2019 by Alexander Etz, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Richard Morey. The guidelines have a permanent home here, but they are provided as a blogpost here to enable interested members to comment. The Psychonomic Society’s Publications Committee and Ethics Committee and the Editors-in-Chief of the Society’s […]
The digital event dedicated to preregistration drew to a close last week, after a series of 8 posts. #PSprereg has now been given a permanent home, at this landing page. Feel free to bookmark the page or circulate the link to interested parties for easy (and permanent) access to the collection of 8 posts. As […]
At 1 am on 6 August 1997 Korean Air Flight 801, on approach to Guam, flew into Nimitz Hill, 6 km short of the runway, killing 228 of the 254 people on board. The approach occurred in limited visibility and while the instrument landing system was out of service. The crash was a classic example […]