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For our 10-15 incarnation of PIG-IE, we’ll be reading a set of papers concerning the construct validity of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI).  Who’d a thunk a meta-analysis of correlations would get this controversial? Click to access Miller%20%26%20Lynam%202012%20PPI-Meta%5B1%5D.pdf Click to … Continue reading →

This summer, the European Association of Personality Psychology convened a workshop to discuss how to improve the replicability of research in psychology.  The tangible result of that meeting is the following paper.  It is our first draft, so we would … Continue reading →

This last week, if you missed it, we discussed a paper by Michael Kraus entitled “Power Enhances Self-Interest, Self-Expression, and Situation-Specific Action: A Reconciliation of Conflicting Research Trends” Michael sought feedback about some reviewer comments.  We came to the opinion … Continue reading →

In keeping with the political theme for this week (or brown bag speaker is Jeff Mondak), we are going to discuss: Inbar, Y., & Lammers, J. (2012). Political diversity in social and personality psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 496-503. … Continue reading →

This week in PIG-IE (9/10/12) we will discuss Susan South’s article  “Marital Satisfaction and Physical Health: Evidence for an Orchid Effect” Click to access PS_South_Krueger_in%20press%20copy.pdf And, as a special bonus, Susan South will be here with us!  

It has been a bad week for cycling, with Lance Armstrong’s tacit acknowledgement that he cheated his way to 7 Tour de France titles.  As an avid recreational cyclist who did his own turn at Lance Armstrong hero-worshiping, I am … Continue reading →

Here’s an interview of Uri Simonsohn about his detective work digging up data massaging in published research by Ed Yong.  The most troubling feature of the interview is the fact that Simonshon alludes to several other cases that are in … Continue reading →

Here is Ed Yong’s article in Nature giving a lucid overview of our methodological dirty laundry. Here’s a wonderful satire about our publication habits. And some letters in Science reacting to Nosek’s Open Science Consortium.

We end the semester with a paper on an old-school idea of personal scripts and how they relate to consistency, etc: Dmorest, Popovska, & Dabova (2012).  The role of scripts in personal consistency and individual differences.  Journal of Personality, 80, … Continue reading →

This week’s PIG-IE reading is a nice follow up to last week’s paper with a discernable pessimistic twist.  It is: Davey-Smith, G.  (2011). Epidemiology, epigenetics, and the ‘Gloomy Prospect’: embracing randomness in population health research and practice.  International Journal of … Continue reading →