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Special Issue on Theory in Psychological Science

Finally, the special issue on Theory in Psychological Science, edited by Travis Proulx and Richard Morey, is out!

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Are we building on air castles?

MPI CBS Open Science, Leipzig, hosted a paper discussion of “Theory before the test”, that I co-authored with Giosuè Baggio. The meeting was part of a ReproducibiliTea journal club series organized by Gisela Govaart, Katarzyna Gugnowska, Greta Häberle and Mariella Paul and hosted by Katarzyna Gugnowska and Lieneke Janssen.

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Q&A for 'Beyond the crisis in psychology'

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Is the brain (just) a computer?

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Be careful with mixing psychology and AI

22 September 2020, Nature Communications published an article titled ‘Tracking historical changes in trustworthiness using machine learning analyses of facial cues in paintings’. When the last author advertised the publication on social media (Twitter), many researchers expressed concerns about the work (including historians, statisticians, computer scientists, philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists).

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Perspectives on `What makes a good theory?`

Together with Chris Donkin, I co-organized a symposium at MathPsych/ICCM2020, titled Perspectives on ‘What makes a good theory?’ Below you find the symposium description and links to the talks.

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Can you give an example of a good theory?

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a paper discussion of “Theory before the test”. Eirini Zormpa and Johannes Algermissen organized the discussion for ReproducibiliTea Nijmegen, an OSCN initiative.

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DLF fellowship & NIAS project

I’m honoured to have been awarded a Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (DLF). This means I will be working on my project Tools for theory: Improving the theoretical foundations of psychological science at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Amsterdam.

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Free Chapter 1 and Pizzas

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