Jul 21, 2026
I have previously written about Amy Cuddy and her disgraced claim about Power Posing. Very short summary: The original study, where Cuddy was second author, had several severe methodological flaws that gravely undermined the findings Cuddy gave a wildly popular TED...
Jun 26, 2024
There are many ways to contribute to theory and potentially fruitful avenues of research, and reading top research articles, it can seem obvious and self-evident. However, most people who have tried to come up with interesting research ideas, know it is far from...
Jun 23, 2024
In the book: Theory Construction and Model building skills, Jaccard & Jacoby outline 16 ways to make a theoretical contribution when conducting research. These are introduced in chapter 3, and numbered from 1 to 16. Each is elaborated on in subsequent chapters. I...
Jul 13, 2023
There is fraud everywhere. There are some people want rewards they can not achieve without cheating. Some (possibly most) find ways to rationalize and justify their actions. The autobiography written by Diederik Stapel, where he tries to explain and admit his actions...
Nov 22, 2021
and indeed, most academic writing 🙂 Don’t Make Your Readers SCREAM Practically everybody who reads your research paper, referees especially, wants to know only a few basic things: What did you do? Why and how did you do it? What did you discover? Here is a...
Sep 30, 2021
Status and emotions are quite easy to spot and identify, as is evaluating our own and others status. There is a website where you can look at a dot-drawing of people walking, based on biometric data. Amazing how easy it is to spot differences, also based on gender....
