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Replication: Kisses

Replication

Emotion

Choice

OSF Pre-Reg (German)

Replication: Numeracy and decision making

Replication

Framing

Numeracy

Failedreplication

OSF Pre-Reg (German)

Replication: In search of homo economicus

Replication

Choice

Emotion

Failedreplication

OSF Pre-Reg (German)

Things to come in Quarto

Quarto

So Quarto it is … after the 3rd time trying to update Wowchemy and Hugo and things breaking - time for something new … Quarto “Quarto® is an open-source…

Open Science Lecture Series

Open science

This will be fun - Lecture series on Open Science, Replication, Reproducibility, Open Data and many more.

What HoPTM looks like from the inside

Process Tracing

R

As mentioned some days ago our Handbook of Process Tracing Methods is out in the wild …

Handbook of Process Tracing Methods

Process tracing

Decision Making

Eye tracking

Flashlight

Mousetracking

WOOP WOOP - here it is - the second edition of our beloved “Handbook of Process Tracing Methods”

Pictures

R

So, here we go - new blogdown site … thanks to Dan (https://twitter.com/dsquintana) to kicked me over the edge actually doing this …

BernR Meetup

Process Tracing

Handbook

Today (Dec 10th 2018) we will meet for the first BernR Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Bern-R/) – hope to learn new things and get to know cool R people. More to follow soon ..

BernR Meetup

Meetup

R

Statistics

Today (Dec 10th 2018) we will meet for the first BernR Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Bern-R/) – hope to learn new things and get to know cool R people. More to follow soon ..

A letter to the black goat

Open science

Replication

I wrote this letter to the black goat podcast … will update here if I hear back from them …

Blind Haste (aka im Blindflug)

Perception

Traffic psychology

Chance encounters sometimes lead to interesting and new projects. This is one of those cases … I got to know Emanuel de Bellis during my time at Nestle and we never stopped collaborating ever since (he actually lead my 2017…

Professor priming - or not

Decision Making

Replication

RRR

The root of the problem

Replication

One of the root causes of where we are (as a…

A short history of process tracing

Decision Making

Finally out (already mentioned earlier this year) – now in it’s full glory @ Current Directions in Psychological Science.

LaTeX <- pdfTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX

LaTeX

Lifehacks

Science

I have been using LaTeX (with pdfTeX) for 20+ years now – to be honest I never bothered to understand the differences between the different TeX engines – here is an…

Growing up to be old

Decision Making

Process tracing

Some papers have somewhat weird starting points – this one had an awesome starting point – Lake Louise (Canada):

Something about reverse inference

Decision Making

ggplot

Process tracing

R

Often, when we run process tracing studies (e.g., eye-tracking, mouse-tracking, thinking-aloud) we talk about cognitive processes (things we can’t observe) in a way that…

Eye-Tracking with N > 1

Eye tracking

Methods

Open Source

R

Statistics

This is one of the fastest papers I have ever written. It was a great collaboration with Tomás Lejarraga from the Universitat de les Illes Balears. Why was it great? Because it is one of the rare cases (at least in my academic life) where all people involved in a project…

Everything you believe in is wrong – or is it simply terrorism?

Replication

Science

The replication crisis has many interesting effects on how people (and scientists) think about Psychology (and, of course, other fields) … Here is a nice summary of effects that are hard…

Everything is fucked …

Ego depletion

Replication

Science

Teaching

This syllabus of an (obviously) awesome class has a ton of good reads:

Before R there was S

R

Statistics

Before there was R, there was S. R was modeled on a language developed…

The exams package

R

Teaching

I gave the R package exams a shot for my decision making lecture. Here is what it does:

Sublime autocompletion

LaTeX

They say about Sublime: “The text editor you will fall in love with”

Three weeks without email

Lifehacks

I spend a lot of time writing and answering email. Email is, according to timing, the third longest activity on my computer (although I am using three computers and can check this only on one of them – #timing please let us link computers for an overall…

New Paper on pychodiagnosis and eye-tracking

Decision Making

Eye tracking

Methods

Cilia Witteman and Nanon Spaanjaars (my dutch connection) worked together on a piece on whether psychodiagnosticians improve over time (they don’t)…

the way I am seen, by people who know (and like) me

Decision Making

about illusions

Decision Making

Andrew Gelman talked about a really old paper I did together with Anton Kühberger ages ago. It was actually the first paper / ‘real’ scientific project I was involved in.

Schnitz(e)ljagd

Food Choice

Find the Schnitz(e)l!

all that mutate() and summarise() beauty

R

Statistics

The friendly people from RStudio recently started a webinar series with talks on the following topics (among others):

Moving an idea into business

Decision Making

Flashlight

Open Source

Papers

Recently Ryan Murphy and myself realised that a startup here in Berlin features ideas of our 2011 Flashlight paper.

dplyr is growing up …

R

Die Zeit Wissen … schreibt über Essensentscheidungen

Decision Making

Food Choice

Mal was Längeres zu unseren Lieblingsthemen: Essen und Entscheidungsforschung … Enjoy!

When something old …

Decision Making

Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., & Kühberger, A. (2014). Out of sight – out of mind? Information acquisition patterns in risky choice framing. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 45…

New paper on food choice and simple heuristics

Decision Making

Food Choice

We got a new paper out on how people (consumers) use simple rules to make food choices. This is work in collaboration with the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne.
Here is…

Limesurvey randomizing

Limesurvey

Open Source

It is kind of an odd problem.
For the following pretty straight forward question: How do I randomise questions within a group in Limesurvey? It…

*apply in all its variations …

R

Here is an excellent stackoverflow post on how apply in all its variations can be used.
One of the followups points at plyr (from demi-R-god Hadley Wickham) which provides a consistent naming…

R Style Guide

Google

R

Statistics

This is mainly a note to self:

Religion and # of babies …

Gapminder

Google

Open Source

Religion seems to have little influence on the # of babies per woman – who might have thought …
Here is another excellent talk of Hans Rösling on the topic.

On writing in social science

Decision Making

Malcom Gladwell (author of Blink and Tipping point) meets Dan Ariely (author of Predictively Irrational and Ig Nobel Prize Winner) to chat on what are good strategies in selecting topics to write about and the difficulties of…

how decisions deplete and breaks help

Decision Making

Ego depletion

The New York Times published a nice overview of the work on decision making and ego depletion (often ego depletion is used as a synonym with resource depletion, which is somewhat confusing because of the use of the later…

Why anybody should learn/use R …

Methods

R

Statistics

I had a discussion the other day on the re-appearing topic why one should learn R …
I took the list below from the R-Bloggers which argues why grad students should learn R:

awesome visualization tool for R

Google

R

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/googleVis/ enables chart generation similar to the ones instroduced by Hans Roesling in his TED talk on poverty – extremly cool 🙂

resinstalling packages in R after update

R

This is old - by should still work :) - comment on how to do this in 2019 below …

Sustainable research

Open Source

A sister blog with interesting contributions on what open source software researcher can use to work sustainable …

Psychology as a reproducible Science

LaTeX

Methods

R

Is Psychology ready for reproducible research?

Blog-attack

Decision Making

Here is what Andrew Gelman writes about an interview Colin Camerer gave on Spousomonics … Looking forward to Camerer’s reply …

Where you end up, having a PhD

Science

The illustrated guide from Kindergarten to PhD …
http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

two good things come together

LaTeX

Tech

https://docs.latexlab.org/docs
LaTeX and Google Docs together in one nice (free)application – this is a brilliant idea, which…

R and the World Cup

R

Statistics

Across the street at the Revolution blog a nice example of using R with data from the cloud (see another post on this topic here) shows us the distribution of fouls during the just finished World Cup in a nice barchart. Even more interesting than the fact that Holland rules this category is the way…

R goes cloud

Methods

R

Statistics

Tech

Jeroen Ooms did for R what Google did for editing documents online. He created several software packages that help running R with a nice frontend over the Internet.
I first learned about Jeroen’s website…

LaTeX looks more scientific

LaTeX

There are long discussions on the benefits of LaTeX over Word, but this statement from a (not too serious) paper of Andrew Gelman (a Professor of Statistics and Political…

Accepting to fail (in the name of science)

Science

Very interesting article in WIRED on accepting failure and how ignoring it changes the way scientists make progress (or not).

How WEIRD subjects can be overcome … a comment on Henrich et al.

Decision Making

Methods

Science

Joe Henrich publish…

Lattice versus ggplot2

R

Statistics

I really liked Lattice for generating graphs in R until I saw what ggplot2 can do …
One of the big differences between the two is the theory on which ggplot2 is based upon. There are clear modular building blocks that can be applied in a consistent manner…

R flashmob

R

Statistics

From: The R Flashmob Project
Subject: R Flashmob #2

Flashlight paper draft

Papers

We submitted our Flashlight paper today. Find a draft at the address below:
Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Michael , Murphy…

LaTeX tips

LaTeX

Tech

Two things are often bothering when one starts to work with LaTeX: in text referencing of literature and Umlaute (for our German speaking friends) ****

XAMPP activating mysql

Tech

XAMPP

double, triple or even sextuple blind?

Review process

Science

There is an interesting discussion on how the scientific review process should be handled going on at orgtheory.net blog. The point is that the obvious shortcomings in the current review system (the authors know who the editor is (and vice versa), the reviewer knows (or can easily infer)…

Inference and R

R

Statistics

Dan Goldstein posted a short overview of Inference which allows working with R code in Microsoft Office and Excel.

create colored title in R plot

R

Statistics

David Smith has a very nice code example in which he sets the color of title word in a plot to the actual grouping color. Code can be found here. This seems extremely useful for posters and presentations. I doubt however that…

Priority Heuristic comment

Heuristics

We Johnson, Schulte-Mecklenbeck, & Willemsen, 2008…