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[86] The Data Colada Seminar Series

Posted on April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 by Leif Joe and Uri

We miss the old seminars and conferences. While we wait for those to happen again, we’ve decided to organize a seminar series ourselves. Most talks will probably be about behavioral science, but we are figuring things out as we go. The one thing that all talks will have in common is that all three of…

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[85] Data Replicada #4: The Problem of Hidden Confounds

Posted on March 10, 2020March 9, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In this installment of Data Replicada, we report on Study 3 of a recently published Journal of Consumer Research article entitled, “Does Curiosity Tempt Indulgence?” (.htm). In that study, participants were induced to feel curious or not and then were asked to (hypothetically) choose between two gym memberships, one for a “normal” gym and one…

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[84] Data Replicada #3: Does Self-Concept Uncertainty Influence Magazine Subscription Choice?

Posted on February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In the third installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) article entitled, “The Uncertain Self: How Self-Concept Structure Affects Subscription Choice” (.htm). The central theory in the paper can be expressed in the following way: If you are uncertain about your own self-concept, then…

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[83] Data Replicada #2: Do Self-Construal and Group Size Influence How People Make Choices on Behalf of a Group?

Posted on January 15, 2020February 11, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In this second installment of Data Replicada, we report two attempts to replicate a study in a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) article entitled, “Wine for the Table: Self-Construal, Group Size, and Choice for Self and Others” (.htm). Imagine that you are in a monthly book club and it is your job to…

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[82] Data Replicada #1: Do Elevated Viewpoints Increase Risk Taking?

Posted on December 11, 2019February 11, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In this post, we report our attempt to replicate a study in a recently published Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) article entitled, “Having Control Over and Above Situations: The Influence of Elevated Viewpoints on Risk Taking” (.htm). The article’s abstract summarizes the key result: “consumers’ views of scenery from a high physical elevation induce an…

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[79] Experimentation Aversion: Reconciling the Evidence

Posted on November 7, 2019February 11, 2020 by Berkeley Dietvorst, Rob Mislavsky, and Uri Simonsohn

A PNAS paper (.htm) proposed that people object “to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies” (their title). In our own work (.htm), we arrive at the opposite conclusion: people “don’t dislike a corporate experiment more than they dislike its worst condition” (our title). In a forthcoming PNAS letter, we identified a problem with the statistical…

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[74] In Press at Psychological Science: A New 'Nudge' Supported by Implausible Data

Posted on December 5, 2018November 18, 2020 by Guest co-author: Frank Yu, with Leif and Uri

Today Psychological Science issued a Corrigendum (.htm) and an expression of concern (htm) for a paper originally posted online in May 2018 (.htm). This post will spell out the data irregularities we uncovered that eventually led to the two postings from the journal today. We are not convinced that those postings are sufficient. It is…

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[60] Forthcoming in JPSP: A Non-Diagnostic Audit of Psychological Research

Posted on May 8, 2017February 12, 2020 by Leif Joe and Uri

A forthcoming article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has made an effort to characterize changes in the behavior of social and personality researchers over the last decade (.htm). In this post, we refer to it as “the JPSP article” and to the authors as "the JPSP authors." The research team, led by…

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[54] The 90x75x50 heuristic: Noisy & Wasteful Sample Sizes In The “Social Science Replication Project”

Posted on November 1, 2016February 12, 2020 by Uri Simonsohn

An impressive team of researchers is engaging in an impressive task: Replicate 21 social science experiments published in Nature and Science in 2010-2015 (.htm). The task requires making many difficult decisions, including what sample sizes to use. The authors' current plan is a simple rule: Set n for the replication so that it would have 90%…

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[50] Teenagers in Bikinis: Interpreting Police-Shooting Data

Posted on July 14, 2016February 15, 2020 by Uri Simonsohn

The New York Times, on Monday, showcased (.htm) an NBER working paper (.pdf) that proposed that “blacks are 23.8 percent less likely to be shot at by police relative to whites.” (p.22) The paper involved a monumental data collection effort  to address an important societal question. The analyses are rigorous, clever and transparently reported. Nevertheless, I do…

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