Interesting Readings

Readings by Prasad

Impact:

• What makes research 'interesting'? - read “Six Guidelines for Interesting Research” (Gray & Wegner, 2013, PPS)
• Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact (Science, 2013)

Free Will academic readings

Free Will popular media readings

Choice readings

Ethics and Morality readings

Beliefs readings

• Windows to the soul: Children and adults see the eyes as the location of the self (Starmans & Bloom, 2012, Cognition).
• Mind-Set Interventions Are a Scalable Treatment for Academic Underachievement (Psychological Science, 2015)
• 1050Long Ago It Was Meant to Be: The InterplayBetween Time, Construal, and Fate Beliefs (PSPB, 2006)
• The new mind control (Aeon, 2016) about tech companies manipulating minds

• Zhou, X. Vohs, K. D., & Baumeister, R. F. (2009). The symbolic power of money: Reminders of money alter social distress and physical pain. Psychological Science, 20, 700-706.
• Vohs, K. D., Mead, N. L., & Goode, M. R. (2006). The psychological consequences of money. Science, 314, 1154-1156.
• Money Priming - great little video by BBC
• Michael W. Kraus, Stéphane Côté, and Dacher Keltner - Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy 2010 Psyc Sci
• Seeing green: Mere exposure to money triggers a business decision frame and unethical outcomes (Kouchaki etal. 2013, OBHDP)
• How Money Worries Can Scramble Your Thinking (Science, 2013)
• Using abstract language signals power. Wakslak, Smith, & Han (JPSP, 2014)

• The meanings of life (Baumeister, Aeon Magazine, Sep2013)

• The price of your soul: How the brain decides whether to ‘sell out’ (very interesting approach to 'selling' your values, and to differentiate what is an important value or not (can be done with Free Will)?
• The Implications of Value Conflict How Disagreement on Values Affects Self-Involvement and Perceived Common Ground
• The Foreign-Language Effect Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases, reviewed on The Benefits of Being Bilingual (Wired Science)
• Why Men Need Women - Adam Grant (hint : giving)
• Do we become a different person when hitting the road? Personality development of sojourners (JPSP, 2013)

• Disclosing information about the self is intrinsically rewarding - PNAS

• Creativity is More Than Thinking Outside the Box
• Leadership is associated with lower levels of stress (PNAS, 2012)

• Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (PNAS, 2012)
• People With Dark Personalities Tend to Create a Physically Attractive Veneer (SPPS, 2012)
• Though They May Be Unaware, Newlyweds Implicitly Know Whether Their Marriage Will Be Satisfying (Science, 2013)

• Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust
• How the Rich are Different from the Poor I: Choice
• Investing in Karma When Wanting Promotes Helping (PsycSci, 2012)
• Are Close Friends the Enemy? Online Social Networks, Self-Esteem, and Self-Control (Keith Wilcox & Andrew T. Stephen, JCR, 2012)
• Reading and doing arithmetic nonconsciously
• The temporal Doppler effect: When the future feels closer than the past (Psyc Science, 2013)
• After 2,500 Studies, It's Time to Declare Animal Sentience Proven (Op-Ed)
• Smile Intensity in Photographs Predicts Longevity (PsycSci, 2013), see review here.
• Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity (JAP, 2014 | suppl)
• A “Present” for the Future - The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery (Zhang et al., 2014, PsycSci)
• The distributional preferences of an elite (Fisman, Science, 2015)
• Inhibited from Bowling Alone (Ratner & Hamilton, 2015, JCR) / video

• Temporal Distance and Discrimination An Audit Study in Academia
• MTurk - Buhrmester, M. D., Kwang, T., & Gosling, S. D. (2011). Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: A new source of inexpensive, yet high-quality, data? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 3-5. (blog about the methods)
• I like IAT in general. Just heard of pencil-n-paper IAT, which is a clever twist to the whole thing.
• Flows of Research Manuscripts Among Scientific Journals Reveal Hidden Submission Patterns (Science, 2012), covered here.
• Selfless giving (Cognition, 2013)
• ‘Give’ Gives Way as Word Usage Reflects Shift in Values (covering a research published in psycsci)
• Hierarchical cultural values predict success and mortality in high-stakes teams (PNAS, 2015)
• Biasing moral decisions by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze (PNAS, 2015)
• Who you are is where you are: Antecedents and consequences of locating the self in the brain or the heart (OBHDP, 2015)
• The Sound of Intellect Speech Reveals a Thoughtful Mind, Increasing a Job Candidate’s Appeal (Psychological Science, 2015)
• Group discussion improves lie detection (PNAS, 2015)
• Local Warming: Daily Temperature Change Influences Belief in Global Warming (Li, Johnson, & Zaval, 2015, PsycSci)
• Conservatives report, but liberalsdisplay, greater happiness (Science, 2015) | Supplementary

• A Series of Meta-Analytic Tests of the Depletion Effect: Self-Control does not Seem to Rely on a Limited Resource (JEP:G, EC Carter, LM Kofler, DE Forster, & ME McCullough, 2015)
• Direct reply to Kurzban - Is ego depletion too incredible? Evidence for the overestimation of the depletion effect (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Carter & McCullough, 2013)
• Ego depletion—Is it all in your head? Implicit theories about willpower affect self-regulation (Psychological science, V Job, CS Dweck, GM Walton, 2010)
• Beliefs about willpower determine the impact of glucose on self-control (PNAS, Job, Walton, Bernecker, & Dweck, 2013)
• What is ego depletion? Toward a mechanistic revision of the resource model of self-control (Perspectives on Psychological Science, Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012)
• On conceptualizing self-control as more than the effortful inhibition of impulses (PSPR, Fujita 2011)
• Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control (JESP, Vohs, Baumeister, Schmeichel, et al., 2012)
• Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited (Trends in cognitive sciences, Inzlicht, Schmeichel, Macrae, , 2014)
• Implicit theories about willpower predict the activation of a rest goal following self-control exertion (JPSP, Job, Bernecker, Miketta, 2015)
• Publication bias and the limited strength model of self-control: has the evidence for ego depletion been overestimated? (Frontiers in psychology, Carter & McCullough, 2014)
• Bias-Correction Techniques Alone Cannot Determine Whether Ego Depletion is Different from Zero: Commentary on Carter, Kofler, Forster, & McCullough, 2015

• China: innovating more than copying
• 6 Ways to Get Me to Email You Back

• The Ascent of Man: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence for Blatant Dehumanization (JPSP, 2015)
• Neurodegeneration and Identity (PsycSci, 2015)

• Framing effects - How psychological framing affects economic market prices in the lab and field (PNAS, 2013)
• Secrecy heuristic - Travers, M. W., Van Boven., L, & Judd, C. J. (in press). The secrecy heuristic: Inferring quality from secrecy in foreign policy contexts. Political Psychology
• Inattentional blindness - The Invisible Gorilla Strikes Again Sustained Inattentional Blindness in Expert Observers (PsycSci, 2013)
• Overclaiming - When Knowledge Knows No Bounds Self-Perceived Expertise Predicts Claims of Impossible Knowledge (PyscSci, 2016)

• Psychology’s brilliant, beautiful, scientific messiness.
• Replication studies: Bad copy
• Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication
• Life after P-Hacking Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn @SPSP
• High Impact = High Statistical Standards? Not Necessarily So (PLOSOne)
• A Top 10 List of Psychology’s Big Questions, and the Answers
• Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank
• P-Curve: A Key to the File-Drawer JEP-G
• The famous debate - Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect (Bem 2011, JPSP) and the response - Why psychologists must change the way they analyze their data: The case of psi
• Just Post It The Lesson From Two Cases of Fabricated Data Detected by Statistics Alone (Psycsci, 2013)
• How to Cook up Your Own Social Priming Article (Rolf Zwaan's blog post)
• Psychology Disclosure project
• The Chrysalis Effect How Ugly Initial Results Metamorphosize Into Beautiful Articles (JOM, 2014)
• Publication and other reporting biases in cognitive sciences: detection, prevalence, and prevention (Trends in Cognitive Psychology, March 2014)
• People analyze dataset differently reaching different conclusions.
• Science Isn’t Broken It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for (538 science)
• An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values (Royal Society open science)
• The Prevalence of Statistical Reporting Errors in Psychology (1985-2013)
• Meta-analyses are no substitute for registered replications: a skeptical perspective on religious priming (Frontiers)
• 2 economists tried to replicate a bunch of published economic studies, and the results were disturbing (Business Insider, 2015)
• Questionable research practives revisited (SPPS, 2015)
• Research funding goes to rich clubs / Gender contributes to personal research funding success in The Netherlands (PNAS, 2015)
• Underreporting in Psychology Experiments Evidence From a Study Registry (SPPS, 2016)
• Benefits of Open and High-Powered Research Outweigh Costs (JPSP, 2016)
  • and this tool - True Scientific Discoveries: What Research Approach is Most Cost-Effective?
• Statistical & Methodological Consulting - center for open science
• Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors (Nature, 2016)
• Can you trust research? (in Hebrew, Haaretz, 2016)
• Are You Planning a 10-Study Article? You May Want to Read This First (replicability index, 2016)
• Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals (J R Soc Med , 2016)
• A Bayesian Perspective on the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (PLOSone, 2016)
• Many surveys, about one in five, may contain fraudulent data (Science, 2016)
• Encourage Playing with Data and Discourage Questionable Reporting Practices (Psychometrika, 2016)
• Comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science” (Science, 2016) (covered in Slate)

Solutions / platforms:

• Curate Science

• Organizational sciences’ obsession with “that’s interesting!”, Consequences and an alternative
• Ruminations on How We Became a Mystery House and How We Might Get Out (Barley, JOM, 2016)

• Bodily maps of emotions (PNAS, 2013)

• Calculating and Reporting Effect Sizes to Facilitate Cumulative Science: A Practical Primer for t-tests and ANOVAs (Frontiers in Psychology, 2013)
• Increasing statistical power in psychological research without increasing sample size (blog post from the Open Science collaboration, Sean Mackinnon)
• Revised standards for statistical evidence (PNAS, 2013)
• Psychological Strategies for Winning a Geopolitical Forecasting Tournament (PsycSci, 2014) - competition in predicting future events
• Morality in everyday life (Science, 2014) - tracking everyday morality using mobile phones
• People search for meaning when they approach a new decade in chronological age (PNAS, 2014)
• Bosco, F. A., Aguinis, H., Singh, K., Field, J. G., & Pierce, C. A. (2014, October 13) Correlational Effect Size Benchmarks. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication.
• Direct and indirect punishment among strangers in the field (PNAS, 2014)
• Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks (Science, 2015)
• Using Nonnaive Participants Can Reduce Effect Sizes (PsycSci, 2015)
• I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How. (IO9 ; May, 2015)
• Using prediction markets to estimate thereproducibility of scientific research (PNAS, 2015)
• Three Guys Talking About Scales (Pysc your mind, 2015) - yes/no versus Likert
• Give p a chance: significance testing is misunderstood (the conversation, 2015)
• Confidence intervals? More like confusion intervals (psychometric society, 2015)
• What journalists get wrong about social science, according to 20 scientists (Vox, 2016)
• p=.20, what now? Adventures of the Good Ship DataPoint (Rolf Zwaan, 2015)
• Meta-analyses are no substitute for registered replications: a skeptical perspective on religious priming (Front. Psychol., 2015)
• A pre-registration primer (OSF presentation)
• Statistically controlling for confounding constructs is harder than you think Jacob WestfallTal Yarkoni

• The ‘Call for Participants’ platform connects researchers with participants so as to improve the efficiency and accuracy of research trials.