SJDM members by field and gender
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An analysis of SJDM society members by gender and academic field.
An analysis of SJDM society members by gender and academic field.
The 2016 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality will take place on June 27 – July 5, 2016, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. Participation will be free, accommodation will be provided, and travel expenses will be partly reimbursed. Deadline 27 March 2016.
Science Magazine’s list of scientific breakthroughs for 2015 included the Psychology’s reproducibility project.
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A new book by Phil Tetlock and Dan Gardner on Super-Forecasting.
Check out this announcement of a new book by Paul Slovic and son.
On rare occasion, we read the table of contents of a journal and say to ourselves “Hmm. Most of those articles sound useful and interesting.” This is one of those times.
President Obama signed an Executive Order that directs Federal agencies to use behavioral science insights to better serve the American people. The Executive Order directs Federal agencies to identify programs in which applying behavioral science insights can yield substantial improvements; develop strategies for applying behavioral science insights to programs, and, where possible, for rigorously testing and evaluating the impact of these insights; recruit behavioral science experts to join the Federal Government; and strengthen agency relationships with the research community.
The reproducibility of psychology studies is not good. But the field can fix itself.
Statistician Andrew Gelman had a sense that something was up with dubious Science article soon after it was published.