Scholarly publishing’s problem is not Sci-Hub. It’s the price.
Scholarly publishing’s problem is not Sci-Hub. It’s the price.
1930s environmentalism in the IQ debate
It is clear that the pre-war views of intelligence and race were not guided blindly by racism.
Send in the clones: Stereotype threat needs replication studies
I propose a moratorium on new stereotype threat studies until any stereotype threat findings have been shown to replicate.
Book review: Gina Perry’s THE LOST BOYS
One of social psychology’s “classic” studies is the Robbers Cave experiment, conducted in the summer of 1954. In that study, 22 white American boys were divided into two teams at an experimental summer camp at Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma.
Open source textbooks: You get what you pay for
I’m stretching myself this summer by teaching, for the first time ever(!), an introduction to psychology course. This is quite a change for me; for over a decade, I have only taught upper-division or graduate-level courses. Now, I’m teaching students who are early in their college career, and (because the class is a general education…
In praise of Sandra Scarr
Given the impressive level of her empirical accomplishments, it should not be surprising that her theoretical accomplishments are also worth remembering.
The gremlins that strengthen stereotype threat
Instead of an insightful view into the problems of stereotype threat research, I instead found an article that itself is plagued with flaws.
Book review: Victoria F. Nourse’s IN RECKLESS HANDS
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942) was a U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled unanimously that Oklahoma’s law permitting the compulsory sterilization of “habitual offenders” in prisons was unconstitutional. This ruling came just 15 years after the infamous Buck v. Bell (1927), in which the court 8-1 ruled the exact opposite in regards to a woman who was supposedly “feeble-minded” (to use the terminology of the time).
Do non-g gains from the Flynn effect matter? Yes and no
Nobody questions the existence of the Flynn effect, which is the tendency for average IQ scores in a population to increase over time. The effect has been found in every country where data exist (Flynn, 1987), and the phenomenon has now been studied for over 30 years.
Top 10 blog posts of 2020
With 2020 coming to a close, I am proud to announce the year’s 10 most popular posts from my blog. In descending order of page views, they are: The one variable that makes growth mindset interventions work The $67.5 million wasted on stereotype threat research Thoughts on low national IQs, intellectual disability, and data quality…
