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.
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.
The “fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong” replication fallacy
Last week’s post about the flimsy evidence regarding stereotype threat (and the massive amounts of money wasted chasing stereotype threat effects) was far more popular than I expected. The tweet where I publicized it was my most viewed tweet in over a year, and already it is one my most popular blog posts ever. So,…
The $67.5 million wasted on stereotype threat research
One popular topic in psychology when discussing test performance is the idea of stereotype threat. First proposed by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995, the stereotype threat is phenomenon where a person who belongs to a stereotyped demographic group performs in accordance with the stereotype after being reminded of it. Usually this is suggested…
What’s new for STATISTICS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2nd edition
Today, I submitted the manuscript for the second edition of my statistic textbook, Statistics for the Social Sciences: A General Linear Model Approach. This book has been a labor of love, and it has been a great pleasure to revisit the text and make revisions. The first edition has been well received, with the comments…
The one variable that makes growth mindset interventions work
Do you believe that how hard you work to learn something is more important than how smart you are? Do you think that intelligence is not set in stone, but that you can make yourself much smarter? If so, congratulations! You have a growth mindset. Proposed by Stanford psychologist Carol S. Dweck, mindset theory states…
Social psychology’s fall from grace
One of the biggest changes in psychology in recent years is the drop in esteem that social psychology has experienced. Social psychology has gone from an essential component of psychology to being one of psychology’s less relevant subfields in less than 10 years. How did this happen? One major reason is the replication crisis. When…
