Jon Haidt

Recently I have been reading Jon Haidt’s great book, the Happiness Hypothesis (I am listening to the Audible version).Here is a video of him speaking at the New Yorker conference.

Facial Expressions in Japan and US

From livescience.com: As a child growing up in Japan, Yuki was fascinated by pictures of American celebrities.”Their smiles looked strange to me,” Yuki told LiveScience. “They opened their mouths too widely, and raised the corners of their mouths in...

Statistics in Psychology Journals

Psychological Science has an article on how a 1999 article on statistical guidelines has changed the practice of presenting statistics in psychological journals:Geoff Cumming, Fiona Fidler, and colleagues at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, examined...

Achievement Index vs. GPA

From the Social Science Statistics Blog:The Achievement Index is a way of calculating GPA that takes into account not only how well one performs in a class, but also how hard the class is relative to others in the institution… The model, which is Bayesian,...