by Craig Marker | May 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
A paper by Alan Krueger and David Schkade discusses the reliability of self-report measures of well-being. ABSTRACT This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary...
by Craig Marker | May 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
From Wired Science Blog: When faced with hardship and failure, people fall roughly into two groups: those who “roll with life’s punches, facing failures and problems with grace,” and those who “dwell on calamities, criticize themselves and...
by Craig Marker | May 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Wired Blog:A blue jeans company called The Proportion of Blu is using the “Divine Proportion” formula, also known as the “Golden Ratio,” to make your butt look its best. Algebraically, it goes like this: The formula has been used...
by Craig Marker | May 16, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the APS Observer: In the article “Adaptation and the Set-Point Model of Subjective Well-Being” in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, Richard E. Lucas (Michigan State University and German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin)...
by Craig Marker | May 16, 2007 | Uncategorized
A letter to the editor of the APS Observer: Although the National Institute of Health takes no position on this issue, it is important for psychologists to know that federal regulations regarding the people in psychologists’ experiments refer to those people as...
by Craig Marker | May 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
Multiple imputation is a statistical technique that imputes values for missing data. That is, it provides a best guess at what the missing data should be. Older techniques would substitute values for missing information. Mean substitution uses the mean of the variable...
by Craig Marker | May 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
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.
by Craig Marker | May 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Table of Malcontents Blog:
by Craig Marker | May 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
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...
by Craig Marker | May 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
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...
