Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder

Bennis, Will M.; Medin, Douglas L.

doi:10.1017/s0140525x1000004x

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“…Tightly controlled laboratory studies are excellent for examining the complexity of behaviour yet one must be wary of over generalization. We utilize a Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) demographic [51] with very specific selection criteria. It is necessary to question the broader significance of a study that so tightly selects participants.…”

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The Importance of the Derivative in Sex-Hormone Cycles: A Reason Why Behavioural Measures in Sex-Hormone Studies Are So Mercurial

et al. 2014

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To study the dynamic changes in cognition across the human menstrual cycle, twenty, healthy, naturally-cycling women undertook a lateralized spatial figural comparison task on twelve occasions at approximately 3–4 day intervals. Each session was conducted in laboratory conditions with response times, accuracy rates, eye movements, salivary estrogen and progesterone concentrations and Profile of Mood states questionnaire data collected on each occasion. The first two sessions of twelve for the response variables were discarded to avoid early effects of learning thereby providing 10 sessions spread across each participant's complete menstrual cycle. Salivary progesterone data for each participant was utilized to normalize each participant's data to a standard 28 day cycle. Data was analysed categorically by comparing peak progesterone (luteal phase) to low progesterone (follicular phase) to emulate two-session repeated measures typical studies. Neither a significant difference in reaction times or accuracy rates was found. Moreover no significant effect of lateral presentation was observed upon reaction times or accuracy rates although inter and intra individual variance was sizeable. We demonstrate that hormone concentrations alone cannot be used to predict the response times or accuracy rates. In contrast, we constructed a standard linear model using salivary estrogen, salivary progesterone and their respective derivative values and found these inputs to be very accurate for predicting variance observed in the reaction times for all stimuli and accuracy rates for right visual field stimuli but not left visual field stimuli. The identification of sex-hormone derivatives as predictors of cognitive behaviours is of importance. The finding suggests that there is a fundamental difference between the up-surge and decline of hormonal concentrations where previous studies typically assume all points near the peak of a hormonal surge are the same. How contradictory findings in sex-hormone research may have come about are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of the Derivative in Sex-Hormone Cycles: A Reason Why Behavioural Measures in Sex-Hormone Studies Are So Mercurial

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“…In fact, the HEXACO model has been discovered using the lexical approach, which is a superior method for understanding the cross-cultural generalisability to questionnaire items (Saucier & Srivastava, 2015), which in turn are most often devised and calibrated in a particular, that is, the researcher's, culture (cf. Bennis & Medin, 2010), and then exported to other cultures. Nonetheless, it is a significant problem for the area of personality traits, which are supposedly located in biology, that cross-cultural replicability is not strong.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several terms in these dimensions, especially negative valence, appear to map onto morally laden concepts (e.g. “cruel,” “depraved”; Benet & Waller, 1995). Indeed, in a sample of undergraduates, Međedović, Čolović, Dinić, and Smederevac (2019) found that H/H was robustly associated with Tellegen and colleagues’ negative valence dimension.…”

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Bainbridge

2020

Eur J Pers

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“…Increased generalizability also increases the chances that a study will be replicated in independent samples because the original effect was observed among participants with differing characteristics. Indeed, using a diverse sample in one's research contributes to a broader goal of psychological science: understanding mechanisms and factors that influence the effect of context on a particular finding (Bennis & Medin, 2010;Machery, 2010). In turn, the research is more likely to hold up over time when replicated or conducted elsewhere as the effect was originally observed among many different persons (Munafo`et al, 2017).…”

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Open Science Promotes Diverse, Just, and Sustainable Research and Educational Outcomes

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Cuccolo

Leighton

et al. 2019

Psychology Learning & Teaching

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Open science initiatives, which are often collaborative efforts focused on making research more transparent, have experienced increasing popularity in the past decade. Open science principles of openness and transparency provide opportunities to advance diversity, justice, and sustainability by promoting diverse, just, and sustainable outcomes among both undergraduate and senior researchers. We review models that demonstrate the importance of greater diversity, justice, and sustainability in psychological science before describing how open science initiatives promote these values. Open science initiatives also promote diversity, justice, and sustainability through increased levels of inclusion and access, equitable distribution of opportunities and dissemination of knowledge, and increased sustainability stemming from increased generalizability. In order to provide an application of the concepts discussed, we offer a set of diversity, justice, and sustainability lens questions for individuals to use while assessing research projects and other organizational systems and consider concrete classroom applications for these initiatives.

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Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

The Importance of the Derivative in Sex-Hormone Cycles: A Reason Why Behavioural Measures in Sex-Hormone Studies Are So Mercurial

The Importance of the Derivative in Sex-Hormone Cycles: A Reason Why Behavioural Measures in Sex-Hormone Studies Are So Mercurial

Open Peer Commentary and Author's Response

Open Science Promotes Diverse, Just, and Sustainable Research and Educational Outcomes

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