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How to publish a Replication of Disgust & Big Five Personality Trait...
I have recently been following a discussion in my discipline about the peer review process, which led me to this very interesting paper about the history of and alternatives to the peer review process...
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Differences between white male liberals and white male conservatives
I was recently forwarded a question about the differences that exist between Democrats and Republicans amongst white men. The question was framed by the fact that white men appear to be leaving the...
View ArticleTony Washington’s NFL Story: How wrong is brother-sister incest?
Moral psychology has no answer as to whether brother-sister incest is wrong, but I have given the below dilemma, made famous by Jonathan Haidt, many times in classes to undergraduates. It is...
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The Village Square helps partisans recognize common threats
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog One of the more robust findings in social psychology is the idea that common goals reduce inter-group conflicts. Several groups have recently taken...
View ArticleReducing Self-Interest Bias in Conflicts by Mitigating Disparities in Liking
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog One of the most difficult things for all of us to overcome in any competitive situation is self-serving bias. The below video explains it in an...
View ArticlePrediction: The Replication Crisis will be Solved by Market Forces, not...
Social science is in an interesting place, especially my home discipline of social psychology. Traditionally, it has been practiced by scholars at academic institutions who are relatively unaffected...
View ArticleCantor Loss shows Crowdsourcing, not Polling, is the Future of Prediction
Eric Cantor, the 2nd most powerful person in the House of Representatives, lost in the Republican Primary today to the relatively unknown Dave Brat. While others have focused on the historical nature...
View ArticleIntuitionism in Practice: How the Village Square puts Relationships First
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Our friends at the Village Square recently wrote an article about how they have been able to bridge partisan divides in their community, based on...
View ArticleComparing World Cup Prediction Algorithms – Ranker vs. FiveThirtyEight
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog Like most Americans, I pay attention to soccer/football once every four years. But I think about prediction almost daily and so this year’s World Cup...
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Pew Research highlights Social, Political and Moral Polarization among...
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog A recent research study by Pew highlights societal trends that have a lot of people worried about the future of our country. While many people have...
View ArticleCivilPolitics.org comments on Hollande’s Political Strategy for BBC World
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Earlier today, I appeared on BBC World’s Business Edition to comment on Francois Hollande’s efforts to unite union and business interests in working...
View ArticleOvercoming The Psychological Barriers to Combining Realism with Idealism
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog I was recently forwarded this thoughtful article by Peter Wehner, from Commentary Magazine, that talks about the need for people to appreciate the...
View ArticlePolitical Discrimination as Normative as Racial Divisions once were
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog Once upon a time, it was socially normative for society to divide itself along racial lines. Thankfully, that time has passed and while racism still...
View ArticleThe Value of Opinion Datasets – Twitter vs. Facebook vs. Ranker vs. Market...
As Ranker’s Chief Data Scientist, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking of late about how much a given opinion dataset is worth. I’m not talking about the value of a specific dataset to answer a specific...
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Living Room Conversations Builds Trust Across Differences Concerning CA...
Reposted from this post on the Civil Politics Blog At CivilPolitics, one of our service offerings is to help groups that are doing work connecting individuals who may disagree about political and moral...
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Ranker Predicts Jacksonville Jaguars to have NFL’s worst record in 2014
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog Today is the start of the NFL season and building on our success in using crowdsourcing to predict the World Cup, we’d like to release our predictions...
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Ranker World Cup Predictions Outperform Betfair & FiveThirtyEight
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog Former England international player turned broadcaster Gary Lineker famously said “Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at...
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Happy Inanimate Objects, Dramatic Animals + Gamer Survival Kits
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog 60+ Everyday Objects That Look Really Happy What could be nicer than finding a smiley face at the bottom of your coffee mug? How about living in a house...
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Why Ranker Data is Better than Facebook’s and Twitter’s
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog By Clark Benson (CEO, Ranker) It’s unlikely you’ll be pouring freezing water over your head for it, but the marketing world is experiencing its own Peak...
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Ranker Predicts Jacksonville Jaguars to have NFL’s worst record in 2014
Reposted from this post on the Ranker Data Blog Today is the start of the NFL season and building on our success in using crowdsourcing to predict the World Cup, we’d like to release our predictions...
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