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Whether this multilab project actually takes place depends on the availability of funds, but I hope the funding will materialize! I cover this classic study in my cog psych class, but, as the graph shows, the effect is rather small. I'd be interested in finding out what comes out of it.

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Matthew Robison @matthewrobison.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

@rolfzwaan.bsky.social is organizing a multilab replication of Loftus & Palmer's (1974) classic study: People's memory of two cars' speed was influenced by the verb used in Q ("How fast were the cars moving when they ____"). This is exciting, & if you want to take part in it, check out Rolf's post.

A graph summarizing the results of the Loftus & Palmer (1974) study, indicating that the estimated speed of the cars varies as a function of the verbs used in the questioning (e.g., contacted, hit, bumped, collided, smashed).

The graph is from this site: https://www.earlyyears.tv/loftus-and-palmer-1974-car-crash-experiment/

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Matthew Robison @matthewrobison.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229 Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)

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Here's a replication of an informal Big 5 result I posted yesterday (the original post is pinned on my profile page). Glad to see that @aurelienallard.bsky.social found the same result. I'd love to see more attempts like this on Big 5 or other constructs. Thanks, Aurélien, for doing this analysis!

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I'd be happy to ask the grad student who did this analysis as a part of a little class project, but, in the meantime, here's a Big 5 replication attempt by @aurelienallard.bsky.social. I'd love to see how our and his results fare in other datasets.

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Wow, thanks for trying to replicate the informal class project result w/ a different dataset! That's amazing!

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Here's some replication by @aurelienallard.bsky.social using a different dataset based on 50 items in case you're interested. I'd love to see more replications w/ Big 5 & other psychological constructs (e.g., intelligence).

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 08/09/2025

At least some (possibly all) of the 10 body measurements are likely to be correlated (even substantially), so I tend to think that the math based on total independence might not quite capture what happened in the Daniels pilot study.

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Cool thread. Excellent reminder that bodies and personalities (and faces fwiw) are multidimensional, and that averages are poor lenses with which to examine them. Further, relationships within/between dimensions may be complex - jagged, yes, but also networked & dynamic #neuroskyence #psychscisky

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall! The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so. I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

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Well, the answer turned out to be ZERO! (A follow-up thread pinned to my profile page provides a bit of an explanation of what we did.)

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The answer turned out to be ZERO in one informal analysis (see a follow-up thread pinned to my profile page for more info).

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ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

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Perhaps your QB situation will change soon, and they might perform better? The Seahawks didn't do well, either, today, especially at the very end. Sigh...

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That’s impressive, especially because the fence seems really high!

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What a story! What happened to the 4 kittens?

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These are informal analyses, so their replicability remains to be seen. But I thought I'd tell you about them in case you find them intriguing. If a construct (body size, personality, intelligence) is multidimensional, the "jaggedness" of individual profiles may be greater than we assume. (5/5)

Visual illustrations of variations in the "jaggedness" of individual profiles across multiple dimensions of a single overarching construct like size (left panel) or intelligence (right panel). These illustrations are from Todd Rose's (2016) book, "The End of Average" (Chapter 4: Talent Is Always Jagged).

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Other students picked different datasets/constructs (academic achievement, anxiety), but results were similar (0 or close to it). One student picked a longitudinal dataset w/ multiple assessments of children's reading ability. No child's score was in the average range at all 7 time points! (4/5)

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If you want to know what Daniels did, you can download the original Air Force report from tinyurl.com/5xuw98uu. Todd Rose also discusses Daniels' study at the beginning of his book The End of Average. You can read Rose's description via the link👇 provided by @r3beccaf.bsky.social in her post. (3/5)

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This analysis was inspired by Daniels' 1952 report involving 4,063 Air Force pilots. He examined how many of these pilots were "average" (approx. middle 30%) in ALL 10 body measurements. Answer: ZERO! We wanted to see if this also happens w/ psychological measures. The answer seems to be yes. (2/5)

A table of the 10 measures Gilbert Daniels collected from 4,063 Air Force pilots about their physical characteristics (e.g., height, chest circumference). He computed the mean/SD for each measure, determined the "average" range for each (in his case, approximately the middle 30%), and tried to see how many of the 4,063 pilots were in the average range for all 10 body measurements. The answer: 0. This table lists the means, SDs, and average ranges for the 10 measures.

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