So Rich is more math psych. And I understand him. I really struggle to understand the perspective(s) of social/personality psych people quite a bit and often have to ask for more context. When I get it, I can see more about what why the position you all have is the way it is.
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Replying to @o_guest @siminevazire
Well, our field was set up to answer questions like "how to reduce prejudice?" and "how to get people to eat gizzards in wartime?" and continues a strong streak of answer-giving even when the questions become more philosophical.
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Replying to @RogertheGS @siminevazire
Why do you think the question-asking aspect is unique to your sub-area? (I'm trying to avoid implying we're in different fields.)
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Replying to @o_guest @siminevazire
Experimental (social) psychology by its nature tends to focus on single yes/no questions that give evidence toward a theory, whereas modelling builds a representation to best-fit standards, if I have it right. Can't speak for any other area.
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Replying to @RogertheGS @siminevazire
OK, but you can do modelling in any field from chemistry to psychology (social inclusive). So I guess you are saying you don't do that much modelling in social?
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Replying to @o_guest @siminevazire
Some, but not much. For some reason you see SEM a lot in research on intergroup processes, for example.
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Iris van Rooij Retweeted CompCogSci
I know (co-supervised) a social psychology PhD student who used computational modeling tools from cogsci to address social psych research questions (see here a resulting paper: https://twitter.com/CCS_donders/status/979345873787383809 …). Just saying, same tools may sometimes apply also in social psych.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @RogertheGS and
Btw, that modeling project was not about 'best fit' modeling at all. Instead it involved genuine theoretical / explanatory modeling. I'd like to clarify, because not all modeling is statistical modeling. Some is theoretical modeling. A very different beast and research approach.
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This input is so valuable for the exchange of ideas and fomenting understanding, Iris. Thanks.
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