cognitive psychology. PhD 
Studies have consistently shown no "significant relationships between perceived readability and... reading time and performance on a simple cloze test." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7404062 …
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I'm consistently surprised by the lack of depth in programming psychology work. Search Google Scholar for "program readability", see all top-cited work. Consistently, the only methodology: literally ask people whether they think code is readable, and check for agreement.
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"Our results demonstrate that none of the (existing and new) metrics we considered is able to capture code understandability, not even the ones assumed to assess quality attributes strongly related with it, such as code readability and complexity." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8115654 …
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You would get laughed out of the field presenting this stuff at a psychology conference instead of ICSE. Imagine, "To analyze racism in job hiring, we surveyed a group of managers to ask 'do you think you're racist?'" You have to validate with external measures...
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Agreed. I'm definitely no expert, but have enjoyed some papers taking a more technical approach e. g. http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/p/weimer-icse2017-preprint.pdf … Curious what you think about these MRI-style tests? Also interested in other examples of good papers if you have suggestions.
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The main issue with low-level cognitive features is making design principles. For example, if "greater skill predicts a less differentiated neural representation", how should I change my language/IDE/curricula/etc. to use this fact?
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