Eliana Vassena @ElianaVassena@qoto.org

Continuing today with my favorite fact about Chapter 4 in my textbook. This is a difficult one, as the chapter is a brief overview on Bayesian statistics 😈, but to be a bit cheeky: My favorite fact is that a recent paper shows a distressingly high misuse of Bayesian statistics in psychology papers, suggesting that there is quite some work to be done in educating people.

https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/8/1/36357/185476/On-the-Potential-Mismatch-Between-the-Function-of

I found this lecture about academic writing helpful. Like most academics (I think), I sometimes advise my students to SELL their study. But when I say things like this, I kinda feel like a used-car salesman.

This guy gives the same advice, but he does so in a much more elegant and compelling way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM

#academicwriting #writing

For people interested in #bigteamscience, I highly recommend a paper led by Patrick Forscher: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17456916221082970

Ungated version here: https://psyarxiv.com/2mdxh/

Hey, here's my introduction!

I am a psychologist who studies motivation.

Here are some studies I am especially stoked about:
- Our big new meta-analysis suggests that mental effort is inherently aversive. (https://psyarxiv.com/m8zf6/)

- Physiological effort and experienced effort are correlated, but mostly so because both respond to task difficulty (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.05.013)

- We studied fatigue, boredom and objectively measured smartphone use at work (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201915)

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