Conveners
Talk Session 2: Psychological Methods
- Gregor Sočan (Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta)
In a survey by Nature (Baker, 2016), 52% of respondents from different disciplines stated that there is a significant crisis in the reproducibility of research results. Possible reasons for this include falsification of studies, questionable research practices, insufficient power of studies, lack of statistical literacy, or too simple (correlative) hypotheses for complex empirical phenomena....
Jingle and jangle fallacies arise from unclear connections between theory and empirical studies. In jingle fallacies, different phenomena are given the same name, whereas jangle fallacies occur when the same phenomenon is given different names. This problem has only been increasingly studied in recent years, although these fallacies have been known since Thorndike and Kelley. Examples of...
Measurement invariance testing has become a standard procedure in the psychometric toolbox. Power analysis is also considered an integral part of any statistical hypothesis testing procedure. Surprisingly, however, there is little guidance in the literature regarding the statistical power of measurement invariance testing procedures and associated sample size requirements. This may be due to...
Recent developments in psychological assessment have seen the rise of AI-based
automatic detection of emotional facial expressions, now widely implemented in
both commercial and open-source software. Despite its growing prominence, this
AI-based approach encounters practical, measurement, and diagnostic
challenges.
Our initial study (N = 18) involved a comparative analysis of OpenFace,...
