A Politics & Moral Psychology Blog Exploring Political Attitudes Through Moral Psychology

4May/100

Can open government data inform voters in the 2010 election?

Unfortunately, I think the answer is no. For the last week, I’ve been attempting to update a ‘candidate calculator’ website that I helped create for the 2008 presidential election, votehelp.org. Candidate calculators are a term for quizzes or surveys which ask you questions about issues (sometimes weighted by issue importance) and then match you with [...]

30Apr/102

Book Reviews – Consilience between psychology and books I read.

One think I often do on this blog is write about books I’ve read and how they relate to psychology studies.
A long time ago, I attended my favorite event in Los Angeles, the LA Times Festival of Books, and picked up the book Consilience, by E. O. Wilson. Consilience literally means the “jumping together” of [...]

19Apr/100

How to publish a Replication of Disgust & Big Five Personality Trait Correlations

I have recently been following a discussion in my discipline about the peer review process, which led me to this very interesting paper about the history of and alternatives to the peer review process in psychology.
At the same time, I’ve been working with colleagues on a paper about experiential vs. material purchasing styles, for which [...]

1Apr/106

Nate Silver and Veronique de Rugy demonstrate how a more modern peer review process could work.

As someone who was in the dot-com world for years before entering academia, I’ve always felt that the peer review process could be made far more efficient and while I’m not 100% sure what form that would take, it might look something like a recent exchange between Nate Silver, an Obama supporter who runs fivethirtyeight.com (which [...]

5Oct/090

The Business of Psychology: Will the peer review journal article system be changed by technology?

In a sense, academics have been ‘crowd sourcing’ for years.  The first documented case of peer review was in 1665 (according to wikipedia), though this only became a standard in the later part of the 20th century.  Peer review refers to the process whereby other academics review the work of potential authors of new knowledge [...]