Editorial Perspective: When is a 'small effect'actually large and impactful?

EG Carey, I Ridler, TJ Ford… - Journal of Child …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reporting of effect sizes is standard practice in psychology and psychiatry research.
However, interpretation of these effect sizes can be meaningless or misleading–in particular …

The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes

M Korbmacher, F Azevedo, CR Pennington… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially
lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a …

Subjective socioeconomic status and income inequality are associated with self-reported morality across 67 countries

CT Elbæk, P Mitkidis, L Aarøe, T Otterbring - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Individuals can experience a lack of economic resources compared to others, which we refer
to as subjective experiences of economic scarcity. While such experiences have been …

Not all effects are indispensable: Psychological science requires verifiable lines of reasoning for whether an effect matters

F Anvari, R Kievit, D Lakens… - Perspectives on …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
To help move researchers away from heuristically dismissing “small” effects as unimportant,
recent articles have revisited arguments to defend why seemingly small effect sizes in …

Revisiting the rigidity-of-the-right hypothesis: A meta-analytic review.

TH Costello, SM Bowes, MW Baldwin… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The rigidity-of-the-right hypothesis (RRH), which posits that cognitive, motivational, and
ideological rigidity resonate with political conservatism, is an influential but controversial …

Neuroticism as an antecedent of abusive supervision and laissez‐faire leadership in emergent leaders: The role of facets and agreeableness as a moderator

TH Fosse, M Martinussen, HO Sørlie… - Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Academic interest in the relationship between leaders' personality and subordinates'
perception of destructive leadership behavior is increasing. However, results so far have …

Interviewing in virtual environments: Towards understanding the impact of rapport-building behaviours and retrieval context on eyewitness memory

C Dando, DA Taylor, A Caso, Z Nahouli, C Adam - Memory & cognition, 2023 - Springer
Given the complexities of episodic memory and necessarily social nature of in-person face-
to-face interviews, theoretical and evidence-based techniques for collecting episodic …

A critical evaluation and research agenda for the study of psychological dispositions and political attitudes

K Arceneaux, BN Bakker, N Fasching… - Political …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Political psychologists often examine the influence of psychological dispositions on political
attitudes. Central to this field is the ideological asymmetry hypothesis (IAH), which asserts …

Keep on scrolling? Using intensive longitudinal smartphone sensing data to assess how everyday smartphone usage behaviors are related to well-being

F große Deters, R Schoedel - Computers in Human Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Smartphones are an integral part of daily life for many people worldwide. However,
concerns have been raised that long usage times and the fragmentation of daily life through …

[HTML][HTML] Capturing the well-being exposome in poly-environmental scores.

MP van de Weijer, DHM Pelt, BML Baselmans… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study we use aggregated weighted scores of environmental effects to study
environmental influences on well-being and happiness. To this end, we split a sample of …