Dr Jessica Flake (University of British Columbia) Title: Methodological Research Needs Methodological Reform Too Abstract: Psychology is in a period of methodological reform. Researchers are rethinking their practices, sharing their data, and trying out registered reports. In this open science era, my work has focused on the role of measurement practices. I’ll provide some background as […]
A/Prof Yoel Inbar (University of Toronto) Title: Moral Language Use By U.S. Political Elites Abstract: Politicians on the left and right vary in the extent to which they moralize social issues. Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) posits five moral foundations said to constitute the basic building blocks of morality across cultures: the “individualizing” foundations of harm […]
Dr Daniel Feuerriegel (University of Melbourne) Title: Where are the prediction errors? Three tests for expectancy effects on visual evoked responses Abstract: We can rapidly learn repeating patterns in our environment. These learned patterns are often used to form expectations about future sensory events. Several influential predictive coding models posit that stimulus-evoked neural responses in […]
