Are you a full-fledged empiricist and see a totally empirical Psychology?

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Why did my citations suddenly drop to 0??

I had 793 citations as scored by ResearchGate, and I received email notification of a new citation, which should have been 794. No, it reads ZERO!

18 April 2024 7,343 2 View

Hello Community, can someone please recommend me academic studies that use the exploratory factor analysis using not more than 10 initial factors?

I need to access and read academic studies that use the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) as a analysis method with no more than 10 initial factors. I want to explore if this is academically...

07 March 2024 7,044 2 View

How do I implement fuzzy rules that cause a change in the consequent variable?

I have seen lots of examples of fuzzy rules that implement IF(x is a) THEN (y is b) but I have not been able to find examples of how rules are implemented that result in a change of the form IF(x...

26 August 2023 3,721 2 View

Psychology: How readily do we think and communicate in metaphor ("Ditto", for analogy)?

How (details), when, and to what extents ? I think these answers would be very telling. Same questions for ANALOGY

13 July 2023 5,468 3 View

What basic, post graduate textbook on research methods (including qualitative and mixed methods equally) do you recommend?

What basic, post graduate textbook on research methods (including qualitative and mixed methods equally) do you recommend? I am tasked with writing a research program for a new masters class for...

11 July 2023 7,801 10 View

Will academics EVER stop anthropomorphizing probabilistic uncertainty?

Will academics EVER stop anthropomorphizing "probabilistic uncertainty"? It is something "seen" in "findings" AND (to say the least) not SOME THING. It may well be mainly connected to poor...

28 June 2023 2,871 8 View

Philosophers : Prove to me that a man/women-generated concept of ONTOLOGY is not mere SUPERSTITION. OK?

Philosophers : Prove to me that a man/women-generated concept of ONTOLOGY is not mere SUPERSTITION. OK? I have been able to live with the view that is IS superstition forever -- it makes lack...

12 June 2023 3,094 1 View

A question for neuroscientists: Are psychologists claiming expertise in neuroscience actually THAT?

A question for neuroscientists: Are psychologists claiming expertise in neuroscience actually have THAT? Or, are they pretending for ascribed status? Or grasping for justification of their...

11 June 2023 5,594 13 View

Why Will or Why Will Not what is currently called AGI hit a "wall"?

I am quite curious about this because, just several month ago, I was told by experts that there is NO AGI (NO : Gen. Artificial intelligence aka Artificial General Intelligence -- and these...

10 June 2023 2,908 6 View

Why is starting over not a conderation for Psychology?

I DO MEAN : much of psychology should be reconsidered in order to have CLEAR EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS, FOR ALL NECESSARY CONCEPTS -- for concepts to clearly correspond to some demonstrably important...

10 June 2023 1,920 4 View

What are the long-term impacts of incarceration on youths' developing brain?

I want to explore the long-term effects of incarceration on a youth's developing brain. I also want to explore research that looks critically at incarceration and punitive measures as the primary...

12 August 2024 862 0 View

Feedback defines the constitution of an organism?

“Here is a thought experiment. Let's place Rodolpho Llinas's jarred-brain on top of a body (Fig. 1). I bet Llinas would argue that his jarred-brain retains its own consciousness, and the android...

11 August 2024 2,483 1 View

Text-Communication from the M1 Hand Area using BCI—and then there is Elon Musk?

Willett, Shenoy et al. (2021) have developed a brain computer interface (BCI) that used neural signal collected from the hand area of the motor cortex (area M1) of a paralyzed patient. The...

10 August 2024 7,180 0 View

Can we mark 'EFL Learners shifting from general digital to AI technologies' as technological transition?

After COVID-19 it has seen that EFL learners technological affiliation has raised. In addition, in the post-COVID period learners started to engage AI technologies like ChatGPT while learning...

08 August 2024 8,964 4 View

GC-MS retention index prediticon?

Hello experts, Does anyone know any free software about retention index prediction ?

08 August 2024 7,403 2 View

What are examples of AI for good projects a teacher can assign to students?

So I am organizing an AI seminar. What are possible AI projects in the AI for good spirit? something the students can do and have an impact?

08 August 2024 9,437 4 View

Self-Organizing Superorganisms—as envisaged by Nenad Sestan (2018)?

The rate of glucose consumption by the neocortex is reduced by over 80% during anesthesia (Sibson et al. 1998), which disables the synapses (Richards 2002) that are inundated by glial tissue (Engl...

08 August 2024 3,118 0 View

How to design human-centered classroom in the age of A.I.?

08 August 2024 347 5 View

Hello Everyone ! I'm looking for a good journal to publish my manuscript with low publication cost?

I am Looking for a Science Journal with good impact factor and low publication cost to publish a review paper. Your suggestions would be appreciated.

06 August 2024 6,796 3 View

Is there an alternative to a multinomial regression which allows the DV to be non mutually exclusive?

I am trying to analyse data from a survey examining what variables affect teachers perceived barriers to incorporating technology into their classroom. I have 5 predictor variables however my DV...

06 August 2024 1,752 3 View

Brad Jesness

I hope some will see my work as valuable, so I can go to my 50th anniversary

of my college graduation (in 2025) and feel good about myself.

One should also see my most recent 30 or so posts here on ResearchGate ; those are NOT in any of the collections I have put together of my essays, though there are truly important points I make in those (mainly because they are more "put together" , in good part because they are more recent).