Kevin Grobman

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Caveat to the Familiarity Effect / Mere Exposure Effect?

Generally increased exposure to stimuli leads to increased liking (i.e., familiarity effect, mere exposure effect). For example, hearing a song repeatedly leads to greater liking of the song and...

03 March 2019 8,324 1 View

Three Identical Strangers - Thoughts on Ethics & Twin Study Research Methodology?

I saw the new documentary movie, Three Identical Strangers, and I’m wondering what others in Psychology, especially Developmental Psychology and Behavioral Genetics think? Peter Neubauer...

07 July 2018 2,812 0 View

Is Helicopter Parenting Harming our Children’s Emotion Regulation?

The media has been widely reporting so based on an APA press-release for an upcoming journal article in Developmental Psychology (pre-print & press release link below). The authors coded...

06 June 2018 7,418 0 View

Dashboard / Cross-tab to Datafile for Statistical Analysis?

I am trying to understand patterns in a very large institutional database. Unfortunately I can only get the data from, “dashboards.” I can construct elaborate cross-tabs, though never everything...

04 April 2018 5,213 4 View

Attitude Change to Opposite Side from Learning One Fact from that Side?

I came across an interesting study from two decades ago where people were polled on issues of the day for if they supported or opposed various policies (e.g., affirmative action in college...

01 January 2018 7,900 1 View

Perry’s Stages of Development & the Learning Context Questionnaire (LCQ)?

I have been exploring Perry’s epistemological stages of development into adulthood. The Learning Context Questionnaire (LCQ) by Griffith and Chapman (1982) seems to be the most common...

11 November 2017 9,575 2 View

Cohen's q to r squared?

I would like to compare how two variables are correlated within each of two between-subject conditions. To compare the correlations, I used online calculators to conduct a Fisher z-score...

05 May 2017 3,859 6 View

Parenting as Developmental Predictor beyond Parenting Styles?

I have been considering the role of parents, and I'm wondering if there are dimensions or categories of parenting that predict developmental outcomes in addition to Baumrind's parenting styles...

08 August 2016 7,868 9 View

Activities for Learning to Teach Behaviorism?

Teaching Introductory Psychology, I’ve had students classically condition Pavlov’s dog and operantly condition Fuzzy the Alien through website simulations (links below). Unfortunately, Pavlov’s...

01 January 1970 7,708 6 View

(Almost the) Opposite of Group Polarization?

A solid conservative moves from a liberal to conservative state and then pushes back against what they perceive as extremism in their new community's conservatism. A moderately liberally academic...

01 January 1970 1,347 3 View

Conceptual Knowledge “versus” Critical Thinking - False Dichotomy?

Professors sometimes discuss pedagogical decisions such as if to emphasize students acquiring content knowledge versus developing critical thinking skills within the discipline. Almost all...

01 January 1970 2,731 4 View