Rabble Rouser

Everything you wanted to know about social psychology but were afraid to ask

Lee Jussim Ph.D.

Sexism, Racism, and Serena Williams

Serena behaved badly in the eyes of many. Was penalizing her racism and sexism, or were those charges irresponsible?

Why I Am a Rabble Rouser in Psychological Science

Why embracing scientific controversies and debates in blunt terms that clearly annoys some people can be a good idea.

Why I Am Disillusioned About Social Psychology

A social psychologist explains how the field's scientific and political malfunctions drove her out.

Is Everything You Learned in Intro Psych Wrong?

The famous Stanford Prison Study is not credible.

Psychology Desperately Needs a Massive Influx of Skepticism

The house of scientific social psychology is crumbing. Skepticism can help rebuild it.

Gender Stereotypes Are Mostly Accurate

Scientists are incorrect when they declare stereotypes in general to be "inaccurate."

Self-Correction: The Methodological Revolution in Psychology

Self-correction is one of the hallmarks of science, but it's been slow to work in psychology. How can the field become the self-correcting science it aspires to be?

"Hidden Forces and Essences" Psychology as Magic

Psychology and other social sciences have produced an array of incoherent and difficult to replicate hidden forces and "essences" that supposedly create inequality.

The P-Hack Rap

How Psychological Science Goes Wrong, in a Few HipHop Verses

Toward a More Self-Correcting Psychological Science

How to make psychology the true science it has always aspired to be.

Is Psychology a "Self-Correcting" Science?

Is psychology a science? If so, where is the "scientific self-correction"?

Mandatory Implicit Bias Training Is a Bad Idea

Mandatory implicit bias training is all the rage. And seriously counterproductive.

The Psychology of the New McCarthyism

On the rising threat to science and basic human rights in America.

The Google Memo: Race and Gender Gaps and their Solutions

Let the witch-hunting begin!

Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-STEM Careers

If there are bona fide gender differences in preferences and interests, equal opportunities may never translate into equal outcomes.

What's With the Emerging Gender Gap in Social Psychology?

Are you concerned about the gender gap in scientific fields, because such gaps reflect discrimination? Then you might want to consider this.

Gender Bias in Science?

Where is the biggest, baddest, bias in social science on politicized topics?

Gender Bias in Science or Biased Claims of Gender Bias?

Where is the bias? Is it in the sexism of scientists or in the politics of those proclaiming sexism in science?

Graduate Student's Revenge (Corrections in Red)

On the inherently exasperating nature of relationships between graduate students and their advisors, and the even more exasperating nature of scientific publishing in psychology.

A Climate Scientist's Talk at the March for Science

A climate scientist speaks at the march for science in a way that acknowledges the limitations to science, and the value of skepticism and alternative views.

Report From NYC Satellite March for Science

The Satellite March for Science was 99% about Science, Not "Social Justice"

Why I am Marching in the March for Science

Two reasons to march in The March for Science.

Rabble Rouser Goes Twitter

Scientific psychology, social psychology, scientific dysfunction, the psychology of scientific integrity, science reform, in a nutshell, on a daily basis.

Social Psychology of Democracy, Wisdom

What makes for a strong democracy? The Founders (and a few others) weigh in, with some surprising insights.

The Social Psychology of Democracy

Why and how do democracies fail and become autocracies? What are the social and psychological phenomena leading people to lose faith in democracy and support tyrannies?

To My Undergraduate Class on the Election

A sociologist committed to political diversity in academia "talks" to his undergraduate class about the election.

The Science Reform Effort and Its Discontents

A controversial essay by a former President of the Association for Psychological Science has evoked trenchant responses from science writers around the web.

Three Cheers for Methodological Terrorists

A political scientist argues that statistical and methodological criticism is central to improving psychological research, and that stigmatizing such critiques is deeply misguided.

What Is Wrong With Social Psychological Science?

The dysfunctions in psychological science go way beyond replication

How Is Incivility Related to Scientific Integrity?

Psychological science is in distress. Studies fail to replicate at what some consider an alarming rate. Its statistics and methods are a mess. And its scientists behave badly.

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