Work session

2024-10-25 Fri

Rick Gilmore

Overview

In the news

McCook (2024)

Announcements

• Final version due
  • Exercise 06: Alpha, Power, Effect Sizes, & Sample Size write-up

Today

Hype, continued

• Discuss Cuddy (2012), Carney, Cuddy, & Yap (2010), and Ranehill et al. (2015)

Work session

• Discuss draft
  • Exercise 06: Alpha, Power, Effect Sizes, & Sample Size write-up
• Assignment
  • Exercise 07: Replication

Questions

• What claims did Cuddy (2012) make about the effects of power posing on feelings, hormones, and behaviors?
• What claims are well-supported by the empirical evidence in Carney et al. (2010) and Ranehill et al. (2015)?
• What claims are less well-supported?
• Is the Cuddy (2012) talk an example of research hype? Why or why not?

Hint: This supplemental document may help you think about what claims were made and which were supported.

Next time

Solutions

• Read
  • Munafò et al. (2017)
  • Begley (2013)

Resources

References

Begley, C. G. (2013). Six red flags for suspect work. Nature, 497(7450), 433–434. https://doi.org/10.1038/497433a

Carney, D. R., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Yap, A. J. (2010). Power posing: Brief nonverbal displays affect neuroendocrine levels and risk tolerance. Psychological Science, 21(10), 1363–1368. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610383437

Cuddy, A. (2012). Your body language may shape who you are. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are

McCook, A. (2024). Penn state bans scientist from doing research after investigation found “unreliable data.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved from https://www.inquirer.com/health/penn-state-deb-kelly-research-ban-20241024.html

Munafò, M. R., Nosek, B. A., Bishop, D. V. M., Button, K. S., Chambers, C. D., Sert, N. P. du, … Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2017). A manifesto for reproducible science. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-016-0021

Ranehill, E., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Leiberg, S., Sul, S., & Weber, R. A. (2015). Assessing the robustness of power posing: No effect on hormones and risk tolerance in a large sample of men and women. Psychological Science, 26(5), 653–656. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614553946