Dr. Kelly Babchishin

ATTN Carleton University undergrad and grad students! My master's student is trying to recruit people for her thesis project. Please share this widely and consider participating if you are willing! Thanks! @carleton.ca

Breaking Down the Massive Cuts to Science Funding

This NY Times podcast discusses 1,700 NIH grants that were cancelled mid-stream. They largely fell into two categories: (a) studies of underrepresented populations (e.g., black women, gay men); and (b) studies by researchers from underrepresented groups.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/p...

Belief‐Consistent Information Processing or Coherence‐Based Reasoning: Integrating Two Parsimonious Frameworks for Biases Recently, two independently published papers put forward separate frameworks to explain several different biases. Although the two frameworks do not contradict each other, their mere co-existence is ...

In a newly accepted #EJSP paper, we (w/ Doro Mischkowski) discuss how the two accounts could be integrated and propose concrete predictions under which conditions people create coherence via belief-consistent processing or by updating their beliefs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just arrived: @mcseto.bsky.social new book on online sexual offending—an essential read for anyone working in this field. Can’t wait to dive in. I’ll definitely need you to sign it next time we meet, @mcseto.bsky.social!

Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no” - David Kuehn, Ingo Rohlfing, 2024 The debate about the characteristics and advantages of quantitative and qualitative methods is decades old. In their seminal monograph, A Tale of Two Cultures (...

#statstab #302 Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”

Thoughts: Not sold on the approach, but the conclusion seems plausible.

#methodology #qualitative #quantitative

doi.org/10.1177/0049...

NEW PAPER ALERT!

Post Doctoral researcher Jenny Skrifvars, with Jan Antfolk & @juliakorkman.bsky.social, in collaboration with @migri.fi created and evaluated a training programme for asylum officials in legal psychology.

Read full article here - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cover of the PS journal CR:PI on a blue graphic with the February 15 deadline. 

Deadline Alert: CR:PI, an open access journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3ZH1R0z #gocrpi

1/ 📢 Day 2 of our Applied Police Briefings Winter 2025 spotlight! Today's feature: “Recruiting, Retaining, and Advancing Women in Policing” by Rachael Rief, Jessica Huff, & Samantha Clinkinbeard. What did we learn from the IAWP Gender-Responsive Policing Summit? A thread 🧵👇 #Policing #GenderEquity

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I’ve joined bluesky! I’m a forensic psych prof @carletonu.bsky.social researching sexually harmful behaviours. You can find more info about my research lab: carleton.ca/sexuallyharm... . I post on funding/academia opportunities and research in the forensic realm. Hello!