Gui Sanches de Oliveira

Psychology's WEIRD Problems Cambridge Core - Cultural Psychology - Psychology's WEIRD Problems

Man misst mit dem Test dann also nicht eine Eigenschaft der individuellen Person, sondern eher wie vertraut sie im Allgemeinen mit der Art von Aufgaben ist, die im Test enthalten sind.
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My review of "Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science" by Mauricio Suárez (University of Chicago Press, 2024) has been out for a while: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

the text is now also openly accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

"Psychology's WEIRD problems" (co-authored w/ @edbaggs.bsky.social) is available open access

it even includes a brief discussion *about* open access: see chapter on the WEIRD institutional dimension of psychological science, biases in funding, peer review, publishing practices etc

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Snapshot of the preprint of our BBS commentary titled "Ethnographic methods can help psychology overcome its WEIRD problems" containing the abstract, which reads: "We are persuaded by Bard et al.'s argument that cross-cultural work in psychology requires not only a greater diversity of participants but also a greater diversity of theories. We encourage the authors to consider that the solution lies not only in improving experimentally-oriented theories, but also in adopting non-experimental methods, including purely ethnographic methods."

Just submitted a BBS commentary (w/ @edbaggs.bsky.social) on the paper "Let’s go WILD: Increasing Inclusivity in Theories of Developmental Psychology"

To make psychology more inclusive we need to confront the WEIRDness of our methods & metatheoretical commitments!

preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Some friends and I submitted a commentary

Preprint here:

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

@guicogsci.bsky.social @segundo-ortin.bsky.social @diovicen.bsky.social @tonychemero.bsky.social

Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions - Topoi Barker’s notion of “behavior settings” has been fruitfully used in Gibsonian ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception–action of affordances is socio...

Latest paper co-authored with @guicogsci.bsky.social

We argue that behavior settings and cognitive institutions complement each other and that ecological psychology will profit from integrating cognitive institutions into its conceptual toolkit.

Open access in Topoi: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Scaling-Up Behavior Settings: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Institutions - Topoi Barker’s notion of “behavior settings” has been fruitfully used in Gibsonian ecological psychology to highlight the importance of place and to account for how perception–action of affordances is socio...

@moritz-bammel.bsky.social and @guicogsci.bsky.social discuss the possibility of extending radical embodiment to human social collectives. They compare two established approaches: behavior settings theory and the extended cognition notion of cognitive institutions

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm happy to announce that this September I'll be joining the University of Murcia (Spain) on a Saavedra Fajardo grant for a 5-year research project followed by a tenure track professorship! Really looking forward to the project (more info soon) and to working with great friends there!