Jim Grange

EPS 80th Anniversary Symposium – Call for Proposals To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium that reflects on the current state of experimental psychology and its fu…

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory.

Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!

eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...

Just heard my paper was selected as Editor's Choice for JEP:LMC! Pretty chuffed to say the least

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Really thrilled to see one of our Keele Psychology undergraduates win this national prize! It really was an amazing piece of work!

Today is Stress Awareness Day🧠 Understanding your stressors and how to manage them is vital for supporting your mental wellbeing. If you are feeling overwhelmed, it is important to seek support: www.abdn.ac.uk/students/sup...

Spent the morning writing a lecture on computational modelling of visual short-term memory, and I get to talk extensively about our paper in press at QJEP (with @sbmoore.bsky.social)!

I love my admin roles, but nothing beats being in the classroom!

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Woo! Paper just accepted reporting 7 experiments from @sbmoore.bsky.social's excellent PhD work. Will appear in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Early version here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Understanding research readiness in psychological services: mixed method findings from a cross-sectional survey pilot. Abstract Background. Healthcare organisations that have a research culture within their practice (e.g. evidenced based and evidence informed practice) report better outcomes for their service users. T...

New pre-print with colleagues from Keele University and Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust exploring research readiness in psychological services:

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oxford’s new “Life & Mind” Building brings Biology and Experimental Psychology together, an example of how psychology thrives as an empirical, theory-driven, biological, and computational science. You can feel the intellectual energy there already!

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-10...

Now I am REALLY looking forward to seeing that!

Really fascinating discovery. But also fascinating how this came about (and what a shame we can't write it like this in papers!)

100% agree!

CRediT Contributor Role Taxonomy

No need for complex tools to prioritise credit to "first" and "last" authors (like this means the same thing across disciplines).

Just use the CRediT Contributor Role Taxonomy (credit.niso.org)

Call for papers now published for an upcoming special issue—"New Perspectives on the Mental Lexicon"—at QJEP (@qjep.bsky.social): journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

I’ve accidentally won an award 😮

New paper submitted over the weekend, where we examine age-related differences in inhibition in task switching using diffusion modelling.

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New paper from Hatice Cinar's PhD, in Memory & Cognition....

Prioritising feature bindings across space and modality in working memory

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This could be done by (1) embedding open outputs in promotion criteria, valuing rigour & transparency over "high-impact" publications; (2) recognising data sets, pre-prints, and replication reports as valuable; (3) highlighting exemplars of researchers publishing negative results

It's also interesting the piece calls for "a couple of high-profile funders or institutions" to provide momentum for a tipping point in promoting the publishing of negative results. This seems something an agile University could look to implement to lead the way.

Research funders urged to drive culture shift on negative results - Research Professional News Reform needed to improve trust in science, patient care and training of AI, advocates say

"Research funders urged to drive culture shift on negative results". Interesting perspective at Research Professional. Of course, Registered Reports offer a valuable solution not mentioned here. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

A Chess Scandal Revisited – Why Nakamura is Right About Cherry-Picking Recently I was attended to a paper by Maharaj, Polson, and Sokolov, in which they provided a statistical analysis of a chess cheating allegation. Their abstract: We provide a statistical analysis o…

A chess scandal revisited -- and why Nakamura was right
www.bayesianspectacles.org/a-chess-scan...

Fancy being a journal Section Editor?

Exciting Opportunity: Two new Section Editors needed for Cogent Psychology.

One for 'Personality & Individual Differences' & one for 'Social Psychology'.

Why not submit an application.

Details below. D/l 7th Nov.
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Multiverse simulation to explore the impact of analytical choices on type I and type II errors in a reaction time study - Behavior Research Methods Researcher degrees of freedom in data analysis present significant challenges in social sciences, where different analytical decisions can lead to varying conclusions. In this work, we propose an exam...

I am happy to announce the publication of our new work on the impact of arbitrary analytical choices on type I and type II error rates. We simulated reaction time data in a conflict task and analyzed the notable CSE effect in a multiverse manner. Worrying results:
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Multiverse simulation to explore the impact of analytical choices on type I and type II errors in a reaction time study - Behavior Research Methods Researcher degrees of freedom in data analysis present significant challenges in social sciences, where different analytical decisions can lead to varying conclusions. In this work, we propose an exam...

New paper, now out in Behavior Research Methods. "Multiverse simulation to explore the impact of analytical choices on type I and type II errors in a reaction time study"

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...

I've spent the past weeks publishing my flankr package on CRAN for R. Users who've only installed the first version will notice SIGNIFICANT improvements in model fit speed.

Plus, I made a hex sticker for it.

CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Github (dev version): github.com/JimGrange/fl...

Well this is a delightfully clever study. Check it out.

Book Review | BPS - British Psychological Society BPS Explore is our easy-to-access central location for you to read and download a wide range of psychological content from practitioners, researchers and working groups.

Does anyone have access to this book review I wrote for the BPS in 2011, please? explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpsp...

Ah massive congratulations, Professor Holmboe!

So go for it. I'm looking forward to reading it!

Write for yourself, first & foremost. Use writing as a tool for thinking. I find t's not until I start writing that I realise my thoughts on a matter. Not just that, the process of writing helps sharpen my thoughts and signals where my thinking is not yet developed enough.