@kodai-kusano.bsky.social
Post-doc at NYU Abu Dhabi. A sociological/social-cultural psychologist who studies hierarchy, power, and a bit of methodology
Excellent discussion on non-independence issues in cross-cultural research. When someone advocates a method, they often miss the domain knowledge/context in which the method may or may not apply. We should be critical about how a given method can help us.
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"23 countries...greater bias toward transgender women (vs. men) overall...Men (vs. women) and conservatives reported higher prejudice, and this was more pronounced in Western (vs. non-Western) countries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
28.06.2025 13:04 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0If you happen to be in Brisbane for the IAIR-IACCP conference, come see me talk about the paper in more details!
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To my knowledge, our new paper offers the most critical examination of measurement invariance in psychology to date.
It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons.
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Now officially out with nice formatting and all π₯³ "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.
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"The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Interesting approach to measurement invariance testing, which emphasizes similarity/dissimilarity across the group-specific nomological networks of a construct. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
18.06.2025 16:52 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0What if the reason why people split 5:5 in the Ultimatum Game or Dictator Game is that they don't understand the game, or they don't care at all about understanding the instructions??
08.05.2025 12:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0that should be true. but the reference group effect is about group averages, so when you compare widely different groups, those should-be differences would be suppressed. does that make sense?
22.04.2025 21:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Another way of putting this is that subjective SES measures have some nomological validity with objective economic standards. So you should take cross-cultural differences in self-report literally as long as your measure has validity with the thing it intends to measure.
22.04.2025 09:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We found the opposite: rich respondents in rich countries rated themselves higher than poor respondents in poor countries. It appears that "middle class" means the same thing across economic conditions, and this consistent interpretation produces valid cultural differences.
22.04.2025 09:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0We examined the association between subjective SES and GDP. If subjective ratings are distorted by economic standards, you should not find a positive correlation, as rich respondents would underestimate their ratings in wealthy countries but overestimate them in poor countries.
22.04.2025 09:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cross-cultural researchers often worry about using Likert scales across countries. Why? Because of the infamous reference group effect β the idea that people in each culture rate themselves relative to local norms.
22.04.2025 09:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cross-cultural researchers: still worried about the reference group effect? Itβs often cited as a major threat to cross-cultural comparisons using Likert scales. Our new article critiques its logic and shows why it may not be the threat you think it is.
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Book Saturday at 3:15 pm to hear about cutting-edge methods. I will demystify measurement invariance: history, recommendations, practices, and challenges. #SPSP2025 - via #Whova event app
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