Wendy Higgins
@wchiggins.bsky.social
Post Doctoral Research Fellow at UniMelb. Metascience, psychological measurement validity, social cognition, philosophy of science
Attended my PhD graduation ceremony yesterday. Gotta love the hat
October 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Attended my PhD graduation ceremony yesterday. Gotta love the hat
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A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
The Eyes Test knows where I live 👀
August 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The Eyes Test knows where I live 👀
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My editorial on how journals can earn trust.
We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
May 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
My editorial on how journals can earn trust.
We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Chuffed and excited to announce a new journal section in Cortex:
*Methods and Assumptions* is open for submissions starting today!
Read the opening editorial here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
*Methods and Assumptions* is open for submissions starting today!
Read the opening editorial here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
Methods and Assumptions: A new section in Cortex
www.sciencedirect.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Chuffed and excited to announce a new journal section in Cortex:
*Methods and Assumptions* is open for submissions starting today!
Read the opening editorial here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
*Methods and Assumptions* is open for submissions starting today!
Read the opening editorial here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
Reposted by Wendy Higgins
Wendy Higgins (@wchiggins.bsky.social), who developed all these projects that interrogated the validity of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test, has just been awarded her PhD and joined BlueSky! Follow her for more cutting-edge research on measurement and meta-science!
Have you every found yourself wondering whether the most widely used measures of social cognitive ability measure what they are supposed to measure?
April 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Wendy Higgins (@wchiggins.bsky.social), who developed all these projects that interrogated the validity of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test, has just been awarded her PhD and joined BlueSky! Follow her for more cutting-edge research on measurement and meta-science!
Introducing Dr Wendy Higgins and the Reading the Mammal in the Eyes Test.
April 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Introducing Dr Wendy Higgins and the Reading the Mammal in the Eyes Test.