Amanda Kay Montoya
@akmontoya.bsky.social
Associate professor of quantitative psychology at UCLA. Data analysis, research methods, statistics, psychology, teaching.
Google doesn’t get me
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Google doesn’t get me
Another quarter about to start. Another wildly analog way of making my schedule that is the only way that I can get to work 😵💫
September 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Another quarter about to start. Another wildly analog way of making my schedule that is the only way that I can get to work 😵💫
SIPS@SPSP Preconference is open for submissions (posters and data blitzes). Any and all submissions welcome! We want to emphasize replication research in the area of social-personality psychology. If you or someone you know has done replication research in this area, we highly recommend you submit!
September 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
SIPS@SPSP Preconference is open for submissions (posters and data blitzes). Any and all submissions welcome! We want to emphasize replication research in the area of social-personality psychology. If you or someone you know has done replication research in this area, we highly recommend you submit!
One of my favorite #UCLA traditions! Students dip their hands in the inverted fountain, and recite an oath, and then not allowed to touch the water until they graduate. So nice to see all the students on campus today!
September 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One of my favorite #UCLA traditions! Students dip their hands in the inverted fountain, and recite an oath, and then not allowed to touch the water until they graduate. So nice to see all the students on campus today!
If you just got an email from APA encouraging you to come to this session, YOU SHOULD! Because the "Open Science and Methodology panel member" is ME! Come say hi! Learn about registered reports, and other awesome open science things at APA!
July 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you just got an email from APA encouraging you to come to this session, YOU SHOULD! Because the "Open Science and Methodology panel member" is ME! Come say hi! Learn about registered reports, and other awesome open science things at APA!
Back home after 3 weeks in Europe. Had a wonderful time teaching and traveling in Switzerland and of course attending #SIPS2025 in Budapest!
June 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Back home after 3 weeks in Europe. Had a wonderful time teaching and traveling in Switzerland and of course attending #SIPS2025 in Budapest!
Wonderful hack-a-thon this morning on creating a sustainable database for registered reports! Thank you to all of our wonderful participants! #SIPS2025
June 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Wonderful hack-a-thon this morning on creating a sustainable database for registered reports! Thank you to all of our wonderful participants! #SIPS2025
Me reading a German smoothie menu: Ananas, surely that’s a Banana…. Wait…
June 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Me reading a German smoothie menu: Ananas, surely that’s a Banana…. Wait…
This past week I had the pleasure of teaching this wonderful group of students at the Global School of Empirical Research Methods. Yesterday we completed Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Models Level 1, next week: Level 2!
June 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This past week I had the pleasure of teaching this wonderful group of students at the Global School of Empirical Research Methods. Yesterday we completed Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Models Level 1, next week: Level 2!
I seem to (accurately) send a message to my students that I can’t keep plants alive. But somehow hey still find a way to gift me plants 🤣 Feeling so grateful for my wonderful students and their sweet unkillable gifts
June 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I seem to (accurately) send a message to my students that I can’t keep plants alive. But somehow hey still find a way to gift me plants 🤣 Feeling so grateful for my wonderful students and their sweet unkillable gifts
Is it just me or do other people think of Baskin Robins whenever they see the BioRxiv logo? Like I frequently see the tiny logo in my tabs and wonder "why was I on the Baskin-Robins website?" This happens to me at least once a month.
May 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Is it just me or do other people think of Baskin Robins whenever they see the BioRxiv logo? Like I frequently see the tiny logo in my tabs and wonder "why was I on the Baskin-Robins website?" This happens to me at least once a month.
So excited to welcome a second incoming PhD student to the QRClab! Lillian King comes to us from the NIMH and University of Montana, with research interests focus on applying behavior change ideas to quantitative method implementation! So excited to welcome @lillianistrying.bsky.social!
May 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
So excited to welcome a second incoming PhD student to the QRClab! Lillian King comes to us from the NIMH and University of Montana, with research interests focus on applying behavior change ideas to quantitative method implementation! So excited to welcome @lillianistrying.bsky.social!
QRC lab undergrads did a phenomenal job presenting work on Registered Reports and Questionable Research Practices! Congratulations Denfe, Jack, and Jenn for your successful posters at #wpa2025
May 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
QRC lab undergrads did a phenomenal job presenting work on Registered Reports and Questionable Research Practices! Congratulations Denfe, Jack, and Jenn for your successful posters at #wpa2025
Congratulation to QRCLab graduate student Jared Block for teaching his first ever workshop! Introduction to Item Response Theory for Psychology Research. Check out materials here osf.io/n2h7r
May 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Congratulation to QRCLab graduate student Jared Block for teaching his first ever workshop! Introduction to Item Response Theory for Psychology Research. Check out materials here osf.io/n2h7r
I'm very excited to announce that @bjsalazar.bsky.social is joining the QRClab here at UCLA as a PhD Student! Bidkar is finishing his B.A. in Psychology at CSU-Northridge. He brings to the lab extensive research experience in clinical measurement! Welcome Bidkar!
April 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I'm very excited to announce that @bjsalazar.bsky.social is joining the QRClab here at UCLA as a PhD Student! Bidkar is finishing his B.A. in Psychology at CSU-Northridge. He brings to the lab extensive research experience in clinical measurement! Welcome Bidkar!
The QRClab Escaped! Celebrating the completion of winter quarter, and saying farewell to two of our graduating students! We had a very fun time finding out What Happened to the Garrett’s!
March 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The QRClab Escaped! Celebrating the completion of winter quarter, and saying farewell to two of our graduating students! We had a very fun time finding out What Happened to the Garrett’s!
An awesome presidential plenary on Challenging Norms and Advancing Equity. Truly inspired leaving these talks and standing up for research on diversity and equity! #SPSP25
February 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
An awesome presidential plenary on Challenging Norms and Advancing Equity. Truly inspired leaving these talks and standing up for research on diversity and equity! #SPSP25
Alice Moon presenting at JDM preconference at #SPSP25 on whether we need to change the way we measure “Willingness to pay”, one of the most common measures in marketing and judgement and decision making research. Yes, provide an explicit option that allows people to indicate $0.
February 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Alice Moon presenting at JDM preconference at #SPSP25 on whether we need to change the way we measure “Willingness to pay”, one of the most common measures in marketing and judgement and decision making research. Yes, provide an explicit option that allows people to indicate $0.
My head cannot comprehend what my heart is feeling today. I am reminded of this scene from the Three Body Problem which re-enacts real experiences from the Chinese Cultural Revolution. We cannot stand by and wait, we must act now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3giT...
January 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
My head cannot comprehend what my heart is feeling today. I am reminded of this scene from the Three Body Problem which re-enacts real experiences from the Chinese Cultural Revolution. We cannot stand by and wait, we must act now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3giT...
I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to work with these wonderful students this week! Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis 1 was a great success at #GSERM #Ljubljana!
January 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to work with these wonderful students this week! Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis 1 was a great success at #GSERM #Ljubljana!
I've found myself more and more interested in, and teaching about collider bias. But I think for many it's pretty unintuitive and hard generate examples of. I'm trying out a new example in my course next week. We'll see how it goes. If you have tips or good examples, let me know!
January 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I've found myself more and more interested in, and teaching about collider bias. But I think for many it's pretty unintuitive and hard generate examples of. I'm trying out a new example in my course next week. We'll see how it goes. If you have tips or good examples, let me know!