Henry Lopez
@henrynlopez.bsky.social
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My students have known since the first day of class, in September, that the final was due today at 5 pm EST. I have shared this info regularly. It’s on Canvas. It’s not a surprise. I just got an email that put me through the roof. I love these kids but sometimes I am tested.
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My students have known since the first day of class, in September, that the final was due today at 5 pm EST. I have shared this info regularly. It’s on Canvas. It’s not a surprise. I just got an email that put me through the roof. I love these kids but sometimes I am tested.
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What Makes a Good Reputation? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...
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What Makes a Good Reputation?
Reputations matter everywhere—but not always for the same reasons.
www.psychologytoday.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
What Makes a Good Reputation? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...
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Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
May 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
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Most people are allergic to believing they got something partially because of luck. Especially when we frame it as an arbiter of brilliance.
May 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Most people are allergic to believing they got something partially because of luck. Especially when we frame it as an arbiter of brilliance.
Have to go into office tomorrow and I can’t sleep. Don’t rely on melatonin, people! Makes it terrible to fall asleep when you don’t use it.
May 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Have to go into office tomorrow and I can’t sleep. Don’t rely on melatonin, people! Makes it terrible to fall asleep when you don’t use it.
Have there been any critiques of the Culture of Honor work? So much of cultural psych has just been dominated by the individualism/collectivism work (and corresponding criticisms).
May 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Have there been any critiques of the Culture of Honor work? So much of cultural psych has just been dominated by the individualism/collectivism work (and corresponding criticisms).
Watched Final Destination tonight and it was really good. Wasn’t as gory as I had expected. I would recommend.
May 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Watched Final Destination tonight and it was really good. Wasn’t as gory as I had expected. I would recommend.
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New paper, "Elegant theories and the problems of social psychology," in which I argue that social psych suffers from large inference gaps, or the distance between theoretical model and statistical tests, with some suggestions for how to improve things doi.org/10.1080/1046...
April 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New paper, "Elegant theories and the problems of social psychology," in which I argue that social psych suffers from large inference gaps, or the distance between theoretical model and statistical tests, with some suggestions for how to improve things doi.org/10.1080/1046...
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Many of us have heard of Hofstede's cultural dimensions (e.g. the individualistic-collectivist (IC) dimension), but few have looked under the hood of how they were constructed. The data, it turns out, come from self-report surveys of IBM employees ca. 1968-72. Here's McSweeney describing the sample:
May 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Many of us have heard of Hofstede's cultural dimensions (e.g. the individualistic-collectivist (IC) dimension), but few have looked under the hood of how they were constructed. The data, it turns out, come from self-report surveys of IBM employees ca. 1968-72. Here's McSweeney describing the sample:
I also wish places didn’t just opt for Instagram to post their specials/deals. Just use your website.
May 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I also wish places didn’t just opt for Instagram to post their specials/deals. Just use your website.
Going to try posting more. It’s been awhile since I’ve had Instagram. Deleted back in December. The one thing I really miss is being able to see new local spots near me.
May 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Going to try posting more. It’s been awhile since I’ve had Instagram. Deleted back in December. The one thing I really miss is being able to see new local spots near me.
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These articles are infuriatingly dumb. This woman got upset because Harvard issued a totally reasonable and frankly neutral statement about equity and giving a damn about others, she runs to UATX and they fire her wah wah wah. The fragility that has brought us to ruin is so embarrassing. Grow up!
The University of Austin turns out to be exactly as full of shit on free speech as everyone on the left predicted it would be from the beginning
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
quillette.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
These articles are infuriatingly dumb. This woman got upset because Harvard issued a totally reasonable and frankly neutral statement about equity and giving a damn about others, she runs to UATX and they fire her wah wah wah. The fragility that has brought us to ruin is so embarrassing. Grow up!
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🚨New R package! {easymediation}🚨
The *Simplest* and *Most Correct* Way to Do Causal Mediation Analysis
Are you tired of explaining mediation analysis to your colleagues? Just send them this package.
github.com/rpsychologis...
The *Simplest* and *Most Correct* Way to Do Causal Mediation Analysis
Are you tired of explaining mediation analysis to your colleagues? Just send them this package.
github.com/rpsychologis...
May 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🚨New R package! {easymediation}🚨
The *Simplest* and *Most Correct* Way to Do Causal Mediation Analysis
Are you tired of explaining mediation analysis to your colleagues? Just send them this package.
github.com/rpsychologis...
The *Simplest* and *Most Correct* Way to Do Causal Mediation Analysis
Are you tired of explaining mediation analysis to your colleagues? Just send them this package.
github.com/rpsychologis...
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New post! Should we hold back criticisms of scientific practices for fear that they will be weaponized by political attacks on science? Absolutely not. We need to recognize the distinction between scientific arguments and ideological arguments. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/science-re...
Science Requires Scientists to be Critical of Science
These days, my primary motivation for engaging in projects is either irritation or spite.
getsyeducated.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
New post! Should we hold back criticisms of scientific practices for fear that they will be weaponized by political attacks on science? Absolutely not. We need to recognize the distinction between scientific arguments and ideological arguments. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/science-re...
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Meet the AP-LS Campus Representatives! Today we have Rebecca Ying from Iowa State University's Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. program.
April 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Meet the AP-LS Campus Representatives! Today we have Rebecca Ying from Iowa State University's Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. program.
So what’s the psych drama nowadays. Feel so out of the loop since finishing my PhD
April 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
So what’s the psych drama nowadays. Feel so out of the loop since finishing my PhD
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I appreciate that APS names "rising stars" to honor ECRs who are having a positive impact. I would love to see a "falling star" award too though - to honor those dipshits whose work was once seen as important but that we now know was built on shoddy methods and fraud. So many candidates.
February 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I appreciate that APS names "rising stars" to honor ECRs who are having a positive impact. I would love to see a "falling star" award too though - to honor those dipshits whose work was once seen as important but that we now know was built on shoddy methods and fraud. So many candidates.
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Must-read from the founders of @retractionwatch.com - about 85% of science is research waste, less than 50% of preclinical cancer research is replicable, and predatory publishers thrive: science has a serious quality control problem, and we're all in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now
You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd.
www.theatlantic.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Must-read from the founders of @retractionwatch.com - about 85% of science is research waste, less than 50% of preclinical cancer research is replicable, and predatory publishers thrive: science has a serious quality control problem, and we're all in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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We’re collecting open-ended data on Prolific, and it has become clear to me that people are using chatGPT to answer the questions. This is so depressing. Like, is it really worth the time to copy and paste questions and answers instead of just…telling us what you think?
December 19, 2024 at 10:38 PM
We’re collecting open-ended data on Prolific, and it has become clear to me that people are using chatGPT to answer the questions. This is so depressing. Like, is it really worth the time to copy and paste questions and answers instead of just…telling us what you think?
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Exciting opportunity! We’re hiring *two* Post-Doctoral Fellows (1) Social-Cog Psych (w ABM interest) & (2) NLP/Computational Social Science @UWaterloo. Work on #culture, #judgment, #decisionmaking with wiseminds.uwaterloo.ca
Learn more & apply: uwaterloo.ca/wisdom-and-c...
Learn more & apply: uwaterloo.ca/wisdom-and-c...
wiseminds
wiseminds.uwaterloo.ca
January 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Exciting opportunity! We’re hiring *two* Post-Doctoral Fellows (1) Social-Cog Psych (w ABM interest) & (2) NLP/Computational Social Science @UWaterloo. Work on #culture, #judgment, #decisionmaking with wiseminds.uwaterloo.ca
Learn more & apply: uwaterloo.ca/wisdom-and-c...
Learn more & apply: uwaterloo.ca/wisdom-and-c...
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Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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1/ What *are* mental disorders?
I view them as systems of biological, psychological, and social variables. Mental health problems emerge from this system, which is why system and network science are so important for better understanding and treating them.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I view them as systems of biological, psychological, and social variables. Mental health problems emerge from this system, which is why system and network science are so important for better understanding and treating them.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 22, 2024 at 1:14 PM
1/ What *are* mental disorders?
I view them as systems of biological, psychological, and social variables. Mental health problems emerge from this system, which is why system and network science are so important for better understanding and treating them.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I view them as systems of biological, psychological, and social variables. Mental health problems emerge from this system, which is why system and network science are so important for better understanding and treating them.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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So… how much are they paying Mike for this?
November 16, 2024 at 5:01 AM
So… how much are they paying Mike for this?
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"...two full-time postdoctoral researchers in the field of cultural evolution." <a href="http://bit.ly/1i0qAGn" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/1i0qAGn #philosophy #psychology #anthropology
November 9, 2024 at 4:12 PM
"...two full-time postdoctoral researchers in the field of cultural evolution." <a href="http://bit.ly/1i0qAGn" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/1i0qAGn #philosophy #psychology #anthropology