The Science of Human Behavior, Measured.
Behind-the-scenes of ongoing research projects
Most of us belong to groups we feel proud of – a nation, a faith, a profession, a football club. Feeling good about your group is normal and, for the most part, healthy. But there is a particular way of relating to a group that looks like pride on the surface and works like something … Read more
Here is an uncomfortable fact about the science of human behavior: most of what we know about “people” was learned by studying a very particular, very unusual slice of people. For decades, psychology built its theories on one narrow population and quietly assumed the findings applied to everyone. They often don’t. This is the WEIRD … Read more
This week, Georgia’s State Audit Office opened an inquiry into the funding of the Tbilisi School of Political Studies, and government figures have publicly accused the School of promoting radicalism. Reading the coverage, I kept thinking about my own time there – because the place being described bears almost no resemblance to the place I … Read more
Every summer, thousands of Georgian school-leavers sit the Unified National Examinations, rank the university programs they want, and are placed according to their scores. The results are a goldmine of data about what students want, what they can access, and how a whole academic field is structured. This year I pulled together the numbers for … Read more
Think about what happens when someone tells you they went to a restaurant. You don’t need them to explain that they were seated, looked at a menu, ordered from a waiter, ate, paid, and left. You already know all of that. You have a mental template, a script for how a restaurant visit unfolds, and … Read more
If you do research that involves collecting data from human participants, and most psychology research does, you need a survey platform. Most people default to Google Forms because it’s free and familiar. Some go to commercial tools like Qualtrics or SurveyMonkey because their institution pays for them. A few build custom solutions in code. I … Read more
Imagine you’re a researcher in Tbilisi. You’ve designed a study, collected your data, run your analyses, and you’re ready to write up your findings. You go to read the latest literature on your topic – and you can’t. The paper you need is paywalled. Your university doesn’t have a subscription to that journal. The article … Read more
Welcome – and thank you for visiting Psycholo.ge. This site is something I’ve wanted to build for a long time: a dedicated space where psychometrics, research methodology, and the psychology of the digital world come together. After years of working in educational assessment and teaching at the university level, I felt it was time to … Read more