The Science of Human Behavior, Measured.
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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