The Costs of HARKing
(2022)
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Rubin, M. (2022). The Costs of HARKing. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 73(2), 535-560. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz050
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That's not a two-sided test! It's two one-sided tests! (2022)
Journal Article
Rubin, M. (2022). That's not a two-sided test! It's two one-sided tests!. Significance, 19(2), 50-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01619
In a Class on Their Own: Investigating the Role of Social Integration in the Association Between Social Class and Mental Well-Being (2022)
Journal Article
Evans, O., & Rubin, M. (2022). In a Class on Their Own: Investigating the Role of Social Integration in the Association Between Social Class and Mental Well-Being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(5), 690-703. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211021190
Further evidence that system justification amongst the disadvantaged is positively related to superordinate group identification (2022)
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Owuamalam, C. K., Caricati, L., Spears, R., Rubin, M., Marinucci, M., & Ferrari, A. (2023). Further evidence that system justification amongst the disadvantaged is positively related to superordinate group identification. Acta Psychologica, 232, Article 103813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103813Members of disadvantaged groups sometimes support societal systems that enable the very inequalities that disadvantaged them. Is it possible to explain this puzzling system-justifying orientation in terms of rational group-interested motives, without... Read More about Further evidence that system justification amongst the disadvantaged is positively related to superordinate group identification.
Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia (2022)
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Owuamalam, C. K., Tan, C. M., Caricati, L., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2023). Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(2), 245-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2901Why do poorer and less educated Asians trust their institutions of governance more than their richer and well educated counterparts, despite their disadvantaged position within society? System justification theory (SJT) assumes that this trust is dri... Read More about Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia.
An exploratory investigation of the reliability and validity of the Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Style Scale (2022)
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Sanatkar, S., & Rubin, M. (2023). An exploratory investigation of the reliability and validity of the Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Style Scale. International Journal of Psychology, 58(1), 30-41. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12878The Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Scale is based on Cross et al.'s conceptualisation of relational-interdependent self-construal. The IIPSS provides a relatively context-free measure of people's tendencies to solve problems independently... Read More about An exploratory investigation of the reliability and validity of the Independent-Interdependent Problem-Solving Style Scale.
Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests (2022)
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Rubin, M., & Donkin, C. (online). Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests. Philosophical Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2113771Preregistration has been proposed as a useful method for making a publicly verifiable distinction between confirmatory hypothesis tests, which involve planned tests of ante hoc hypotheses, and exploratory hypothesis tests, which involve unplanned tes... Read More about Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests.
Issues affecting mental health at a fly‐in‐fly‐out mine site: A subjective impact ratings approach (2022)
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Turner, R., & Rubin, M. (2022). Issues affecting mental health at a fly‐in‐fly‐out mine site: A subjective impact ratings approach. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(11), 1070-1080. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12913Around a third of fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers in Australia experience relatively high levels of psychological distress. Although a wide range of associated workplace stressors have been proposed in this context, it is unclear to what extent FIFO wo... Read More about Issues affecting mental health at a fly‐in‐fly‐out mine site: A subjective impact ratings approach.
Brexit and Trump: Which Theory of Social Stasis and Social Change Copes Best With the New Populism? (2022)
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Owuamalam, C. K., Rubin, M., & Spears, R. (2022). Brexit and Trump: Which Theory of Social Stasis and Social Change Copes Best With the New Populism?. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 797139. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.797139Why do voters seek to change the political landscape or to retain it? System justification theory (SJT) proposes that a separate system motive to preserve the existing order drives support for the status-quo, and that this motivation operates indepen... Read More about Brexit and Trump: Which Theory of Social Stasis and Social Change Copes Best With the New Populism?.
A First Class Measure: Evidence for a Comprehensive Social Class Scale in Higher Education Populations (2022)
Journal Article
Evans, O., McGuffog, R., Gendi, M., & Rubin, M. (2022). A First Class Measure: Evidence for a Comprehensive Social Class Scale in Higher Education Populations. Research in Higher Education, 63, 1427–1452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-022-09693-9
That's not a two‐sided test! It's two one‐sided tests! (2022)
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Rubin, M. (2022). That's not a two‐sided test! It's two one‐sided tests!. Significance, 19(2), 50-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01619When reporting tests of significance, researchers might claim to have conducted a two-sided test when in fact they have conducted two one-sided tests. Mark Rubin explains the confusion and how to avoid it.
Binge Drinkers Shouldn’t Set Their Own Alcohol Reduction Goals! Evaluating the Effectiveness of Different Goal-Based Alcohol Reduction Interventions among Young People (2022)
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Rubin, M., & Hutton, A. (2022). Binge Drinkers Shouldn’t Set Their Own Alcohol Reduction Goals! Evaluating the Effectiveness of Different Goal-Based Alcohol Reduction Interventions among Young People. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 40(3), 311-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/07347324.2022.2037486The present research aimed to investigate the relative effectiveness of three types of alcohol reduction intervention. Participants were 354 university students from an Australian university. After completing an initial survey, they were randomly ass... Read More about Binge Drinkers Shouldn’t Set Their Own Alcohol Reduction Goals! Evaluating the Effectiveness of Different Goal-Based Alcohol Reduction Interventions among Young People.