October 6th, 2020
A virtual welcome to 2020/21
We had our first lab meeting of the new school year (virtually), but seems like that parenthetical can just be assumed for the rest of this academic year =( Despite the difficult circumstances, 2020/21 promises to be the best year for BEDLab, yet. We have a host of new members, including a new co-director ( Prof.
Michael Haselhuhn ), Management PhD student Ziyi (Zoe) Zhang , our first ever MBA student Mehdi Salehi, and 6 new undergraduate research assistants (a warm welcome to Dani, Devon, Maricela, Anika, Ashika, and Nidhi!). We are particularly excited about the BEDLab research projects we're continuing or starting this year.
In addition to the ongoing research projects led by Michael Wong (loneliness and self-control) and Pri Iyer (competitive student behaviors), Karlee Labrador has launched a new project on intention-action gaps in students' sustainability behaviors (e.g., using reusable water bottles). We are also starting 2-3 registered replication projects.
Basically, a lot of behavioral science is based on exciting findings from the pre-MTurk era when data collection was harder and studies often were extremely underpowered (as few as n = 10 per condition)! This means that replicating important findings is very important for building a cumulative knowledge structure that we can be confident in.
Teams of 2-4 students, led by faculty and/or grad student mentors, will choose highly cited but (likely) underpowered studies to conduct pre-registered replications.
This not only contributes to science, but also will provide hands on experience to students on using Qualtrics to design surveys, collecting and analyzing data, and writing academic-style reports. I think this is SUPER exciting and I think the students are as well!
In fact, we're so excited about this quarter that we voted to meet weekly (rather than biweekly) and I'm sure we'll have plenty to report here soon!
