When might this reach cultural anthropology to constitute a credible ethnographic science?

7/ Survey experiments surge and now account for roughly 45% of all design-based studies. Lab experiments decline sharply after 2016, while field experiments and most quasi-experimental designs grow slowly from a very low base

6/ The revolution is driven mainly by survey experiments and, to a much lesser extent, DID and unconfoundedness designs with matching & reweighting. Field experiments, IV, RDDs, natural experiments, and synthetic control all remain relatively rare in the discipline.

4/ In our coding, design-based studies pin causality on a clear source of (quasi-)random variation and spell out identification assumptions, while model-based studies rely mainly on functional-form and statistical assumptions, often treating regression coefficients as causal

3/ About 40% of articles are empirical & quantitative. Of these, 81% are explanatory–using causal relationships to explain social phenomena–and just 29% of explanatory studies use explicit design-based methods. Most causal work still relies on model-based strategies or leaves the design implicit

New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧵

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How does a background in anthropology open doors in culture, belonging, and change making? This post explores how anthropological insight can fuel careers in DEI, culture strategy, and community-building work. 🔗 anthrocareerready.net/can-anthropo...

Join me and fellow panelists 4:15-5:45pm this Friday, Nov. 21st in New Orleans at the AAAs, "Causal Explanation in Cultural Therapeutic and Health Processes: New Directions in Medical and Psychological Anthropology" See the AAA "Program" for more info: annualmeeting.americananthro.org/meeting/

Join me and fellow panelists 4:15-5:45pm this Friday, Nov. 21st in New Orleans at the AAAs, "Causal Explanation in Cultural Therapeutic and Health Processes: New Directions in Medical and Psychological Anthropology" See the AAA "Program" for more info: annualmeeting.americananthro.org/meeting/

We have gathered some resources for creating and presenting posters at conferences. These resources include examples of past posters presented at AAA or SfAA, as well as websites with additional information on guidelines and advice. www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/p/poster-pre....

Player-avatar bonds and gaming benefits and risks: Assessing self-discrepancy theory against a broader range of character and play experiences co-authored by @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social @joelbillieux.bsky.social et al. cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

latest lab pub, open access cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

latest lab pub, open access cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

🔟 Player-avatar bonds and gaming benefits and risks: Assessing self-discrepancy theory against a broader range of character and play experiences Snodgrass, Sagstetter, Branstrator, Giardina, Lacy, Bollinger-Deters, Callendar, Zhao, Dengah II, & Billieux doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

🌞 New issue is here! 🌞 Vol. 19, No. 3 features 2 new validated measures, 3 longitudinal studies on social media use, and much more - see 🧵👇 📚 Cool off with a smart summer read: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2... All #OpenAccess 🔓 Heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped bring this issue to life! 🙌

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚 Lars de Wildt @larsdewildt.bsky.social reviews //The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic transformations in religion and video games// by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social 2023 @ucpress.bsky.social #AnthroSky Find it here in AE 52.2 ⤵️ americanethnologist.org/journal/

New review of my book, The Avatar Faculty (Univ. of Calif Press, 2023) anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We're also presenting our current research at the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) meetings April 3-6, 2025 in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM "Role-Playing Games, Self-Concept, and Well-Being: Rejuvenating a Psychological Anthropology of Play" Schedule here: spa.americananthro.org/meetings/

We're also presenting our current research at the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) meetings April 3-6, 2025 in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM "Role-Playing Games, Self-Concept, and Well-Being: Rejuvenating a Psychological Anthropology of Play" Schedule here: spa.americananthro.org/meetings/

My team is presenting at the upcoming SfAA meetings in Portland, March 25-29 @appliedanthro.bsky.social "Role-Playing Games, Self-Concept, and Well-Being: Developing Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Games for Good" More info and program details here: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti...

Announcing the launch of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program's International Curriculum & Community of Practice (methods4all.org/camp-interna...) 🧵 This represents 5 years of work led by our global team, building on our proud 50 year history of NSF-funded methods programs in anthropology

Added a few more to this one, for those new to Bluesky! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps doi.org/10.1177/1609...

‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) doi.org/10.1177/1367...

(open access) Gaming the Stage Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater press.umich.edu/Books/G/Gami...

(open access on live-action role-playing or "LARP") Larp Design : Creating Role-Play Experiences trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024...

(open access dissertation) Theatre as Therapy for Impression Management Distress in the Contemporary United States: A Dramaturgical Model and Toolkit for Everyday Coping knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4014?...

(open access dissertation) Theatre as Therapy for Impression Management Distress in the Contemporary United States: A Dramaturgical Model and Toolkit for Everyday Coping knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4014?...

(open access on live-action role-playing or "LARP") Larp Design : Creating Role-Play Experiences trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024...

(open access) Gaming the Stage Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater press.umich.edu/Books/G/Gami...

‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps doi.org/10.1177/1609...

Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture doi.org/10.1177/1555...

Play in Cognitive Development: From Rational Constructivism to Predictive Processing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wide-ranging "casual" podcast on causal inference, good snapshots of this broad interdisciplinary field e.g., this conversation (s3, ep12) with epidemiologist Sander Greenland my take & project: ethnographers not yet involved, though they can and should be casualinfer.libsyn.com/it-depends-w...

My team's (open access) article was one of the AAA's Top Journal Articles of 2024, follow the links to download for free "Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology" www.anthropology-news.org/articles/top...

My team's (open access) article was one of the AAA's Top Journal Articles of 2024, follow the links to download for free "Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology" www.anthropology-news.org/articles/top...

I believe we can extend this claim to include regular participation in #TTRPG with nice game fellows… Choose dice over pills!

Terrific talk by @djsmith90.bsky.social on inherent messiness of trying to make causal claims about religion & mental health -- causal conclusions not easy to pin down, and data don't match some big claims (in part because available data *often aren't capable* of supporting them, analyzed properly)

📢 The final CCE seminar of 2024 is coming up soon with @djsmith90.bsky.social leading us into the 🎄 festive 🎄season with a presentation on *Religion and mental health: a causal Christmas carol* 🎅 📆 18th Dec 2024 - 12:45 in person start with food, 13:00 online talk start 🔓Open to all

Special Issue: The Influences of Religion and Spirituality on Human Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300...

I see more promise in Reddit and Discord

Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That. Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end. [Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.] www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...

"Read This Before Buying That Video Game" (Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

Why might NGOs play games with communities - games where participants don't even earn money? Marco Janssen: people can experiment with different solutions that can fail in the safe space of the game; one NGO reports that communities try solutions from water games in real life & they often work

What is the effect of reducing social media use or abstaining from it entirely? Many experimental studies have examined this question but found mixed results. I recommend this preprint that identifies methodological issues in current research: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...