Big congratulations Dr Higgins!

My thesis - Measurement in Crisis? A Critical Evaluation of Measurement Validation Practices in the Psychological Sciences - was awarded the Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence.

Have you every found yourself wondering whether the most widely used measures of social cognitive ability measure what they are supposed to measure?

Great blogpost describing our recent findings in the context of other relevant research. @richramseyphd.bsky.social

Study participants awarded 43% more money to people with whom they shared trivial or random similarities than to people who were different, suggesting that interindividual comparison, not just groupism, underlies discrimination. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks for sharing @utafrith.bsky.social ! @richramseyphd.bsky.social and I will work on our titles from here on. 😅