What might make for an interesting critical-thinking activity for students would be to have them read either the abstract or the summary of the study available online (http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-people-personality-body-odor.html) and then ask the students what questions they might have about the study if they were reviewers using some of the new guidelines suggested by Simmons et. al (Simmons, J.P., Nelson, L.D. & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant.):
Authors should decide the rule for terminating data collection before data collection begins and report this rule in the article Authors must collect at least 20 observations per cell or else provide a compelling cost-of-data-collection justification Authors must list all variables collected in a study Authors must report all experimental conditions including failed manipulations If observations are eliminated, authors must also report what the statistical results are if those observations are included If an analysis includes a covariate authors must report the statistical results of the analysis without the covariate. Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Dec 8, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > > > > > > > Very interesting. As I wrote the post is was in the back of my mind that > smelling testosterone is a possibility, so dominance could be a reasonable > trait to measure. Interesting info about the Big Five possibly becoming the > Big Six. I'll definitely have a read of the article Scott. > > Michael > > Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. > mich...@thepsychfiles.com > http://www.ThePsychFiles.com > Twitter: mbritt > > > > > > On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> In at least some observer ratings studies of non-human animal (e.g., >> chimpanzee) personality (plenty of controversy here; Sam Gosling at U of >> Texas is the “to go” person to for this literature), dominance has emerged >> as a sixth factor in addition to the Big Five. Its inclusion here along >> with the traditional FFM is certainly not without precedent: >> >> >> http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ajf/pdf/King%20%26%20Figueredo%201997.pdf >> >> >> I’d rather read the article in full, which I’ve not yet done, before gauging >> the quality of the design and analyses, and the likelihood of replication. >> Have long found that judging articles from the Abstract is often a tricky >> business. >> >> …Scott >> >> >> Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. >> Department of Psychology, Room 473 >> Emory University >> 36 Eagle Row, >> Atlanta, Georgia 30322 >> slil...@emory.edu; 404-727-1125 >> >> >> >> From: Paul C Bernhardt [mailto:pcbernha...@frostburg.edu] >> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:40 AM >> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >> Subject: Re: [tips] This one doesn't smell right >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Agreed that it has a lot of the indicators we use to question the validity >> of a finding. >> >> However, I think it is possible, even likely, that body odor could be >> connected to dominance. Testosterone is related to dominance and it spreads >> to a lot of body fluids. That some odor unique to testosterone levels would >> be perceptible and correlated with dominance scores would not shock me. But, >> your point is well taken that they appear to be on a bit of a fishing >> expedition in this one. >> >> Paul >> >> On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Michael Britt wrote: >> >> >> >> Lately we've been talking about the need to inject new journal review >> procedures >> (http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2011/11/ep-165-video-psychological-research-under-fire-what-can-we-do-about-it/). >> Well, this is a little "armchair review", but I saw this articled >> summarized on a website yesterday and I think something doesn't "smell" >> right about it (if you'll excuse the pun): >> >> Does Personality Smell? Accuracy of Personality Assessments Based on Body >> Odour >> >> Published in the European Journal of Personality >> (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/per.848/abstract) >> >> From the abstract (bolding is mine): >> >> "...we investigated the relationship between body odour and the Big Five >> personality dimensions and dominance. Sixty odour samples were assessed by >> 20 raters each. The main finding of the presented study is that for a few >> personality traits, the correlation between self-assessed personality of >> odour donors and judgments based on their body odour was above chance level. >> The correlations were strongest for extraversion (.36), neuroticism (.34) >> and dominance (.29). Further analyses showed that self–other agreement in >> assessments of neuroticism slightly differed between sexes and that the >> ratings of dominance were particularly accurate for assessments of the >> opposite sex. " >> >> Here's what stands out for me: >> >> They found significant (and weak) correlations in only 2 out o the big five >> Using the "big five" scale sounds fine to me, but dominance isn't part of >> the big five - why was it included unless they were just looking for >> something to come out significant? Was dominance in their original >> hypotheses? If so, why? >> Were other personality constructs also measured? If so, what were the >> results? >> Just using the phrase "further analyses" raised my eyebrows (a fishing >> exhibition?) >> "differed slightly between the sexes" - does "slightly" mean significant or >> not? >> >> I'll try to get ahold of the whole article, but this doesn't look like it >> would hold up to replication. Thoughts? >> >> >> >> Michael A. 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