Associate psych prof, health psychology researcher. BA(UNBSJ), PhD(UAlberta). West Coast. She/her. Views & 👓 mine /avatar @blackmudpuppy /cover Miramichi River
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Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
Note that this in itself is a well-replicated finding. At least a dozen studies show that when researchers replicate qualitative research, or re-analyze it, they come to basically identical themes. There is nothing special about qualitative research with respect to replicability.
This is a great qualitative research paper. It sheds light on questionable research practices. But more importantly it demonstrates direct replications in qualitative research work as you would expect: independent teams reach basically the same conclusions royalsocietypublishing.org/r…
@benjamin_zubaly did an interview with @PsyPost about our recent paper in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences:
psypost.org/religiosity-may-…
We worked with @HaguePhd to test 3 explanations for the connection between religiosity and disgust sensitivity.
Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
New paper out in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences!
We find evidence that disgust sensitivity leads to religiosity through monogamous sexual attitudes. Calibrated mating goals might functionally shape belief.
w/ @HealthPsychKell & @HaguePhd
Link to publisher and PDF below!
Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
Why do our friendships feel so vital?
I wrote a short piece for @JessicaDAyers’ lab blog. It discusses why evolutionary psychology is critical for understanding complex social phenomena like friendship and provides an introduction to evolutionary social psychology.
Read it here!
ayerslab.org/blog/why-unders…
After a great @HumBehEvoSoc panel on friendship, I thought it was a perfect time to share @benjamin_zubaly’s thoughts on why evolutionary theory is needed to understand friendships ayerslab.org/blog/why-unders…
A small story for a Monday night:
A group of students in my History of Psych class devised a game of musical chairs to illustrate the concept of survival of the fittest.
The prize was a box of Kinder eggs…representing the successful reproduction of those fittest.
Pleased and proud to share that recent honours student Ben has just accepted an offer to do a PhD in evo psych at Michigan.
Appropriately, he is in Denver this weekend presenting his research at SPSP.
Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
Dr Ally Louks is in the building.
Cambridge PhD student Dr @DrAllyLouks from @Peterhouse_Cam went viral last year when she posted a photo of her thesis on the politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose.
Here's her story about what happened next 👇
Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
Good for the Canadian @cancersociety. The way to deal with the firehose of BS online is not by staying quiet and hoping it goes away.
Maybe that approach worked 10 years ago, but we live in different times now; people will get hurt if we don't do our best to quickly correct misinformation.
During Joe Rogan’s podcast on January 9, Mel Gibson promoted drugs that are not scientifically proven cancer treatments. Misinformation on cancer treatment is dangerous, cruel, irresponsible and gives false hope to people with cancer and their loved ones.
Researchers around the world dedicate their lives to uncovering the best cancer treatments. Surgery, radiation and approved cancer drugs like chemotherapy are safe and proven to stop cancer cells from growing and spreading. Choosing to use an alternative therapy can have serious health effects, such as the cancer spreading or getting worse.
The Canadian Cancer Society provides credible, independent, trusted information on cancer treatments, in easy-to-understand language. You can find this at cancer.ca or and we are also available on chat or by calling 1-888-939-3333.
Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
made me remembered again about this
(original post by @/mathewsmarz)
ALT Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live, and they're not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg's poems or anybody's poems! Until... Their father dies, they go to a funeral, you lose a child,
ALT somebody breaks your heart, they don't love you anymore. And all of a sudden, you're desperate for making sense out of this life. "Has anybody ever felt this bad before? How did they come out of this cloud?"
ALT Or the inverse—something great. You meet somebody and your heart explodes! You love them so much you can't even see straight! You know, you're dizzy! "Did anybody feel like this before? What is happening to me?"
ALT And that's when art's not a luxury, it's a sustenance. You need it.
Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”
HUMANS!
Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
One of the worst ways to experience regression to the mean is when one of your favorite artists releases a new album.
A student stopped by to ask about doing a project together this summer. Two days later I was asked to collaborate on an upcoming project that will also need an RA. This might just work out.
TBT to the time I had to fast for 2.5 days and decided a grant application might be a helpful distraction.
Pleased to learn this morning that @benjamin_zubaly will be taking his research, a collab with @HaguePhd, to SPSP 2025. Look for our poster titled Religiosity and the Behavioral Immune System in sunny Denver.
Left the house with umbrella, waterproof shoes, raincoat, ID.
Returned home a short time later with all of the above plus an I Voted sticker.
Polls close in 1 hour. #bcelection
Very serious affair, a conference. An entire fan club showed up for W: family, friends, general admirers.
Kelly Arbeau, PhD retweeted
This is an important humanizing story abt the impact scientific integrity & reproducibility issues have on all the folks in labs who are affected by them (spending time, energy, resources etc) and the serious impacts it has on their careers & faith in the institutions of science.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
My first feature for @_TheTransmitter investigates the emotional and existential fallout for one lab in the aftermath of a misconduct case.
thetransmitter.org/science-a…
