scholarly journals The judgment of personality: An overview of current empirical research findings

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tera D. Letzring ◽  
Nora A. Murphy ◽  
Jüri Allik ◽  
Andrew Beer ◽  
Johannes Zimmermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Rater Agreement ◽  
Personality Judgment ◽  
Current State ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Personality Judgments

This article presents an overview of the current state of knowledge in personality judgment research. We discuss accuracy and bias in personality judgments, including types of inter-rater agreement and elements of criteria used to determine levels of agreement and accuracy. We then address 1) the words and phrases that people use to describe one another and themselves, 2) research investigating judgments of targets by perceivers per trait, and 3) research investigating judgments of targets by perceivers on profiles or sets of traits. We also provide 4) an outlook regarding important research questions that remain unanswered in this field.

scholarly journals The Judgment of Personality: An Overview of Current Empirical Research Findings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tera D. Letzring ◽  
Nora A. Murphy ◽  
Jüri Allik ◽  
ANDREW BEER ◽  
Johannes Zimmermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Rater Agreement ◽  
Personality Judgment ◽  
Writing Processes ◽  
Current State ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Robust Evidence

This article presents an overview of the current state of knowledge in personality judgment research. We address (1) the words and phrases that people use to describe one another and themselves, (2) research in the “variable-centered” tradition, which investigates judgments of targets by perceivers on single traits, and (3) research investigating judgments of targets by perceivers on whole profiles of traits. Our focus is on inter-rater agreement, accuracy, and bias. We also provide (4) an outlook regarding important research questions that remain to be answered in this field. Although we consider our attempt to jointly identify the most robust evidence in the field to be largely successful, we acknowledge that the process of consensus building was fairly difficult. Thus, we close with a number of concrete suggestions for making such collaborative-writing processes as constructive as possible.

scholarly journals The effect of preregistration on trust in empirical research findings: results of a registered report

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 181351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarahanne M. Field ◽  
E.-J. Wagenmakers ◽  
Henk A. L. Kiers ◽  
Rink Hoekstra ◽  
Anja F. Ernst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Bayes Factors ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Questionable Research Practices ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research Initiatives

The crisis of confidence has undermined the trust that researchers place in the findings of their peers. In order to increase trust in research, initiatives such as preregistration have been suggested, which aim to prevent various questionable research practices. As it stands, however, no empirical evidence exists that preregistration does increase perceptions of trust. The picture may be complicated by a researcher's familiarity with the author of the study, regardless of the preregistration status of the research. This registered report presents an empirical assessment of the extent to which preregistration increases the trust of 209 active academics in the reported outcomes, and how familiarity with another researcher influences that trust. Contrary to our expectations, we report ambiguous Bayes factors and conclude that we do not have strong evidence towards answering our research questions. Our findings are presented along with evidence that our manipulations were ineffective for many participants, leading to the exclusion of 68% of complete datasets, and an underpowered design as a consequence. We discuss other limitations and confounds which may explain why the findings of the study deviate from a previously conducted pilot study. We reflect on the benefits of using the registered report submission format in light of our results. The OSF page for this registered report and its pilot can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/B3K75 .

scholarly journals Current Activities of the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Monica M Bertagnolli ◽  
Susan M Blaney ◽  
Charles D Blanke ◽  
Walter J Curran ◽  
Janet Dancey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
National Cancer Institute ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Therapeutic Agents ◽  
Cooperative Groups ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Current State ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Future Work

Abstract The Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups is an organization representing the interests of patients and researchers who conduct research through the National Cancer Institute-supported National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN). The NCTN provides a crucial mechanism for executing practice-changing cancer clinical research to achieve both cancer control and development of new therapeutic agents or modality approaches. Public funding, largely through the National Cancer Institute, ensures that the work of the NCTN achieves important research that would not otherwise be accomplished in the private sector. In fall 2017, the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups convened a Scientific Leadership Council to review the current state of the network with regard to research capabilities and to develop a list of research questions to be prioritized by the network. This report presents the results of this meeting, detailing a roadmap for future work by the NCTN.

scholarly journals How much and what kind of vocabulary do marine engineers need for adequate comprehension of ship instruction books and manuals?

2021 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Zorica Đurović ◽  
Milica Vuković-Stamatović ◽  
Miroslav Vukičević
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Word List ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Marine Engineering ◽  
Marine Engineers

Considering the importance of adequate understanding of instruction books and manuals on board vessels all over the world, as well as the challenges it imposes to the English language teachers and course designers, this paper aims to answer important research questions in relation to the quantity and type of vocabulary required for their adequate reading comprehension. In this study we use the method of Lexical Frequency Profiling and the software developed by Anthony Laurence – AntWordProfiler 1.4.0w. The corpus is comprised of 1,769,821 running words obtained from instruction books and manuals of various ship and machinery types. The results of this study point to the high technicality and lexical demand of the corpus, which calls for a highly technical English courses’ design and further research in marine engineering (English) vocabulary. Additionally, the research findings point to the need of creating a marine engineering-specific word list.

Organocatalytic dimensions to the C–H functionalization of the carbocyclic core in indoles: a review update

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prantika Bhattacharjee ◽  
Utpal Bora
Keyword(s):  
Important Research ◽  
Research Findings

A review highlighting important research findings in remote C–H activation processes using effectual organocatalytic perspectives. The challenging indole carbocyclic ring positions were successfully accessed with proper regio- and stereocontrols.

Deep Compressive Offloading

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Shuochao Yao ◽  
Jinyang Li ◽  
Dongxin Liu ◽  
Tianshi Wang ◽  
Shengzhong Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Visual Inputs ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Tracking Objects

Future mobile and embedded systems will be smarter and more user-friendly. They will perceive the physical environment, understand human context, and interact with end-users in a human-like fashion. Daily objects will be capable of leveraging sensor data to perform complex estimation and recognition tasks, such as recognizing visual inputs, understanding voice commands, tracking objects, and interpreting human actions. This raises important research questions on how to endow low-end embedded and mobile devices with the appearance of intelligence despite their resource limitations.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Gatrell ◽  
Esther Dermott
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
The Impact

This introductory chapter explains how different research questions and methods can contribute to better understanding of contemporary fathers, fatherhood, and fathering. Given the enhanced methodological diversity and increased sophistication of methods across the social sciences, embracing qualitative and quantitative approaches, traditional (such as interviewing) and contemporary approaches (such as netnography and visual methods), and general ‘handbooks’ offering basic introductions to social research have limited use for advanced researchers and students. The book aims to link detailed concerns about conducting individual projects to wider methodological debates concerning the value of different forms and sources of data, the negotiation of research relationships, and the impact of research findings on participants, policy makers, employers, and a wider public.

scholarly journals One Law with Two Outcomes: Comparing the Implementation of CIPA in Public Libraries and Schools

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. Jaeger ◽  
Zheng Yan
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Current State ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Children’S Internet Protection Act

<span>Though the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) established requirements for both public libraries and public schools to adopt filters on all of their computers when they receive certain federal funding, it has not attracted a great amount of research into the effects on libraries and schools and the users of these social institutions. This paper explores the implications of CIPA in terms of its effects on public libraries and public schools, individually and in tandem. Drawing from both library and education research, the paper examines the legal background and basis of CIPA, the current state of Internet access and levels of filtering in public libraries and public schools, the perceived value of CIPA, the perceived consequences of CIPA, the differences in levels of implementation of CIPA in public libraries and public schools, and the reasons for those dramatic differences. After an analysis of these issues within the greater policy context, the paper suggests research questions to help provide more data about the challenges and questions revealed in this analysis.</span>

scholarly journals The Selectionist Paradigm: More Implications for Sociology

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Two Bodies

This paper argues that despite 50 years of empirical research, the phenomenon of social contagion is still poorly understood. Social contagion research has produced an eclectic, largely confused and jumbled body of evidence that lacks any comprehensive organising principle or conceptual framework. Whilst the great majority of this empirical research has identified and confirmed existence of the social contagion phenomenon, results have been undermined because the phenomenon itself has been variously and ambiguously defined and operationalised. This has meant that the potential radical implications of social contagion research findings for an orthodox understanding of the human individual as a rational Cartesian agent, have been largely ignored. It is suggested that the emerging evolutionary paradigm of memetics may providea novel conceptual framework for understanding and explaining the empirical phenomenon of social contagion, by understanding it as the observable action of selfish memes replicating through a population. The article concludes by proposing a memetic theory of social contagion, and ends with a call for the synthesis of the two bodies to create a comprehensive body of theoretically informed research.

scholarly journals Agile Transformation at Scale: A Tertiary Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Suddhasvatta Das ◽  
Kevin Gary
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Agile Processes ◽  
Current State ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Tertiary Study

AbstractDue to the fast-paced nature of the software industry and the success of small agile projects, researchers and practitioners are interested in scaling agile processes to larger projects. Agile software development (ASD) has been growing in popularity for over two decades. With the success of small-scale agile transformation, organizations started to focus on scaling agile. There is a scarcity of literature in this field making it harder to find plausible evidence to identify the science behind large scale agile transformation. The objective of this paper is to present a better understanding of the current state of research in the field of scaled agile transformation and explore research gaps. This tertiary study identifies seven relevant peer reviewed studies and reports research findings and future research avenues.

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