Social Psychology in the Information Age: Something to watch: Peeriodicals

Monday, June 4, 2018

Something to watch: Peeriodicals

The people who brought us PubPeer (a post-peer review site) recently launched a site called Peeriodicals, which is intended as a way for scientists to curate preprints and existing articles on a specific topic or area of interest to them. This new site is in beta mode at the moment. The intention is to offer something a bit more positive than PubPeer, which exists mainly to critique published articles. Keep in mind that these curated "journals" are not "journals" in the tradition sense of the term, as the articles curated are ones that already exist. That said, there does seem to be an opportunity for interested scientists to act as editors, form editorial teams, and create collections of preprints and published articles that deserve attention. We'll see how it works out. Good intentions do not necessarily lead to good outcomes, but one can hope so in this case.

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Hi! I am A. James Benjamin, Jr., PhD. Most folks call me James or JB eventually.

I am an educator trained as a social psychologist. I work as an Associate Professor at University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. I earned my PhD from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2000. Much of my research has touched on cognitive and behavioral effects of aggression-related cues (e.g., video games and weapon images), increasingly from a critical and skeptical perspective. I have also examined person variables such as authoritarianism and short-term media exposure in relation to attitudes toward violence and toward torture. My more recent interests involve the psychometric properties of various measures of aggressive cognition that are commonly used by aggression researchers. My work intersects with that of related researchers in areas such as Media Communication.

As an educator, I primarily teach methodology courses and the undergraduate survey course in social psychology. I also regularly teach the introductory psychology course. I make a point of introducing students at all levels to the replication crisis. Increasingly, I am trying interactive activities to engage students to become more critical readers of the research literature in my field.

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