{"id":489,"date":"2012-08-04T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=489"},"modified":"2012-08-04T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T22:30:38","slug":"causation-in-psychological-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/04\/causation-in-psychological-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Causation in Psychological Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Journal of Personality just published an article by James Lee, titled<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Correlation and Causation in the Study of Personality&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nEuropean Journal of Personality, Eur.J.Pers. 26: 372-390 (2012) DOI:10.1002\/per.1863.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/per.1863\/pdf\">http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/per.1863\/pdf<\/a>,<br \/>\nor  <a href=\"http:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/lee2012.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s article is followed by Open Peer Commentaries<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/per.1865\/full\">http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/per.1865\/full<\/a>,<br \/>\nor <a href=\"http:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/lee2012-comments.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>(Strikingly,  the commentary by Rolf Steyer declares the do-operator to be self-contradictory. I trust readers of this blog to spot Steyer&#8217;s error right away.  If not, I will post.)<\/p>\n<p>Another recent paper on causation in psychological research is the one by Shadish and Sullivan,<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Theories of Causation in Psychological Science&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nIn Harris Cooper (Ed-in-Chief), APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology, Volume 1, pp. 23-52, 2012.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ucla.edu\/~kaoru\/shadish-sullivan12.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cs.ucla.edu\/~kaoru\/shadish-sullivan12.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While these papers indicate a healthy awakening of psychological researchers to recent advances in causal inference, the field is still dominated by authors who have not heard about model-based covariate selection, testable implications, nonparametric identification, bias amplification, mediation formulas and more.<\/p>\n<p>Much to do, much to discuss,<br \/>\nJudea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Journal of Personality just published an article by James Lee, titled &#8220;Correlation and Causation in the Study of Personality&#8221; European Journal of Personality, Eur.J.Pers. 26: 372-390 (2012) DOI:10.1002\/per.1863. Link: http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/per.1863\/pdf, or here. Lee&#8217;s article is followed by Open Peer Commentaries http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/per.1865\/full, or here. (Strikingly, the commentary by Rolf Steyer declares the do-operator to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-do-calculus","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}