“In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly.” PeopleMotivationSocialMediaSocial MediaPostsReviewsPeersJournalPeer Review Author:Susan Fiske
“I publish things that in my judgment are good science.” JudgmentPublishGood Science Author:Susan Fiske
“If people are going to do post-publication peer review, they need to abide by the same rules as they abide by for pre-publication peer review: not being ad hominem, being respectful, giving the author a chance to respond in a reasonable way.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsGivingChancePostsReasonableReviewsAdsPeersRespectfulPublicationBe RespectfulPeer Review Author:Susan Fiske
“Some people have set up sort of "gotcha" algorithms that apparently crawl through psychology articles and look for fraudulent p-values [a measure of the likelihood that experimental results weren't a fluke]. But they're including rounding errors that don't change the significance levels of the results, and they're doing it anonymously.” PeopleLooksValuesLevelsResultsPsychologyErrorsIncludingSignificanceArticlesDon't ChangeLikelihoodAlgorithmsFlukes Author:Susan Fiske
“I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.” PeopleThinkingWayIndividualDifferencesHugeNormVividDescribing Author:Susan Fiske
“If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant.” IfsPersonsPaperMotiveEditorsReviewsRelevantPeersHierarchyPublicationPeer Review Author:Susan Fiske
“If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.” IfsWantWellsEffectsLegacyPhenomenonFadesFade AwayJollyReplicate Author:Susan Fiske
“Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.” SeemsGoalCriticalDiscoursePromotingRespectfulGood Goal Author:Susan Fiske
“It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.” GoalInfluenceEsteemEncountersTypicalHierarchyImplicitInterpersonalGoal Oriented Author:Susan Fiske