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The psychology of female infertility: Toward a new perspective
Anita M. Unruh, Patrick J. McGrath
Health Care for Women International·1985·15 citations
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View paper →Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality
W. Brian Arthur
The American Economic Review·1994
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View paper →Complex Systems
Saffron Huang
The Point Magazine·2025
What does it mean to measure intelligence?
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View paper →Self-Insert Fanfiction as Digital Technology of the Self
Effie Sapuridis, Maria K. Alberto
Humanities·2022·5 citations
<jats:p>Self-insert fanfiction is a long-established but still controversial mode of writing, even within the already marginalized genre of fanfiction. Moreover, many of the specific terms and practices used to describe this kind of writing have not been formally explored or theorized. We maintain that self-insert fanfiction can be understood as a digital technology of the self, building upon Foucauldian roots and extending into digital platforms and their affordances. We begin by making connections to the precedents established by “Mary Sue” characters, then continue by tracing the shifts from those conversations to more explicitly self-insert subgenres of the present day. Then, drawing on a survey of self-insert fanfiction conducted across four platforms (Ao3, FF.net, Tumblr, and Wattpad), we explore how such works can be discovered, read, and engaged with, and we offer specific observations about self-insert subgenres, as drawn from a selection of these works. Ultimately, we maintain, self-insert fanfiction expands the possibilities offered by other digital technologies of the self (avatars, blogging, etc.) by attempting to create a self that can be open to any reader who encounters it, although this expansion is not without its own limitations and drawbacks. We conclude by offering potential directions for further work in this area that fall beyond the scope of this initial exploration.</jats:p>
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View paper →Psychology Is a Property of Persons, Not Averages or Distributions: Confronting the Group-to-Person Generalizability Problem in Experimental Psychology
Ryan M. McManus, Liane Young, Joseph Sweetman
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science·2023·33 citations
<jats:p>When experimental psychologists make a claim (e.g., “Participants judged X as morally worse than Y”), how many participants are represented? Such claims are often based exclusively on group-level analyses; here, psychologists often fail to report or perhaps even investigate how many participants judged X as morally worse than Y. More troubling, group-level analyses do not necessarily generalize to the person level: “the group-to-person generalizability problem.” We first argue for the necessity of designing experiments that allow investigation of whether claims represent most participants. Second, we report findings that in a survey of researchers (and laypeople), most interpret claims based on group-level effects as being intended to represent most participants in a study. Most believe this ought to be the case if a claim is used to support a general, person-level psychological theory. Third, building on prior approaches, we document claims in the experimental-psychology literature, derived from sets of typical group-level analyses, that describe only a (sometimes tiny) minority of participants. Fourth, we reason through an example from our own research to illustrate this group-to-person generalizability problem. In addition, we demonstrate how claims from sets of simulated group-level effects can emerge without a single participant’s responses matching these patterns. Fifth, we conduct four experiments that rule out several methodology-based noise explanations of the problem. Finally, we propose a set of simple and flexible options to help researchers confront the group-to-person generalizability problem in their own work.</jats:p>
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