{"title":"The Face Image Meta-Database (fIMDb) & ChatLab Facial Anomaly Database (CFAD): Tools for research on face perception and social stigma","authors":"Clifford I. Workman , Anjan Chatterjee","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100063","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100063","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Investigators increasingly need high quality face photographs that they can use in service of their scholarly pursuits—whether serving as experimental stimuli or to benchmark face recognition algorithms. Up to now, an index of known face databases, their features, and how to access them has not been available. This absence has had at least two negative repercussions: First, without alternatives, some researchers may have used face databases that are widely known but not optimal for their research. Second, a reliance on databases comprised only of young white faces will lead to science that isn't representative of all the people whose tax contributions, in many cases, make that research possible. The “Face Image Meta-Database” (fIMDb) provides researchers with the tools to find the face images best suited to their research, with filters to locate databases with people of a varied racial and ethnic backgrounds and ages. Problems of representation in face databases are not restricted to race and ethnicity or age – there is a dearth of databases with faces that have visible differences (e.g., scars, port wine stains, and cleft lip and palate). A well-characterized database is needed to support programmatic research into perceivers' attitudes, behaviors, and neural responses to anomalous faces. The “ChatLab Facial Anomaly Database” (CFAD) was constructed to fill this gap, with photographs of faces with visible differences of various types, etiologies, sizes, locations, and that depict individuals from various ethnic backgrounds and age groups. Both the fIMDb and CFAD are available from: <span>https://cliffordworkman.com/resources/</span><svg><path></path></svg>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100063"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39293007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cara Sass , Claire Surr , Lorena Lozano-Sufrategui
{"title":"Creative non-fiction in dementia: Men's experiences of sport-focused reminiscence using narrative methods","authors":"Cara Sass , Claire Surr , Lorena Lozano-Sufrategui","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Qualitative research methodologies offer valuable insight into important aspects of the lived experience of dementia, and provide inclusion opportunities for those with moderate to severe cognitive impairment. Narrative methods such as creative non-fiction (CNF) offer an evocative method to utilise direct accounts of the experience of living with dementia, to attenuate professionals and academics to best practice approaches to supporting their needs.</p><p>Men face unique challenges in finding appropriate support to help them to maintain a sense of identity following a diagnosis of dementia. Yet, academic literature seldom uses the voices of those affected when highlighting this issue. This study presents ethnographic data written as a composite narrative using CNF, to explore how social connections are formed through a structured sports-based reminiscence intervention for men living with dementia.</p><p>This article demonstrates how the CNF approach can be applied to ethnographic data, offering a detailed description of the writing process applied in this study. In particular, we discuss in detail the ways in which CNF writing techniques have helped to enhance the communication of key mechanisms observed during fieldwork.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100061"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89989532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges to qualitative evidence synthesis – Aiming for diversity and abstracting without losing meaning","authors":"Gesa Solveig Duden","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent years have seen an increase in the publication of qualitative studies in psychological research. As meta-analyses in quantitative research, qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) methods such as meta synthesis, thematic synthesis, or meta ethnography strive to analyse findings from primary qualitative inquiries. However, these approaches are still largely unknown to psychological researchers and come with a number of challenges. The present article aims to introduce QES to the reader, outline some of its benefits, and shed light on two challenges of QES, in particular: on the question of how to include studies from a great diversity of countries and cultures, and on the conflict of reducing, merging, and abstracting from the findings of primary studies while aspiring to preserve their full contribution and meaning. These challenges are explained by providing a practical example of a QES from the field of mental healthcare research. The article concludes with some suggestions for future qualitative meta researchers, such as working in teams that include members from a plurality of contexts who speak a multiplicity of languages, as well as transparently reporting on decisions taken during the research process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100070"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"101133142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DMCfun: An R package for fitting Diffusion Model of Conflict (DMC) to reaction time and error rate data","authors":"Ian G. Mackenzie , Carolin Dudschig","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Decision processes within choice reaction-time (CRT) tasks are often modelled using evidence accumulation models (EAMs), a variation of which is the Diffusion Decision Model (DDM, for a review, see Ratcliff et al., 2016). Ulrich et al. (2015) introduced a Diffusion Model for Conflict tasks (DMC). The DMC model combines common features from within standard diffusion models with the addition of superimposed controlled and automatic activation. The DMC model can explain data behavioural patterns within common conflict-like tasks, where stimulus features include both a relevant and irrelevant source of information (e.g., Simon task). This paper introduces the R-package DMCfun, which implements the DMC model and provides functionality to fit the model to observed data. Furthermore, the package can be used to perform and illustrate distributional analyses on data from any conflict-like CRT task.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100074"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259026012100031X/pdfft?md5=25cd14c76fcc85e1fcc57754dd57b59c&pid=1-s2.0-S259026012100031X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47621335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An invitation to analytic abduction","authors":"Michael Halpin , Norann Richard","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100052","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper provides an invitation to analytic abduction, an emerging approach to qualitative research. Like deduction and induction, abduction is a mode of inquiry. In a general sense, abduction forwards explanations for novel or surprising observations. In a more practical sense, abduction aims to combine the strengths of both inductive and deductive inquiry by reasoning from concrete data (similar to induction), but using this data to extend, refine, or refute existing theories or propositions (similar to deduction). In this paper, we provide an overview of how and why abduction was developed for qualitative research before demonstrating how to apply analytic abduction to real-world data. Our examples connect data to longstanding and well-researched theories in psychology to highlight the utility of abduction for psychological researchers. We argue that analytic abduction is an ideal resource for qualitative psychologists, as the approach emphasizes qualitative data while leveraging such data to shape theory. This focus on theory provides ample opportunities to use qualitative work to inform concepts central to psychological science, including those that are primarily tied to experimental design, quantitative methods, and deductive reasoning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100052"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"95546164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Looks like a lot of awesome things are coming out of the study!”: Reflections on researching, communicating and challenging everyday inequalities","authors":"Octavia Calder-Dawe , Karen Witten , Penelope Carroll , Toby Morris","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years, a growing interest in so-called ‘everyday’ inequalities is raising intriguing questions for qualitative research in psychology. How best might we canvass people's mundane experiences with inequalities given that these experiences are often normalized or entrenched to the extent that they disappear from view, or are otherwise hard to articulate in the course of a conventional qualitative research encounter? And, should we find ourselves as custodians of data that do pinpoint inequalities, what options and opportunities exist for reporting and sharing participants' narratives in challenging and transformative ways? In this article, we present a response to these questions. Moving against the attachment to standardisation that characterises much psychological inquiry, we outline a project where methodological flexibility and a focus on collaborative documentation helped us to surface rich experiential data on everyday ableism. By spending time with participants, and equipped with a toolbox of creative, collaborative and conventional methods, we built the relational foundations necessary for participants to <em>show, tell</em> and <em>share</em> their encounters with ableism with us. From here, we discuss how our experiences with creative and collaborative data collection emboldened us to experiment with a new (to us) way of sharing research findings: the comic. Outlining our research team's collaboration with illustrator Toby Morris, we show and tell the potential of illustrated narratives for sharing research on everyday inequalities – and challenging them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"107493429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whether the Pairwise Rating Method and the Spatial Arrangement Method yield comparable dimensionalities depends on the dimensionality choice procedure","authors":"Steven Verheyen , Gert Storms","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100060","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate whether the Pairwise Rating Method (PRaM) and the Spatial Arrangement Method (SpAM) yield multidimensional scaling (MDS) solutions of comparable dimensionality. Across three studies that included twelve semantic categories with varying numbers of both pictorial and verbal exemplars, we did not find consistent dimensionality differences between the two similarity measurement methods. The results alleviate the concern that SpAM might underestimate the dimensionality of high-dimensional stimuli compared to PRaM. However, the resulting number of dimensions was found to be highly dependent on the dimensionality choice procedure, indicating the need for a more systematic investigation into dimensionality selection for MDS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100060"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137411866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tinkering with the two-to-one interview: Reflections on the use of two interviewers in qualitative constructionist inquiry","authors":"Javier Monforte , Joan Úbeda-Colomer","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Typically, qualitative interviews implicate a single interviewer. In this article, we consider an alternative comprising the simultaneous, active involvement of two interviewers. We base our considerations on experiences using the two-to-one interview in a nationwide research project on disability and physical activity. In addition to untapping and developing a qualitative interview method, the article provides an example in action of tinkering in qualitative inquiry. Tinkering entails a constant questioning of what to do, what is best, and what is appropriate within each moment of the research. Echoing social constructionist scholars, we argue that this flexible approach is useful to move away from methodological prescription and predictability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100082"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590260121000394/pdfft?md5=64db86834ea147a51de79ad6cc965c0f&pid=1-s2.0-S2590260121000394-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48229174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan Mirault , Stéphanie Massol , Jonathan Grainger
{"title":"An algorithm for analyzing cloze test results","authors":"Jonathan Mirault , Stéphanie Massol , Jonathan Grainger","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present an algorithm for the automatic processing of cloze test results that are traditionally analyzed and adjusted by hand. The algorithm accurately includes inflected and derived forms of the target word as correct responses, as well as minor spelling mistakes and typographical errors. We provide a test of the algorithm against the coding of one expert human observer and find that the algorithm performs with equal accuracy. We further examine the utility of the algorithm for the analysis of data involving word identification with typed responses. The routines are implemented in R-software and are freely available.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100064"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113764290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking within-persons: Using unit fixed-effects models to describe causal mechanisms","authors":"Rafael Quintana","doi":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100076","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.metip.2021.100076","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Psychological research is mainly concerned with causal questions, and as a consequence can benefit from explicitly adopting a causal inference framework. In this paper, I explain that the main contribution of longitudinal analysis from a causal perspective is the ability to control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, which can be achieved by focusing exclusively on within-person variation. Based on this general framework, I describe different procedures for estimating within-person effects, as well as modelling strategies that can be used to test substantive hypotheses regarding within-person asymmetrical causation, moderation, effect heterogeneity, and reciprocal causation. These statistical techniques can expand the methodological tool kit for describing mechanisms using observational data. I provide an empirical illustration of these methods by estimating the within-person effects of executive functions on academic achievement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93338,"journal":{"name":"Methods in Psychology (Online)","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100076"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43500748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}