I am currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at The University of Western Ontario, working under Dr. Sampo Paunonen (personality/measurement) and Dr. Jim Neufeld (clinical psychology). Funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) post-doctoral fellowship, my research seeks to further our understanding of the individual-level mechanisms underlying social psychological phenomena (racial bias, attitudes and attitude change, affect misattribution) by using formal cognitive modeling approaches. I am also very interested in meta-scientific issues -- particularly relevant given the current "crisis of confidence" in psychology -- including the role of independent direct replications, curbing the use of questionable research practices (e.g., PsychDisclosure.org), and scientific openness more broadly. See Research page for more details.

Working Papers

LeBel, E. P., Ye, Y., & Wilbur, C. J. Big secrets don't cause people to estimate hills as steeper.

LeBel, E. P. Using cognitive modeling in the context of independent direct replications to shed light on replication difficulties in psychology.

 Consideration of individual differences in the underlying processes (using individual-level cognitive modeling approaches) can shed light on replication difficulties of (social) psychological phenomena.

LeBel, E. P. A general latent approach for the metric calibration of instruments in psychology. [manuscript available upon request]

Selected Publications (see Publications page for complete list)

LeBel, E. P., Borsboom, D., Giner-Sorolla, R., Hasselman, F., Peters, K. R., Ratliff, K. A., & Smith, C. T. (in press). PsychDisclosure.org: Grassroot support for reforming reporting standards in psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science. [PDF] [Supplementary Materials]

LeBel, E. P., & Campbell, L. (in press). Heightened sensitivity to temperature cues in highly anxiously attached individuals: Real or elusive phenomenon? Psychological Science. [PDF] [Addendum] [Supplementary Materials]

Open Science Collaboration (2012). An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 657-660. [PDF]

LeBel, E. P., & Peters, K. R.* (2011). Fearing the future of empirical psychology: Bem’s (2011) evidence of psi as a case study of deficiencies in modal research practice. Review of General Psychology, 15, 371-379. [PDF] (*Both authors contributed equally)
†Research covered in Time magazine Ideas section: [article]

LeBel, E. P. (2011). Metric calibration of psychological instruments: Utility and feasibility. Saarbrucken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. Buy at Amazon.com or morebooks.de

LeBel, E. P., & Paunonen, S. V. (2011). Sexy but often unreliable: Impact of unreliability on the replicability of experimental findings involving implicit measures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 570-583. [PDF]

Last updated: May 1, 2013

  

Etienne P. LeBel
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Psychology
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
N6A 5C2 SSC 7312

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