I publish things that in my judgment are good science. Susan Fiske More Quotes by Susan Fiske More Quotes From Susan Fiske I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people. Susan Fiske differences people thinking It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented. Susan Fiske hierarchy typical goal 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. Susan Fiske peer-review giving people 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. Susan Fiske wells legacy want 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. Susan Fiske media motivation people 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. Susan Fiske psychology errors people 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. Susan Fiske peers editors paper Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me. Susan Fiske discourse respectful goal
