Ariel J. Mosley, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
UC Davis
Statistics & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Resources*
Statistics & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Resources*
Statcheck is a program that checks for errors in statistical reporting in APA-formatted documents. Using statcheck/web, you can check any PDF for statistical errors.
Lancaster Stats Tools online were developed at Lancaster University. The website provides practical support for the analysis of corpus data using a range of statistical techniques., including a meta-analysis effect size calculator.
ESCI is a set of files for Microsoft Excel developed by Geoff Cumming that makes it easy to use the estimation approach to answer a wide variety of research questions.
This web page contains various Excel templates which help interpret two-way and three-way interaction effects. They use procedures by Aiken and West (1991), Dawson (2014) and Dawson and Richter (2006) to plot the interaction effects, and in the case of three way interactions test for significant differences between the slopes.
This web page calculates simple intercepts and simple slopes, the region of significance, and computes specific values to facilitate the plotting of significant two-way interactions in ordinary least squares (OLS) regression.
PROCESS is a macro for SPSS and SAS that conducts observed-variable mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis.
Guide for finding the right linear transformation to convert one Likert scale to another.
A methodology blog for social psychology by Dr. Roger Giner -Sorolla, editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Archive for papers produced by the Power Analysis Working Group and related material; University of Kent
Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.
Open psychological data sets that are free, increasing accessibility for research and teaching
The Chicago Face Database provides high-resolution, standardized photographs of male and female faces of varying ethnicity between the ages of 17-65. Extensive norming data are available for each individual model. These data include both physical attributes (e.g., face size) as well as subjective ratings by independent judges (e.g., attractiveness).
The American Multiracial Faces Database (AMFD), associated with Dr. Jacqueline Chen's Social Cognition and Intergroup Perception Lab, contains 110 faces (smiling and neutral expression poses) with mixed-race heritage and accompanying ratings of those faces by naive observers that are freely available to academic researchers.
Assessments, Instruments and Measures associated with the Wisdom and Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo (e.g., Measures of Wisdom, Social Orientation, Cognitive Style)
This guide contains an overview of coding and running Mturk Experiments, published in 2019 by Martin Hebert.
Guide to various excel functions for data transformation.
Practical Resources for Assessing and Reporting Intercoder Reliability in Content Analysis Research Projects
Teaching / Social Justice Resources*
Teaching / Social Justice Resources*
This website features digital toolkits that translate research into user-friendly formats that practitioners and educators can use to sparq psychological, behavioral, and societal change. Each toolkit shares evidence-based materials and resources that can be put right to use to tackle issues from empowering students to engage across difference, encouraging people to eat healthy, or helping researchers measure important indicators of economic mobility.
The BIPOC-authored Psychology Papers spreadsheet is intended for use by instructors of undergraduate/graduate-level psychology courses to help diversify their syllabi.
This document was created in response to the desire from over-represented scientists to get engaged in work toward equity and fair representation in science (Caston, Cikara, Falk, et al).
This document was created to discuss how the academic system exludes low-income, URM students, and presents solutions., including Paid Summer Research Programs.
Best practices for public health communications that emphasize the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectively. These principles hare intended to ensure communication strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.
Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.
This link was organized by a group of Black counseling psychologists and their colleagues who practice allyship, with resources for taking action against anti-Black racism and resources on disability.
Outsmarting Human Minds offers learning modules for the broader public, in the form of podcasts and videos, to showcase the science of how human minds work and shape the decisions we make in the workplace and in life, more generally. Watch the videos. Listen to the podcasts. Start conversations about how to outsmart your mind!
The resources on this page provide guidelines from APA Manual (7th) on how to use bias-free language in research papers.
This calculator was inspired by this AWIS blog post on gender biases in recommendation letters, and assesses the ratio of feminine and masculine associated words (Fourth, 2018). The scientific paper it is based on also explain why this gender bias is important.
A collection of resources for Black History Month created from Charles Preston.
This calculator was created by the Rice Center for Teaching Excellence, and gives information about student's reading rates, assuming that writing rates will be a function of a variety of factors. The three we take into account are 1) page density, 2) text genre, 3) degree of drafting and revision.
VIDS utilizes short high-quality videos and consist of two presentational styles that each demonstrate empirical evidence of gender bias. VIDS have been shown to increase bias literacy as characterized by (a) awareness of bias, (b) knowledge of gender inequity, (c) feelings of efficacy at being able to notice bias, and (d) recognition and confrontation of bias across situations (Pietri et al., 2017). Additionally, VIDS reduce modern sexism, improve attitudes towards women in STEM, and engage the action-oriented emotions of empathy and anger on the part of both male and female scientists and adults from the general population (Moss-Racusin et al., 2018).
The Cite Black Women Campaign strives to motivate academics engage in a praxis of citation that acknowledges and honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production. and to critically reflect on their everyday practices of citation and start to consciously question how they can incorporate black women into the core of their work.
Authentic Stock images featuring melanated women via CreateHER Stock
A free library of images celebrating women's lives and their work in 11 countries around the world.
Digital designs of Black people
A disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color
A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-bary models.
High resolution photos that celebrate Black and brown people
A stock photo library free images and videos shared by creators.
The resources on this page are intended to help instructors adopt teaching methods and strategies that enhance inclusivity and respect for diversity in their classes.
Speaking of Psychology is an audio podcast series highlighting some of the latest, most important and relevant psychological research being conducted today. Produced by the American Psychological Association, these podcasts will help listeners apply the science of psychology to their everyday lives.
*The resources listed on this page are made available to assist you professionally. These links will send you to external websites which are not maintained or updated by Ariel Mosley,