2016-09-01 17:59:51

About

  • Associate Professor of Psychology
  • Founding Director of Human Imaging at SLEIC
  • Co-founder and Co-Director of the Databrary.org digital library
  • A.B., Cognitive Science, Brown; M.S. & Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Folk music, theatre, cycling, hiking, paddling, amateur radio (K3ROG)

Overview

  • Why behavioral science is harder than physics
  • Why behavioral science must embrace big(ger) data
  • Challenges with big data behavioral science
  • Some solutions
  • Let's boldly go

Why psychology is harder than physics

Why psychology is harder than physics

Behavioral science must embrace big(ger) data

Space x time x person

People

  • Have families
  • Live in neighborhoods, cities/towns, regions, countries
  • Go to schools, jobs, houses of worship
  • Are richer or poorer than their neighbors

Poverty shrinks brains