Check out our new paper in the Journal for Person-Oriented Research:
Observation-oriented modeling: Principles and tools for person-oriented research (James W. Grice, Saige L. Schmidt, Emery K. Thackerson)
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New Book
Here is Speelman and McGann’s new book critiquing modern research and statistical analysis methods in psychology. I have not yet picked up a copy, but am looking forward to reading it.
Another thoughtful and well-reasoned paper on measurement by Joel Michell — The Mystery of Missing Psychometric Corpus: The Case of the Technological Cart Before the Scientific Horse
Coaching Paper using OOM
Harvey, S., Garrison, M., Seymour, C. M., & Lindauer, J. R. (2026). An Investigation Into U.S. Soccer Coaches’ Perceptions and Use of Play–Practice–Play. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education (published online ahead of print 2026). Retrieved Jan 30, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.2025-0494
Pervasiveness Paper
A new paper on pervasiveness by Denis Lajoie just landed in Personality Science. Considering Approaches to Pervasiveness in the Context of Personality Psychology.
Paper on PCCs and effect sizes which corrects a poor recommendation we made in a previous paper.
New Version
The latest version is done and posted under the download page. A suite of new procedures for analyzing proportions has been added, as well as a procedure for conducting logical hypothesis testing based on truth tables. Many of the procedures have been enhanced for speed and efficiency, and the user experience has been improved by smoother transitions across windows. The import procedures for .csv (comma separated values) files have been sped up and improved as well. Finally, various minor bugs have been cleared.
In addition, the technical manual has been completed and revised. It will download with the software along with the numerous data files used for demonstrative purposes in the manual. Its main purpose is to record for posterity the methods written into the OOM software. It was also written to help the user navigate through and understand the various analysis procedures in the software. A chapter on importing data into OOM has also been added, and a Glossary can be found at the end. Where possible, references have been added so users can see published papers that use OOM.
God willing, I will return to the Youtube channel next, tear it down, and build it back from scratch.
Recent Papers and Books
- James Lamiell’s Primer in Critical Personalism: A Framework for Reviving Psychological Inquiry and for Grounding a Socio-Cultural Ethos (Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) was released earlier this year.
- Dr. Ian Jones has published another paper using OOM in the investigation of control systems in honeybee behavior.
- Remarkable paper on core issues negatively impacting psychological research.
Uher, J., Arnulf, J. K., Barrett, P. T., Heene, M., Heine, J.-H., Martin, J., Mazur, L. B., McGann, M., Mislevy, R. J., Speelmann, C., Toomela, A. & Weber, R. (2025). Psychology’s questionable research fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond questionable research practices (QRPs). Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1553028. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1553028/
- Another remarkable paper on these core issues in the domain of acculturation research.
Grigoryev, D., Gallyamova, A., & Komyaginskaya, E. (2025). Reassessing the metrics of integration: Toward eliminating the blur between theory and statistics to clarify effect sizes, measurement, and causality in acculturation psychology.
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102240
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147176725001038
- James Lamiell’s Psychology’s Misuse of Statistics and Persistent Dismissal of its Critics (Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology) came out a few years ago, but worth a reminder here.
Iconic Modeling Paper
I have another paper out with Ian Jones: Iconic Models in Science and Psychology in Theory & Psychology. Sometimes a picture truly is worth a thousand words.
Word Learning Paper
My erstwhile student, Ian Jones, has a new paper out on word learning in children. With his co-authors, he re-analyzed archival data to answer novel questions that were not addressed by traditional statistical procedures (t-test, ANOVA, regression). If your data are not continuous, why not look for patterns in individual discrete responses rather than analyze means and variances? Here’s the paper: Jones, Kucker, Perry, and Grice (2024). Capturing the Heterogeneity of Word Learners by Analyzing Persons, Behavioral Sciences, 14(8), 708.