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The Challenging Racism Project's Seminar Series in July
From: Cymbeline Buhler King
Valid from: Monday 1 July 2024 to Tuesday 2 July 2024
Dear Colleagues,
The Challenging Racism Project's 2024 Seminar Series is in full swing with two visiting scholars from the UK presenting to us in July.
Questioning Some Metascience Assumptions, by Professor Mark Rubin
Tuesday 2 July, 12pm-1pm, via Zoom
Metascience uses a scientific approach to understand and improve the scientific approach! In this presentation, I question some mainstream assumptions in contemporary metascience, including:
(1) Exploratory research is more “tentative” than confirmatory research
(2) Questionable research practices like HARKing are bad
(3) Researcher bias is bad
(4) Undisclosed multiple testing is bad
(5) Publication bias is bad.
I discuss these and other metascience assumptions and argue that may not be as problematic as assumed.
You can find more details and register here: https://events.humanitix.com/questioning-some-metascience-assumptions
Achieving and Maintaining Social Cohesion when Intergroup Contact is Positive and Negative, by Professor Stefania Paolini.
Tuesday 9 July, 12pm-1pm, via Zoom
This research paper presents a program of research on valence asymmetries in ‘intergroup contact’. Due to a focus on corrective prejudice reduction, social psychological analyses of intergroup contact have traditionally shied away from investigating negative intergroup contact. The cumulative evidence currently suggests that negative intergroup contact is relatively rare but is likely to impact broader intergroup dynamics more heavily than the more frequent but less influential positive intergroup contact. I will showcase results for key theory-driven moderators, including those emerging from a meta-analysis of intergroup contact research placing a sharp focus on self-selection processes.
You can find more details and register here: https://events.humanitix.com/achieving-and-maintaining-social-cohesion-when-intergroup-contact-is-positive-and-negative
Please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested.
For more information, contact Cymbeline at C.B.King@westernsydney.edu.au
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events!