**Aug 30. Week 2: What Are We Measuring?**
In which we learn about new ways to measure “psychology stuff” and look at an interesting new paper that tries to capture the important features of situations. There will still be some pessimism about current approaches, but there is also a lot to be excited about.
**Readings**
Molenaar, P. C., & Campbell, C. G. (2009). The new person-specific paradigm in psychology. Current Directions in *Psychological Science, 18*(2), 112-117.
Schmittmann, V. D., Cramer, A. O., Waldorp, L. J., Epskamp, S., Kievit, R. A., & Borsboom, D. (2013). Deconstructing the construct: A network perspective on psychological phenomena. *New Ideas in Psychology, 31*(1), 43-53.
Blog post from “The 100% Confidence Interval”: That One Weird Third Variable Problem Nobody Ever Mentions: Conditioning on a Collider by Julia Rohrer
http://www.the100.ci/2017/03/14/that-one-weird-third-variable-problem-nobody-ever-mentions-conditioning-on-a-collider/
Rauthmann, J. F., Gallardo-Pujol, D., Guillaume, E. M., Todd, E., Nave, C. S., Sherman, R. A., ... & Funder, D. C. (2014). The Situational Eight DIAMONDS: A taxonomy of major dimensions of situation characteristics. *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107*(4), 677.
For the truly ambitious (optional):
Boorsboom, D. (2008) Latent variable theory. *Measurement, 6*:25-53.
[Link to the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (version 3.15)][1]: http://rap.ucr.edu/qsorter/RSQ3-15.pdf
[1]: http://rap.ucr.edu/qsorter/RSQ3-15.pdf
