Publications by Charles Hicks (
Project Proposal Prati
Introduction Justification This project was of key interest to me as I have always been fascinated with our concept of well-being. While most studies I have seen fixated upon varying the circumstances with which happiness occurs, I was particularly interested by the temporal approach this study took to measuring well-being. By asking participant...
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Problem Set 2 Charles Hicks
In this assignment we’ll learn about dplyr and tidyr, two packages from the tidyverse that allow elegant and easily understandable data tidying and manipulation. We’ll do this by working through the steps of loading an actual dataset, tidying it up, and carrying out some basic analyses. The dataset we’re using comes from the OSF Reproducibl...
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Project report Charles Hicks
Introduction How do our opinions of ourselves shape our own beliefs. Do these beliefs demonstrate implicit biases we have with regards to our perceptions of others? Study 1a of the experiment performed by Bailey and Levy demonstrated a measurable phenomena known as the ‘above average effect’. When asking participants to rate their ability to ...
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Project report Charles Hicks
Introduction How do our opinions of ourselves shape our own beliefs. Do these beliefs demonstrate implicit biases we have with regards to our perceptions of others? Study 1a of the experiment performed by Bailey and Levy demonstrated a measurable phenomena known as the ‘above average effect’. When asking participants to rate their ability to ...
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Group B choice 3
For this exercise, please try to reproduce the results from Experiment 2 of the associated paper (de la Fuente, Santiago, Roman, Dumitrache, & Casasanto, 2014). The PDF of the paper is included in the same folder as this Rmd file. Methods summary: Researchers tested the question of whether temporal focus differs between Moroccan and Spanish cult...
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Group A Choice 3
For this exercise, please try to reproduce the results from Experiment 6 of the associated paper (Shah, Shafir, & Mullainathan, 2015). The PDF of the paper is included in the same folder as this Rmd file. Methods summary: The authors were interested in the effect of scarcity on people’s consistency of valuation judgments. In this study, partic...
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Report final
This is problem set #4, in which we want you to integrate your knowledge of data wrangling with some basic simulation skills. It’s a short problem set to help consolidate your ggplot2 skills and then help you get your feet wet in testing statistical concepts through “making up data” rather than consulting a textbook or doing math. For ease ...
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