Publications by Mike Frank
PSYCH251_pset4
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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Replication of Experiment 4 in "What Predicts Children’s Fixed and Growth Intelligence Mindsets? Not Their Parents’ View of Intelligence but Their Parents’ View of Failure" by Haimovitz and Dweck (2016, Psychological Science)
Introduction Overview of Original Study Through a series of four experiments, Haimovitz and Dweck (2016) found that parents’ views of failure predicted their children’s views of intelligence; that is, parents who viewed failure as debilitating (rather than enhancing) were more likely to have children who believed that their intelligence is f...
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PSYCH 251 P-Set 2
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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Replication of Experiment 4 in "What Predicts Children’s Fixed and Growth Intelligence Mindsets? Not Their Parents’ View of Intelligence but Their Parents’ View of Failure" by Haimovitz and Dweck (2016, Psychological Science)
Introduction Overview of Original Study Through a series of four experiments, Haimovitz and Dweck (2016) found that parents’ views of failure predicted their children’s views of intelligence; that is, parents who viewed failure as debilitating (rather than enhancing) were more likely to have children who believed that their intelligence is f...
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PSYCH251_pset3_A
For this exercise, please try to reproduce the results from Study 1 of the associated paper (Joel, Teper, & MacDonald, 2014). The PDF of the paper is included in the same folder as this Rmd file. Methods summary: In study 1, 150 introductory psychology students were randomly assigned to a “real” or a “hypothetical” condition. In the real...
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PSYCH251_pset3_B
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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