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In the Emotion and Self Lab at the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, we study the process, structure, expression, and regulation of emotions and self. Much of our research is focused on self-conscious emotions (pride, shame,…

Too Good Does Not Always Mean Not True

  By Jessica Tracy & Alec Beall   While we agree several of Andrew Gelman’s broad concerns about current research practices in social psychology (see “Too Good to Be True”), much of what he said about our article, “Women are more…

Response to Andrew Gelman

Too Good Does Not Always Mean Not True   Jessica Tracy & Alec Beall   While we agree several of Andrew Gelman’s broad concerns about current research practices in social psychology (see “Too Good to Be True”), much of what…

Too Good Does Not Always Mean Not True

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Jess

  By Jessica Tracy & Alec Beall   While we agree several of Andrew Gelman’s broad concerns about current research practices in social psychology (see “Too Good to Be True”), much of what he said about our article, “Women are more…

Response to Andrew Gelman

Red cues fertility

New research by Alec Beall and Jess Tracy shows that women are more likely to dress in red when they are at peak fertility– first evidence for an observable behavioral display that cues ovulation. Read the paper, now online at…

Red cues fertility

New research by Alec Beall and Jess Tracy shows that women are more likely to dress in red when they are at peak fertility– first evidence for an observable behavioral display that cues ovulation. Read the paper, now online at…

Women more likely to wear red or pink at peak fertility.

See also published Online Supplement. Also click here for our briefer and longer responses to recent critiques of this article by Andrew Gelman.