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During this session at the SPSP 2024 Annual Convention, Colin Tucker Smith and Kate Ratliff of the University of Florida interview Brian Nosek, of the Center for Open Science. More information about each speaker is available below.
Brian Nosek
Brian Nosek's research and applied interests are to understand how people and systems produce values-misaligned behavior; to develop, implement, and evaluate solutions to align behavior with values; and, to improve research methods and culture to accelerate progress in science. Brian co-developed the Implicit Association Test, a method that advanced research and public interest in implicit bias. Nosek co-founded three non-profit organizations: Project Implicit to advance research and education about implicit bias, the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science to improve the research culture in his home discipline, and the Center for Open Science (COS) to improve rigor, transparency, integrity, and reproducibility across research disciplines. Brian is Executive Director of COS and a professor at the University of Virginia. Brian received his undergraduate degree in Psychology with minors in Computer Science and Women's Studies from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1995, and his PhD in Psychology from Yale in 2002. He received honorary doctorates in science from Ghent University (2019) and University of Bristol (2022).
Colin Tucker Smith
Dr. Smith earned a B.S. in Psychology from Mary Washington College and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Virginia. He is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida and is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies as well as the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience. He also serves as a Member-at-Large on the Scientific Advisory Board of Project Implicit, Inc. Dr. Smith is an author on 45 scientific publications and is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He has won a Teacher of the Year award in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Outside of work, he does whatever his daughters Cora and Margot (9 and 6) are interested in, plays tennis, mows the lawn, and alternates reading novels and non-fiction (mostly history).
Kate Ratliff
Dr. Ratliff earned her B.S. in Psychology from Belmont University and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Virginia. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida as well as past Executive Director and current member of the Board of Directors of Project Implicit, a non-profit whose mission is to educate the public about intergroup bias to provide a virtual laboratory for data collection on the internet. Dr. Ratliff is (co)author on more than 50 scientific publications, a Senior Editor at Psychological Science, an elected member of SESP and SPSP, and the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award for Inclusive Excellence, Teacher of the Year, and International Educator of the Year awards at the University of Florida. Outside of work you can probably find her chasing after her kids (Cora and Margot), playing tennis, looking for birds, or reading fiction.
During this session at the SPSP 2024 Annual Convention, Colin Tucker Smith and Kate Ratliff of the University of Florida interview Brian Nosek, of the Center for Open Science. More information about each speaker is available below.
Brian Nosek
Brian Nosek's research and applied interests are to understand how people and systems produce values-misaligned behavior; to develop, implement, and evaluate solutions to align behavior with values; and, to improve research methods and culture to accelerate progress in science. Brian co-developed the Implicit Association Test, a method that advanced research and public interest in implicit bias. Nosek co-founded three non-profit organizations: Project Implicit to advance research and education about implicit bias, the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science to improve the research culture in his home discipline, and the Center for Open Science (COS) to improve rigor, transparency, integrity, and reproducibility across research disciplines. Brian is Executive Director of COS and a professor at the University of Virginia. Brian received his undergraduate degree in Psychology with minors in Computer Science and Women's Studies from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1995, and his PhD in Psychology from Yale in 2002. He received honorary doctorates in science from Ghent University (2019) and University of Bristol (2022).
Colin Tucker Smith
Dr. Smith earned a B.S. in Psychology from Mary Washington College and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Virginia. He is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida and is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies as well as the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience. He also serves as a Member-at-Large on the Scientific Advisory Board of Project Implicit, Inc. Dr. Smith is an author on 45 scientific publications and is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He has won a Teacher of the Year award in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Outside of work, he does whatever his daughters Cora and Margot (9 and 6) are interested in, plays tennis, mows the lawn, and alternates reading novels and non-fiction (mostly history).
Kate Ratliff
Dr. Ratliff earned her B.S. in Psychology from Belmont University and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Virginia. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida as well as past Executive Director and current member of the Board of Directors of Project Implicit, a non-profit whose mission is to educate the public about intergroup bias to provide a virtual laboratory for data collection on the internet. Dr. Ratliff is (co)author on more than 50 scientific publications, a Senior Editor at Psychological Science, an elected member of SESP and SPSP, and the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award for Inclusive Excellence, Teacher of the Year, and International Educator of the Year awards at the University of Florida. Outside of work you can probably find her chasing after her kids (Cora and Margot), playing tennis, looking for birds, or reading fiction.
