PERSOC featured by P: The Online Newsletter for Personality Science (01.07.2010)
persoc is an international network of researchers interested in the fascinating interplay of personality and social relationships.
This website - Persoc.net - is a platform to promote research on personality and social relationships. You can watch out for experts or potential collaborators, join our community and set up your own profile or just search for a multitude of statistical, didactical and conceptual tools that might be useful for your research or teaching on personality and social relationships.
New paper in press uses a combination of the lens model and the social relations model to explain the effects of personality on interpersonal attraction at zero acquaintance (more…)
Google sponsors each summer about 1000 open source software projects (the "Google Summer of Code", GSoC). Students can apply for a funded project within an open source organization - Last week, TripleR, the R package for round robin analyses, received one of the coveted GSoC 2010 slots (along with 4 other great R projects)!
Felix Schönbrodt (as the applying student) and Stefan Schmukle (as the project's mentor) now will start to extend and optimize the package. Major milestones are:
You can follow the development and post bugs on R-Forge. If you're interested in using the package, feel free to contact the authors, e.g. felix@nicebread.de
We are currently working on adjusting the formulas for round robin analyses in TripleR for the presence of missing values. First simulation studies show very promising results; a TripleR version capable of handling missing values will be released next month on R-Forge.
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Dr. Anna Baumert University of Koblenz-Landau