Moses Rivera

What makes a team trustworthy when the environment itself is unforgiving? I’m pleased to share our new article in the journal: Environment and Behavior: “Investigating the Effects of Trust in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Teams: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry.” In this study, we examine trust in isolated, confined, and extreme teams—contexts where coordination, psychological safety, cohesion, and well-being are not abstract ideals, but practical conditions for mission success and safety. Using a mixed-methods approach, our work integrates qualitative findings from Antarctic field missions with quantitative survey data from polar team members. The findings reinforce that trust in these teams is multidimensional, involving cognitive and affective components, and shaped by perceptions of ability, benevolence, integrity, and identification. Grateful to my coauthors Andres Käosaar, Pedro Marques-Quinteiro, and Shawn Burke for the opportunity to contribute to this work. Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… #Teamwork #Trust #PsychologicalSafety #ExtremeTeams #IOPsychology #IWOPsychology #OrganizationalPsychology #HumanFactors #SpacePsychology #PolarResearch

Vote Now: I voted in the APA election and so can you apa.org/about/governan… #ivoted via @apa

@quantitudepod I really appreciated this episode! Thank you!!!

S6E21 Quantitude: How the Sausage is Made In this last episode of Season 6 we pull back the curtain on the podcast in hopes that others might try doing this too, whether for simple fun or as a free speech platform in a time when communication is feeling increasingly compromised.

I started using Quarto (quarto.org) a year ago, and I’ve been very happy. Very intuitive. If you create reports, manuscripts, websites, or slide decks, check it out. It’s a free, open-source publishing system built by the same folks behind R Markdown. I’ve been using it for manuscripts, HTML pages for my courses in Canvas, and also to create my entire personal website. 🎉 Bonus: It works well with VS Code, RStudio, GitHub, Jupyter, etc. #OpenSource #ReproducibleResearch #ScienceCommunication #DataScience #AcademicWriting #Markdown #Rstats #Python #VSCode

Searching for a word to describe a cónstruct that is both an antecedent and a consequent of another (e.g., respect at time 1 is an antecedent of psychological safety at time 2, which is an antecedent of respect at time 3). For now I'm coining: reciprocedent

Check out the excellent online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and it is provided at no charge to the reader! The quality of the entries has been supported by grants and an experienced editorial team. I have zero affiliation with it, I’m just a fan.🤓 plato.stanford.edu/index.html

If you want to give written feedback quickly on your students' papers: 1️⃣ Keep a list of feedback you frequently write. 2️⃣ Copy those list elements, one by one. 3️⃣ On your keyboard, open your clipboard history by pressing the Windows key + V. You will see a list of all of the elements you just copied, ready for you to paste any ones you like. You can also pin your favorites inside your clipboard history. I find this is much faster than using Canvas' built-in Comment Library in SpeedGrader. Anybody have other tips? If you're on a Mac computer, sorry I don't know anything about them. #teachers #teaching

Today I discovered Microsoft PowerToys (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…). I mostly just use it to highlight my mouse when I'm screen-recording.

@quantitudepod "Are you a regression line? Because you're the best fit for me."

STAT BAR PICK-UP LINE! For our next Quantitude summer fun contest, imagine you are in a bar where quant/stat people go after work. What is your best stat pick-up line? (Please keep it clean-ish) (Please post by Thursday.)

@tkaiser_science @quantitudepod Thank you for sharing! I didn't know about this handbook.

S5E23 A Rosetta Stone for DAGs and SEM buzzsprout.com/639103 Today we talk about directed acyclic graphs and structural equation modeling — where they are similar and where they are different — and try to provide a Rosetta Stone for translating back-and-forth between the two.

@quantitudepod “The author now knows that they better hold a lab meeting to try to guess who the reviewer is so they can cite their work.” 🤣

@quantitudepod I’m with Greg on this: Paul Bliese is indeed a wonderful guy! I took a summer course taught by him on multilevel modeling last year, and one of my good friends used to work with Paul way back in the day. Small world.

S5E21 Multilevel Factor Analysis: But What Do The Factors Mean?! buzzsprout.com/639103 Today we discuss the challenges of confirmatory factor analysis with multilevel data, and the absolutely critical role that theory plays in choosing the proper model for your constructs.

@quantitudepod “For the love of poop!” Indeed!

In today’s episode Greg and Patrick argue that, although global fit measures can be useful, carefully assessing local fit may be of much greater importance in practice.

@quantitudepod I really enjoyed the broad applicability of this topic!

S5E16 Simpson’s Paradox buzzsprout.com/639103 This week Patrick and Greg talk about Simpson’s Paradox — what it is, examples of where it occurs in real life, and why we might not really need to think about it as a paradox at all.

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S5E18 Probability on Spring Break buzzsprout.com/639103 In today’s episode, Patrick and Greg play with some of the basics of probability, in the context of some classic, fun, and often counterintuitive examples.

PSA: the American Psychological Association’s “Dictionary of Psychology” is excellent and free to use online! I’ve been using it for many months. Check it out: dictionary.apa.org #iopsychology #behavioralscience

If you're looking for a private tutor with a PhD in all areas of mathematics, try my custom GPT named "Moses' Math Wizard" instead. It's been incredibly useful for me. You'll need a ChatGPT Plus account. chat.openai.com/g/g-vdHsHHGZ6-… #chatGPT #customGPT

@eyeslasho @elonmusk For which calendar year(s) do these numbers supposedly correspond? The past year?