AMOM 2020 -- 鈥淎 Meeting of Methodologies鈥� (AMOM) is a small conference on the use, evaluation, and teaching of research methods in psychology. The full title of this meeting is: A Meeting of Methodologies -- Advancing Methods Development, Application, and Teaching in Psychology, the Behavioural, and Social Sciences. The conference aims to bring together researchers from multiple communities who examine, think about, use, and teach research methods in psychology, as well as across the behavioral, social and health sciences, including evaluation researchers, statisticians and data scientists. The meeting seeks to bring discussions around advancing research practice and teaching in MULTIPLE methodologies together (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, indigenous).
Why AMOM? and Who?
The methods of any knowledge-making discipline are of fundamental importance, as the knowledge gathered is only as sound as the methods used to gather and interpret it. In psychology in particular, the methods of the discipline are under scrutiny as the field faces the replication crisis. Many people are also questioning the structure of academic psychology: As we question how we use methods in psychology, do we also need to rethink what we teach students in the discipline? And how can we make our methods and our research more inclusive, diverse, and just? While important work is being done considering the critical application of methods in psychology, little has brought together these issues with the conversation around social justice in research and academia. We feel there are important intersections, and hope to bring people together to consider these points of overlap.
AMOM seeks to bring together a diversity of individuals/perspectives from across many career stages. Importantly, methodological inquiry and teaching practices are of importance, not just to individuals within psychology but across other areas of speciality. As such, faculty members, researchers, and students from multiple disciplines will be interested in and can benefit from the discussions at AMOM and the gathering of individuals who are interested in and motivated to advance methods, application, and teaching. Through discussions at AMOM, ideas for new directions in research, application and teaching will be stimulated.
AMOM 2020 -- Selected Papers
June 25-26th, 2020 -- an online meeting!
The conference was divided into four topic areas. These are:
路 Metascience and Research Justice (this includes work on multiple methods, ethics, social justice & diversity in research)
路 Measurement Theory and Applications
路 Quantitative and Computational Methods
路 Rethinking Pedagogy in Psychological Methods
The conference will include distinguished keynotes, competitively selected peer-reviewed presentations, and noted discussants.
A pdf of the detailed schedule and abstracts program (dated June 26 2020) for the 2-day e-meeting can be accessed from these links: schedule, program.
Program/Select Presentations & Audio Files available at:
We are excited that the call for proposals brought together varied papers for the 4 AMOM themes from across the disciplines. Presenting authors at the 2020 e-meeting were academics, post-docs, graduate students, community researchers. They included members of the Canadian Psychological Association (Quantiative Section), American Psychological Association (Division 5-Quantitative and Qualitative Methods), Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Association for Psychological Science, Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, American Statistical Association, American Educational Research Association, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; and were based internationally across multiple time zones in Canada, United States of America, Czech Republic, Macau, and Iran. Although the primary departmental affiliations are Psychology, some of the presenters are Education, Sociology/Anthropology, Health Science/Medicine, Statistics, and Physics departments, as well as testing (Paragon Testing) and community health research centres (BC Support Unit Fraser Centre).
Selected papers included:
Gonzalez. Modeling Covid-19 Rates Using Non-linear Mixed Models: Implications for SIR Models.
La Pietra & Januwalla. The Case for Patient-Oriented Research (POR) and Knowledge Translation: Increasing the Relevance, Quality, and Impact of Health Research in Canada
Galang & Bries. Experimental Deception: Science, Performance, and Reproducibility
Tse & Lai. Measurement Invariance for Ordered Categorical Variables: The Necessity of Strict Invariance for Valid Group Comparisons
Chen. Methods for Assessing Differential Item Functioning (DIF) in Short Scales
Zhang & Savalei. Examining Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in Different Scale Formats
Shankar et al. Integrating Validity Evidence to Support the Use of the Character Skills Snapshot
Budescu. The Wisdom of Forecasting Crowds and Teams
Walter, et al. Probing for Bias and Differences in Misconceptions: Comparing Populations using Item Response Curves
Liu, et al. Exploration on Analyzing Counseling Conversations Using Natural Language Processing
Xie & Heitjan. Assessing Sensitivity to Nonignorable Incomplete Data
Bishara, et al. Formal versus Informal Judgment of Statistical Model Diagnostics
Noguchi. A Notable Relationship Between Effect Sizes and Range-Preserving Confidence Intervals
Pesigan & Cheung. Parametric Bootstrapping for Indirect Effects
Farahani, et al. Fuzzy Psychology: A Continuous Inference Approach in Psychological Research
Counsell, et al. Hypothesis Testing Is Not Enough! Revamping the Undergraduate Statistics Course Curricula in Psychology
Kunicki, et al. The Only Constant is Change: How Do We Encourage the Use of Recommended Statistical Methods as They Become Available?
Sigal. Incorporating Interactive Simulation Dashboards in Undergraduate Psychology
Fouladi+. Methods Pedagogy for Social/Research Justice
Sponsors of the 2020 conference included the (SMEP), the Office of the 天美mv天美 Vice President Academic ( 天美mv天美-VPA), the 天美mv天美 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ( 天美mv天美-FASS), and the 天美mv天美 Department of Psychology ( 天美mv天美-Psyc). That said, because the conference was offered as an e-conference (becasue of the pandemic), no funds were required from the sponsors.