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Alexa Tullett
Associate Professor

Alexa Tullett

Primary Concentration:

Social Psychology

Contact Information:

Office: 410 Gordon Palmer
E-Mail: atullett@ua.edu

Website: www.alexatullett.com

Courses:

Introduction to Psychology (PY101)
History and Systems of Psychology (PY372)
The Illusion of Objectivity (PY491)
Advanced Social Psychology (PY672)

Research Interests

Our lab examines scientific, religious, and political beliefs, and the factors that facilitate or impede belief change. Some of our work takes a meta-scientific approach, using psychological methods to study the beliefs and practices of psychological scientists.

Selected Publications

McDiarmid, A., Tullett, A. M., Whitt, C. M., Vazire, S., Smaldino, P., & Stephens, E. (2021). Psychologists update their beliefs about effect sizes after replication studies. Nature Human Behaviour.
 
Tullett, A. M . (in press). The limitations of social science as the arbiter of blame: An argument for abandoning retribution. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
 
Whitt, C. A., Tullett, A. M., Bowes, S., McDiarmid, A., Lilienfeld, S., & Hart, W. (2020). Weakening the ideological immune system: Can debiasing techniques reduce confirmation bias? (Stage 1 Registered Report – In Principle Acceptance). Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology.
 
Paxton, A., & Tullett, A. M. (2019). Open science in data-intensive psychology and cognitive science. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6(1), 47-55.
 
Tullett, A. M., & Vazire, S. (2018). Scientific progress is like solving a puzzle, not building a wall. [Peer commentary on “Making replication mainstream” by R. A. Zwaan, A. Etz, R. E. Lucas, & M. B. Donnellan]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e120.
 
Grant, B. J., Fetterman, Z., Weyhaupt, M. B., Kim, M., & Tullett, A. M. (2018). It takes two: A replication. Journal of Research in Personality, 72, 58-63

Tullett, A. M., Feinberg, M., Mensch, Z., Hart, W., & Gottlieb, S. (2017). The political reference point: How geography shapes political identity. PLOS ONE.
  
Tullett, A. M., Hart, W. P., Feinberg, M., Fetterman, Z., & Gottlieb, S. (2016). Is ideology the enemy of inquiry? Examining the link between political orientation and interest in novel data. Journal of Research in Personality, 63, 123-132.
 
Tullett, A. M. (2015). In search of true things worth knowing: Considerations for a new article prototype. Social Psychological and Personality Compass, 9(4), 188-201.
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