Kodai Kusano
@kodai-kusano.bsky.social
Post-doc at NYU Abu Dhabi. A sociological/social-cultural psychologist who studies hierarchy, power, and a bit of methodology
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Kodai Kusano
@kodai-kusano.bsky.social
· Jun 26
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To my knowledge, our new paper offers the most critical examination of measurement invariance in psychology to date.
It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons.
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It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Excellent discussion on non-independence issues in cross-cultural research. When someone advocates a method, they often miss the domain knowledge/context in which the method may or may not apply. We should be critical about how a given method can help us.
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Non-Independence of Nations: Revisiting a Centuries-Old Methodological Challenge - Plamen Akaliyski, Oliver Sng, 2025
We revisit a critical problem of cross-cultural research: the non-independence of nations arising from shared ancestry and joint cultural diffusion. Recent revi...
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September 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Excellent discussion on non-independence issues in cross-cultural research. When someone advocates a method, they often miss the domain knowledge/context in which the method may or may not apply. We should be critical about how a given method can help us.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"23 countries...greater bias toward transgender women (vs. men) overall...Men (vs. women) and conservatives reported higher prejudice, and this was more pronounced in Western (vs. non-Western) countries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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June 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"23 countries...greater bias toward transgender women (vs. men) overall...Men (vs. women) and conservatives reported higher prejudice, and this was more pronounced in Western (vs. non-Western) countries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
If you happen to be in Brisbane for the IAIR-IACCP conference, come see me talk about the paper in more details!
June 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If you happen to be in Brisbane for the IAIR-IACCP conference, come see me talk about the paper in more details!
To my knowledge, our new paper offers the most critical examination of measurement invariance in psychology to date.
It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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June 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
To my knowledge, our new paper offers the most critical examination of measurement invariance in psychology to date.
It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
It's not what you think it is. And you should be very careful before relying on it in group comparisons.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Kodai Kusano
Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kodai Kusano
"The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Kodai Kusano
Interesting approach to measurement invariance testing, which emphasizes similarity/dissimilarity across the group-specific nomological networks of a construct. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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June 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Interesting approach to measurement invariance testing, which emphasizes similarity/dissimilarity across the group-specific nomological networks of a construct. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
What if the reason why people split 5:5 in the Ultimatum Game or Dictator Game is that they don't understand the game, or they don't care at all about understanding the instructions??
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What if the reason why people split 5:5 in the Ultimatum Game or Dictator Game is that they don't understand the game, or they don't care at all about understanding the instructions??
Cross-cultural researchers: still worried about the reference group effect? It’s often cited as a major threat to cross-cultural comparisons using Likert scales. Our new article critiques its logic and shows why it may not be the threat you think it is.
doi.org/10.1177/1069...
doi.org/10.1177/1069...
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April 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Cross-cultural researchers: still worried about the reference group effect? It’s often cited as a major threat to cross-cultural comparisons using Likert scales. Our new article critiques its logic and shows why it may not be the threat you think it is.
doi.org/10.1177/1069...
doi.org/10.1177/1069...
