Week 2

Purpose

In this lecture, we will watch a presentation by the 2022 RIGorous inference in Obesity Research (RIGOR) Lecture winner, Dr. Dena Gromet for research using a megastudy approach to health behavior.

The RIGOR Lecture was chosen after last year's course from literature according to the following criteria:

Published on or after January 1, 2021 (either epub date or final publication date).
Article should be an exemplar of:
- Rigor
- Transparency
- Data-driven conclusions
- Sound or especially creative use of causal inference approaches to obesity and related sciences.
Emphasis is on quality execution and communication of causal inference in obesity science, with effect size and societal importance of results weighted less.

Meet the Guest Speaker

Gromet

Dena Gromet, Ph.D. is Executive Director at University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Gromet received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University, and has over a decade of experience in conducting research on the drivers of attitudes and behaviors across multiple domains. Dena was previously the Research Director for the Wharton People Analytics Initiative, and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center and with the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project.

Video Lecture

The video lecture is broken into three parts: (1) A Megastudy Approach to Applied Behavioral Sciences, (2) Methods and (3) Prediction Accuracy

Please click each tab to watch each video.

A megastudy approach to applied behavioral sciences
Methods
Prediction accuracy

A megastudy approach to applied behavioral sciences

Methods

Prediction accuracy

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Reading

Below is the article for which Dr. Gromet was awarded the RIGOR Lecture:

Milkman, K. L., Gromet, D., Ho, H., Kay, J. S., Lee, T. W., Pandiloski, P., ... & Duckworth, A. L. (2021). Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science. Nature, 600(7889), 478-483. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04128-4