Amanda Kay Montoya
@akmontoya
Associate professor of quantitative psychology at UCLA. Data analysis, research methods, statistics, psychology, teaching.
Excited for the first day of #rmma2026! Last workshop of the summer! Two full days on mediation with #PROCESSmacro
Excited to start my course at #GSERM at the University of St. Gallen! Another year of mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis. #stats #rstats #quantmethods
#aps26bcn come join us to learn about what’s new in mediation analysis!
Single talks at #aps26bcn, @richlucas.bsky.social shows that cross lag panel models consistently show that variables are related over time, even when those variable are randomly selected and not theoretically motivated
Awesome talk at #aps26dc by @marlephie.bsky.social about how data fraud impacts trust and whether learning about whistleblowers can help restore that trust? Systematic (i.e., committees) help but individuals working on their own, less so.
Great talk by @lenahahn.bsky.social on how #preregistration compares to the published papers. Evidence of HARKing persists!
Congratulations to Cyrus and Jack for presenting at the Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference today! QRClab is so proud!
Sad to not be at #WPA2026 this year, but lab manager, Gareth Yu, and honors student, Jack Conner, are there representing QRClab! Not to mention lab alum @jessicalfossum.bsky.social leading a statistics workshop!
Upcoming workshops that still have spots available! Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis (June 8 - 12, hybrid) and Structural Equation Modeling (June 15 - 19). St. Gallen, Switzerland! Come join me, learn stats, eat delicious food, meeting new colleagues! gserm.org/programme/co...
I’m reminded that one of my main reasons for starting to do research was finding community. As a new transfer I wanted to meet other people interested in similar things to me. And so this week in lab meeting, we tried Monster+Skyr! Because maybe we don’t have to be super serious all the time.
Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of visiting my old and new friends at #UCIrvine in Cognitive Science! It was really fun to talk to many different ppl about propensity score matching in study recruitment! Thanks @joachim.cidlab.com for hosting and @minedogucu.com for coming to say hi!
Very excited to announce that Gareth Yu will be joining the QRClab as a PhD Student in Fall 2026. Gareth graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Linguistics in 2025, and has spent this academic year as the QRClab Manager! We are so excited for him to continue his studies with us!
#SPSP2026 join us at 12:30 to answer all your questions about registered reports!
Last night @spspnews.bsky.social celebrated the accomplishments of @afhayes.bsky.social, awarding him the Methodological Innovator Award. It was incredibly moving to see methods development celebrated at #SPSP2026. Congratulations Andy!
Some times you have to make work a game. And today that game was called “Delete 20 words per paragraph in your paper”. I genuinely did not think I could do this, but it made the whole paper much tighter.
Only two days before Early Bird Registration closes for SIPS@SPSP Virtual Preconference. Register now for a day of productive and enjoyable community building! Extra discounts for students/trainees and low/middle income countries. @improvingpsych.org @spspnews.bsky.social #openscience #psychology
Can we just stop it with these textbook names. What kinds of messages are these sending to the students? Am I missing something?
The QRClab celebrated the end of the quarter with some ice skating! I’m feeling so grateful for this wonderful group of researchers. This fall we’ve welcomed two new graduate students and one new undergrad RA! We couldn’t do the amazing work we do in the lab without their dedication.
Another quarter about to start. Another wildly analog way of making my schedule that is the only way that I can get to work 😵💫
SIPS@SPSP Preconference is open for submissions (posters and data blitzes). Any and all submissions welcome! We want to emphasize replication research in the area of social-personality psychology. If you or someone you know has done replication research in this area, we highly recommend you submit!
One of my favorite #UCLA traditions! Students dip their hands in the inverted fountain, and recite an oath, and then not allowed to touch the water until they graduate. So nice to see all the students on campus today!
If you just got an email from APA encouraging you to come to this session, YOU SHOULD! Because the "Open Science and Methodology panel member" is ME! Come say hi! Learn about registered reports, and other awesome open science things at APA!
Back home after 3 weeks in Europe. Had a wonderful time teaching and traveling in Switzerland and of course attending #SIPS2025 in Budapest!