Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi

Abstract

Disagreements and disputes are the essence of academic discourse and are the engine of research progress. We are glad that our paper is getting attention and welcome comments on it, even those that utterly reject our views and ideas. However, we believe that there are norms of professional conduct in academic debate. Personal attacks fall outside those norms. Speculations of personal motive and baseless slinging of accu-sations of gender (Li Min) or other more amorphous biases (Liu and Chen; Dai) are things one expects to fi nd in social media fl ame wars and not in a respectable academic journal.