On September 12, 2016, experimental psychologist Christopher Ferguson created a “go-fund-me” page to raise funds for access to an existing data set that was used to advance scientific arguments in ...
Read It Review ItEdited volumes are collections of chapters on a particular topic by various experts. In my own experience as a co-editor of three (3) edited volumes, the editors select the topic, select and invite...
Read It Review ItThe president of APS is nervous about pre-registration, or the idea of writing down study goals and hypotheses prior to collecting and/or analyzing data. One concern is that we do not have any data...
Read It Review ItHere are 12 things that I** think are true regarding the future of how we do science based on meta-scientific discussions over the past few years and observing the varied developments in many diffe...
Read It Review ItLast year I wrote a blog post about the inevitable discussion co-authors have about what journal to submit manuscripts for possible publication (link: http://wp.me/p6ma5O-l). Shortly thereafter I s...
Read It Review ItA few years ago I made changes to the syllabus for my graduate course on research methods in social psychology in response to what is widely refereed to as the “replicability crisis”. The biggest c...
Read It Review ItNote: This post was written for the March 2016 newsletter of the Australian Psychology Society's Psychology of Relationships Interest Group (PORIG). I have made a few small changes, and now include...
Read It Review ItResearchers need to publish manuscripts to both advance science and their careers. This latter fact was made clear recently as I was a member of a departmental committee tasked with evaluating the ...
Read It Review ItIn November 2015 I gave a workshop at the University of Toronto Mississauga on "Doing Open Science" (slides: https://osf.io/kz2u5/). During, and following, the workshop I spoke with attendees and h...
Read It Review ItOver a year ago I committed to adopting more transparent research practices. Since then I have been adding projects and registrations to my Open Science Framework account (https://osf.io/sa9im/). O...
Read It Review ItFirst a brief review of how researchers typically decide if their research findings do or do not support their hypotheses: Consider the simple example where a researcher has created a new way to te...
Read It Review ItAt the close relationships pre-conference (#RRIG2015), taking place on February 26th prior to the conference of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP: http://spspmeeting.org/2015/G...
Read It Review ItThe past few years has witnessed much debate regarding research practices that can potentially undermine the accuracy of reported research findings (e.g., p-hacking, lack of direct replication, low...
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