Papers Published
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 ...
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Edited 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...
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The 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...
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Here 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...
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Last 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...
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A 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...
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Note: 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...
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Researchers 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 ...
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In 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...
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Over 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...
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First 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...
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At 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...
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The 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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