Academic Life and Culture

 

Estimating the Unobserved: Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of Evidence Accumulation Models with Missing or Contaminant Data

This student project involved creating likelihood functions for the Bayesian estimation of cognitive parameters behind choices and response times in R, for the R package EMC2 of the Amsterdam Mathematical Psychology Lab. Particularly, the likelihood …

Evading Open Science: The Black Box of Student Data Collection

While Open Science has arguably initiated positive changes at some stages of the research process (e.g., increasing transparency through preregistration), problematic behaviors during data collection are still almost impossible to detect and pose a …

Framework for Value Based Academic Assessment

We present a framework designed to help academic institutions and departments rethink and reform academic assessments - including tenure and promotion evaluations - using a values-based approach. For each of the 14 values included, we outline some …

From mental-health breakfast interventions to evidence-based practice

We are thrilled to present our new Pedagogies, which features Dr. Thomas Rhys Evans. Thomas is Associate Professor of Occupational Psychology (from September 2024 he’ll be Professor in Organizational Psychology and Open Scholarship) at the University …

Improvements since the Replication Crisis: The Structural, Procedural, and Community Changes

The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a so-called 'replication crisis'. In this Perspective, we reframe this …

Infra Finder: Your Hub for Finding Infrastructure Services Enabling Open Research and Scholarship

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is thrilled to announce the launch of our latest resource: Infra Finder. This tool is designed to be the go-to resource for anyone navigating the complex landscape of infrastructure services and standards enabling …

Innovative Mentoring

Easy steps you can take to elevate your mentoring

Interactional roles and social actions to foster translation within meetings of interdisciplinary research teams

This project uses conversation analysis to identify key social actions that support knowledge sharing in interdisciplinary science teams. By analyzing meetings within a neuroscience collaboration, the researchers identified six interactional roles, …

International initiatives to enhance awareness and uptake of open research in psychology: a systematic mapping review

Concerns about the replicability, reproducibility and transparency of research have ushered in a set of practices and behaviours under the umbrella of ‘open research’. To this end, many new initiatives have been developed that represent procedural …

Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)

Dramatic changes to the transparency, rigor, reproducibility and replicability of research practices have occurred in the last decade. Despite considerable progress towards the adoption of open science practices by researchers in many disciplines, …
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