Open Data and Materials

Privacy and Data-Based Research

What can we, as users of microdata, formally guarantee to the individuals (or firms) in our dataset, regarding their privacy? We retell a few stories, well-known in data-privacy circles, of failed anonymization attempts in publicly released datasets. …

Probing Birth-Order Effects on Narrow Traits Using Specification-Curve Analysis

The idea that birth-order position has a lasting impact on personality has been discussed for the past 100 years. Recent large-scale studies have indicated that birth-order effects on the Big Five personality traits are negligible. In the current …

Procedimentos para investigação científica

O profissional formado pelo Curso de Graduação em Psicologia da Unifesspa caracterizar-se-á porpossuir uma formação pluralista e generalista, preparado para atuação multiprofissional pelaformação interdisciplinar com enfoque crítico, científico e …

Processes and Lessons Learned in Establishing the Palliative Care Research Cooperative’s Qualitative Data Repository in Serious Illness and Palliative Care

Data sharing is increasingly an expectation in health research since implementation of the National Institutes of Health Data Management and Sharing Policy. Qualitative studies are not exempt from this data sharing requirement. Recognizing this …

Psychology’s Credibility Revolution

In 2011, Daryl Bem published a paper that seemed to demonstrate evidence for extra sensory perception (ESP). Four years later, the Open Science Collaboration failed to replicate 67 of 100 published psychological studies. These results and others have …

QDR Data for Teaching

As part of its mission, QDR promotes the pedagogical use of published qualitative and multi-method data projects. Shared qualitative data can play a crucial role for both substantive and methods teaching. Below is a non-exhaustive list of projects we …

Quantitative Emerging Practices and Methods in Psychology

Recently, a reporter in the Chronicle of Higher Education wrote that “psychology is having an uneasy moment” (Zamudio-Suarez, 2016). The “uneasy moment” to which she referred is a movementof field self-criticism that has gained incredible steam and …

Replicability and reproducibility

A video about replicability and reproducibility debate

Replicability syllabus (2018)

A syllabus about replicability seminar

Replicability Syllabus (2020)

This course will examine current controversies and new developments in research methods in psychology. The goal of the course is to learn to think critically about how psychological science is conducted and how conclusions are drawn. We will cover …