Purpose: In the last decade, psychology and other sciences have implemented numerous reforms to improve the robustness of our research, many of which are based on increasing transparency throughout the research process. Among these reforms is the …
Preregistration is a tool to enhance the reliability of science that has been promoted as a normative requirement for the award of grants or the acceptance of publications. I argue that: (a) preregistration addresses an important need, (b) it offers …
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 crĂtico, cientĂfico e …
The purpose of this paper is to help think through the advantages and costs of rigorous pre-specification of statistical analysis plans in economics. A pre-analysis plan pre-specifies in a precise way the analysis to be run before examining the data. …
Is psychology a robust science? To answer such a question, this course will encourage you to think critically about how psychological research is conducted and how conclusions are drawn.
To enable you to truly understand how psychology functions as …
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 …
Objective To review patterns of publication of clinical trials funded by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in peer reviewed biomedical journals indexed by Medline. Design Cross sectional analysis. Setting Clinical trials funded by NIH and …
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The ultimate goal of biomedical research is the development of new treatment options for patients. Animal models are used if questions cannot be addressed otherwise. Currently, it is widely believed that a large fraction of performed …
Secondary data analyses occur when new analyses are proposed for existing data. Although they are prevalent in special education research, there is little guidance on how to prepare secondary data analyses studies. Preregistration of secondary data …
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 …