This student-led replication study tested the negativity bias hypothesis—the idea that people react more strongly to negative than positive news—using a preregistered, well-powered design in the Netherlands. It replicated key findings from Soroka et …
Recent controversies in psychology have spurred conversations about the nature and quality of psychological research. One topic receiving substantial attention is the role of replication in psychological science. Using the complete publication …
This seminar will address issues relevant to the current controversy over the reliability of psychological research, a controversy which seems to be white-hot right now. Topics will include (but not be limited to)
- Critiques of the current science, …
Psychological science has been going through a crisis of confidence concerning theveracity of the findings that serve as the foundation to our field. This seminar willcover the problems of reproducibility and replicability in psychological science, …
Recent studies have indicated that research practices in psychology may be susceptible to factors that increase false-positive rates, raising concerns about the possible prevalence of false-positive findings. The present article discusses several …
Social science journal reviewers (N=8) responded to questionnaires regarding their reviewing history, and attitudes towards and perception of replication studies. Results indicate that reviewers are biased against replication studies and toward …
Functional neuroimaging techniques have transformed our ability to probe the neurobiological basis of behaviour and are increasingly being applied by the wider neuroscience community. However, concerns have recently been raised that the conclusions …
The current crisis in psychological research involves issues of fraud, replication, publication bias, and false positive results. I argue that this crisis follows the failure of widely adopted solutions to psychology’s similar crisis of the 1970s. …