Reproducibility and Replicability Knowledge

 

Research Transparency and Reproducibility: A Complementary Module for All

The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences awarded me a Catalyst grant for a project aimed at advancing transparent, reproducible, and ethical research in early 2022. The purpose of my project was to create a set of teaching …

Response to Comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science”

Gilbert et al. conclude that evidence from the Open Science Collaboration’s Reproducibility Project: Psychology indicates high reproducibility, given the study methodology. Their very optimistic assessment is limited by statistical misconceptions and …

Responsible assessment of what research? Beware of epistemic diversity!

Schönbrodt et al. (2022) and Gärtner et al. (2022) aim to outline in the target articles why and how research assessment could be improved in psychological science in accordance with DORA, resulting in a focus on abandoning the impact factor as an …

Responsible Research Assessment Should Prioritize Theory Development and Testing Over Ticking Open Science Boxes

We appreciate the initiative to seek for ways to improve academic assessment by broadening the range of relevant research contributions and by considering a candidate’s scientific rigor. Evaluating a candidate's ability to contribute to science is a …

Responsible Scholarship

Here we provide information on the ways through which the Institute of Psychology aims to foster responsible scholarship practices: conducting research with integrity, and meeting the needs for better quality and efficiency in psychological science.

Rethinking transparency and rigor from a qualitative open science perspective

Discussions around transparency in open science focus primarily on sharing data, materials, and coding schemes, especially as these practices relate to reproducibility. This fairly quantitative perspective of transparency does not align with all …

Rethinking Transparency and Rigor from a Qualitative Open Science Perspective

Discussions around transparency in open science focus primarily on sharing data, materials, and coding schemes, especially as these practices relate to reproducibility. This fairly quantitative perspective of transparency does not align with all …

Retiring Popper: Critical realism, falsificationism, and the crisis of replication

The recent so-called crisis of replication continues to dominate psychology’s methodological landscape. It is argued here that the apparent renaissance of Popperian thinking that characterises some of the key responses to the crisis of replication is …

Retraction Watch: Michael LaCour archives

How easy is it to change people’s minds? In 2014, a Science study suggested that a short conversation could have a lasting impact on people’s opinions about gay marriage – but left readers disappointed when it was retracted only months later, after …

Reviewer Bias Against Replication Research

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 …