A viewpoint published in Tourism Management articulates the potential benefits of preregistration and ‘debunking myths' surrounding this controversial open-science practice (Chen and Li, 2024). This rejoinder critically examines six key arguments …
Flexibility in the design, analysis and interpretation of scientific studies creates a multiplicity of possible research outcomes. Scientists are granted considerable latitude to selectively use and report the hypotheses, variables and analyses that …
In an anonymous 4-person economic game, participants contributed more money to a common project (i.e., cooperated) when required to decide quickly than when forced to delay their decision (Rand, Greene & Nowak, 2012), a pattern consistent with the …
According to the facial feedback hypothesis, people’s affective responses can be influenced by their own facial expression (e.g., smiling, pouting), even when their expression did not result from their emotional experiences. For example, Strack, …
Finkel, Rusbult, Kumashiro, and Hannon (2002, Study 1) demonstrated a causal link between subjective commitment to a relationship and how people responded to hypothetical betrayals of that relationship. Participants primed to think about their …
Editorial introducing a special issue of Social Psychology that presents Registered Reports, in which peer review takes place before data collection and results are reported regardless of outcome. The issue contains 14 Registered Reports of …
These are our recommendations for the papers to cover in the first term of your new
ReproducibiliTea journal club! These ten papers were selected to provide an overview of the reproducibility crisis and introduction to the many aspects of Open …
The United Kingdom is experiencing the largest-ever increase in public investment in
research and development, with the Government R&D budget set to reach £20 billion
a year by 2024/5. The creation of the new Department for Science, Innovation and …