Open Science

 

Logical and methodological issues affecting genetic studies of humans reported in top neuroscience journals.

Genetics and neuroscience are two areas of science that pose particular methodological problems because they involve detecting weak signals (i.e., small effects) in noisy data. In recent years, increasing numbers of studies have attempted to bridge …

Open Science in Sport and Exercise Psychology: Review of Current Approaches and Considerations for Qualitative Inquiry

Open science practices including open access (OA) publication, open methods, study preregistration, and open data are gaining acceptance across diverse fields of research. These practices are promoted as strategies to improve the reproducibility of …

Open Science: What, Why, and How

Open Science is a collection of actions designed to make scientific processes more transparent and results more accessible. Its goal is to build a more replicable and robust science; it does so using new technologies, altering incentives, and …

Registered Replication Report: Rand, Greene, and Nowak (2012).

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 …

RIPOSTE: A Framework for Improving the Design and Analysis of Laboratory-Based Research

Lack of reproducibility is an ongoing problem in some areas of the biomedical sciences. Poor experimental design and a failure to engage with experienced statisticians at key stages in the design and analysis of experiments are two factors that …

We have to break up

Three mostly positive developments in academic psychology—the cognitive revolution, the virtual requirement for multiple study reports in our top journals, and the prioritization of mediational evidence in our data—have had the unintended effect of …

Best practices in data analysis and sharing in neuroimaging using MRI

Given concerns about the reproducibility of scientific findings, neuroimaging must define best practices for data analysis, results reporting, and algorithm and data sharing to promote transparency, reliability and collaboration. We describe insights …

Fishing, Commitment, and Communication: A Proposal for Comprehensive Nonbinding Research Registration

Social scientists generally enjoy substantial latitude in selecting measures and models for hypothesis testing. Coupled with publication and related biases, this latitude raises the concern that researchers may intentionally or unintentionally select …

Promoting an open research culture

Author guidelines for journals could help to promote transparency, openness, and reproducibility

Strong inference

certain systematic methods of scientific thinking may produce much more rapid progress than others.
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