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The rules of the game called psychological science

If science were a game, a dominant rule would probably be to collect results that are statistically significant. Several reviews of the psychological literature have shown that around 96% of papers involving the use of null hypothesis significance …

Welcoming Quality in Non-Significance and Replication Work, but Moving Beyond the p-Value: Announcing New Editorial Policies for Quantitative Research in JOAA

The self-correcting nature of psychological and educational science has been seriously questioned. Recent special issues of Perspectives on Psychological Science and Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts have roundly condemned current …

Why psychologists must change the way they analyze their data: The case of psi: Comment on Bem (2011).

Does psi exist? D. J. Bem (2011) conducted 9 studies with over 1,000 participants in an attempt to demonstrate that future events retroactively affect people's responses. Here we discuss several limitations of Bem's experiments on psi; in particular, …

An Agenda for Purely Confirmatory Research

The veracity of substantive research claims hinges on the way experimental data are collected and analyzed. In this article, we discuss an uncomfortable fact that threatens the core of psychology's academic enterprise: almost without exception, …

Enhancing transparency of the research process to increase accuracy of findings: A guide for relationship researchers

The purpose of this paper is to extend to the field of relationship science, recent discussions and suggested changes in open research practises. We demonstrate different ways that greater transparency of the research process in our field will …

Point of View: How open science helps researchers succeed

Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how …

Practical Solutions for Sharing Data and Materials From Psychological Research

Widespread sharing of data and materials (including displays and text- and video-based descriptions of experimental procedures) will improve the reproducibility of psychological science and accelerate the pace of discovery. In this article, we …

Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research

Social scientists should adopt higher transparency standards to improve the quality and credibility of research.

Replication and the Manufacture of Scientific Inferences: A Formal Approach

The field of replication studies remains a controversial, misunderstood, and unappreciated piñata of 18 replication typologies spanning 79 replication types. To help bring order to the chaos, I contribute a theory of manufactured inferences. The …

Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data

A paper about ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data
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