Open Science

 

The needed link between open science and science diplomacy—A Latin American perspective

The relevance of science diplomacy and open science in today's world is undeniable. Science diplomacy enables countries to jointly address pressing global challenges, such as climate change, pandemics, and food security. Open science, promoting …

The Null Hypothesis Significance-Testing Debate and Its Implications for Personality Research

A chapter about null hypothesis significance testing in personality research

The Open Research Lifecycle

Open science reduces waste and accelerates the discovery of knowledge, solutions, and cures for the world's most pressing needs. Shifting research culture toward greater openness, transparency, and reproducibility is challenging, but there are …

The Persistence of Underpowered Studies in Psychological Research: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies

Underpowered studies persist in the psychological literature. This article examines reasons for their persistence and the effects on efforts to create a cumulative science. The "curse of multiplicities" plays a central role in the presentation. Most …

The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline

This crowdsourced project introduces a collaborative approach to improving the reproducibility of scientific research, in which findings are replicated in qualified independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published. Our goal is …

The poor availability of psychological research data for reanalysis.

The origin of the present comment lies in a failed attempt to obtain, through e-mailed requests, data reported in 141 empirical articles recently published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Our original aim was to reanalyze these data …

The power of many brains: Catalyzing neuropsychiatric discovery through open neuroimaging data and large-scale collaboration

Recent advances in open neuroimaging data are enhancing our comprehension of neuropsychiatric disorders. By pooling images from various cohorts, statistical power has increased, enabling the detection of subtle abnormalities and robust associations, …

The Preregistration Prescriptiveness Trade-Off and Unknown Unknowns in Science: Comments on Van Drimmelen (2023)

I discuss Van Drimmelen’s (2023) Metascience2023 presentation on researchers’ decision making during the research process. In particular, I consider his evidence that researchers’ discretion over research decisions is unavoidable when they follow …

The relation between statistical power and inference in fMRI.

Statistically underpowered studies can result in experimental failure even when all other experimental considerations have been addressed impeccably. In fMRI the combination of a large number of dependent variables, a relatively small number of …

The Replication Crisis in Psychology

In science, replication is the process of repeating research to determine the extent to which findings generalize across time and across situations. Recently, the science of psychology has come under criticism because a number of research findings do …
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