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Journal of Economic Psychology Calls for Papers for Special Replication Issue
[From the website of the Journal of Economic Psychology announcing a special issue on “Replications in Economic Psychology and Behavioral Economics”] “In this special issue, we aim to contribute to ongoing efforts in both disciplines to test the replicability of…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Buzzfeed (April 4, 2018)
[From the article, “Hundreds of Researchers Are Trying to Replicate High-Profile Psychology Studies” by Stephanie M. Lee in Buzzfeed] “More than 400 psychologists worldwide are teaming up to fight a looming problem in their field: headline-making research that doesn’t hold up.”…
Read MoreLEBEL: Curate Science – 2017 Year in Review and Upcoming Plans for 2018
Curate Science (CurateScience.org) is an online platform to track, organize, and interpret replications of published findings in the social sciences, with a current focus on the psychology literature. We had a very productive year in 2017. Here are some highlights…
Read MoreTurn Your Lack of Confidence Into a Co-Authored Publication!
[From a blog on the “Loss of Confidence Project” posted at https://lossofconfidence.com/.] “The aim of this project is to destigmatize declaring a loss of confidence in one’s own research finding within the field of psychology. We are collecting statements of loss…
Read MorePOV: Registered Reports Versus Results-Free Peer Reviews
The main difference between “registered reports” and “results-free peer reviews” is timing of data analysis. With registered reports, plans are registered and reviewed before data are collected and analyzed. With results-free peer reviews, everything is completed, but the reviewers are…
Read MoreISO-AHOLA: On Reproducibility and Replication in Psychological and Economic Sciences
[This blog is a summary of a longer treatment of the subject that was published in Frontiers in Psychology in June 2017. To read that article, click here.] Physicists have asked “why is there something rather than nothing?” They have theorized that…
Read MoreStudySwap: eHarmony for Replicators
[From an interview with Christopher Chartier and Randy McCarthy at Retraction Watch] “Do researchers need a new “Craigslist?” We were recently alerted to a new online platform called StudySwap by one of its creators … The platform creates an “online marketplace” that previous researchers…
Read MoreFindings from a Registered Replication Project: Another Psychology Hypothesis Fails to Replicate
[From the website of the Association for Psychological Science] “A coordinated replication effort conducted across 17 labs found no evidence that surreptitiously inducing people to smile or frown affects their emotional state. The findings of the replication project are published…
Read MorePower Pose: The Glass is Half Full?
Recently, another sensational study from social psychology came under renewed criticism. The study, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance” , published in Psychological Science in 2010 by Dana Carney, Amy Cuddy, and Andy Yap claimed that adopting…
Read MoreWhy Are Replications Hot in Psychology But Not So Much in Economics?
In a recent blog at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, ANDREW GELMAN asks the question: “Why is so much of the discussion about psychology research? Why not economics, which is more controversial and gets more space in the news media? Or medicine,…
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