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ESCOP Preconference Event: Building a Better Psychological Science Good Data Practices and Replicability
28 August 2013 14:30 to 18:30 | Room 0.83 | ELTE University Congress Center | Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A | H-1117 Budapest, Hungary The program is offered free of charge, but due to space limitations, we ask that you register here. Psychological science has come of age. But the rights of a mature discipline carry with it responsibilities: to maximize confidence in our findings through good data practice and replication while simultaneously ensuring that funding sources and publication outlets support best practice.
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Leading Psychological Science Journal Launches Initiative on Research Replication
Reproducing the results of research studies is a vital part of the scientific process. Yet for a number of reasons, replication research, as it is commonly known, is rarely published. Now, a leading journal is adopting a novel way to promote and publish well-designed replications of psychological studies. Perspectives on Psychological Science, published by the Association for Psychological Science, is launching an initiative aimed at encouraging multi-center replication studies. One of the innovative features of this initiative is a new type of article in which replication study designs are peer-reviewed before data collection.
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Stress Hormone Foreshadows Postpartum Depression in New Mothers
Women who receive strong social support from their families during pregnancy appear to be protected from sharp increases in a particular stress hormone, making them less likely to develop postpartum depression, according to a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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Yale Survey for Professionals and Practitioners Treating Psychiatric Disorders
Are you a professional or practitioner treating or researching mental disorders? If so, you are invited to participate in a survey by researchers at Yale University, who are trying to learn more about the opinions and attitudes among clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals. This brief survey is anonymous, and upon completion you will have the opportunity to enter a lottery drawing for a 1 in 20 chance of winning a $20 gift certificate to Amazon.com. For more information or to begin the survey, please visit this link: http://yale.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_07bngvK0I9PKQaV.
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What Predicts Distress After Episodes of Sleep Paralysis?
Ever find yourself briefly paralyzed as you’re falling asleep or just waking up? It’s a phenomenon is called sleep paralysis, and it’s often accompanied by vivid sensory or perceptual experiences, which can include complex and disturbing hallucinations and intense fear. For some people, sleep paralysis is a once-in-a-lifetime experience; for others, it can be a frequent, even nightly, phenomenon. Researchers James Allan Cheyne and Gordon Pennycook of the University of Waterloo in Canada explore the factors associated with distress after sleep paralysis episodes in a new article published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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OppNet Announces its First FY2014 RFA
OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network, announces its first FY2014 RFA: Short-term mentored career enhancement awards in the basic behavioral and social sciences: Cross-training at the intersection of animal models and human investigation (K18: RFA-DA-14-002) For more information visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-14-002.html Application due date: December 11, 2013, by 5:00 p.m.