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Reproducibility Project Named Among Top Scientific Achievements of 2015
The journal Science has named a major attempt to replicate 100 papers published in top-tier psychology journals as one of the “breakthroughs of the year” for 2015. This collaborative project, facilitated by the Center for Open Science and APS Fellow Brian Nosek, has been recognized as a major scientific achievement by psychology but also by science as a whole. The results were sobering for the field -- less than half of results replicated -- but they also provided a valuable estimate of the replicability of psychology papers and are motivating new attempts to improve reproducibility. Science published the results of the project in August 2015.
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Testing and Spacing Both Aid Memory
Research suggests that restudying material can be a useful learning strategy, especially if that restudying is spaced out in time.
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23rd Annual RAND Summer Institute
23rd Annual RAND Summer Institute, July 11-14, 2016, Santa Monica, CA. Two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population: Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists; Workshop on the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging. Interested researchers can apply for financial support covering travel and accommodations. More information and application form: www.rand.org/labor/aging/rsi.html.
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Registration for Prague Summer Schools 2016 Opens
Schola Empirica, in cooperation with the Institute for European and National Strategies (InStrategy), is pleased to announce the forthcoming Prague Summer Schools on the following topics: Summer School on Sustainability and Profitability: Commitment to Sustainable Business across the World Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology Summer School on European Politics: Interests versus Culture? Summer School on China: A World Superpower - Myth or Reality?
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Summer Institute in Social Science–Genomics
From the evening of Sunday, June 19, to the morning of Friday, July 1, 2016, the Russell Sage Foundation will sponsor a new Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics, to be held at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The purpose of this two-week workshop is to introduce graduate students and beginning faculty in economics, sociology, psychology, statistics, genetics, and other disciplines to the methods of social-science genomics — the analysis of genomic data in social science research. More information can be found on the institute website.
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Examining the Mechanics of Different Types of Choice
Have you ever noticed your attention gravitating toward the first or last item on a menu, or toward the centrally placed items on a grocery store shelf? Why does placement influence our choices and decisions? In a recent Perspectives on Psychological Science article, APS Fellow Maya Bar-Hillel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) tells the tale of how she came to better understand how position influences our choices and shares what she has learned about the circumstances under which people chose certain items. In the early 2000s, Bar-Hillel supervised a doctoral student who was examining how test takers answer multiple-choice questions.
