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Multilab Replication Challenges Long-held Theories on Cognitive Dissonance
One of the foremost models that scientists use to measure the effects of cognitive dissonance may have some deficiencies, a new multilab registered replication indicates.
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Simine Vazire Hopes to Fix Psychology’s Credibility Crisis
… A movement to try to fix things began more than a decade ago. Now, one of its leading lights has ascended to one of the most powerful positions in the field. On January 1st
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Preregistering, Transparency, and Large Samples Boost Psychology Studies’ Replication Rate to Nearly 90%
For the past decade, psychology has been in the midst of a replication crisis. Large, high-profile studies have found that only about half of the findings from behavioral science literature can be replicated—a discovery that
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The Science of Happiness Sounds Great. But Is the Research Solid?
In a new review in the journal Nature Human Behavior, researchers Elizabeth Dunn and Dunigan Folk found that many common strategies for increasing our happiness may not be supported by strong evidence. In fact, almost 95% of experiments on three
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Failure and Flourishing. Part 3 of 3 With David Myers
In the final discussion with social psychologist David Myers, APS’s Ludmila Nunes talks with him about the third section of his book, in which he applies his psychological insights to the larger world around us.
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Methods: A Little Help to “Self-Correction”—Enhancing Science After Replications
Researchers examine how replication affects the influence of original scientific research and discuss how to increase efforts to advance scientific progress in psychological science.
