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Can Scientific Rigor and Creativity Coexist?
Will heightened standards for rigor and transparency quash the kind of inventive theories and predictions that have driven psychological science in the first place?
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Implicit Bias, Reproducibility on the Agenda at NSF Advisory Panel
Read an update on NSF’s May 2018 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee meeting.
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AMPPS Makes Its Entrance
In his editorial for the opening issue of APS’s newest journal, Editor Daniel J. Simons discusses the unique role the publication will serve in making advances in scientific methods and practices accessible to a broad audience.
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Meet the ‘data thugs’ out to expose shoddy and questionable research
In 2015, Nick Brown was skimming Twitter when something caught his eye. A tweet mentioned an article by Nicolas Guéguen, a French psychologist with a penchant for publishing titillating findings about human behavior, for example
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A New Goal: Aim To Be Less Wrong
At a conference last week, I received an interesting piece of advice: “Assume you are wrong.” The advice came from Brian Nosek, a fellow psychology professor and the executive director of the Center for Open
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For Better Science, Bring on the Revolutionaries
A leading biologist at Harvard, Pardis Sabeti, has called out the replication movement in psychology, calling it a “cautionary tale” of how efforts to reform research may “end up destroying new ideas before they are
