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Seven Costs of the Money Chase: How Academia’s Focus on Funding Influences Scientific Progress
APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Scott O. Lilienfeld details his concerns about academia’s emphasis on big research grants — and the reward system for the scientists who land them.
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Taking Responsibility for Our Field’s Reputation
To put it bluntly, academic psychology’s public reputation seems to be in free fall. When the press coverage of the “replicability crisis” in psychological science first began a few years ago, reporters generally broached the
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Psychological Science Introduces New Replication Category
Preregistered Direct Replications will include replications of studies published previously in the APS flagship journal.
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Systematic Research Investigates Effects of Money on Thinking, Behavior
Three experiments provide inconsistent evidence for the effect of money primes on various measures of self-sufficient thinking and behavior.
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Multilab Replication Project Examines Cooperation Under Time Pressure
A large-scale replication effort aimed to reproduce a 2012 study showing that people forced to decide quickly contributed more to a communal pot than did those who had to wait before deciding.
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Robust Science Depends on Understanding the Science of Humans
APS Fellow Howard C. Nusbaum serves in a leadership position at the National Science Foundation. From this vantage point, he devotes a guest column to discussing how even the most robust science is still vulnerable to human error.
