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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 Visit Page
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A Commitment to Replicability: An Interview with the Editor of Psychological Science
The Association for Psychological Science is committed to publishing cutting-edge research of broad interest in its journals. But it also aims to publish empirical work built on strong and sound research practices. This week, Psychological Visit Page
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APS and Open Science: Music to Our Ears
From most of the press accounts of the ambitious project on reproducibility in psychological research published in Science this past summer, one would not have learned that, under the leadership of APS, psychological science has Visit Page
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Bayes for Beginners 3: The Prior in Probabilistic Inference
In this, the final column in a series on Bayes for Beginners, C. Randy Gallistel explains the role of prior distributions in deciding between competing conclusions that might be drawn from experimental data. For more Visit Page
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Lessons From the Second Biennial Atlantic Coast Teaching of Psychology Conference
In September 2013, the second biennial Atlantic Coast Teaching of Psychology Conference (ACToP) was held in Red Bank, New Jersey. Coordinated by Natalie J. Ciarocco and Lisa M. Dinella, both of Monmouth University, the conference focused on continuing to advance the teaching of psychology at the (2-year and 4-year) college and high school levels by uniting psychology teaching professionals and creating and strengthening the connections among those passionate about teaching psychology. Visit Page
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The ‘Hot Hand’ Debate Gets Flipped on Its Head
The Wall Street Journal: People have been hunting for proof of the hot hand in basketball longer than Stephen Curry has been alive. The search has lasted three decades and exhausted almost all options. But Visit Page