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Why We Grow Numb To Staggering Statistics — And What We Can Do About It
COVID-19 has now killed more than 148,000 people in the U.S. On a typical day in the past week, more than 1,000 people died. But the deluge of grim statistics can dull our collective sense of outrage.
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New Content from Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on Bayesian Model Averaging, the “crud factor,” a tool for model checking, and an attempted replication of the Att-SNARC effect.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on antisocial disorders, data analysis, a mindfulness model, a model of moral contagion, scientific collaboration, and social neuroscience.
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New Content from Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on sources of variability in infancy research, invalidity of measures, methods for data-analysis, statistical power, and an analysis of registered reports in psychology.
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More Common Ground Than Conflict in Video Game Data
Differing conclusions on the link between video games and aggression may come down to how research teams interpret and report their statistical analyses, rather than the underlying data.
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Strengthening Psychological Science with Specialized Statistical Review
Focused technical assessments by statistical experts could help psychology journals defend against the improper use of statistics.