Building a Better Psychological Science: Good Data Practices and Replicability

Cross-cutting Theme Program at the 2013 APS Convention

Friday, May 24, 2013, 1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Psychological science has come of age. But the rights of a mature discipline carry with it responsibilities: to maximize confidence in our findings through good data practice and replication while simultaneously ensuring that funding sources and publication outlets support best practice. As we stand at the cross-road, leaders are proposing a road map.

For more on issues of replicability, see the November issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science:
“Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science: A Crisis of Confidence?“

See posters related to this theme program in Poster Session IV.

Good Data Practices

Leslie K. John
Harvard Business School

Daniel Kahneman
Princeton University

Uri Simonsohn
University of Pennsylvania

Jelte M. Wicherts
Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Issues of Replicability

Larry V. Hedges
Northwestern University

Brian Nosek
University of Virginia

Hal E. Pashler
University of California, San Diego

Rebecca Saxe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Replication and Reliability in Research: Views from Editors, Program Officers and Publishers

Henry L. Roediger, III
Washington University in St. Louis

Deanna Barch
Washington University in St Louis

Eric Eich
University of British Columbia, Canada

Robert M. Kaplan
National Institutes of Health

Lynn Liben
Pennsylvania State University

Barbara A. Spellman
University of Virginia

Richard M. Suzman
National Institute on Aging

Gary R. VandenBos
American Psychological Association

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