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Psychological Science Needs A Seat at the Informatics Table
Scientific progress depends on our ability to harness and apply modern information technology. Many advances in the biological and social sciences now emerge directly from advances in the large-scale acquisition, management, and synthesis of scientific
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Network Analysis
Do you remember when you first kissed? Probably. I am pretty sure you can’t think about it without feeling something. Maybe you’re reliving the joy of it, or the awkwardness, or the excitement. It’s possible
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Do We Need More Methods?
Let’s be honest: Methods and statistics are not the average student’s favorite aspects of psychological science. Many graduate and undergraduate students seem to hold the viewpoint that courses in methods and statistics are a necessary
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Rigor Without Rigor Mortis: The APS Board Discusses Research Integrity
Please excuse this further sidetrack from the road we were on in my previous columns. Two months ago, the column I had planned was displaced by a response to the considerable attention that various media
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Psychology’s Woes and a Partial Cure: The Value of Replication
Psychology has come in for some bruising in the news media recently. The huge fraud case involving Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands reaped a large amount of (well-deserved) negative publicity. Coming on
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Why I Became An Administrator… And Why You Might Become One Too
Perhaps no field lends itself to application in and to a university setting the way psychological science does. Becoming an administrator is a wonderful way for psychological science to positively touch the lives of many