Training for Open Science in Kenya
Advocacy for open science is migrating to the developing world, with a recent research transparency workshop in Kenya serving as a prime example. More
Advocacy for open science is migrating to the developing world, with a recent research transparency workshop in Kenya serving as a prime example. More
Efforts to promote replication, preregistration, and new analytic approaches now represent just some of the advances psychological scientists have been making toward improving research practices in the field. With the recognition that long-accepted research practices have certain inherent problems comes the question: What now? As the field tries to answer More
A study of employees in South Africa indicates that people generally view their experiences with smart phones, emails, and wireless networks with more positivity than negativity. More
In last month’s column, I worried about whether encouraging us to preregister our hypotheses and analysis plan before running studies would stifle discovery. I came to the conclusion that it needn’t — but that we need to guard against letting the practice run away with itself. In this column, I More
I must admit that when I first heard of the effort to get psychological scientists to preregister their studies (that is, to submit to a journal a study’s hypotheses and a plan for how the data will be analyzed before that study has been run), I had a moment of More
The Editors of Psychological Science have been encouraging research psychologists to preregister their research plans before they begin collecting data (or, at least, before they see their data). But what does preregistration actually entail? As Psychological Science Editor in Chief D. Stephen Lindsay explains, it involves researchers specifying, in as More