When a replication study fails to reproduce previous findings, researchers often point to differences in the study populations as an explanation. The results of a massive international project, which appear in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, challenge that claim. More
Longitudinal research reveals that individuals with a strong sense of purpose are more likely to outlive – and outearn – their less purposeful peers. More
Despite increasing attention to issues of diversity in scientific research, participant populations in behavioral science tend to be relatively homogeneous. Understanding how people differ across various dimensions, and how those differences are driven by underlying psychological, biological, and social processes, is critical to building a rigorous and comprehensive clinical science. More
Recorded in May 2016 at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago. Thomas M. Olino – introduction Lisa M. Diamond – begins 01:15 Joseph P. Gone – begins 19:32 Michelle R. Hebl – begins 33:04 Enrique W. Neblett, Jr. – begins 52:18 More
A massively ambitious new research collaboration may soon become psychological science’s answer to the Human Genome Project. The goal of the Kavli HUMAN Project, a new collaboration between New York University’s (NYU) Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making (IISDM) and the Kavli Foundation, is no less than to More
Science is revealing that the negative stereotypes about the generation born between 1980 and 2000 are inaccurate. More
