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Improving Research Practices, From Beginning to End
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
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Seven Selfish Reasons for Preregistration
Psychological scientists Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Gilles Dutilh present an illustrated guide to the career benefits of submitting your research plans before beginning your data collection.
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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.
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Effect of Facial Expression on Emotional State Not Replicated in Multilab Study
A coordinated replication effort conducted across 17 labs found no evidence that surreptitiously inducing people to smile or frown affects their emotional state. The findings of the replication project are published as part of a
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Improving Research Practices, From Beginning to End
A series of articles focused on improving research practices at various points of the process, from deciding how to optimize the design of a single study to conducting a comprehensive evaluation of an entire research topic.
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Preregistration, Replication, and Nonexperimental Studies
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
