In 2013, the journals Cortex, Social Psychology, and Perspectives on Psychological Science launched a groundbreaking publishing format—called a registered report—that they hoped would solve several problems worsened by conventional publishing practices. One issue was that many journals declined to publish important negative results, judging them not sufficiently novel. In addition, many authors analyzed their data More
A sample of new replication studies of previous replication studies that had not obtained the original effects. More
A sample of articles on Bayesian Model Averaging, the “crud factor,” a tool for model checking, and an attempted replication of the Att-SNARC effect. More
A sample of articles on sources of variability in infancy research, invalidity of measures, methods for data-analysis, statistical power, and an analysis of registered reports in psychology. More
The editors of AMPPS invite researchers to apply to participate in this Registered Replication Report. More
In 2012, psychologists Will Gervais and Ara Norenzayan published a paper in the journal Science reporting a series of experiments that suggested engaging in analytical thinking could reduce someone’s religious belief. It sounded vaguely plausible, but five years later, another group of researchers attempted to replicate the finding. They used More
