In reviewing key findings from the social-science literature, laypeople were able to accurately predict replication success 59% of the time. More
In reviewing key findings from the social-science literature, laypeople were able to accurately predict replication success 59% of the time. More
APS Member/ Author: Leah H. Somerville True discovery takes time, has many stops and starts, and is rarely neat and tidy. For example, news that the Higgs boson was finally observed in 2012 came 48 years after its original proposal by Peter Higgs. The slow pace of science helps ensure 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 research on mate preferences across countries, preference biases in candidate selection, cue visibility and task switching, and persuasion by nonhuman artificial agents. More
Lisa Feldman Barrett digs deeper into William James’s theories on how we think about psychological categories. Counterintuitive hypotheses naturally follow. More
A sample of research on mind-set theory, desire to be moral, subjective well-being around the world and across life span, and gender-equality paradox in STEM, and a replication of social facilitation/inhibition effects with cockroaches. More