APS Fellow Wendy Wood and APS William James Fellow Timothy D. Wilson offer a behind-the-scenes look at the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on reproducibility and replicability in science. More
Behavior change is difficult—just ask any psychologist. A new study shows behavior change among psychologists is no different. Efforts to improve the robustness of research by asking psychologists to state their methods and goals ahead of time, a process called preregistration, have stumbled at the first hurdle. “Preregistration is not More
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a consensus report on reproducibility and replicability in science. More
Psychology researchers are questioning the overuse of p values in statistical inference in science. More
Ample research has identified links between personality traits and dozens of life outcomes, ranging from marital stability to vocational success. But how reliable are those findings? Results of a replication project, results of which will be published in Psychological Science, show that this literature provides a reasonably accurate map of More
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
