Reproducibility Crisis and Credibility Revolution

Procedimentos para investigação científica

O profissional formado pelo Curso de Graduação em Psicologia da Unifesspa caracterizar-se-á porpossuir uma formação pluralista e generalista, preparado para atuação multiprofissional pelaformação interdisciplinar com enfoque crítico, científico e …

Promoting an open research culture

Author guidelines for journals could help to promote transparency, openness, and reproducibility

Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research

Social scientists should adopt higher transparency standards to improve the quality and credibility of research.

Psychologists Are Open to Change, yet Wary of Rules

Psychologists must change the way they conduct and report their research—this notion has been the topic of much debate in recent years. One article recently published in Psychological Science proposing six requirements for researchers concerning data …

Psychology as a Robust Science

Is psychology a robust science? To answer such a question, this course will encourage you to think critically about how psychological research is conducted and how conclusions are drawn. To enable you to truly understand how psychology functions as …

Psychology, Science, and Knowledge Construction: Broadening Perspectives from the Replication Crisis

Psychology advances knowledge by testing statistical hypotheses using empirical observations and data. The expectation is that most statistically significant findings can be replicated in new data and in new laboratories, but in practice many …

Psychology's renaissance

In 2010–2012, a few largely coincidental events led experimental psychologists to realize that their approach to collecting, analyzing, and reporting data made it too easy to publish false-positive findings. This sparked a period of methodological …

Psychology's Replication Crisis and the Grant Culture: Righting the Ship

The past several years have been a time for soul searching in psychology, as we have gradually come to grips with the reality that some of our cherished findings are less robust than we had assumed. Nevertheless, the replication crisis highlights the …

Psychology’s Credibility Revolution

In 2011, Daryl Bem published a paper that seemed to demonstrate evidence for extra sensory perception (ESP). Four years later, the Open Science Collaboration failed to replicate 67 of 100 published psychological studies. These results and others have …

Publication bias and the canonization of false facts.

Science is facing a “replication crisis” in which many experimental findings cannot be replicated and are likely to be false. Does this imply that many scientific facts are false as well? To find out, we explore the process by which a claim becomes …