{"id":3395,"date":"2012-11-28T17:12:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2012-11-28T17:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:12:41","slug":"the-low-quality-of-psychology-as-a-field-and-how-to-improve-science-reading-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2012\/11\/the-low-quality-of-psychology-as-a-field-and-how-to-improve-science-reading-material\/","title":{"rendered":"The low quality of psychology as a field, and how to improve science: reading material"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently came across an interesting journal: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perspectives_on_Psychological_Science_%28journal%29<\/a><\/p>\n

It was becus of a recent issue about the status of psychology as a scientific field. Its both distressing and very interesting reading.<\/p>\n

Here are the papers:<\/p>\n

Editors Introduction to the Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science A Crisis of Confidence?<\/a><\/p>\n

Is the Replicability Crisis Overblown Three Arguments Examined<\/a><\/p>\n

Replications in Psychology Research How Often Do They Really Occur<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rules of the Game Called Psychological Science<\/a><\/p>\n

A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories Publication Bias and Psychological Science\u2019s Aversion to the Null<\/a><\/p>\n

Science or Art How Aesthetic Standards Grease the Way Through the Publication Bottleneck but Undermine Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Low Hopes, High Expectations Expectancy Effects and the Replicability of Behavioral Experiments<\/a><\/p>\n

The Psychology of Replication and Replication in Psychology<\/a><\/p>\n

You Could Have Just Asked Reply to Francis (2012)<\/a><\/p>\n

It Does Not Follow Evaluating the One-Off Publication Bias Critiques by Francis (2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2012d, 2012e, in press)<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaching Replication<\/a><\/p>\n

Harnessing the Undiscovered Resource of Student Research Projects<\/a><\/p>\n

Rewarding Replications A Sure and Simple Way to Improve Psychological Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Scientific Utopia I. Opening Scientific Communication<\/a> (not part of the issue, but is a must read! – from here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Scientific Utopia II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability<\/a><\/p>\n

An Agenda for Purely Confirmatory Research<\/a><\/p>\n

Psychologists Are Open to Change, yet Wary of Rules<\/a><\/p>\n

The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Science Is Not Necessarily Self-Correcting<\/a><\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Introduction to the Special Section on Research Practices<\/a><\/p>\n

An Open, Large-Scale, Collaborative Effort to Estimate the Reproducibility of Psychological Science<\/a><\/p>\n

The Long Way From \u03b1-Error Control to Validity Proper Problems With a Short-Sighted False-Positive Debate<\/a><\/p>\n

Scientific Misconduct and the Myth of Self-Correction in Science<\/a><\/p>\n

DSM-5 Task Force Proposes Controversial Diagnosis for Dishonest Scientists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently came across an interesting journal: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perspectives_on_Psychological_Science_%28journal%29 It was becus of a recent issue about the status of psychology as a scientific field. Its both distressing and very interesting reading. Here are the papers: Editors Introduction to the Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science A Crisis of Confidence? Is the Replicability Crisis Overblown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1653,1673,1935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","category-science-philosophy","category-science-politik","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}