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Hundreds of Psychology Studies Are Wrong
This is bad science, and bad science is at best useless, and at worst dangerous, not to mention expensive. Moreover, any interventions that are developed off the back of such research are ...
Scientific misconduct in psychology: A systematic review of prevalence
Spectacular cases of scientific misconduct have contributed to concerns about the validity of published results in psychology. In our systematic review, we identified 16 studies reporting prevalence estimates of scientific misconduct and questionable research practices (QRPs) in psychological research. Estimates from these studies varied due to differences in methods and scope. Unlike other ...
The 10 Most Ridiculous Scientific Studies
Studies like the one in the Journal of Health Psychology show it's not just the absence of a fixed address that hurts, but the absence of luxuries like, say, walls and a roof. That's ...
[USA] Examples of bad psychology research articles from 2020
Generally poorly written things won't get published in peer-reviewed journals, the exception being when something gets retracted, so that might help? The other idea is to look into the non-peer-reviewed journals to see what's out there. 2. Reply. Award. Share. blueridgebeing.
Problematic research practices in psychology ...
Many problematic research practices in psychology are rooted in the failed distinction between the study phenomena and the means of their exploration (e.g., concepts, methods, data). Its institutionalisation in common jargon and in the popular rating scale methods highlights that improvements of only data analyses are insufficient for ...
Psychology's Credibility Crisis: the Bad, the Good and the Ugly
A group of four prominent psychologists led by Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University claimed in Science that the 2015 Open Science Collaboration study was statistically flawed and did not prove ...
How Flawed Research Hurts the Public
That article was peer-reviewed and published, but it was hugely flawed by the assumption that every death that occurred near the time of vaccination was because of that vaccination. People die all ...
Controversial and Unethical Psychology Experiments
At a Glance. Some of the most controversial and unethical experiments in psychology include Harlow's monkey experiments, Milgram's obedience experiments, Zimbardo's prison experiment, Watson's Little Albert experiment, and Seligman's learned helplessness experiment. These and other controversial experiments led to the formation of rules and ...
Four Bad Habits of Modern Psychologists
Four data sets from studies included in the Reproducibility Project were re-analyzed to demonstrate a number of flawed research practices (i.e., "bad habits") of modern psychology. Three of the four studies were successfully replicated, but re-analysis showed that in one study most of the participants responded in a manner inconsistent with ...
Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study
Brian Owens. A large-scale effort to replicate results in psychology research has rebuffed claims that failures to reproduce social-science findings might be down to differences in study ...
There's a Problem With Deception in Psychology
The Milgram experiments were only the first of hundreds of psychological studies that used deception to obtain their findings. According to a 2021 paper, deception should only be used when there ...
Spinning science: Overhyped headlines, snarled statistics lead readers
Faulty headlines, flawed stories and even puffy PR pieces from research institutions are often picked up and repackaged by news aggregators and health and lifestyle blogs, which results in even more overhyped headlines and misinformation crowding our social feeds and confusing the public.That misinformation then gets promoted via social media by the same organizations to grab eyeballs.
Research findings that are probably wrong cited far more than robust
Following an influential paper in 2005 titled Why most published research findings are false, three major projects have found replication rates as low as 39% in psychology journals, 61% in ...
looking for examples of bad research : r/AcademicPsychology
Thanks so much for all these suggestions! There are lots of examples of serious errors in ethics which is great but I'm really more looking for examples of poor reasoning, arguments based on false premises, careless use of assumptions, leaps of faith, over generalisations, false analogies etc. 1. Reply. Award. j_svajl.
The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its ...
Misinformation is influential despite unprecedented access to high-quality, factual information. In this Review, Ecker et al. describe the cognitive, social and affective factors that drive ...
Leading the charge to address research misconduct
Psychology as a research field is susceptible to all these pressures, but psychologists are also a major force in solving the problem. With expertise in behavior change, motivations, and incentives, psychological researchers are tackling misconduct at both the individual and structural level. ... but it's unclear whether these were examples ...
The (mis)reporting of statistical results in psychology journals
In order to study the prevalence, nature (direction), and causes of reporting errors in psychology, we checked the consistency of reported test statistics, degrees of freedom, and p values in a random sample of high- and low-impact psychology journals. In a second study, we established the generality of reporting errors in a random sample of recent psychological articles. Our results, on the ...
Why Bad Science Is Sometimes More Appealing Than Good Science
In other words, according to the report in Science Advances, bad science seems to get more attention than good science. The paper follows up on reports of a "replication crisis" in psychology ...
The Psychology Behind Unethical Behavior
First, there's omnipotence: when someone feels so aggrandized and entitled that they believe the rules of decent behavior don't apply to them. Second, consider cultural numbness: when others ...
Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly Everywhere
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned as president of Stanford University in 2023. Photo: Carolyn Fong/The New York Times/Redux. Junk science has been forcing a reckoning among scientific and medical ...
The good, the bad, and the ugly of implicit bias
The concept of implicit bias, also termed unconscious bias, and the related Implicit Association Test (IAT) rests on the belief that people act on the basis of internalised schemas of which they are unaware and thus can, and often do, engage in discriminatory behaviours without conscious intent.1 This idea increasingly features in public discourse and scholarly inquiry with regard to ...
The goods on consumer behavior
There is evidence from other research that software nudges can boost real-world savings. For example, a field experiment using TurboTax's free edition led by Duke University professor of psychology and behavioral economics Dan Ariely, PhD, nudged low- and middle-income tax filers to save a portion of their tax refunds.
The psychology of guns: risk, fear, and motivated reasoning
For example, of the nearly 70% of Americans who do not own a gun, 36% report that they can see themselves owning one in the future (Pew Research Center, 2017) with 11.5% of all gun owners in 2015 ...
The top 10 journal articles
1: Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research in Psychology. This American Psychologist open-access article lays out—for the first time—journal article reporting standards for qualitative research in psychology (Levitt, H.M., et al., Vol. 73, No. 1). The voluntary guidelines are designed to help authors communicate their work clearly, accurately and transparently.
Toxic Positivity in Psychology: Examples & Research Findings
Toxic Positivity in Psychology: Examples & Research Findings. "Just think happy thoughts!". "Don't worry, be happy!". "Look on the bright side!". "It could be worse!". "Good vibes only!". Although well intentioned, these phrases can be downright harmful. It turns out that the phrase "too much of a good thing can be bad ...
This principle has been exemplified in research, including a study conducted by Meulders and colleagues in 2013. Impact of Pavlov's Research. Ivan Pavlov's key contribution to psychology was the discovery of classical conditioning, demonstrating how learned associations between stimuli can influence behavior.
Daily briefing: 'The ugly side of science'
Data repositories, workshops and alternative journals allow scientists to destigmatize and discuss negative results. Plus, a major step toward ultra-precise 'nuclear' clocks and the first ...
Case Study Research Method in Psychology
Case studies are in-depth investigations of a person, group, event, or community. Typically, data is gathered from various sources using several methods (e.g., observations & interviews). The case study research method originated in clinical medicine (the case history, i.e., the patient's personal history). In psychology, case studies are ...
Positive and Negative Correlates of Psychological Well-Being and ...
Background: Recognizing the positive or negative effects of students' mental health promotes personal development, well-being, and academic success. Academic life exposes college students to multiple adjustments, demands, and vulnerabilities that can cause stress and mental health problems. This study aims to identify psychological well-being and psychological distress effects on college ...
Cognitive Consistency in Social Cognition
Summary. The desire to maintain consistency between cognitions has been recognized by many psychologists as an important human motive. Research on this topic has been highly influential in a variety of areas of social cognition, including attitudes, person perception, prejudice and stereotyping, and self-evaluation.
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This is bad science, and bad science is at best useless, and at worst dangerous, not to mention expensive. Moreover, any interventions that are developed off the back of such research are ...
Spectacular cases of scientific misconduct have contributed to concerns about the validity of published results in psychology. In our systematic review, we identified 16 studies reporting prevalence estimates of scientific misconduct and questionable research practices (QRPs) in psychological research. Estimates from these studies varied due to differences in methods and scope. Unlike other ...
Studies like the one in the Journal of Health Psychology show it's not just the absence of a fixed address that hurts, but the absence of luxuries like, say, walls and a roof. That's ...
Generally poorly written things won't get published in peer-reviewed journals, the exception being when something gets retracted, so that might help? The other idea is to look into the non-peer-reviewed journals to see what's out there. 2. Reply. Award. Share. blueridgebeing.
Many problematic research practices in psychology are rooted in the failed distinction between the study phenomena and the means of their exploration (e.g., concepts, methods, data). Its institutionalisation in common jargon and in the popular rating scale methods highlights that improvements of only data analyses are insufficient for ...
A group of four prominent psychologists led by Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University claimed in Science that the 2015 Open Science Collaboration study was statistically flawed and did not prove ...
That article was peer-reviewed and published, but it was hugely flawed by the assumption that every death that occurred near the time of vaccination was because of that vaccination. People die all ...
At a Glance. Some of the most controversial and unethical experiments in psychology include Harlow's monkey experiments, Milgram's obedience experiments, Zimbardo's prison experiment, Watson's Little Albert experiment, and Seligman's learned helplessness experiment. These and other controversial experiments led to the formation of rules and ...
Four data sets from studies included in the Reproducibility Project were re-analyzed to demonstrate a number of flawed research practices (i.e., "bad habits") of modern psychology. Three of the four studies were successfully replicated, but re-analysis showed that in one study most of the participants responded in a manner inconsistent with ...
Brian Owens. A large-scale effort to replicate results in psychology research has rebuffed claims that failures to reproduce social-science findings might be down to differences in study ...
The Milgram experiments were only the first of hundreds of psychological studies that used deception to obtain their findings. According to a 2021 paper, deception should only be used when there ...
Faulty headlines, flawed stories and even puffy PR pieces from research institutions are often picked up and repackaged by news aggregators and health and lifestyle blogs, which results in even more overhyped headlines and misinformation crowding our social feeds and confusing the public.That misinformation then gets promoted via social media by the same organizations to grab eyeballs.
Following an influential paper in 2005 titled Why most published research findings are false, three major projects have found replication rates as low as 39% in psychology journals, 61% in ...
Thanks so much for all these suggestions! There are lots of examples of serious errors in ethics which is great but I'm really more looking for examples of poor reasoning, arguments based on false premises, careless use of assumptions, leaps of faith, over generalisations, false analogies etc. 1. Reply. Award. j_svajl.
Misinformation is influential despite unprecedented access to high-quality, factual information. In this Review, Ecker et al. describe the cognitive, social and affective factors that drive ...
Psychology as a research field is susceptible to all these pressures, but psychologists are also a major force in solving the problem. With expertise in behavior change, motivations, and incentives, psychological researchers are tackling misconduct at both the individual and structural level. ... but it's unclear whether these were examples ...
In order to study the prevalence, nature (direction), and causes of reporting errors in psychology, we checked the consistency of reported test statistics, degrees of freedom, and p values in a random sample of high- and low-impact psychology journals. In a second study, we established the generality of reporting errors in a random sample of recent psychological articles. Our results, on the ...
In other words, according to the report in Science Advances, bad science seems to get more attention than good science. The paper follows up on reports of a "replication crisis" in psychology ...
First, there's omnipotence: when someone feels so aggrandized and entitled that they believe the rules of decent behavior don't apply to them. Second, consider cultural numbness: when others ...
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned as president of Stanford University in 2023. Photo: Carolyn Fong/The New York Times/Redux. Junk science has been forcing a reckoning among scientific and medical ...
The concept of implicit bias, also termed unconscious bias, and the related Implicit Association Test (IAT) rests on the belief that people act on the basis of internalised schemas of which they are unaware and thus can, and often do, engage in discriminatory behaviours without conscious intent.1 This idea increasingly features in public discourse and scholarly inquiry with regard to ...
There is evidence from other research that software nudges can boost real-world savings. For example, a field experiment using TurboTax's free edition led by Duke University professor of psychology and behavioral economics Dan Ariely, PhD, nudged low- and middle-income tax filers to save a portion of their tax refunds.
For example, of the nearly 70% of Americans who do not own a gun, 36% report that they can see themselves owning one in the future (Pew Research Center, 2017) with 11.5% of all gun owners in 2015 ...
1: Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research in Psychology. This American Psychologist open-access article lays out—for the first time—journal article reporting standards for qualitative research in psychology (Levitt, H.M., et al., Vol. 73, No. 1). The voluntary guidelines are designed to help authors communicate their work clearly, accurately and transparently.
Toxic Positivity in Psychology: Examples & Research Findings. "Just think happy thoughts!". "Don't worry, be happy!". "Look on the bright side!". "It could be worse!". "Good vibes only!". Although well intentioned, these phrases can be downright harmful. It turns out that the phrase "too much of a good thing can be bad ...
This principle has been exemplified in research, including a study conducted by Meulders and colleagues in 2013. Impact of Pavlov's Research. Ivan Pavlov's key contribution to psychology was the discovery of classical conditioning, demonstrating how learned associations between stimuli can influence behavior.
Data repositories, workshops and alternative journals allow scientists to destigmatize and discuss negative results. Plus, a major step toward ultra-precise 'nuclear' clocks and the first ...
Case studies are in-depth investigations of a person, group, event, or community. Typically, data is gathered from various sources using several methods (e.g., observations & interviews). The case study research method originated in clinical medicine (the case history, i.e., the patient's personal history). In psychology, case studies are ...
Background: Recognizing the positive or negative effects of students' mental health promotes personal development, well-being, and academic success. Academic life exposes college students to multiple adjustments, demands, and vulnerabilities that can cause stress and mental health problems. This study aims to identify psychological well-being and psychological distress effects on college ...
Summary. The desire to maintain consistency between cognitions has been recognized by many psychologists as an important human motive. Research on this topic has been highly influential in a variety of areas of social cognition, including attitudes, person perception, prejudice and stereotyping, and self-evaluation.