Tag: replication crisis
Antidepressant Trials âHijacked for Marketing Purposes,â Researchers Say
About half of the large antidepressant trials are biased enough to be considered âseeding trials,â according to the researchers.
Can Auditing Scientific Research Fix its Reproducibility Crisis?
"The study predicts that audits would reduce the number of false positive results from 30.2 per 100 papers to 12.3 per 100âfar from perfect,...
Researchers Question âGold Standardâ Status of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Researchers argue for plurality and diversity among psychotherapy approaches and question the perceived superiority of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Hundreds of Researchers to Replicate Psychology Studies
From BuzzFeed: As part of a new network called the Psychological Science Accelerator, more than 400 psychologists worldwide are teaming up to fix the so-called replication...
When Data Doesn’t Mean What We Think It Does
From The New York Times: In recent years, social scientists have become increasingly concerned about the "replication crisis," i.e. the dearth of reproducible research results....
When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy
From The New York Times Magazine: The work of Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist best known for her research and viral TED talk on "power...
âWhat Psychologyâs Crisis Means for the Future of Scienceâ
For Vox, Brian Resnik explains how our academic and research institutions are structured to make it more likely that false positives will be published....
