Toward a More Perfect Psychology: Improving Trust, Accuracy, and Transparency in Research

ISBN-13: 9781433827549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str.

Matthew C. Makel; Jonathan A. Plucker

Opis

This book presents strategies for not just maximizing the quality and impact of one's own research, but also evaluating and responding to the research of others.

Spis treści

• I. The Research Process
• 1. The Contributions of Theory Choice, Cumulative Science, and Problem Finding to Scientific Innovation and Research Quality
• 2. Designing a Study to Maximize Informational Value
• 3. Confirmatory Study Design, Data Analysis, and Results That Matter
• 4. Selective Outcome Reporting and Research Quality
• 5. Citing, Being Cited, Not Citing, and Not Being Cited: Citations as Intellectual Footprints
• II. Perspectives
• 6. The Peer Review Process: Using the Traditional System to Its Full Potential
• 7. Communicating to the Public
• 8. Sharing Your Work: An Essay on Dissemination for Impact
• III. Views From the Field
• 9. The Promises and Pitfalls of Research–Practice Partnerships
• 10. Conducting Cognitive Neuroscience Research
• 11. Science in Clinical Psychology
• 12. he Messy Art of Doing Science: Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls and Problematic Research Practices
• IV. Reproducibility
• 13. Data Reanalysis and Open Data
• 14. Replication
• 15. Meta-Analysis and Reproducibility
• V. Synthesis
• 16. The Reproducibility Crisis in Psychology: Attack of the Clones or Phantom Menace?
• 17. Reproducible Science: A New Hope