Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt
I’m honoured that the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) chose me for one of the 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science! This award comes with a prize of $10,000 and “recognizes important contributions by individuals in the Continue Reading …
From 17th to 22th September, the 50th anniversary congress of the German psychological association takes place in Leipzig. On previous conferences in Germany in the last two or three years, the topic of the credibility crisis and research transparency has Continue Reading …
[This is a guest post by Ned Bicare, PhD] My dear fellow scientists! “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” This aphorism, attributed to Ronald Coase, sometimes has been used in a disrespective manner, as if it was wrong Continue Reading …
tl;dr: Optional stopping does not bias parameter estimates from a frequentist point of view if all studies are reported (i.e., no publication bias exists) and effect sizes are appropriately meta-analytically weighted. Several recent discussions on the Psychological Methods Facebook group Continue Reading …
The Psychology Department at LMU Munich continues to change the incentive structure towards reproducible and open science. The internal distribution of funding now partly is based on transparency criteria: Publications with open data, open material and pre-registrations get bonus points Continue Reading …
Engaging in open science practices increases knowledge as a common good, and ensures the reproducibility, verifiability and credibility of research. But some have the fear that on an individual strategic level (in particular from an early career perspective) engaging in Continue Reading …